Police operation in north Kosovo, two persons arrested (Tanjug,B92)
The Kosovo police arrested early on Wednesday two persons in north Kosovo as part of the police operation tasked with prevention of drug trafficking and other crimes. Zeljko Bojic, regional head of the Kosovo police, told Tanjug that two persons were arrested in the area of the Leposavic municipality following a search at two locations […]
Read More →Kosovo-Serbia Talks Need Reviving, Report Says (Balkan Insight)
22 Oct 14 New momentum is needed in the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue after the timeout caused by elections in both countries, a report by Kosovo and Slovak think tanks suggests. Nektar Zogjani BIRN Pristina A new joint report by two think tanks has urged the governments of Serbia and Kosovo to revitalise the stalled EU-led dialogue […]
Read More →OSCE condemns hacker attacks on media websites (B92, Politika)
VIENNA — OSCE Media Freedom Representative Dunja Mijatović has called on authorities in Albania, Bosnia and Serbia to investigate all hacker attacks on media websites. The attacks “represent a clear danger to media freedom,” a statement said on Tuesday. “We have seen malicious denial of service attacks recently that obstruct the lawful activity of journalists. […]
Read More →Rasic: Two options for overcoming crisis (KIM radio)
Outgoing Minister for Labor and Social Welfare and leader of the Progressive Democratic Party, Nenad Rasic, said that agreement is not possible amongst the leaders of Kosovo Albanian political parties because of their standpoints. “I think that only solution is a concrete proposal which would come from the President about how government should look like, […]
Read More →Serbian Police Official to Be Jailed in Germany (Balkan Insight)
22 Oct 14 Former high-ranking Serbian interior ministry official Vlastimir Djordjevic will be sent to a German prison to serve his 18-year sentence for war crimes against Albanians in Kosovo. Marija Ristic BIRN Belgrade The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia announced on Tuesday that Djordjevic, who was convicted of the murder and persecution […]
Read More →Help us return to Kosovo (Vesti)
Representatives of the Association of Đakovica/Gjakovë have requested assistance from the Office for Kosovo and Metohija to create conditions for their collective return to Kosovo, and of all others from the province. They also requested their houses to be reconstructed. After a meeting with the Deputy Director of the Office for Kosovo the chairperson of […]
Read More →Serb house set on fire as a consequence of the football match (Blic)
Minister for Communities and Return Dalibor Jevtic said that a Serb returnee’s house set on fire in village Drsnik, in Klina/Klinë municipality, comes as a consequence of the inflammatory situation which followed the football match between Serbian and Albanian national teams in Euro 2016 qualifier, and added that it is regretful that victims are always […]
Read More →Fighting Ebola, and the Mud (New York Times/Koha Ditore)
Koha Ditore re-runs an opinion piece originally published in New York Times by Karin Huster, a nurse with the non-profit organization Last Mile Health. On a Monday evening last month in Liberia, at Grand Gedeh County’s main hospital, two nurses knocked on a patient’s door. The patient was being treated for malaria and typhoid, but […]
Read More →Defense and Internal Affairs Committee condemns attacks (B92)
NOVI SAD — A Serbian parliament committee met on Tuesday in Novi Sad and condemned the attacks on the property of members of national minorities. The Committee on Defense and Internal Affairs also called on the government to firmly deal with the individuals who committed the attacks which constitute an incitement to ethnic hatred. The […]
Read More →KiM Committee meeting on security in province on Oct. 27 (Tanjug)
BELGRADE – The Serbian parliament’s Committee on Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) will hold a meeting on the security situation in the southern Serbian province on Monday, October 27, Milovan Drecun, chairman of the body, said Tuesday. “The meeting will discuss the current security situation in Kosovo-Metohija, with special emphasis on the security of the Serbian population,” Drecun […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 21 October
• President Jahjaga refuses request of minority MPs (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Srpska List aims to form political bloc with 20 MPs (TV21)
• Arben Gashi: VLAN should become flexible (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• New elections would cost up to EUR 5 million (Klan Kosova)
• ICK representatives visited Decani Monastery (Klan Kosova)
UNMIK Headlines 22 October
• Thaci aims to become President of Kosovo (Tribuna)
• Jahjaga turns down minority community MPs’ request (dailies)
• Thaci confirms meeting with Ashton in Brussels (Lajm)
• Jahjaga and Mustafa hold unannounced meeting (Tribuna)
• Kusari: If I were offered the PM post, I would leave Gjakova (Gazeta Blic)
• Chief imam visits Decani Monastery (Koha)
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