Only PAN will take part in Thaçi’s meeting
(All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
President Hashim Thaçi on Monday will be consulted only with PAN coalition officials on the first Assembly session in the new legislature.
VV and LDK leaders will not take part in the meeting, as Kurti and Mustafa have stated that the meeting is unnecessary and that it causes confusion, KTV reports.
Instead, the two political parties called on the President to call the constitutive session as soon as possible.
Regardless of this, PDK expects all political parties to take part in the meeting.
Blerand Stavileci, PDK Presidency member, says that the constitutive Assembly session is expected to take place next week.
Although he did not tell who the possible voters are that would make 61 necessary votes for constituting government and electing the Assembly Speaker, Stavileci said that the PAN coalition has got the numbers.
Petrit Zogaj of FOL Movement believes that President’s invitation for a meeting with political entity representatives is late. Zogaj says that the meeting is another favour to the PAN coalition, so that it can get the necessary numbers for forming government.
Srpska List will not take part in the meeting either. The Party leader Goran Rakic thanked President Thaçi for the invitation, but stated that Srpska List will not attend the meeting.
Rakic told Serbian media that the decision on the future coalition will be taken in Belgrade.
“We are willing for talks and dialogue has no alternative. We are willing to discuss the peace policy. We are not interested in positions, but rather that Serbs have a better life in Kosovo,” Rakic said.
Djuric: Dialogue with Albanians in Serbia’s interest
(All monitored broadcasters, Klan Kosova)
Head of the so-called Serbian Office for Kosovo Marko Djuric spoke about formation of Kosovo institutions. He said it was natural that Kosovo Serbs consult Belgrade about constituting Kosovo institutions.
Djuric added that dialogue with Albanians was in Serbia’s interest.
According to him, the Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has also called for an internal dialogue on relations between Serbians and Albanians.
Dead persons will be on local election voter lists
(RTK1)
While for the June 11 general elections a voter list clean up took place, on which occasion 55,000 names were taken out of the lists, the Central Election Commission (CEC) chairperson Valdete Daka says that voter lists cannot be cleaned up for local elections, due to the short time period.
The old electoral problems are expected to be repeated in the local elections in Kosovo, set to be held this autumn.
Despite the fact that in every election process, voter lists were cleaned up by omitting names of dead persons as well as those who gave up Kosovo nationality, voter lists never succeeded to be totally cleaned up.
For this reason, in every election process, dead persons’ names were reported to have been found on voter lists. Furthermore, there were reports when someone voted on behalf of dead persons. This problem is expected to occur in the local elections, too. This is the assessment of Kosovo Democratic Institute, an election process monitoring organisation.
Hoxhaj: We have time to apply for UNESCO accession
(Most monitored broadcasters, RTK1)
Caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs Enver Hoxhaj said that Kosovo still has time to apply for UNESCO accession.
Hoxhaj’s statement followed the statement of the AKR leader Behgjet Pacolli, who said that Kosovo still had not applied for UNESCO.
“What is important for Kosovo is to meet some of the internal requirements dealing with adoption of the Law on Religious Freedoms, adoption of the Strategy on Cultural Heritage, or addressing some issues related to two-three Serbian Orthodox churches, as well as some other requirements that Kosovo must meet. This is one of the foremost tasks to Kosovo institutions, before we start the procedures for a full UNESCO membership,” Hoxhaj said.
”Moreover, whenever we applied for some organisation, we never made the application public. Application remained confidential, such as in the case when Kosovo joined the World Customs Organisation, when we never spoke that we had applied, and only on the application day it was found out that Kosovo enjoyed the Organisation’s support,” Hoxhaj added.
