Condemnations to attack on Roma woman in Lipjan (media)
Civil society organisations and leaders in Kosovo have condemned the attack on a Roma woman in Lipjan after online media showed pictures of her saying there were concerns she was dangerous, an allegation which the Kosovo Police dismissed after interviewing her. Kosovo Police said yesterday the woman in question, whose picture was widely distributed by […]
Read More →Diplomats Call For Calm As Kosovo-Serbia Dispute Heats Up Over Raids (RFE)
European diplomats are warning that a dispute pitting Serbia and Russia against Kosovo over a series of raids by Kosovar police in the country’s Serb-dominated north threatens to ignite the Balkan tinderbox. Serbia put its army on high alert and moved some troops near the border with Kosovo as the two sides traded allegations on […]
Read More →Serb nationalists protest over Kosovo Albanian culture festival (Reuters)
Dozens of Serb ultranationalists protested on Wednesday against a festival promoting Kosovan Albanian culture in Belgrade, a day after Serbia ordered its troops on full alert following an incident involving Kosovo’s police and ethnic Serbs. https://reut.rs/2KfT0xJ
Read More →Kosovo prosecutor asks to lift Russian UN staff’s immunity (AFP/France 24)
A Kosovo prosecutor on Wednesday asked to revoke the diplomatic immunity of a Russian UN staff member suspected of obstructing a police crackdown on organised crime, despite Moscow blasting his detention as “outrageous”. The United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) said the Russian was injured and briefly detained during a raid in northern Kosovo on […]
Read More →Op-ed: Secret Negotiations Will Betray Kosovo (Balkan Insight)
David L. Phillips, Director of the Programme on Peace-building and Rights at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights and former senior adviser to the State Department, writes in an opinion piece published in Balkan Insight that a possible secret deal for swapping territories is reached between Kosovo and Serbian presidents it could […]
Read More →Fabrizi on EU reaction, police action in north of Kosovo (Tanjug, B92)
Head of the EU Delegation to Serbia, Sem Fabrizi said it is not accurate that the EU did not react regarding police action in the northern Kosovo on Thursday, adding everything that happened is yet another evidence the dialogue is the only way to resolve the problems, Tanjug news agency reported. He added that lack […]
Read More →Kurti: Tribunal idea “naïve” and “childish” (Telegrafi/Zeri)
Vetevendosje leader Albin Kurti said today at the Assembly session debating on the initiative of Speaker Kadri Veseli for setting up an international tribunal to try war crimes committed by Serbian forces in Kosovo that it would take years for such a mechanism to become fully functional and called the idea “naïve” and “childish”. “It […]
Read More →Topalli’s proposal for creation of the tribunal commission, approved (RTK)
Kosovo Assembly MP from the Social-Democratic Party Faton Topalli, proposed today creation of a parliamentary commission “which would harminise positions of all MPs and draft a text on the tribunal for Serbian genocide in Kosovo.” His proposal was voted with 62 votes for and none against. “My concrete proposal is for the Assembly to create […]
Read More →Vucic, Grasso exchange comments on action in north (Tanjug, B92, TV Pink)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said KFOR spokesperson Vincenzo Grasso with his latest statement confirmed KFOR did not inform official Belgrade about what is being prepared and happening, Tanjug news agency reported. Grasso said earlier that anyone reading the newspapers was informed about the action. He added there were no activities directed against the Serbs on […]
Read More →Veseli: Let my initiative for the tribunal be victory of all parties (RTK)
Kosovo’s Assembly Speaker Kadri Veseli called on all MPs of the Assembly despite party distinctions to unite on voting today the initiative for the “tribunal on Serbian genocide in Kosovo.” He said that despite of being initiator for the establishment of the tribunal, he only aims creation while the merits would belong to all parliamentary […]
Read More →Cakaj: Unification is not in the agenda of Kosovo and Albania (Klan)
Albania’s Acting Foreign Minister Gent Cakaj told Klan Kosova that the perspective of unification of Kosovo and Albania is not in the official agenda of either of the countries. “We are currently making efforts to intensify cooperation with Kosovo but also with the other countries of the region,” Cakaj said adding that such cooperation is […]
Read More →Russian Investigative Committee probing attack on Russian UN employee in Kosovo (TASS, Serbian media)
The Russian Investigative Committee has launched a pre-investigation probe into the attack on Russian UN employee Mikhail Krasnoshchekov in Kosovo, the press service of the committee told TASS agency, Serbian media report. “The main office of the Russian Investigative Committee has launched a probe into the incident that happened with the Russian national Mikhail Krasnoshchekov, […]
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