Ambassadors threaten with UN if special court is not established (Telegrafi)
Ambassadors of the US, Germany, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Italy, and the EU special representative reiterated today in Prizren that if Kosovo authorities fail to establish the special court, this competency will then be transferred to the United Nations. They added that the special court will benefit Kosovo and its future. The US Ambassador, Tracey Ann […]
Read More →Prime Minister Mustafa attends the European People’s Party Summit (Koha)
Kosovo’s Prime Minister, Isa Mustafa, is participating in the European People’s Party Summit, which is taking place On Thursday in Brussels. Besides Prime Minister Mustafa, the Summit will attend leaders of European Union member states, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, European Council President Donald Tusk, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Mariano Rahoj, Viktor Orban, Nicolas Sarkozy and […]
Read More →Interior Minister Hyseni met with UNHCR chief Rao (Bota Sot)
Minister of Internal Affairs, Skender Hyseni met on Wednesday with the UNHCR Chief of Mission in Kosovo, Narasimha Rao. Hyseni and Rao discussed the cooperation between the Ministry of Internal Affairs and UNHCR, with special emphasis on the process of re-integration of the people of Kosovo, as well as the conditions of asylum seekers in […]
Read More →“Gay is OK” and our own cowardice (Koha Ditore)
KTV’s editor-in-chief Adriatik Kelmendi admits that ten years ago he also had prejudices for members of the LGBT community but today, he feels ashamed with how he perceived the community. He says that prejudice is probably the biggest human epidemics and the recent example in Kosovo, when none of political representatives invited to discuss the […]
Read More →Rasic and Miletic: Interests of Serbs are realized in institutions (RTK2)
Nenad Rasic and Petar Miletic said that the Serbian List should return to the Kosovo institutions in order to defend the interests of the Serbian community. At the meeting in Gracanica were adopted ten points concerning the improvement of the position of the Serbs in Kosovo. The last point envisaged that the draft statute of […]
Read More →Hundred days of Kosovo government, in pajamas (Gazeta Blic)
Astrit Gashi writes that Mustafa’s new government has marked three unknown records so far, during its first 100 days. For the first time, he writes, the first quarter finds the government of Kosovo without an endorsed governing program by the Assembly. Furthermore, being that the Assembly has not received the endorsed draft of the government, […]
Read More →Kosovo government announced a validation of diplomas from the north (RTK2)
The government unveiled the draft document, which should facilitate employment in public institutions for the members of non-majority communities As noted, the draft document is created in accordance with the rules and procedures prescribed by regulation of the Government of Kosovo, and developed by a Committee formed by the Secretary of the Office of the […]
Read More →Serbs want “strong community of municipalities” (Dailies)
Councilors from ten Serb municipalities have adopted “a decision on united political action, protection of rights and realization of interests of Serbs.” This would happen “through the constitution of a strong community of Serb municipalities in Kosovo (ZSO),” Tanjug reported. The meeting on Wednesday also asked for a harmonized draft of the ZSO statute to […]
Read More →Kosovo Serb Leaders Unite to Issue Common Demands (BIRN)
Kosovo Serb leaders – currently boycotting the government – gathered on Wednesday in Gracanica to form a joint political umbrella, and produce a list of joint demands. Kosovo Serb mayors and municipal assembly members from the country’s Serb-majority municipalities filled the house of culture in the central town of Gracanica on Wednesday on a mission […]
Read More →Two injured in incident in Kosovska Mitrovica neighbourhood (Dailies)
Two people suffered minor injuries in an incident that took place in northern Kosovska Mitrovica’s Brdjani neighbourhood on Wednesday. Two men – an ethnic Albanian and a Serb – were lightly injured in an incident that involved another Serb man, regional Kosovo police chief Zeljko Bojic said. In a statement to the local Kontakt Plus […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 18 March
• Djuric: Albanian leaders will not decide about representation of Serbs (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• AKJ urges institutions not to change of the Law on Interceptions (Most monitored broadcasters, Klan Kosova)
• Tahiri: Barricade over Ibër River will be removed within three months (Klan Kosova, KTV)
• Former MUP members protested in Kosovo north (Most monitored broadcasters, TV21)
• Government adopts three visa liberalisation related draft laws (All monitored broadcasters, TV21)
• Twenty-four million Euro worth of illegally obtained assets confiscated (RTK1)
• Names of three candidates for Constitutional Court judge sent to Assembly (Klan Kosova)
UNMIK Headlines 19 March
• Tahiri: Barricade will be removed within three months (Zeri)
• Pressure for Association/Community of Serb municipalities (Zeri)
• Olters: Lack of economic development, main reason for migration (Zeri)
• Dacic: NATO guaranteed KAF will not go to Kosovo north (Gazeta Blic)
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