Thaçi doubts that signatures of opposition’s petition are forged
(All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
Few weeks ago the opposition parties announced closure of the petition against the Association of Serb majority municipalities and the Agreement on demarcation with Montenegro. However, over 200.000 signatures of citizens might be forged. This doubt was raised by Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi.
He said that if the opposition proceeds the petition to the Assembly, than they will ask for verification of all signatures. Thaçi said that they have to do this as he doubts that these signatures might have been forged, when a person could have signed up to 600 times.
However, opposition representatives refuted these doubts. They expressed their readiness to verify all the citizens’ signatures, as they are convinced that no forgeries were made.
Srpska List threatens to leave Government for the Association
(Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
Minister for communities and return, Dalibor Jevtic, said that Srpska List will reconsider its involvement in Kosovo Government, and it will probably even leave it if the Agreement on establishment of the Association of Serb majority municipalities will not be respected.
“One of the points of the agreement on coalition, based on which we also entered the Kosovo Government, was establishment of the Association and there is nothing we can do with partners that do not respect what they have signed,” Jevtic told Serbian daily Dnevnik.
Jevtic added that Association was not the only issue in question, but it is also ‘about the loss of trust that we are trying to build, not only through dialogue in Brussels, but also with our very entrance in Kosovar institutions.”
Government to resume the process for KAF establishment
(KTV)
Within a few days, Kosovo Government is expected to resume the process for establishment of Kosovo Armed Forces (KAF). This process will force the Government to also start discussions with Srpska List representatives, in order for them to vote in favour of KAF establishment.
Government expressed its confidence that it will have the necessary votes for this process, and stated that the issue of talks and the Agreement on Association are not related to the transformation of Kosovo Security Force (KSF) into KAF.
But, Rexhep Selimi, member of the Assembly committee on internal affairs, says that this Government has failed to establish the Armed Forces. Selimi says that the blockage does not come only from Srpska List, but, according to him, Government has demonstrated that it does not plan to resume the process for transformation of KSF to KAF in a near future. Selimi says that with the current budget planned by the Government, KAF establishment is not possible in any form.
In last ten months 106 persons died in traffic accidents
(Most monitored broadcasters, RTK1)
Compared to the period of January-October last year, the number of traffic accidents has increased. This was made public on Sunday, in a press conference staged in Prishtinë/Pristina on the occasion of World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.
According to Police, excess of speed limit remains the main reason behind these accidents.
“Within the period of January-October 2015 we had 106 persons that lost their lives, which is three more than during the same period last year,” said Kosovo Police representatives in the conference.
For the 10-month period of this year, Kosovo Police has issued over 260.000 fines for the offenders.
