Headlines 11 November
• EU Commissioner Hahn to visit Kosovo today (media)
• Lunacek: Demarcation does not guarantee visa liberalisation (Kosova Sot)
• Opposition rejects Thaçi’s invitation again (Gazeta Express)
• President Thaci meets representatives of missing persons (Telegrafi)
• Ahmeti: Astrit was blackmailed (Klan Kosova)
• Molliqaj: We do not trust investigations by “Pronto” clan (Bota Sot)
• Haradinaj accuses government for lack of progress (Bota Sot)
• Schwendiman wants a special court office in Belgrade too (Koha)
• Vetevendosje will not run in Drenas/Glogovac elections (Kosova Sot)
Orthodox chapel turned into public restroom; Bishop: Lack of basic civilization norms (InSerbia)
Recently renovated and cleaned cemetery chapel in Pristina was turned into a public restroom and garbage dump, and several orthodox graves are overgrown with weeds, said the Dioceses of Raska and Prizren. Such a situation exists despite the fact that municipal community service is allegedly in charge of taking care of the cemetery and that […]
Read More →Shpend Ahmeti: The church a political, not religious issue (KIM radio)
Question of the temple of Christ the Saviour is a sensitive political issue that should be resolved in the Parliament of Kosovo, says the mayor of Pristina, Shpend Ahmeti visiting the show “Dogovor!?”. Ahmeti claims that he is not for the demolition of the temple, but he is committed to the fight against the injustice […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 22 April
• Collaku: Special Court will remove all doubts (Lajmi/Tribuna Channel)
• “Major changes, if Vetevendosje member leads the country” (Klan Kosova)
• Ahmeti: Alternative still has a chance (Zeri)
• Krasniqi: Vetevendosje should have been more tolerant (Epoka e Re)
• Deda: I refuse to be part of political degradation (RTK)
• Competition for post of PDK leader underway (Epoka e Re)
Ahmeti: Leader of the list and candidate for prime minister belong to Vetevendosje (Indeksonline)
Mayor of Pristina and senior member of Vetevendosje Movement, Shpend Ahmeti, today while commenting on opposition’s possible joint election list, said he believes the leader of the list and candidate for prime minister should belong to Vetevendosje. He said that the next candidate for prime minister of Kosovo, should be Albin Kurti. “The key is […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 16 April
• Thaci: Kosovo will show no compromise in war against radicalism (media)
• Mustafa: Government has met 90% of planned objectives for 2015 (media)
• Erdogan calls on Islamic countries to recognize Kosovo’s independence (media)
• Association/Community of Serb-majority municipalities drops from the agenda (Zeri)
• Ahmeti signs coalition agreement with AKR in Pristina (media)
UNMIK Headlines 17 March
• Border demarcation commission’s report to be finalized in two weeks (Koha)
• LDK supports border-demarcation commission (Kosova Sot)
• Vetevendosje’s Bojken Abazi deported from Kosovo (dailies)
• Konjufca and others in EULEX case, released from detention (Epoka e Re)
• Haliti: Opposition’s boycott, comfort for government (Zeri)
• Three official vehicles set on fire throughout Kosovo (RTK/Kosovapress)
• Nishani: Association and demarcation to be resolved with maturity (Epoka)
• KDI publishes report on Assembly’s work in 2015 (Koha Ditore)
• EU praises Jahjaga’s role (Epoka e Re)
Vetevendosje and AAK reach coalition agreement for Pristina municipality (media)
Pristina Mayor Shpend Ahmeti and the leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), Ramush Haradinaj, have announced today a coalition agreement between the two parties for the municipality of Pristina.
Read More →Ahmeti: Orthodox church, evidence of Milosevic’s goals (Koha)
Pristina Mayor Shpend Ahmeti said in an interview for KTV on Wednesday that the Orthodox church in the yard of Pristina University must not be demolished but rather remain there as evidence of what former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic wanted to do in Kosovo. Ahmeti said the municipality of Pristina has not received any documentation […]
Read More →Ahmeti: Indecent and ignorant behavior of protesters (RTK2, RTS)
The Mayor of Pristina, Shpend Ahmeti, who comes from the ranks of Self-determination movement said to RTK2 that issue of legalization the Church of Christ the Savior in Pristina is going to be dealt with by the court and added that this issue is more of a political nature. He also described recent urination of […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 29 December
• Mustafa: There will be no new elections (Zeri)
• Thaci: It is not my life’s ambition to become president (Epoka e Re)
• Without Association/Community, Thaci cannot become president (Koha)
• Austria has not applied for Kosovo’s dialing prefix (Koha Ditore)
• Serbs jeopardizing the functionalization of court in Mitrovica North (RTK)
• Government of Kosovo receives €29million loan from EBRD (Koha Ditore)
Ahmeti: Scandalous that Dacic is Serbia’s foreign minister (Koha)
Pristina Mayor Shpend Ahmeti responded to the statement of Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic regarding the decision of the Constitutional Court to temporarily suspend the agreement on the Association/Community of Serb majority municipalities. Dacic called the decision “scandalous” while Ahmeti said that what is scandalous is the fact that “Milosevic’s right-hand man, Dacic, is today […]
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