Establishment of the tribunal, a failure of the state (Koha online)
Pristina-based attorney Arianit Koci argues in an opinion piece that the main reason why Kosovo doesn’t need a tribunal that would address war crimes allegedly committed by the Kosovo Liberation Army is because Serbia, the aggressor, never established such a tribunal. “The numbers of killings and massacres show that if such a tribunal were to […]
Read More →Kosovo President Backs New War Crimes Tribunal (Balkan Insight)
Kosovo’s president said she was willing to cooperate with a proposed new international tribunal to deal with war crimes and alleged organ-trafficking during the late 1990s conflict. Edona Peci BIRN Pristina Although it remains unclear where the proposed new special court or tribunal will be located and what its mandate will be, Kosovo President Atifete […]
Read More →Rugova: No coalition with PDK, although they want this (Kosovapress)
“The Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) wants a coalition with the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), but this coalition is damaging and will not happen. The LDK will go to elections alone, and we are confident that we will win, because the time has come for this governance to end,” Haki Rugova, LDK deputy leader […]
Read More →Office for Kosovo: Full assistance to Gračanica/Graçanicë Health Center (KIM radio)
The Office for Kosovo will do everything it can so that patients in central Kosovo don’t remain without adequate health care. The Office will continue to follow up with information over the grave financial situation in the Gračanica/Graçanicë Health Center, which stalled its operations. “We’ll initiate talks with representatives from the Ministry of Health and other […]
Read More →Municipal vehicle set to fire in Mitrovica (RTS)
Vehicle belonging to the North Mitrovica Administrative Office and which was handed over to new municipal leadership was set to fire last night. It is about the second incident in last 24 hours in North Mitrovica, after unknown perpetrators fired shots on Sunday night at a vehicle owned by the spouse of the former mayor […]
Read More →Nikolić: Up to EU to decide on Serbia’s entry (B92)
VIENNA — “Nothing will change in the dialogue with Priština after the formation of a new government,” President Tomislav Nikolić has told the Austrian daily Die Presse. “If the EU decided to admit Serbia without Kosovo, this would mean that it would not want Serbia at all. The EU would then say: we are admitting […]
Read More →Vekaric: Special tribunal for KLA encourages victims (Tanjug)
BELGRADE – The Serbian Office of the Prosecutor for War Crimes has welcomed the information by Tanjug that came from Brussels, which says that those from the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) indicted for the crimes listed in the report by Dick Marty will be tried in The Hague, and not in Pristina. “The creation of […]
Read More →Office for KiM: Put end to intimidation of Serbs in Kosovo (Tanjug)
BELGRADE – The Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) has strongly condemned the last in a series of pressures on the Serb population, which this time took place in Orahovac in the form of intimidating messages on Serb houses. “That is a clear message to the remaining Serbs in Orahovac to flee, and for those who left […]
Read More →Appellate Court orders home detention for attorneys (Tanjug)
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA – The Appellate Court in Pristina has put in home detention two attorneys from Kosovska Mitrovica, Dejan A. Vasic and Faruk Korenica, who are suspected of influencing and threatening witnesses in the ongoing court proceedings. The Appellate Court in Pristina thus changed the previous decision of the Basic Court in northern Mitrovica that […]
Read More →Hasani violates Constitution for international judges (Tribuna)
Enver Hasani, chairman of the Constitutional Court of Kosovo, asked European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso and EU High Representative Catherine Ashton to extend the mandate of the three international judges of the Constitutional Court, whose contracts expire in August. Hasani’s request breaches the Kosovo Constitution, because Article 152, which determined the provisional composition of […]
Read More →Kosovo accepted, Russia excluded (Lajm)
The NATO Parliamentary Assembly decided to end cooperation with Russia, while Kosovo has been accepted as an observer in the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi said this was wonderful news for Kosovo. Also, this decision was hailed by the AAK.
Read More →Hoxhaj: KFOR guarantees Kosovo’s Euro-Atlantic path (Tribuna)
Kosovo Foreign Minister Enver Hoxhaj, during a meeting on Sunday with KFOR commander Salvatore Farina, emphasized that after the Kosovo Government’s decision to establish the Kosovo Armed Forces (KAF), the transition from the Kosovo Security Force will be gradual and not interfere in the relations with NATO’s presence in Kosovo.
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