UNMIK deplores violence in Kosovo (B92,Tanjug)
Head of the UN mission in Kosovo Farid Zarif deplored violence during protest on 22 June in southern part of Kosovska Mitrovica. At the same time he commended the reaction of police and international security forces. UNMIK’s Press Release reads that Zarif called on continued calm in the aftermath of this incident and reiterated that […]
Read More →Post-Poll Row Throws Kosovo Politics into Limbo (Balkan Insight)
Kosovo is waiting for the constitutional court to clarify who should form a new government after recent elections, with the outgoing PM and his challengers both claiming the right to rule. Edona Peci BIRN Pristina Confusion has erupted over whether the Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK – the party that won most votes in the […]
Read More →Veseli: Final election results first before we form Thaci 3 government (Kosovapress)
Kadri Veseli, deputy leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), said today his party is waiting for final election results before they proceed with forming the Thaci 3 government. Veseli made these remarks after meeting Anick Van Calster, Belgium’s ambassador to Bulgaria and accredited to Kosovo on non-residential basis. Veseli and Van Calster also […]
Read More →Selaković: Constitutional Court not competent for the assessment of the Brussels dispute (Blic)
Belgrade – Justice Minister Nikola Selaković said today that the Constitutional Court of Serbia (USS) should be declared incompetent to determine the constitutionality of the Brussels agreement between Belgrade and Pristina, because it is a political, not a legal act. – The Constitutional Court is not competent to assess the political act as it will […]
Read More →Dialogue at a crossroad (Kosova Sot)
The paper says in its front-page editorial that political calculations of Kosovo parties may very well put the dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia in a dead-end. The opposition parties have received assurances from Vetevendosje that it will support the forming of their government but it has certain conditions regarding the dialogue with Belgrade. However, the […]
Read More →Robbery in village Ljevosa near Peć/Pejë (RTK2)
Last night around 10:00 PM, unknown person broke into the house of Savka Asanin in village Ljevosa near Peć/Pejë. It is about second robbery in the same village in last three days. Due to frequent robberies four out of twenty returnees have left the village. Savka Asanin lives on her own in Ljevosa where she […]
Read More →Blomeyer: Perhaps pine trees are more beautiful than the ugly barricade (kosovapress) (
The German Ambassador in Pristina, Peter Blomeyer, stated that “perhaps it could be said that flowers and pine trees are more beautiful than the ugly barricade.” “Anyhow, there was lack of communication…There should be discussions for a joint solution. Even though we have some pines over the bridge, they will not turn the world upside […]
Read More →Gjetaj: Internationals to force Serbia to reveal mass grave locations (Gazeta Express)
“So far 50 bodies have been discovered at the mass grave in Raska. Excavations are ongoing. There are other mass graves in Serbia, and we want the international community to pressure Serbia into revealing the locations,” Prenk Gjetaj, chairman of the Kosovo government’s missing persons committee, said in today’s meeting with a delegation of the […]
Read More →Hashim’s Park (Zeri)
Naser Sertolli writes in an editorial that the problem of Mitrovica’s division has only one address, that of Kosovo Government led by Hashim Thaci. He says all events in Mitrovica are somehow linked to Thaci: when the ethnic partition of the city began, Thaci was prime minister of the provisional government. He was prime minister […]
Read More →Nationalists have caused the incident at the bridge (Danas)
Petrit Selimi, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo, For Danas on the unrest in Mitrovica Pristina, Belgrade – The situation in Mitrovica was tense, but we should not surrender our political agenda to provocateurs. I believe that this incident caused the nationalists, who want to take advantage of the post-election vacuum to create a […]
Read More →24/06/2014 – UNMIK Press statement
UNMIK/PR/1809 Pristina, 24 June 2014 Statement attributable to the Spokesperson of the SRSG The Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) in Kosovo, Farid Zarif, deplores the acts of violence committed during the demonstration on 22 June in Mitrovica South, while also commending the appropriate response of the police and international security providers. He calls for […]
Read More →Mayors to sit at a table (KiM Radio)
Ksenija Bozovic believes that the unrest occurred due to premature removal of the barricades on the Ibar/Iber Bridge that connects North and South Mitrovica. Pointing out that people were not involved in the removal of barricades from the bridge over the Ibar/Iber River, North Mitrovica Municipal Assembly President Ksenija Bozovic (CI SDP) says that trust […]
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