SRSG Tanin conveys his best wishes during the holiday season | UNMIK Press Release
23 December 2016 | UNMIK/PR/1825 SRSG Tanin conveys his best wishes during the holiday season PRISTINA – I would like to share my best wishes with the people of Kosovo during this holiday season. The end of the year is a unique time during which we can reflect on our blessings with those close to […]
Read More →Tahiri: Through dialogue, we are requesting from Serbia to recognize Kosovo (Klan Kosova)
Kosovo’s Minister for Dialogue, Edita Tahiri, said that the intention of the dialogue with Serbia in Brussels is reciprocal recognition of statehood. She said at the round-table organized by Kosovo’s Democratic Institute, that many things were reached through dialogue, including dissolving of the parallel structures which were acting in Kosovo. “I do not remember that […]
Read More →Mirjana Jevtić invited Serbian mayors to a meeting (KoSSev, KiM)
Kosovo’s newly appointed Minister for Local Government and Administration Mirjana Jevtić invited tonight mayors of all the municipalities with Serbian majority in Kosovo to a meeting, reported RTV KiM. She stressed that she was appointed “in the interest of citizens.” But she did not want to comment the current situation in the local Serbian political scene. […]
Read More →Government approves establishment of commission for measuring Kosovo territory (Lajmi)
The Government of Kosovo approved today the proposal for establishment of a commission of experts that will carry out the measuring of Kosovo territory. Deputy Prime Minister Hajredin Kuci said the experts will measure the territory of Kosovo prior to 25 August 2015 up to the signing of the agreement on border demarcation with Montenegro. […]
Read More →Stojanović: The return into the institutions of Kosovo only with the clear desire to establish the ZSO (RTS, TV Most)
Deputy Prime Minister Branimir Stojanović said that representatives of Serbs will not return to the Kosovo institutions while coalition agreement is not respected and until Pristina does not show a clear desire for the formation of the Association/Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO). – We will continue to apply pressure. No one will be able to […]
Read More →Vučić: I have full confidence in Vulin (media)
Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić said that on Monday, 26 December, “all with the Serbian list will be resolved”. Part of the Serbian List’s MPs returned to the Kosovo Assembly despite Belgrade’s opposition. Vučić said that he has a lot of trust in Aleksandar Vulin, President of Socialists Movement. “I have full confidence in Vulin […]
Read More →Kosovo Massacre Village Honours OSCE Chief With Statue (Balkan Insight)
A statue of former OSCE chief in Kosovo, William Walker, will be erected in the village of Recak, where he helped reveal the news of a massacre of ethnic Albanians by Serbian forces. http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/kosovo-keeps-memorialization-to-statue-12-22-2016
Read More →Hoxhaj: Turkish investments in Kosovo more a myth than reality (Klan Kosova)
Kosovo’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Enver Hoxhaj said for Klan Kosova TV that Turkey’s investments in Kosovo and Balkans are more a myth than a reality. “EU is the greatest economic partner of Kosovo. Most services and donations come from the EU. Then, except for the U.S., Germany is the biggest donor,” Hoxhaj said, denying […]
Read More →Headlines 23 December
• Kosovo Assembly passes 2017 budget (dailies)
• Opposition to boycott Thaci’s speech to Assembly (Kosova Sot)
• Thaci: Balkans should be strategic interest to EU, not technical process (Epoka)
• Vucic calls a meeting with Kosovo Serb representatives (Klan Kosova)
• Agreement on license plates still not being implemented (Zeri)
• German police arrest two Kosovars suspected of planning terror attack (media)
• Vucic: We bought planes in order to prevent a repetition of 1999 (Zeri)
German police arrest two men suspected of planning shopping mall attack (Reuters)
Police special forces arrested two men suspected of planning an attack on a shopping mall in Oberhausen in the West German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, police said on Friday. The suspects, two brothers aged 28 and 31 who were born in Kosovo, were arrested in the city of Duisburg after information provided by security sources, […]
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