Belgrade asks for “legal clarifications” in regards to Association (Koha Ditore)
The paper on a front page story writes that after the signing of agreements on security and judicial structures in northern Kosovo, Pristina and Belgrade in the near future are expected to discuss the establishment of the Association/Community of Serb municipalities. Unnamed sources told Koha Ditore that Pristina and Belgrade have not yet managed to agree on the legislation for the establishment and functioning of the Association. “Serbia wants the Association to have executive powers. And this goes in line with the strategy of Belgrade to condition, after a while, the removal of Kosovo as part of the Serbian Constitution with constitutional changes in Kosovo. These changes would recognize three territories with special organization in Kosovo under the local administration of the Association/Community of Serb municipalities,” said this source.
Mustafa to undertake first official visit to Tirana (Gazeta Blic)
According to reports from the Tirana-based TV, Top Channel, Prime Minister of Kosovo Isa Mustafa is expected to visit Albania on 9 March. Mustafa will be accompanied by Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci and several other ministers in what is his first state visit since taking on the post of Kosovo prime minister.
Dacic to visit Kosovo in March (Epoka e Re)
Serbia’s Foreign Minister, Ivica Dacic, is expected to be in Kosovo on 25 March. The news was confirmed by Kosovo’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hashim Thaci, during the South-East European Cooperation Process (SEECP) summit in Tirana. Thaci said that another regional meeting will be held on 25 March, where six foreign ministers of the region, among them the Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic, will meet in Kosovo.
73 persons returned to Kosovo from European countries (dailies)
Papers report that 73 persons from different parts of Kosovo arrived by plane to Pristina yesterday after being returned by authorities of several European countries. The airplane set off from Budapest but the people who boarded it also came from Germany, France, Switzerland, and Austria. The papers also report that a two-year-old girl from a village near Vitia passed away in a refugee camp in Hungary where her family was sheltered after failing to make it to Germany. Hungarian authorities said the girl did receive medical treatment before her death and that the exact cause of death would be determined in an official report soon.
