Tahiri: Administrative procedures delay agreement on license plates (RFE)
There is no timeline yet on when the Kosovo-Serbia agreement on license plates will start being implemented, Radio Free Europe reports. Kosovo’s Minister for Dialogue, Edita Tahiri, told the news agency that the November 15 deadline for implementing the agreement has passed but that this is a result of administrative delays by Kosovo’s institutions. “Delays […]
Read More →Djuric: Adequate legal protection secured for Kosovo Serbs (Tanjug)
BRUSSELS – With EU facilitation, the Belgrade and Pristina delegations on Wednesday agreed on implementation of the 2015 agreement on the judiciary, which secures adequate legal protection for Serb natural and legal entities in the province, says Marko Djuric, head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija.“Following months of diplomatic efforts, our delegation managed to […]
Read More →Abdullahu: Dehari’s case overshadowed the attack on Assembly (RTKLive)
Faton Abdullahu, adviser to Prime Minister Isa Mustafa, said on Wednesday that the case of Vetevendosje activist Astrit Dehari who died in Prizren detention center has diverted the attention from the attack on the Kosovo Assembly building a few months ago. Abdullahu said that in the case of the attack on the Assembly there was […]
Read More →Bulliqi: Mustafa’s idea to measure the territory, yet another joke (gazetablic)
Kosovo Assembly MP from the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), who is also professor of geography and one of the main opponents of the agreement on demarcation of the border with Montenegro, Shpejtim Bulliqi, objected the proposal of the Prime Minister of Kosovo on establishment of a new commission which would asses’ delineation of the […]
Read More →HRW: Kosovo PM threatens journalists himself (gazetametro)
The Human Rights Watch published on Wednesday a report which notes that journalists across the Western Balkans face a hostile environment that impedes their ability to do critical reporting. “In Kosovo, the Association of Journalists of Kosovo registered 14 cases of violence and threats against journalists in 2015, and eight cases in the first half […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 31 November
• O’Connell: It is for the people of Kosovo alone to decide their leaders (Klan Kosova)
• PM Mustafa calls on Gllogovc/Glogovac candidates to carry out democratic campaigning (KTV)
• Hoti to O’Connell: Without specific addressing of vote theft there is no electoral normality (Klan Kosova)
• Kosovo and Serbia agree on ‘finalisation of implementation of Justice Agreement (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Mustafa: Kosovo might remain without liberalisation next year, too (All monitored broadcasters, RTK1&KTV)
• EULEX confident that investigation and autopsy in Dehari’s case was carried out correctly (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• MP Hasani requests renaming of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo (RTK2)
• Workshop against gender based violence held in Zvecan/Zveçan (RTK2)
Konjufca: Autopsy report does not say Dehari committed suicide (KTV)
Vetevendosje parliamentary group chief, Glauk Konjufca, told KTV on Wednesday that the autopsy report does not say that Vetevendosje activist, Astrit Dehari, who was found dead in his cell at Prizren Detention Center, had committed suicide. “The autopsy report does not say it was suicide. Not a single part of the report mentions suicide,” Konjufca […]
Read More →Headlines 1 December
• Kosovo with unitary justice system from 10 January 2017 (Epoka)
• CEC asked to allow OSCE access to polls in Drenas/Glogovac (Kosova Sot)
• Ambassadors: Parties to decide on elections (Zeri)
• EULEX: Dehari’s autopsy was correct (Zeri)
• Vetëvendosje: EULEX spoke as a partner of Pronto clan (Epoka)
• FM Hoxhaj speaks of imminent new recognitions of Kosovo (Kosova Sot/Zeri)
• Kajtazi: Theft of prosecutor’s phone was a threatening message (Telegrafi)
Kosovo Town Feels Pre-Election Tensions (Balkan Insight)
Tensions are growing ahead of local elections in Drenica, the birthplace of Kosovo’s revolution, as the ruling Democratic Party fights to keep power in its stronghold. http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/small-kosovo-city-feels-pre-election-tensions-11-25-2016
Read More →Closed Trials ‘Undermining Faith in Kosovo Justice’ (Balkan Insight)
Experts and journalists say the decision of another Kosovo court to hold a high-profile corruption trial behind closed doors will further damage people’s trust in the judiciary. http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/closed-trials-concern-kosovo-association-of-journalists-11-30-2016
Read More →Dacic walked out of Warsaw meeting “because of insults” (B92)
Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic says he left a meeting in Warsaw on Tuesday “because of the insults made by Kosovo Foreign Minister Enver Hoxhaj.” Dacic said on Wednesday that Hoxhaj accused Serbs of being guilty for “all wars in the former Yugoslavia and for genocide.” The meeting in Poland brought together members of the Visegrad […]
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