Decision on Ivanovic’s detention expected on Friday (Tanjug)
The Citizens’ Initiative Serbia, Democracy, Justice deputy leader Ksenija Bozovic expressed hope on Thursday that a decision on further detention of Initiative leader Oliver Ivanovic will be taken on Friday and that he will be released pending trial. Pursuant to an earlier decision, Ivanovic’s detention is set to expire on April 27, but the Initiative […]
Read More →Gashi meets Zbogar and Schlumberger, requests not to politicize the church issue (telegrafi)
Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning, Dardan Gashi welcomed the head of CE Samuel Zbogar and OSCE Ambassador Jean – Claude Schlumberger. According to the press release issued by this Ministry, they initially discussed the efforts of the Ministry on environment reforms, among which they discussed the international initiative, including Kosovo, on elimination of plastic […]
Read More →Swiss President to visit Kosovo and Albania (kohaonline)
The President of Swiss Federation, Didier Burkhalter, currently OSCE Chairperson in office, will visit several countries of the Western Balkans. Serbia, Albania and Kosovo are part of the agenda of his visit on 25 and 26 April. Burkhalter will meet with institutional leaders to discuss Switzerland’s engagement during OSCE Chairmanship. The Western Balkans is an […]
Read More →Pupils Freeze as Funds Rerouted to Highway (BIRN)
Children at the Shaban Spahija School in the western Kosovo town of Peja huddle together in the winter months, placing their bags in front of broken windows to block the chill wind. Petrit Collaku BIRN Pristina A few hundred metres away stands a half-finished building, due to replace the run-down school. Work started in April […]
Read More →Beqiri: LDK is not an obstacle for the establishment of KAF (Radio Kosova)
LDK General Secretary, Ismet Beqiri has rejected claims of Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci that LDK is a obstacle for the establishment of Kosovo Armed Forces. Beqiri said for Radio Kosova that if Prime Minister convinces minorities to vote, there is no problem for LDK. However, he says that LDK would not accept that the establishment […]
Read More →Thaci’s court (Koha)
Editor-in-chief, Agron Bajrami, argues that for Kosovo citizens the real news from Wednesday was not the decision in favor of the special court because this was more or less expected. “The real news was that they [Kosovo citizens] witnessed the inability of the political class to govern the state, the same class that makes difficult […]
Read More →Tribunal without Thaci (Zeri)
Editor Lavdim Hamidi argues in his opinion piece that the international community’s request to adopt the establishment in the Kosovo Assembly was aimed at measuring the political readiness of local institutions to address the matter, not that internationals would have given up on the establishment of the court. “The special court comes as a result […]
Read More →Farina: NATO supports Kosovo Security Forces (Blic)
KFOR Commander Major General Salvatore Farina yesterday said that NATO supports Kosovo Security Forces (KSF), since those forces, as he said, contribute to regional stability and security. “Those core capabilities, make the KSF able to become an important interlocutor in Kosovo and in the Balkan area to contribute to the regional security and stability,” said […]
Read More →Kosovo’s war criminals should be brought to justice (Tanjug)
Head of the Centre for Regionalism Aleksandar Popov said on Thursday the creation of a special tribunal for war crimes committed by members of the former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was a significant thing, adding that he hoped it would bring to justice those responsible for war crimes. There has been exceptionally strong resistance in […]
Read More →Many influential figures in Kosovo should be tried (B92)
The decision to establish a special tribunal for war crimes committed by members of the former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) is very significant because a huge number of influential people should be tried, Belgrade Institute of Social Sciences adviser Dusan Janjic said on Wednesday. The decision to form a special office within Kosovo’s special court […]
Read More →Bujanovac to become “university town” (B92)
BELGRADE — The planned construction of a Faculty of Economics building in Bujanovac, southern Serbia, will make the town “a university town.” It will also “create conditions for economic development and political stability in the area,” the signatories of an agreement to construct the facility have said. The project will be funded by the European […]
Read More →Gorani party is not registered because it reminds of Yugoslavia (RTK)
The President of Kosovo Central Election Commission (CEC) Valdete Dhaka said that Gorani political party “Unified Union of Gorani” (JUG) is not registered because the name of the party reminds of the former Yugoslavia. “In our yesterday’s meeting we did not register the party because of the name that too much reminds on the former […]
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