Kosovo women continue to face numerous barriers (Koha)
Only 11 percent of Kosovo women have businesses registered in their names and only 8 percent own property, said the panelists at a conference organised by TEB Bank, Kosovo Women’s Chamber of Commerce, women’s business association “Sheera”, and “Women for Women International.” Minister of Trade and Industry Hikmete Bajarami, also present in the event, commended […]
Read More →Kosovo laws should be harmonized with Brussels agreement (Blic)
Harmonization of the legal framework in Kosovo with the Brussels agreement remains the main prerequisite for establishment of the community of Serb municipalities (ZSO), Ljubomir Maric, the coordinator of the steering team for the ZSO establishment and Kosovo Minister of Administration and Local Self-Government, said late Tuesday. After a meeting with officials of the European […]
Read More →Dacic: International presence still necessary in Kosovo (KIM radio, Tanjug)
Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said in New York that his country considers that international presence is still necessary in Kosovo, adding he urges further quarterly reporting by the UN Security Council on the situation in Kosovo. It is very important for Serbia that the UNSC continuously monitors developments in Kosovo. We advocate keeping the […]
Read More →Thaci wants to “spoil” Vucic’s trip – minister (B92)
Hashim Thaci’s announcement about “a genocide lawsuit” is aimed primarily “at spoiling the visit of PM Aleksandar Vucic to Tirana,” says Aleksandar Vulin. “Whoever knows the policy of the Kosovo Albanians, knows that they never say such things accidentally and that they very rarely speak from their own heads. The policy of the Kosovo Albanians […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 26 May
• UNSG discussed quarterly report on Kosovo (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Surroi: Special Court is being set up to pay sins of the past (KTV)
• Jevtic and Viets discussed return process (RTK2)
• Working groups for monitoring of the laws on minorities announced (RTK2)
• Assembly committee adopt package of justice system bills (Klan Kosova)
• Ministry of interior criticized for not working on prevention of human trafficking (KTV)
UNMIK Headlines 27 May
• UN Security Council discusses situation in Kosovo (dailies)
• Special Friday (Zeri)
• The plan: Fugitives from high-security prison would go to Syria (Koha)
• Ponta: Romania could recognize Kosovo (Epoka e Re)
• Kumanovo victims buried in Pristina on Tuesday (Epoka e Re)
• Jevtic requests recognition of northern diplomas (Epoka e Re)
Thousands of Kosovars mourn Albanian militants killed in Macedonia (Reuters)
Thousands of people turned out in Kosovo’s capital on Tuesday to pay their respects to eight ethnic Albanian militants killed earlier this month in neighboring Macedonia, whose government labeled them as terrorists. Eight Macedonian policemen and 10 Albanian militants, nine of them from Kosovo, were killed in a day-long battle in the northern Macedonian town […]
Read More →UN envoy urges Kosovo to establish war crimes court (AP)
The U.N. envoy for Kosovo urged the government on Tuesday to move swiftly to establish a court to investigate crimes committed by ethnic Albanian rebels during the country’s 1998-99 war of independence from Serbia. Farid Zarif told the U.N. Security Council that he underlined the expectations of the international community and possible victims of crimes […]
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