PM Mustafa commends justice agreement; opposition continues to accuse it
(All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
Addressing the Kosovo Assembly MPs on Thursday, Prime Minister Isa Mustafa continued to commend justice agreement achieved with Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic in Brussels. He said that there are no winners or losers with achievement of this agreement, and that Kosovo justice has won from it.
Mustafa said that no laws are required to change with this agreement, but only to implement the existing ones. He underlined that all parallel courts that have operated until now will cease existing with agreement.
The agreement was welcomed by PDK and LDK, but not also by the opposition parties. Opposition parties demanded from Mustafa to ask the approval of Kosovo Assembly prior to any future meeting with Serbia.
In the morning, PM Isa Mustafa also briefed his cabinet about the achievement of justice agreement in Brussels.
Skepticism about implementation of justice agreement in the north
(KTV)
Over the last seven years, Mitrovica Basic Court, moved to Vushtrri/Vucitrn town, has operated in difficult conditions.
President of this Court, Kada Bunjaku – Përquku, who also has a small office, tells how four judges have shared a working room of 16 square meters. Trials were held in containers.
She hopes that following the achievement of justice agreement and their return to Court’s building in the north, they will also return back to normal working conditions.
Political analyst Nexhmedin Spahiu is certain that implementation of this agreement will start. However, he says that on the ground the justice agreement will have the same fate as the April Agreement had, in the point related to integration of parallel structures in Kosovo Police.
According to him, members in Kosovo Police uniforms in the north continue to be at the service of Serbian ministry of interior.
Maloku: LDK activists were murdered by Kosovo Intelligence Service
(KTV)
Assembly MP Doruntinë Maloku, the daughter of the LDK murdered activist Enver Maloku, called on Assembly Speaker Kadri Veseli not to pretend as he feels pity about family members of the murdered, as, according to her, they were murdered by the Kosovo Intelligence Service (SHIK).
Maloku called for accountability from the former SHIK Head, current Assembly Speaker Kadri Veseli, about what she called the criminal organization – SHIK.
However, Veseli said that crimes in Kosovo were only committed by Serbs and that SHIK did not exist at the time when Enver Maloku was murdered.
Accusations and counteraccusations in the race for Chief Prosecutor
(KTV)
Accusations of the candidates that withdrew from the race for the Chief State Prosecutor do not stop.
Shyqyri Syla, one of those that withdrew from the race, reacted against the statement of the only candidates that has remained in the race for the Chief Prosecutor, Aleksandër Lumezi.
Commenting the withdrawal of his colleagues, the latter said that they realized that they can never win the race with this composition of the Prosecutorial Council.
The withdrawn candidate, Shyqyri Syla, officially reacted against this statement to the Prosecutorial Council’s President, considering this statement as a legitimation of the clans within the Council.
AKJ concerned about conclusions of Reporters Without Borders report
(KTV)
The Association of Kosovo Journalists (AKJ) expresses its concern regarding the conclusions noted in the annual report of Reporters Without Borders – World Press Freedom Index 2015.
Kosovo was ranked the 87th in the list of 180 countries, thus marking decline from last year, when it was the 80th.
AKJ considers concerning the fact presented in the report that violence against journalists has increased.
Association of Journalists opposes any kind of pressure on free media.
Representatives of Serb IDPs met with US Embassy officials
(RTK2, Klan Kosova)
Representatives of Serb IDPs from Gjakovë/Djakovica met with US Embassy officials in Prishtinë/Pristina, where they presented the problems they face.
Chairperson of this Association, Djokica Stojanovic, said that US Embassy officials were informed that they have not been able to visit their property over the last sixteen years.
According to him, none of the Serbs that tried to visit Gjakovë/Djakovica town are under investigations, or convicted.
