Kurti: Serb judges singed the oath which does not mention Kosovo (RTK)
Referring to an unofficial document on nomination of Serb judges in the north of Kosovo, Vetevendosje Movement MP Albin Kurti, said these judges were nominated by signing a statement which does not mention Kosovo state and its Constitution anywhere in its text. He also said the declaration does not mention loyalty of Serb judges towards […]
Read More →Court session against Vetvendosje MPs fails again (media)
Court session on Vetevendosje MPs charged for throwing teargas at the Assembly of Kosovo failed again. The reason for these postponements is absence of Albin Kurti and Donika Kadaj Bujupi. The court had issued an order to Kosovo Police to bring the two MPs to the court by force. “The Court has issued an order […]
Read More →Kurti on Thaci: You have to be a unifying person to set up a unity team (Koha)
In an interview to KTV, Vetevendosje MP Albin Kurti said President of Kosovo Hashim Thaci is the person who has the least right to initiate the setting up of a unity team to represent Kosovo in talks with Serbia. “You have to be a unifying person to create a unity team. If there is one […]
Read More →SRS about Rikalo: Whose interests Srpska Lista and imposed Serb representatives are protecting? (KoSSev portal)
“How will Nenad Rikalo protect the interests of the Serb people in our southern province, when he proudly notes the fact that “for four years he was a member of a board of the SOROS foundation, together with Shpend Ahmeti, Ilir Deda and other prominent intellectuals from Pristina?”” Serbian Radical Party (SRS) said to the […]
Read More →Vetevendosje’s Kurti calls for Minister Rikalo’s dismissal (media)
Vetevendosje MP Albin Kurti said that the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development, Nenad Rikalo, should be dismissed after his former neighbours in Pristina accused him of personal involvement in the mistreatment of a couple of Albanian students during the 1998-99 conflict. In a Facebook post, Kurti said the statement of Prime Minister Ramush […]
Read More →Kurti: Kosovo is captured by Veseli and Serbia (media)
Vetevendosje MP, Albin Kurti, said Kosovo is not only kept ‘hostage’ by the leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo and new Assembly speaker, Kadri Veseli, but also by Serbia and ‘its party in Kosovo’, the Serbian List. “Kosovo is not only a captured state. The state of Kosovo is being held hostage,” Kurti wrote […]
Read More →Kurti: New Kosovo institutions in Vucic’s hands (media)
Vetevendosje’s candidate for prime minister and MP, Albin Kurti, commented on the recent power sharing agreement between PAN and AKR saying that the forming of new Kosovo institutions is now in the hands of the Serbian President, Aleksandar Vucic, implying that the coalition will still need support from the Serbian List to form the new […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 19 August
• Haziri: LDK to consider Kurti’s proposal (RTK)
• Mustafa: Kosovo needs government with Albanian majority (Gazeta Metro)
• Makolli: Pacolli’s ultimatum intended unification of opposition (Zeri)
• Kosovo to sign petition for membership at UNESCO (media)
• Serwer: Government with 61 votes is not a stability formula (Zeri)
• Rame Buja resigns from PDK (media)
Kurti: Dialogue with Serbs, ZSO imagined as new RS (RTS, Tanjug)
Self-determination movement candidate for the Kosovo Prime Minsiter, Albin Kurti said he is not against the dialogue, but thinks this dialogue should be held with Serbs from Kosovo, while for the Association of the Serb Communities, he said it is imagined as a new Republic of Srpska, Serbian media reported. Kurti said that during the […]
Read More →Haradinaj brings Serbia back to Kosovo (Sputnik)
Participation of Serbs, in the new government, requesting to have all the rights as stipulated in the Kosovo Constitution, Albanian elite considers as return of Belgrade to this area, Sputnik writes. Although Ramush Haradinaj, leader of the coalition PAN and winner of the elections in Kosovo, informed Hashim Thaci a week ago, that he has […]
Read More →Jeremic: Democracy in the Balkans is under siege, and the West is looking away (The Washington Post)
Events in the Western Balkans twice cast a long shadow across Europe in the past century — first in 1914 and then in the 1990s. Both times, the forces unleashed by the carnage could not be contained within the existing international order. And in both instances, proffered solutions failed to resolve the underlying tensions that […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 12 July
“Haradinaj received support from non-Serb communities” (Zeri)
Elections of PAN candidate for Assembly President, not certain (Koha)
International officials in Kosovo begin meeting political leaders (Koha Ditore)
PDK’s Haxhiu: PAN has so far 63 votes (Koha)
Kusari-Lila: New government by Vetevendosje and LAA (Klan Kosova)
Kurti speaks about plans to form government with LDK (Bota Sot)
Hahn: New government to tackle corruption and demarcation (Epoka)
EU to gather today Western Balkans Prime Ministers in Italy (Epoka)