Opposition against dialogue, request extraordinary session
(All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
The Assembly of Kosovo should take Kosovo’s fate in its hands same as dialogue between Prishtinë/Pristina and Belgrade with it.
This is what Vetëvendosje Movement aiming to do. A day ahead of resumption of dialogue in Brussels VV started its efforts to collect signatures for holding an extraordinary session, through which, this political entity would request immediate interruption of this process, KTV reported.
MP Donika Kadaj-Bujupi stressed that continuation of dialogue has become impossible after the damages that Serbia is causing to Kosovo.
The AAK chairperson, Ramush Haradinaj, who is continuing to remain in France, as a person released on bail, following his arrest based on an arrested warrant issued by Serbia, also said he is against continuation of dialogue with Serbia.
“To dialogue with Serbia at this time is to work against Kosovo,” Haradinaj qualified the announced meeting for Tuesday in Brussels.
According to him, Isa Mustafa and Hashim Thaçi have turned into muppets of Serbia.
Nisma për Kosovën also came against dialogue, which it considers beneficial only for Serbia.
However, former member of the Unity Team, Nexhat Daci, who believes that time has come for high levels talks in Brussels due to recent problems in relations between Kosovo and Serbia, considers this meeting positive.
Following many tensions of recent days between Kosovo and Serbia, European Union officials have invited the highest level leaders of both countries to continue dialogue which started in 2011.
Online version KTV reported that caucus leaders of opposition parties will jointly come out in a press conference on Tuesday. It was Vetëvendosje Movement the one that issued a press announcement that tomorrow at 13:00hrs, at the Assembly premises, caucus leaders of Vetëvendosje, AAK and Nisma për Kosovën will stage a joint press conference. This conference is related to continuation of talks in Brussels.
Gecaj blames Belgrade for Srpska List’s boycott
(RTK1)
Prime Minister’s advisor, Bajram Gecaj, has identified an address for any action that Srpska List takes to provisionally boycott institutions and their stances against the interests of Kosovo Serbs. According to him, the address is Belgrade. Leaving of this List’s officials from institutions regardless of the calls of Prime Minister Isa Mustafa to return to their normal work in institutions and the recent situation developed in the north, Gecaj said that Serbian state leaders are directly to be blamed.
According to him, Srpska List should ultimately not fall under the influence of Belgrade since they were voted to work for the interest of Kosovo Serbs.
He expects their sooner return to institutions telling that there is in constant communication with them regarding this issue.
Gecaj said that Srpska List’s ultimatums and those coming from Belgrade for establishment of the Association of Serb Majority Municipalities (ASMM) are unacceptable for Kosovo Government, and that it will be worked based on Kosovo laws and Constitutional Court’s verdict for this issue.
“The Association will not be established for Belgrade, but for Kosovo Serbs. We cannot establish such a politically-sensitive Association without their presence in institutions. We should formally have them in institutions in order to discuss these issues and make establishment of this Association. We will do this, but we will do it under fitting conditions and political circumstances,” Gecaj underlined.
Regardless of RTK’s persistence to receive a stance from Srpska List, this was not possible.
Inhabitants suffer from non-delimitation of administrative borders
(KTV)
The request of Mitrovica/Mitrovicë north Mayor, Goran Rakic, to have five villages under administration, has made inhabitants of these villages to live in difficult conditions.
Inhabitants of Suhadoll i Poshtëm complain that because of non-limitation of administrative borders and due to conditions set by Rakic the village has remained in a very difficult situation.
According to them, this problem has resulted with no investments in these villages for several years in the row, and because of this they are forced to face with lack of basic living conditions.
Lulzim Imeri, an inhabitant of this village, said that a floor of his cousin’s house belong to Mitrovica/Mitrovicë north, while the other floor to the Mitrovicë/Mitrovica south municipality. According to residents, this situation has pushed many of them to put their houses on sale.
Mitrovica/Mitrovicë north municipal councillor, Gëzim Alushi, called for the issue of administrative borders to be done as soon as possible, because local elections are approaching and, according to him, this will bring the same problems up as in the last elections.
However, Mayor of Mitrovicë/Mitrovica south, Agim Bahtiri, says that municipality he leads is managing with these villages. Bahtiri pledges that he will not allow any change that might go beyond the Ahtisaari Package.
Opposition and experts against commission for measurement of Kosovo territory
(KTV)
Many names of institutions have been invited to the first meeting of the commission for measurement of territory that will be held on Tuesday, but it seems that voices against will be missing there.
Despite the efforts, Government has failed to convince the opposition to seat around a table on demarcation.
