Boris Tadic: Dialogue after signing Brussels agreement makes no sense (Blic)
Former President of Serbia, Boris Tadic commenting on Aleksandar Vucic call for a nationwide dialogue on Kosovo issues, stated to Blic that he has presented his plan five years ago and it contained four topics. After signing the Brussels agreement this plan is no longer implementable, so some solutions that were possible then are not […]
Read More →Brnabic’s keynote – Urgently to establish Community of Serb Municipalities (B92, KIM Radio)
As B92 reported yesterday Ana Brnabic Prime Minister-designate presented her keynote and also spoke about “the urgency of establishing a Community of Serb Municipalities in the province of Kosovo and Metohija, saying that the goal is to maintain stability in Kosovo, continue negotiations with representatives of the interim administration in Pristina, economically strengthen Serbs there, […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 23 May
• PDK and LDK did not envisage pay raise until 2020 (Koha Ditore)
• Competition is done by political programs not by war or peace wings (Epoka)
• CEC does not extend deadline for Diaspora voters (Koha Ditore)
• Political parties do not respect official terms for election campaign (Epoka)
• IMC bans media from airing election debates (dailies)
• Haradinaj: We will create the army during the first 90 days of work (RTK)
• Thaci in Vienna: We do not seek confrontation with EU (Koha Ditore)
• O’Connell: I would not vote candidates with indictments (Gazeta Metro)
Haradinaj: The border is in Cakorr, and it will remain there (Kallxo.com)
During the meeting with people of Prizren, candidate of the PDK-AAK-NISMA pre-election coalition, Ramush Haradinaj, spoke about the demarcation of the border with Montenegro. He said that he would not allow having a weak Kosovo that could be held hostage by Serbia, as it happened in the case of Kosovo’s army. “We do not want […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 20 May
• 26 political entities to participate on 11 June elections (RTK)
• Ymeri: Acceptance of election results depends on their flow (Lajmi)
• Hoyt Yee writes to Arbana Xharra (Lajmi.net)
• The chaotic western Balkans take sudden turn for the better (The Economist)
Haradinaj: No room in Kosovo for association of Serb municipalities (Insajderi)
Ramush Haradinaj, leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) and candidate for prime minister from the coalition with the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and the Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA), said at a memorial ceremony in the village of Jabllanica that he would use the trust given by the citizens and the […]
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)
Vucic and Ivanovic seek establishment of the Association (Klan Kosova)
The Prime Minister of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, met today in Belgrade with the head of the Serb Civic Initiative (SDP) Oliver Ivanovic, to discuss the establishment of the Association of Serb-majority Municipalities, political situation in Kosovo, the future of Brussels dialogue and the procedure against Ivanovic initiated by Kosovo authorities during 2016. Vucic and Ivanovic […]
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 →UNMIK Headlines 10 April
NATO official hopes Serbia-Kosovo tensions will ease after vote (Zeri)
• Fungo: Unilateral army breaches Kosovo’s relations with NATO (Zeri)
• Vucic says war statements are exaggerated (Kosova Sot)
• Adoption of municipal symbols, prerequisite for Association (Koha)
• OSCE with a special role on drafting Association statute (Kosova Sot)
• Serbian List becomes party, Simic and Jablanovic submit requests (Zeri)