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Women’s rights promotion on Radio kontakt plus (Radio kontakt plus)

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Radio kontakt plus is implementing a project “Promotion of women’s rights on local media”. The radio would present status, rights and the situation of women in the north of Kosovo through multimedia content, radio shows and web stories. It would focus on the issues of education, employment, political rights, the situation of women in rural […]

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Kosovo State Delegation submits platform for dialogue to Assembly (media)

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Co-heads of the Kosovo state delegation for dialogue with Serbia, Fatmir Limaj and Shpend Ahmeti, submitted a copy of the platform for dialogue with Serbia to Kosovo Assembly Speaker Kadri Veseli. At a joint press conference, Veseli said the platform guarantees Kosovo’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. “At the same time it guarantees there will be […]

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NATO: KSF obligations agreed in letters that are not public (RTS)

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Kosovo authorities and NATO in letters exchanged in 2013 agreed on the obligation that Kosovo Security Forces (KSF) can not move northern of the Ibar River without KFOR approval. However, these letters are not available to the public, NATO officials said, RTS reported. The obligation is clear, Kosovo Security Forces cannot move north of the […]

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Ramadani: KSF would not go to north for war but for relief efforts (Telegrafi)

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Kosovo’s Deputy Minister of the Kosovo Security Force, Burim Ramadani, commented on NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg saying that KSF cannot go to the north without prior approval from the KFOR commander. In an interview with RTV Dukagjini, Ramadani said Stoltenberg’s statement is based on a letter Hashim Thaci, then prime minister of Kosovo, wrote […]

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Thaci promised NATO in 2013 Kosovo army would not go to north (Koha)

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As the meeting of NATO defence ministers got underway in Brussels, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg made reference to a Brussels agreement stipulating that Kosovo Security Force could not deploy to the north without the approval of KFOR commander. He repeated the statement at a press conference following the end of the meeting but did […]

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Justice Minister condemns language used by official against LGBT community (Telegrafi/Express)

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Kosovo’s Justice Minister Abelard Tahiri has strongly condemned a statement by a ministry official made against members of the LGBT community. In a response to a play about a gay couple staged by the Pristina-based Qendra Multimedia, the ministry official remarked on social networks that the heads of LBGT members should be “chopped off”.  Tahiri said […]

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Police: Office of the Ski Federation in Brezovica was not ransacked (Klan Kosova)

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Media reported last night that the Office of the Ski Federation of Kosovo in Hotel Molika in Brezovica, was vandalized and looted. The police informed today that there are no traces of violent entrance in the offices and that there were no laptops or other inventory at the office. “The office of the Molika director […]

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Dacic: EU membership, regional stability priorities for Serbia (TV N1)

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Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic said on Thursday that membership in the European Union and regional stability are Serbia’s key foreign policy priorities, TV N1 reports. Speaking to students at the 8th class of High Security and Defense Studies, Dacic said that Kosovo is an issue of the highest national interest and the greatest […]

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Serbian President denies having secret meetings with Thaci (Vecernje Novosti, Tanjug)

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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said yesterday he never had any secret dinner with Hashim Thaci, as representatives of Alliance for Serbia claimed, Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti reported. Asked to comment allegations that he had secret meetings with Hashim Thaci, Vucic said they did not have secret meetings. “We were in Vienna with Sebastian Kurz. We […]

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Stoltenberg: NATO’s decision on the new level of cooperation with Kosovo this spring (European Western Balkans)

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During the second day of the NATO member states ministerial meeting, Secretary General of the Alliance Jens Stoltenberg reiterated that the transformation of Kosovo Security Force into an army, which took place in December, was ill-timed. According to him, NATO is reconsidering its level of cooperation with KSF, and the final decision is expected in […]

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DSS: Protest against surrender of Kosovo on Monday (Danas, BETA)

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Opposition Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and other initiators of an Appeal for Defense of Kosovo and Metohija called on citizens to gather in Belgrade on Monday, 18 February and show they oppose “high-treason” and attempts of the current authorities “to delineate Serbia with itself,” Danas daily reported. As DSS announced the gathering would take […]

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AP interview: Kosovo president hopes for deal with Serbia

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The president of Kosovo said Thursday he thinks there is “good momentum” to reach an agreement this year to normalize ties with Serbia. Kosovo commemorates its 2008 declaration of independence on Feb. 17 each year. It is recognized as its own country by 116 nations, but not by the one from which it unilaterally separated, […]

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