UN: Balkans faces alarming levels of air pollution (AP)
People in all major cities across the western Balkans face alarming levels of air pollution that are reducing their life expectancies because the underdeveloped, politically fragile region is still heavily reliant on burning coal to generate power, the U.N. said Monday in a new report. The report released by the U.N. Environment Program was prepared […]
Read More →”Chepurin and Tanin about the attack on UNMIK official” (Blic, Twitter)
Ambassador of Russia to Belgrade Alexander Chepurin met yesterday the head of the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) Zahir Tanin. Chepurin told Tanin that Russia counts that the UN will take all measures to investigate the recent attack on a Russian citizen, UNMIK’s official Mikhail Krasnoshchekov, reported Belgrade based daily Blic, quoting Chepurin’s post on […]
Read More →Haradinaj releases from duty convicted officials (media)
Prime Minister of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj released from his duty Bujar Nerjovaj, Deputy Minister of Public Administration, after he was convicted by a court for abuse of power during his work at the Municipality of Prizren. In a Facebook post, Haradinaj said his decision is based on Nerjovaj’s own request to be relieved of post […]
Read More →Spin and excessive use of force (KoSSev)
Pristina used a sledgehammer to crack a nut, Serbs who took part in the Kosovo elections with Kosovo ID cards a few days earlier wanted to show that it was Serbia. Op-Ed by Slobodan Georgiev Why did Pristina decide to help strengthen Aleksandar Vucic’s announcement that retaliation against Serbs is being prepared on the same […]
Read More →Vucic to Tanin: Pristina provokes and disables dialogue with Belgrade (Beta, N1, RTS, Blic)
In the meeting with Zahir Tanin, the UN Mission in Kosovo chief, Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia’s President, accused Pristina of making irrational and unilateral moves and of constantly provoking, showing that its leaders were making the dialogue with Belgrade impossible, the Beta news agency carried a statement from President’s office on Tuesday. The statement said Vucic […]
Read More →Vucic: Paris meeting, if it happens, more important than UN session (RTS, FoNet, N1)
President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic told the Serbian state broadcaster on Monday that the next week’s UN Security Council session on Kosovo would be less important than a meeting in Paris with the same issue on the agenda in July “if it happens,” the FoNet news agency reported. Vucic added he had information Washington was […]
Read More →Slovak FM Lajcak says OSCE monitoring situation in Kosovo (N1, FoNet, Beta)
Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak told Serbia’s heads of state and government that his country, as chair of the OSCE, is carefully monitoring the situation in Kosovo and will continue providing assistance and support to Serbia on its path to the European Union. Lajcak told President Aleksandar Vucic that the Western Balkans is the focus […]
Read More →Kosovo Serb charged with war crimes after spending months in jail (N1, KoSSev)
A Kosovo Serb who has spent several months in jail has been charged with war crimes committed in 1999 in the town of Pec, the KoSSev news portal reported on Tuesday. The Special Prosecution indicted Zoran Djokic of Pec for war crimes against the civilian population in March and April of 1999, a prosecution press […]
Read More →Volodin: Pristina’s raid on Kosovo’s north provocation, UN to react (N1)
Vyacheslav Volodin, the Speaker of the Russian Duma, lower house of the Federal Assembly, said in Belgrade on Monday that the “intrusion” of Kosovo’s special forces into the north aimed at frightening the Serbs, establishing control there by force, adding the Serbs could count on Russian help in future, N1 reported. Volodin said that the […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 5 June
• Haradinaj-Merkel meeting to take place on Thursday (media)
• Merkel and Macron prepare ground for Paris meeting (Koha)
• Thaci and Vucic to meet this Friday (Indeksonline)
• Palmer: U.S. sets no timeframes, but dialogue should continue (VOA/Klan)
• SRSG Tanin meets Serbian President Vucic in Belgrade (media)
• Dacic meets UNMIK chief, discuss situation in Kosovo (Indeksonline)
• Kosovo MFA: Tanin’s visit to Serbia, wrong address (RTK)
• Hoxhaj reacts to Dacic’s image of U.S. bill with inscription “Kosovo is Serbia”
• Lajcak: OSCE is closely following situation in Kosovo (Radio Free Europe)
• Kosovo Assembly delegation to visit Presevo Valley today (media)
• U.S. colonel: Security situation is good, political solution is needed (media)
• Juncker: Culture of political compromise must be reestablished in Balkans
• Stoltenberg: Prespa agreement to serve as example for Kosovo and Serbia (Zeri)
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