Kosovo mayor will start term in prison (Al Jazeera)
Sami Lushtaku, elected as mayor of Skendaraj, stands accused of committing war crimes during the Kosovo War. The new mayor of Skendaraj in Kosovo has just been sworn in, but he will serve the beginning of his term from jail. Sami Lushtaku is accused of committing war crimes during the Kosovo War between 1998 and […]
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STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Vulin: Brussels agreement means return of Serbs to Kosovo and Metohija (TV Pink)
• Drecun: Formation of Union of Serb Municipalities as soon as possible (RTS)
• Ruzic: Serbia not to face any unpleasant surprises on 21 January (Beta)
• No agreement between EU and Serbs on holding sessions (Tanjug)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Dodik: Refusal to accept RS leads to rejection of B&H (Oslobodjenje)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Macedonia, Serbia Mull Sharing Overseas Embassies (BIRN)
• Kosovo: EU Demands Will Set Agenda (BIRN)
• Bosnia offers 28 police to UN mission in S. Sudan (World Bulletin)
• Was Croatia’s European Face only a Mask? (EUinside)
Vulin forbidden to visit Gjakovica (RTS, BETA)
Kosovo police does not allow Minister Alexander Vulin to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas in Djakovica. Vulin was allowed to visit Kosovska Mitrovica, Pec, Gracanica, but not Djakovica. Kosovo police refused a request of the Minister Alexander Vulin to visit Djakovica, reports RTS. It was announced that Vulin in Djakovica will visit the monastery of […]
Read More →Government to unite on 11 January (Lajmi.net)
Governments of Kosovo and Albania will gather Saturday, 11 January, in Prizren in the first joint meeting to consider possibilities of closer cooperation in the future. Prime Minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi, confirmed the time and the venue of the meeting which has so far been postponed twice for different reasons. He said the agenda […]
Read More →Rexhepi rejects Vulin;s request to visit Gjakova (Telegrafi)
Kosovo Minister of Internal Affairs, Bajram Rexhepi, has rejected Aleksandar Vulin’s request to visit municipality of Gjakova. A statement says that the Ministry of Internal Affairs assures all citizens of the country that any decision to allow or not allow such visits is taken with state and institutional responsibility, by respecting applicable legislation and in […]
Read More →Kusari-Lila: Government has assured me Vulin will not come to Gjakova (Koha)
Head of Gjakova Municipality Mimoza Kusari-Lila told Koha Ditore today that she has received assurances from the Government of Kosovo that Serbian minister without portfolio for Kosovo, Aleksandar Vulin, will not be granted permission to visit Gjakova. “Last night upon receiving the news, I contacted Deputy Prime Minister Hajredin Kuçi whom I asked in a […]
Read More →Çitaku: Silence is not always golden (Tribuna)
Minister of European Integrations, Vlora Çitaku, writes there is a lot of “noise” at present in Kosovo caused by a “loud minority” regarding religion. She says she would have preferred the debate would be in favour of a secular state where religion but as it stands, this “loud minority” is completely dominating the debate for […]
Read More →”The abolition of the courts in Kosovo precedent” (Vestionline)
The President of the Judges Association of Serbia and judge of the Appellate Court in Belgrade, Dragana Boljević said today that the announcement of the abolition of the courts of Serbia in Kosovo is precedent that is inconsistent with the Constitution, adding that, however, everyone’s acting like they do not notice. They’re pretending that nothing […]
Read More →Neither the EU nor the Balkans are ready for historic turn in 2014 (Koha)
“Ten years ago, the highest European political circles launched the idea that 2014, on the 100th anniversary of the start of the World War I which began in the Balkans and burned Europe and beyond, should serve as a historic turn for the European Union and the Balkans. It was predicted at the time that […]
Read More →Kusari-Lila to Vulin: You can come to Gjakova only with an official apology from the state (Koha)
The new mayor of Gjakova, Mimoza Kusari-Lila, has reacted fiercely to the announced visit of the Serb minister, Aleksandar Vulin, in Gjakova for Orthodox Christmas. Kusari-Lila, in a statement published on social site Facebook, said before Vulin can step on the territory of Gjakova, he should stop and think well because he is entering one […]
Read More →Patriarch’s Christmas message puts emphasis on Kosovo (B92)
BELGRADE — Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Patriarch Irinej sent his traditional Christmas epistle with special emphasis on the position of Serbs in Kosovo. The patriarch said that suffering and injustice persist there. “Unrest and violence rule in Kosovo and Metohija. For decades and centuries, they have been robbing us of that province, of the historical […]
Read More →Vučić to attend liturgy in Gračanica monastery (B92,Vecernje Novosti,KiM Radio)
BELGRADE — The central celebration of Christmas in Kosovo will take place in the presence of senior officials of Serbia, the Belgrade-based daily Večernje Novosti says. After the service in the Serbian Orthodox monastery of Gračanica, lunch will be served in the monastery’s refectory. Liturgy will be served in all Serb Orthodox churches in Kosovo, […]
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