EULEX on the ground to verify statements about the grave in the Village Piskota (Politika)
EULEX experts and staff of the Department of Forensic Medicine in Kosovo yesterday went to the field in the village Piskota, near Djakovica, to verify the information on suspicion of existence of a mass grave of Serbian civilians at the site, received from the War Crimes Prosecution of Serbia. EULEX Spokeswoman, Dragana Nikolic Solomon, in […]
Read More →No information about the preparation of terrorist acts (RTS)
Chairman of the Committee for Kosovo and Metohija in the Serbian Assembly, Milovan Drecun says that strong base of the radical Islam is present in Kosovo. At the moment there is no information indicating the preparation of the terrorist attacks against Serbian citizens. Milovan Drecun, in the RTS morning program, said he expects that the […]
Read More →Bloc representatives to attend meeting with Brovina (Epoka e Re)
Parties of the coalition bloc will finally accept the invitation to a meeting called by Flora Brovina, chairperson of Kosovo Assembly’s constitutive session. “The bloc will send its representatives to the meeting. Vjosa Osmani and Donika Kadaj-Bujupi will represent parties of the coalition bloc at the meeting called by Flora Brovina,” a member of the […]
Read More →Confirming Kosovo’s European perspective (Koha)
Koha Ditore runs an op-ed by Stefan Fule, the European Commission’s Commissioner for Enlargement and the European Neighborhood Policy. When I joined the European Commission five years ago to deal with EU enlargement, who could have imagined that Kosovo would have made so much progress on its European path since? To start with, a major […]
Read More →Kosovo politics holding back EU trials on organ trafficking (EUobserver)
By Andrew Rettman and Ekrem Krasniqi BRUSSELS and PRISTINA – EU efforts to shed light on allegations of organ trafficking in Kosovo risk being delayed by a power struggle in Pristina. The plan is to create a new court in The Hague in early 2015 on the model of the International Criminal Tribunal for the […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 8 October
• Jahjaga: Kosovo has entered critical phase (dailies)
• Brovina invites political leaders to meeting on Wednesday (dailies)
• Limaj: We’re not going to the meeting called by Brovina (Bota Sot)
• Mogherini: Future of the Balkans is in the EU (dailies)
• Shugurov: Troika agreed for Kosovo to declare independence in 2013 (Zeri)
• Suspect in police killing turns himself in to EULEX (dailies)
• Commission doesn’t review constitutionality of international accords (Koha)
KFOR commander talks with North Mitrovica mayor (Tanjug)
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA – KFOR is playing a key role in establishing stability in northern Kosovo-Metohija, it was concluded on Tuesday in a meeting between the KFOR Commander, Major General Francesco Paolo Figliuolo, and North Mitrovica Mayor Goran Rakic. The meeting in Kosovska Mitrovica dealt with the security and economic situation in northern Kosovo-Metohija, KFOR stated […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 7 October
• President Jahjaga consults political party leaders for the deadlock (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Jahjaga: Kosovo has entered a critical phase (KTV)
• Vetëvendosje ironizes with Constitutional Court’s President (KTV)
• Serb suspected of killing KP officer surrenders to EULEX (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• No mass grave found in Gjakovë/Djakovica village (All monitored broadcasters, RTV21)
• Serb Kosovo Police members’ protests in Mitrovica/Mitrovicë north (RTV21)
• Correctional services to include alternative sanctions (Klan Kosova)
Balkan Progress Slow, EU Commission Says (Balkan Insight)
07 Oct 14 Upcoming EU Progress Reports on the Western Balkan countries will say each of the countries has much to do – though some are clearly making more progress than others. Nektar Zogjani BIRN Brussels A senior EU source said the European Commission Progress Reports for 2014 on the Western Balkans, due out on […]
Read More →Kosovo Guerrilla Trial Witness Accuses EU Prosecutor (Balkan Insight)
07 Oct 14 A witness told the trial of the Kosovo Liberation Army’s ‘Drenica Group’ cell, accused of assaulting wartime prisoners, that an EU prosecutor bribed him to falsify his statement. BIRN Mitrovica The protected witness codenamed ‘F’ on Tuesday retracted incriminating statements he made about the defendants in the high-profile trial, claiming that a […]
Read More →The boy from Kosovo who grew up to be a suicide bomber (BBC News)
7 October 2014 Last updated at 23:27 GMT By Linda Pressly BBC World Service, Kosovo In Kosovo it used to be the case that families were culturally Muslim, but rarely devout believers. Recently though some young people have become radicalised. Up to 200 are thought to be fighting in Syria and Iraq causing heartbreak for […]
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