Without Serbs in Kosovo diplomacy (B92)
Even six years after it declared independence, Kosovo still doesn’t have a single Serb ambassador, reports Voice of America. Although, stipulated by the Constitution and laws Serbs are entitled to nine per cent of posts in public institutions, that remains, as some would say, another dead letter on the paper. In the Ministry of Foreign […]
Read More →Thaci convinced extremists will not find a safe haven in Kosovo (Koha)
Acting Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci, wrote in a Facebook post that Kosovo will not be a safe haven for radicals or extremists who want to change clear Euro-Atlantic aspirations of the society. Kosovo is a country created on civilized Euro-Atlantic values and inviolable individual freedoms, on respect for diversity and minorities, wrote Thaci. “Kosovo is […]
Read More →Excavations in Rudnica recommence (Koha)
Excavations in search of mortal remains have recommenced at the mass grave in Rudnica, Serbia. Head of the Kosovo Government’s Commission for Missing Persons, Prenk Gjetaj, confirmed the news to KTV. According to Gjetaj, the Kosovo side is prepared and ready to work on determining the fate of the missing persons. The decision to resume […]
Read More →Politicians and the rest (Kosova Sot)
The paper’s front-page editorial notes that so far Kosovo politicians have proved that their primary concern is not the well-being of the people but rather their own. “It is enough to look into laws and regulations that determine benefits for officials, government members, members of parliament, members of boards, heads of agencies, and realize that […]
Read More →Why Bomb Civilians? (Koha)
The paper runs an opinion piece by Ian Buruma, Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism at Bard College, and the author of Year Zero: A History of 1945. The time before last that Israel was fighting a war in Gaza, in 2009, Avigdor Lieberman, the foreign minister at the time, compared the conflict to […]
Read More →Pacolli: Blockade can be overcome, elections remain an option (Gazeta Express)
In an interview for Express, Behxhet Pacolli, leader of the New Kosovo Alliance (AKR), says that overcoming the current political crisis would be easy if politicians would put interests of the state ahead of their private interests. Pacolli said the AKR, which failed to cross the election threshold in the last national elections, was consolidating […]
Read More →Search for another two mass-graves of Albanians (Blic)
Serbian War Crimes Prosecution ordered an inspection of the site at location Rudnica called ‘Padina 1’ and ‘Padina 2’, which are suspected of being mass-graves of Albanians killed during 1999 conflict. It is about the fourth order of the prosecution for inspection of location Rudnica, where 45 bodily remains have been discovered so far and […]
Read More →Vetevendosje wants the leadership of the dialogue with Serbia (Radio Kosova)
Vetevendosje movement insists that to be part of the government coalition with opposition block Democratic League of Kosovo LDK, Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) and Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA) to lead the dialogue with Serbia. General Secretary of Vetevendosje movement, Dardan Molliqaj, said that from five criteria of this movement only remained the […]
Read More →Serbian factories are targeted by Pristina (TV Most)
In the period between 1980s and 1990s, with the aim to stop the migration and keep the remaining Serbian people in these areas, Serbia built about twenty factories in the north of Kosovo and Metohija, mostly in the municipalities of Leposavic and Zubin Potok. Former conglomerates Lola, Javor, Simpo, Petoletka, VIK Vrsac, Kristal and Gradac […]
Read More →Handover of the Office to the North Mitrovica Municipality (RTK2)
As a part of the Ahtisaari plan, two years ago was opened an Administrative office for North Mitrovica, which since then provided municipal services to the citizens of North Mitrovica. After four attempts, at the local elections was elected the Mayor, and shortly thereafter formed the Municipal Assembly. “Administrative Office of Northern Mitrovica was established […]
Read More →Diplomacy with “tied hands” (Danas)
The statement of the prosecutor of the EU Special Investigation Team, Clint Williamson, on the findings of an investigation into the trafficking in human organs in Kosovo, although with the status “temporary announced until a special court for the crimes of the KLA will be established”, provides space for diplomatic and political action of official […]
Read More →Djuric: Detention of Ivanovic is international scandal (TV Most)
Director of the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric said that the fact that leader of the CI SDP Oliver Ivanovic is in detention for more than six months without an indictment and without any valid legal proceeding is international legal and political scandal. “It is very important to get out from […]
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