Ratel: We will soon arrest senior officials for organized crime and killings (Bota Sot)
The Prosecution of the EU Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) is investigating senior officials for organized crime and corruption. In an interview for the show Puls on KTV, Jonathan Ratel, chief prosecutor of the EULEX special prosecution, said the EU mission was investigating post-war killings in Kosovo. He did not reveal any names […]
Read More →Election experts: Draft law on elections without requested changes (Radio Kosova)
The Commission for Legislation has proceeded with the approval by the Assembly on the draft-law for general elections in Kosovo, which is expected to be approved in Thursday’s session. Elections expert, Mazllum Baraliu, said that the draft-law does not contain the requested changes and as such it does not fulfill the expectations for a real […]
Read More →Ashton: Dialogue to resume on March 31 (Tanjug)
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton scheduled the next round of dialogue on normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina for Monday, March 31, Maja Kocijancic, spokeswoman for Ashton, said in release on Tuesday. “High Representative Catherine Ashton is looking forward to continuing the discussion with Prime Minister Hasim Taci […]
Read More →Crimea won’t cause EU to reconsider Kosovo” (Vecernje Novosti)
Presiding member of the EU Council of Ministers, Dimitris Kourkoulas says the Crimea crisis will not cause the EU to reconsider “its decision” concerning Kosovo. “The view of the EU members regarding Kosovo is well known,” he told the daily Večernje Novosti, adding that he did not expect it to change as the result of […]
Read More →To understand Putin, look to the past (The Washington Post)
By Strobe Talbott, Published: March 22 Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution, was deputy secretary of state in the Clinton administration. In his speech Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin referred to Kosovo six times, bizarrely calling its independence a precedent for Russia’s annexation of Crimea . In fact, the two episodes could hardly be […]
Read More →Remains of 46 Kosovo Victims Handed to Families (AP)
AP / Nebi Qena March 24, 2014 (PRISTINA, Kosovo) — The remains of 46 ethnic Albanian civilians killed by Serb forces during the 1998-99 Kosovo war and hidden for years in mass graves were handed over to their families Monday. Arsim Gerxhaliu, head of Kosovo’s forensic department, said a funeral for some of the victims […]
Read More →A lawyer who is defending Serbs in Kosovo is detained (Blic)
Last night, EULEX Police arrested Dejan Vasic, a lawyer from Mitrovica North. Beta news agency learned that at about two o’clock this morning, police searched Vasic’s office and vehicle, and kept him in custody. In Kosovo, Vasic represented Zarko Veselinovic, who is charged with the attempted murder of two members of ROSU, the Kosovo special […]
Read More →NATO spokesperson stands by Twitter post (B92)
NATO spokesperson Oana Lungesku told B92 that she retweeted a post that thanked NATO for rescuing civilians from the ethnic cleansing occurring in Kosovo back in 1999. She added that she didn’t offended the victims by doing so. On the 15th anniversary of the bombing, Lungesku re-tweeted the slogan “NATO, just do it”, which was […]
Read More →KiM: Serbs commemorate victims of NATO aggression (Tanjug)
Fifteen years since the NATO aggression on Serbia was marked in northern Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) on Monday with commemorative gatherings, memorial services and paying tribute to the victims. A memorial service was held at the Gracanica monastery, and the delegations of Serb institutions and the municipality of Gracanica laid wreaths and lit candles at the monument […]
Read More →Vulin urges UN report on NATO’s use of depleted uranium (B92)
Aleksandar Vulin on Monday asked the UN to release a report on the effects NATO’s use of depleted uranium during its 1999 war against Serbia. “From this place I am asking the UN to release the report on the bombing with depleted uranium, all the locations where the bombs with depleted uranium were dropped, where […]
Read More →“Hague scenario” at work in Kosovo, lawyers say (B92)
The legal team defending Oliver Ivanović warned on Monday that a “Hague scenario was now at work in Kosovo and Metohija.” They said the investigation against the Serb politician from northern Kosovo “was not being conducted in a transparent manner.” “A scenario used in the Hague tribunal is at work in Kosovo and Metohija – […]
Read More →Decision to increase salaries brings IMF mission to Kosovo (Lajm)
Sources told KosovaLive that after the Kosovo Government’s decision to increase public sector salaries by 25 percent, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has asked for an earlier meeting with the government. Kosovo’s Finance Minister, Besim Beqaj, said the government would meet IMF representatives in April to discuss a new program with this institution. The IMF […]
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