Mustafa: Progress has been made in six months
(All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
Despite numerous complaints, Government of Kosovo says that foreign investments have increased within the first six months.
Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa said that within the first six months, foreign investments in Kosovo have reached the figure of over EUR 200 million. Moreover, PM Mustafa said that during the first semester, Government has fulfilled its defined objectives in terms of improving the business climate and attracting foreign investments.
Mustafa expressed pleased with the fact that over 212 international businesses have been registered in Kosovo from January. As part of this success, according to the PM, is also the award of the contract for Brezovica/Brezovicë Ski Centre.
He announced that the Fund for Economic Development will be functional as of 01 January 2016 and the main goal of the Government is to increase domestic production and foreign investments.
Mustafa said that the Government will soon proceed the draft-law for strategic investments, which enables the Government to have direct contacts with the investors.
Haradinaj urges institutions to suspend the demarcation process with Montenegro
(All monitored broadcasters, KTV&Klan Kosova)
The Chairman of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), Ramush Haradinaj, in a letter sent to senior state officials asked suspension of the Agreement on border demarcation with Montenegro.
In his letter, Haradinaj said that this issue is detriment to Kosovo because it violates the integrity and sovereignty of the country.
Moreover, the AAK leader considers the process as unreliable and based on personal favors and benefits. He said that they will ask from the Prosecution to launch investigations against the head of the Government Committee on Border Demarcation, Murat Meha.
“I ask you to suspend the initiative to sign the agreement on border demarcation between Kosovo and Montenegro, because the entire process has been corrupted,” Haradinaj wrote in his letter
The letter has been addressed to Prime Minister Isa Mustafa, President Atifete Jahjaga, Assembly Speaker Kadri Veseli and Foreign Minister Hashim Thaçi.
Detention on remand extended for Oliver Ivanovic
(All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
Mitrovicë/Mitrovica Basic Court extended the detention on remand against the leader of the Citizen’s Initiative (SDP), Oliver Ivanovic for another two months.
Ivanovic is suspected of war crimes against Albanian civilians during 1999 and 2000.
The Court rejected as ungrounded the request of defence lawyers for Ivanovic to be released pending verdict.
On the other hand RTK2 quoted the director of the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo, Marko Djuric, as saying that this decision represents yet an additional proof that this is a politically motivated process that has nothing to do with the law or justice.
Serbia agrees to probe suspected mass grave site in its territory
(KTV)
Following several months, Serbia agreed to resume excavations in its territory in the search for missing persons from Kosovo, KTV reports.
On Friday and Saturday, a forensic team, families of the missing persons and members of the Governmental Committee for Missing Persons will attend the resumption of excavations at a site in the vicinity of Novi Pazar in Serbia, were a mass grave is suspected to be located. The location was examined before but Serbian authorities did not allow the excavation of the exact reported site.
A non-Albanian witness reported this location, claiming to have reliable information that a mass grave of Albanian is located there.
Recently there have been excavations in several other locations in Kosovo, but searches proved negative.
Çeku: Special court is a political issue
(TV21)
The former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commander, Agim Çeku considers the establishment of the Special Court as a political issue. According to him, this court is being established to make a balance in the Balkans so no one looks like a winner. He said that no one from the locals knows the names of the alleged suspects.
Çeku emphasized that the decision to establish Special Court was difficult but, according to him, KLA soldiers made yet another sacrifice.
