Council of Europe discusses ROSU intrusion into northern Kosovo (Tanjug, B92)
On behalf of the Serbian Parliament delegation, Dubravka Filipovski stressed that Serbia strongly supports fight against corruption and organized crime At the meeting of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly in Strasbourg, an exchange of views was held on the intrusion of ROSU members into northern […]
Read More →Impunity for crimes targeting journalists in Kosovo (B92, CoE, EFJ, UNS)
It has been close to twenty years since the killings, kidnappings and disappearances of 14 Serbian and Albanian journalists in Kosovo. These crimes happened between 1998 and 200, and no one has been brought to justice, the Council of Europe (CoE) has stated on its website. During the Annual Meeting of the European Federation of […]
Read More →Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights: “We must not forget Srebrenica” (B92)
By Dunja Mijatović, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Every 11 July since 1995, thousands of people gather in Potočari to commemorate the Srebrenica genocide, the most horrific crime committed in Europe since WWII. Survivors and victims’ families demand justice, recognition and respect. In a few days of that July of twenty-three years ago, […]
Read More →Elsinore CoE meeting hears Kosovo joining would be “wrong” (BETA, B92)
Ivica Dacic has told a Council of Europe (CoE) meeting in Elsinore, Denmark that his country would stand up and against any attempt to make Kosovo its member. Serbia’s first deputy PM and foreign minister spoke on Friday at the ministerial meeting – during which Croatia took over from Denmark the chairmanship of the Committee […]
Read More →Jagland: The Council of Europe monitors the situation in Kosovo after the arrest of Djuric (KIM radio)
Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland said that the council previously expressed concern over the arrest of Marko Djuric in Mitrovica late last month, adding that the Council of Europe follows the further development of the situation, KIM radio reports. Jagland responded to a question of a deputy in the Parliamentary Assembly of the […]
Read More →“Reconciliation stalled, ethnic divisions grow in region” (B92, Tanjug)
Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muiznieks says that the reconciliation process in the Western Balkans has stalled. In his latest Human Rights Comment, Muiznieks also noted that ethnic divisions and polarization have been growing in the region. “These relate in particular to denial of genocide, glorification of war criminals and attempts to […]
Read More →“French disgrace”: Serbian delegation walkout at CoE session (InSerbia)
A delegation of Serbia’s National Assembly on Thursday left a session of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly, held in Strasbourg, France, in protest. The move was prompted by the decision of a French court earlier in the day to reject Serbia’s request to extradite Ramush Haradinaj. According to a statement, the Serbian delegation “condemned […]
Read More →Kosovo Assembly opens office at PACE (RTK)
Head of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Ismet Beqiri, posted a picture on his Facebook account with the president of European People’s Party, Joseph Daul, taken at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. Under the caption, Beqiri wrote that Kosovo Assembly also opened an office today at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of […]
Read More →CoE Commissioner for Human rights: Justice, social cohesion and media freedom remain top challenges in Kosovo*
The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Nils Muižnieks says that eighteen years after the end of the conflict, thousands of people are still denied justice in Kosovo. He states that it is high time to change course and to build a just and cohesive society. He lists as major conditions to achieve this, […]
Read More →Đurović: Pristina has not applied for membership in the Council of Europe (KIM Radio)
Pristina has not applied for membership in the Council of Europe, said head of the permanent delegation of the Serbian Parliament in the Assembly of the Council of Europe Aleksandra Đurović. Đurović suspects they will bring this decision and said that Pristina authorities have been announcing this for two years. Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi announced […]
Read More →Thaçi: EU risks becoming a bureaucratic institution (Klan Kosova/Koha)
President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, said at the summit of European countries Foreign Affairs Parliamentary Committees taking place in Pristina that the EU often lacks vision and leadership and thus risks becoming a bureaucratic institution detached from its citizens. “One of those speaking strongly about Brussels lacking vision is me but there is no other […]
Read More →Attempt to get Kosovo to CoE “through back door” fails (B92)
However, this is not the end of the fight for our national interests, says Aleksandra Djurovic, the head of Serbia’s delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Serbia’s delegation succeeded in preventing the adoption of a memorandum which would have given several seats to representatives of the Kosovo Assembly in the […]
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