Stanislav Hocevar: Fewer Catholics in Kosovo, less readiness for dialogue ( Kontakt plus radio, Vecernje Novosti)
Stanislav Hocevar, Belgrade Archbishop in an interview with Belgrade based daily Vecernje Novosti says that Catholics have many problems in Kosovo, especially with emigration. Less Catholic believers in Kosovo, less readiness for dialogue. He added that it would be good if the Catholic Church is included in the dialogue on the future of Kosovo. “Serbia, […]
Read More →Assembly Presidency to decide today on opposition’s request for extraordinary session (media)
Several news websites report that the Kosovo Assembly Presidency has announced a meeting with heads of parliamentary groups today at 14:00. The meeting will discuss the opposition’s request to hold an extraordinary session on the government’s draft agreement for dialogue with Serbia.
Read More →Kosovo minister’s sacking urged over “sexist, racist remark” (Tanjug, BIRN, B92)
The Pristina-based Council for Defense of Human Rights and Freedoms (CDHRF) has called for Kosovo Foreign Minister Behgjet Pacolli to be sacked. CDHRF requested the dismissal because Pacolli used “sexist and racist” language when he spoke before Kosovo Assembly’s foreign affairs committee to describe “the way Serbia lobbied against Kosovo’s membership in Interpol.” According to […]
Read More →President Thaci has lunch with KSF troops (media)
All news websites report that Kosovo President Hashim Thaci had lunch today with Kosovo Security Force (KSF) troops. Thaci told reporters after the lunch that he has asked the government to increase the salaries of all KSF members. “After we formed the army … I have decided, as President of Kosovo and Supreme Commander of […]
Read More →No justice for Albanian victims in Kosovo, let alone the Serbs says human rights activist (Danas, N1)
A Kosovo human rights activist has expressed doubts about justice for Albanian and Serb victims of the conflict in the 1990s. Bekim Blakaj, Director of the Humanitarian Law Centre Kosovo, told Belgrade daily Danas that he fears that most of the victims will not receive justice. “We have no one convicted for the murder of […]
Read More →Official says no mention of southern Serbia territory swap (Danas, Beta, N1 )
A Serbian government official said there has never been any official talk about the annexation to Kosovo of three municipalities in southern Serbia. Zoran Stankovic, head of the Coordination Body for Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja said an exchange of territories was only mentioned by some Kosovo Albanian political leaders. “An exchange of territories and the […]
Read More →Gracanica: A person detained for domestic violence (KIM radio)
KIM radio reports that a Serb from Gracanica was detained last night because of beating his wife under the influence of alcohol, the Kosovo Police announced today. The victim reported to the police last night about 8 pm, and was given medical assistance. The suspect had 1.77 units of alcohol in his blood. Offender was […]
Read More →“NO means NO” – Educational workshops against violence in Leposavic (RTV Mir)
Radio Television Mir (RTV Mir) reported on educational workshops within the project “NO means NO” that were held in the premises of Leposavic municipality, where the methods of self-defense and the help of psychologists were presented, as a part of the ways of how Kosovo youth fights to reduce the number of cases of violence. […]
Read More →Today in South Mitrovica begun signing of petition for the unification of Mitrovica (Kontakt plus radio)
Radio Kontakt Plus reports that today in South Mitrovica, at the proposal of Mayor Agim Bahtiri, signing of the petition for “unification” of Mitrovica has begun. Bahtiri announced on Friday that he would launch the signing of a petition for the “unification” of Mitrovica together with the citizens of that municipality and that he hoped […]
Read More →Belgian FM says ‘slim’ chances for visa liberalisation decision before 2019 (Koha)
Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders responded to a question from MP on when visa liberalisation for Kosovo saying it will not happen this year. He said the issue at present is not in the agenda of the European Union Council of Ministers and that “chances for the vote to happen before 2019 are very slim.” […]
Read More →Kossev: Srpska List and Srdjan Vulovic on Slavisa Ristic: “An errand boy of Ramush Haradinaj”
While massive protests are being held in the Serbian capital against the rise of verbal and physical violence in Serbia and the policies carried out by Serbian President, Aleksandar Vucic, with one of the four demands of the protesters for the perpetrators and the instigators of the murder of Oliver Ivanovic to be found, the […]
Read More →Veseli: Dialogue (Klan Kosova)
Op-ed by Kosovo Assembly President Kadri Veseli. In the year we are leaving behind, we lost too much time pointing fingers at one another for problems and issues that are a joint responsibility of the whole political landscape. Regrettably, the whole political discourse was dominated by an absurd race of negative criticism. The public and […]
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