Opposition parties will not be part of the meeting of this commission, while besides the opposition; the experts who opposed the current agreement and representatives of Rugova inhabitants will not be there either, no matter that in the Government’s announcement issued days ago participation of all, except the opposition, was confirmed.
In Government express their optimism that within a short period of time, the commission for measurement of territory will give a professional response to the question if Kosovo has lost territory.
Advisor to Prime Minister Isa Mustafa, Faton Abdullahu, said there should be no unjustifiable delays, because the issue in question should be proceeded at the earliest time possible to the Assembly of Kosovo.
But, LDK MP and expert Shpejtim Bulliqi says that Government is not interested in solving the situation, but it is only seeking ways and forms to bring the same result it brought with the State Commission on Demarcation.
According to him, one other result might only come out if the measurement is done from another point, from Çakorr.
Opposition requests that this commission does not start its work at all and the agreement to be brought to point zero.
Assembly Communities Committee members unhappy with work in 2016
(RTK2)
On Monday the Assembly Committee on Rights, Interests of Communities and Returns approved report on committee’s work for 2016, while the committee’s work plan for the on-going year was proposed.
This meeting of the committee went on without the presence of Serb MPs. Veton Berisha, an MP from Egyptian community in Kosovo, said that the report is incomplete due to non-participation of Serb MPs.
“They are an important factor in this committee and their non-participation creates a problem for MPs of other communities, and I am not happy with the work and achievements of this committee. We planned visits and could have done many things as a committee, but we did not. We did so individually as members and the effect produced was little. I think that it was an unsuccessful year,” Berisha said.
MP Cerim Bajrami said that committee worked under difficult conditions but the year was not unsuccessful. He called on Srpska List MPs to return to the Assembly.
“At the contrary, chairperson, I request from you to look into the possibility of bringing in at least one more representatives of other non-majority communities to this committee, taking into account that we have at least two non-majority communities that are out of this committee,” Bajrami stressed.
The report was approved with majority vote. When it comes to the plan for next year, members of this committee will visit municipalities of Leposavic/Leposaviç, Gracanica/Graçanicë, Gjakovë/Djakovica, Pejë/Pec, Mamusa/Mamushë and Dragash/Dragas.
At the same time, MPs will travel to Croatia where they will visit several Albanian inhabited villages. The proposal for inclusion of this committee in drafting next year’s budget was also one of the proposals that were approved.
Aside from committee members, representatives of the OSCE, EU Office in Kosovo, US and Swiss Embassies in Prishtinë/Pristina, and representatives of Kosovo Democratic Institute also took part in this session.
Head of Kosovo Supreme Court resigns
(Klan Kosova)
Current Head of Supreme Court of Kosovo, Fejzullah Hasani, has offered his resignation from this position, a month before expiration of his seven-year regular mandate.
His resignation has been approved by the Kosovo Judicial Council.
Mirena: Both Thaçi and Mustafa have failed in dialogue
(Summary of Klan Kosova Zone B show)
Political analyst, Dardan Gashi, said in Klan Kosova Zone B show that President Hashim Thaçi will deal with reshaping of Kosovo-Serbia dialogue.
“Immediately after his inauguration Thaçi said he demands reshaping of dialogue, and it seems that he will deal with this issue now. Until now there were many voices that dialogue is on the verge of collapse and it needed something new,” Gashi said.
Speaking about dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia, which is expected to continue on Tuesday in Brussels, Gashi said that if the same tradition continues there were will be no changes.
“If some topics such as arrest warrants, the wall and Serbia’s provocations are discussed, we can expect something good,” he added.
On the other hand, political analyst Ilir Mirena said that all the consequences of dialogue with Serbia that went on since 2011 were signed by Hashim Thaçi and Isa Mustafa.
“These two people are delegitimized for this process, because their decisions have brought the country to a collapse and they have shown total incapability to do something in this regard. Both of them have failed. How can we expect that these two people will be successful, when these two could not materialize their signatures in these institutions,” Mirena stated in Klan Kosova Zone B show.
Speaking of Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, Mirena said this dialogue has failed since its very beginning.
Mirena said that maybe all the ‘uproar’ for the Serbian train was raised to hold the meetings between two sides.
“Maybe this implies that all the uproar which was raised for the train was probably made to hold this meeting. I know that nothing will change from this dialogue,” Mirena said.
Referring to dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia, political analyst Dardan Gashi said that detention of former Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj in France could have been a precondition for the dialogue.
“They could have put Haradinaj as a precondition for this dialogue. They did not do it, a big mistake by them,” Gashi concluded.
