Kurti: Dialogue with Serbia to be based on reciprocity principle (KTV)
Vetevendosje’s candidate for prime minister, Albin Kurti, said in an interview with KTV that if elected he would not continue talks with Serbia in the same way as in the past and that he would work on establishing direct talks with Kosovo Serbs. “We would not stop dialogue with Serbia but our government would have […]
Read More →Djuric: EU has lost authority over Pristina (Tanjug)
Marko Djuric, Director of the Office for Kosovo at the Serbian Government, said that Brussels is losing authority over Pristina. Djuric expressed fear that elections in Kosovo would not only mean waste of time for the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, but they also represent continuance of the political radicalization. According to him, elections in […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 12 May
Official: Early parliamentary elections in Kosovo on 11 June (dailies)
CEC: Election campaign to last ten days (Koha Ditore)
Delawie: Corrupt people to stay out of election ballots (RTK)
UN concerned with obstacles in Pristina-Belgrade dialogue (RTK)
Ferati: No more with PDK (Epoka e Re)
Lunacek: Establish a good government, deal with serious issues (RFE, Zëri)
Serbia concerned about elections in Kosovo (Zëri)
Nikolic : Albanians can’t avoid making concessions, and threaten (B92, Beta)
Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has told UNMIK chief Zahir Tanin that Serbia is committed to the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina. Nikolic also said that the efforts of Serbia aimed at Kosovo not becoming a state are effective as long as the UN mission in Kosovo, UNMIK, performs its role to the extent and in […]
Read More →Serbia delivers non-paper to EU with four requests (Večernje Novosti)
Minister without Portfolio in charge of EU integration Jadranka Joksimović and Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Đurić met with ambassadors of EU member-states in Belgrade on Thursday. The ambassadors were informed about the current situation in the region, positions of Belgrade regarding the open threats and negative reactions towards Serbia as […]
Read More →Belgrade expects EU’s “greater engagement” in region (media)
Greater engagement from Brussels is expected regarding the situation in the region, Serbian officials have told EU ambassadors. Minister without Portfolio in charge of EU integration Jadranka Joksimovic and Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric met with ambassadors of EU member-states in Belgrade on Thursday. Joksimovic said at a press conference […]
Read More →Nationalist and religious ideologies want to use EU’s vacuum in Balkans (Lajmi)
The President of Kosovo Hashim Thaci, said after his meeting with the Swedish Foreign Minister, Margot Wallström, that nationalist and religious ideologies want to use EU’s vacuum in Balkans. “We understand that EU is tired with enlargement. However, the aspiration of Western Balkans countries to become part of the EU, should not suffer due to […]
Read More →Lunacek: EU has to put pressure on Serbia to withdraw obsolete arrest warrants (Gazeta Metro)
The European Parliament Vice-President and rapporteur for Kosovo, Urlike Lunacek, hailed the decision of the Colmar Court not to extradite Ramush Haradinaj to Serbia. “I am very pleased that the French judiciary today rejected the extradition of the former Kosovo Prime Minister, Ramush Haradinaj, to Serbia, and that he was released with immediate effect. As a […]
Read More →Ahtisaari: Continue dialogue with Serbia (Gazeta Metro)
The UN Special Envoy during the Vienna dialogue, Marti Ahtisaari, has stressed the importance of the continuance of the dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia. On a video transmission during a seminar organized by the Embassy of Finland to Kosovo, on the occasion of the 100 anniversary of the Finish state, Ahtisaari said that dialogue is […]
Read More →KDI poll: Association/Community could worsen interethnic relations (Kosovapress)
Kosovo Democratic Institute (KDI) think tank presented today findings of a poll carried out between 3 and 21 March and involving 1,065 rerspondents on the topic of Kosovo-Serbia dialogue. According to the poll, 58 percent of respondents said they do not believe courts in the north would be integrated into the Kosovo judicial system as […]
Read More →Four years after the Brussels Agreement, ZSO not in sight (RTS)
It’s been four years since the signing of the agreement between Belgrade and Pristina on the normalization of relations. As the biggest success was seen the agreement on formation of the Community/Association of Serb municipalities (ZSO), that still does not exist. “I did not see recently readiness of Serbs, their representatives to proceed with the […]
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