“UNMIK in 2002 terminated the proceedings against Ivanovic” (KIM radio)
Office for Kosovo and Metohija said that criminal proceedings against the SDP leader, Oliver Ivanovic and four Serbs, for alleged murder of Kosovo Albanians have been conducted and completed. In the Municipal Court in Mitrovica Oliver Ivanovic, Dragoljub Delibasic, Ilija and Nebojsa Vujacic and Aleksandar Lazovic are tried on suspicion that they were responsible for […]
Read More →Lawsuit for Serbia, Thaci’s “depressing rhetoric” (Koha Ditore)
The paper reports that statement of Kosovo’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hashim Thaci, that Kosovo will file a lawsuit against Serbia for war reparations, was considered as delayed, depressing and hardly feasible. For 15 years, Kosovo has not undertaken a single step that would put Serbia in front of justice for […]
Read More →Former MUP members to block police station and EULEX in the north (KosovaPress)
Former Serb members of Serbia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs, (MUP,) in North Mitrovica, who stopped working after the Brussels agreement for police, have announced for today a protest. They plan to block Kosovo Police station and EULEX building in this part of the city. Their request is integration in Kosovo Police, and for those who […]
Read More →Exodus from Kosovo: Why thousands have left the Balkans (The Telegraph)
Kosovo has lost an estimated 50,000 people in the past two months most of them on buses bound eventually for Germany. What is going on in this tiny corner of the Balkans? Nysret Ismaili surveys the small group of children playing on the flinty school football pitch, set in the plains below Kosovo’s rolling […]
Read More →Kuci in London, to participate at Global Law Summit (Epoka e Re)
Kosovo’s Minister of Justice, Hajredin Kuci, has traveled on Sunday for London, where he was invited by the United Kingdom’s Minister of Justice, Lord Chris Grayling, to participate at the Global Law Summit. The Summit is organized under the patronage of the Government of the United Kingdom, which gathers justice leaders from the entire world […]
Read More →Bamieh announced lawsuit against EULEX head (IRS)
The suspended British EULEX prosecutor Maria Bamieh has announced she will press slander charges against the head of that mission in Kosovo Gabriele Meucci, who described her accusations for corruption in EULEX as racist. Prior to being suspended, the former prosecutor had accused some of her colleagues for taking bribe to end the investigations in […]
Read More →Arrest of Gegovic – further intimidation of Gjakova/Djakovica citizens (Tanjug)
BELGRADE – The Association of Djakovica Citizens, which brings together the expelled and displaced Serbs from that town in southwestern Kosovo, requested on Saturday the release of Miras Gegovic, who was arrested in Podgorica on suspicion that he had committed a war crime against civilians. The Association condemned Gegovic’s arrest in the strongest terms, demanding […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 22 February
• Government waiting for Srpska List to continue coalition or not (KTV)
• Vllasi: Srpska List representatives are damaging their community (TV21)
• Vulin: Thaçi’s idea for genocide claim, dangerous (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Masked Serbs impeded free movement near Brezovicë area (KTV)
UNMIK Headlines 23 February
• Thaci: Kosovo to sue Serbia for ‘war reparations’ (Epoka e Re)
• Vulin reacts to Thaci’s statement for suing Serbia (dailies)
• Mustafa: People of Kosovo do not deserve to remain isolated (dailies)
• Failure to protect witnesses – main reason to establish special court (Koha)
• Tahiri: Kosovo does not discuss Trepca with Serbia (Zeri)
• Kurti: Kosovo leadership terrified of CoE report allegations (Kosova Sot)
FM: Kosovo to sue Serbia for ‘war reparations’ (ANADOLU)
ANKARA Kosovar FM Hashim Thaci said that he could not give an exact date, but added that Kosovo will apply to the International Court of Justice after evaluating “internal and international circumstances.” Kosovo’s Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci signaled Friday that Kosovo will ask for “war reparations” from Serbia on charges of genocide during the 1998-99 war. “We are discussing […]
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