Kosovo War Rape Victims Get Fresh Support (Balkan Insight)
Some 15 years after the conflict in Kosovo ended, parliament has decided to offer legal rights to wartime rape victims by amending existing legislation. Edona Peci BIRN Pristina Changes to an existing law that grants benefits to war victims and veterans were approved by 69 lawmakers on Thursday. Human rights campaigners in Pristina welcomed the […]
Read More →Kosovo Protestors Call For Mayor to Quit (Balkan Insight)
Hundreds of protestors in the Prizren municipality in southern Kosovo on Wednesday called on the mayor to resign after a court found him guilty of corruption. Edona Peci BIRN Pristina “Ramadan go!”, “The municipality is ours!”, protestors shouted, demanding the resignation of Ramadan Muja, mayor of Prizren municipality in western Kosovo. Police arrested four people […]
Read More →Cliff: Hoca e Madhe law does not create parallel municipality (Koha Ditore)
The British Ambassador to Kosovo, Ian Cliff, requested on Thursday in Rahovec/Orahovac from municipality officials to implement the law on Hoca e Madhe because, according to him, this does not imply the creation of a parallel municipality. “This is the last part that remained to be implemented from the Ahtisaari Package. It is important to […]
Read More →Hoxhaj: Decision on visa liberalisation could be taken this year (Kosova Sot)
Kosovo’s Foreign Minister, Enver Hoxhaj, stated during an interview for Albania’s “Top Show” that the decision on visa liberalization for Kosovo citizens by the EU, could be made this year. Hoxhaj said that he was going to travel to Brussels to meet with EU Commissioner for enlargement, Stefan Füle, to discuss Stabilisation Association Agreement. However, […]
Read More →Motion of no confidence conditioned with Shala’s recall (Zeri)
Kosovo opposition parties decided not to support the Alliance for Future of Kosovo’s (AAK) initiative to pass a motion of no confidence for the Government until Ramush Haradinaj’s party recalls its deputy leader Blerim Shala from the Kosovo delegation on the dialogue with Serbia. Officials from the leading opposition party, the Democratic League of Kosovo […]
Read More →Northerners threaten with referendum (Koha Ditore)
Mayors of the four municipalities in the north of Kosovo issued a joint statement whereby they threaten to organise a referendum if the EU fails to publicly condemn the idea for partitioning of Serbia. The reaction of the mayors in the north comes after Jonuz Musliu, mayor of Bujanovc, Presevo Valley, said that if Crimea […]
Read More →Disbanding “Civil Protection” discussed in Brussels (Epoka e Re)
The Kosovo delegation led by the Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister, Edita Tahiri, took part in the regular meeting in Brussels that discussed disbanding the “Civil Protection” illegal security structure. The parties discussed all actions necessary for the complete and effective disbandment of the “Civil Protection” formation, according to the agreement reached between Kosovo and Serbia. […]
Read More →Tribunal to be presented as a special court (Tribuna)
The paper on the front page reports that the legal mechanism that will tackle the possible indictments from the allegations in the Council of Europe’s report will be called a Special Court and not a Tribunal as previously thought. The name change, according to paper’s sources, came as a result of powerful countries insisting that […]
Read More →Tribunal based in Kosovo, with branch in The Hague (Koha Ditore)
International sources told Koha.net that it finally decided that the headquarters of the Tribunal for trying alleged war crimes in Kosovo will be established in Kosovo but would have a branch in The Hague. “The entire composition of judges will be international,” said the source. Only protected witnesses will be giving their testimonies in the […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 21 March
• Tribunal based in Kosovo, with branch in The Hague (Koha Ditore)
• Tribunal to be presented as a special court (Tribuna)
• Disbanding “Civil Protection” discussed in Brussels (Epoka e Re)
• Northerners threaten with referendum (Koha Ditore)
• Motion of no confidence conditioned with Shala’s recall (Zeri)
• Hoxhaj: Decision on visa liberalisation could be taken this year (Kosova Sot)
• Cliff: Hoca e Madhe law does not create parallel municipality (Koha Ditore)
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