Dejevsky: Recognition of Kosovo by Russia as an exchange for Crimea (media)
The leading British commentator on international affairs in general and Russia in particular, and former Moscow correspondent for The Times, Mary Dejevsky, told Radio Free Europe in Albanian that a solution between the West and Russia could be reached through an eventual agreement for “recognition of Russian authority over Crimea as an exchange for Russia’s […]
Read More →Protesters In Kosovo Demand France Release Former Prime Minister Haradinaj (RFE)
Thousands of people gathered in Pristina on January 21 in a demonstration calling for France to release Kosovo’s former prime minister — who was being held there on an arrest warrant issued by Serbia. Former Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, a Kosovo Albanian wartime guerrilla commander, was arrested in Paris on January 4 under the international […]
Read More →Headlines 12 January
Critical stage in Kosovo-Serbia relations (Koha Ditore)
Haradinaj to face court in France today (Zeri)
Government with no comment on Serbia’s railway line in the north (Koha)
Thaci meets US Senator McCain, talks of Kosovo armed forces (Koha)
Rašić: Like Thaçi, Vučić should visit graves of Albanian victims (Gazeta Express)
Jessen-Petersen: Kosovo’s leaders are outdated and out of touch (Radio Free Europe)
Soren Jessen-Petersen, former United Nations chief administrator in Kosovo, said in an interview with Radio Free Europe, that Kosovo’s leadership is out of touch and that Kosovo needs a “new generation of political leaders, because the current leaders are not showing any vision apart from their insistence to remain in power”. Mr. Jessen-Petersen, 2016 was […]
Read More →Headlines 16 December
• Mustafa: Visa liberalisation threatened if we don’t ratify demarcation (media)
• EP endorses mechanisms for visas, Kosovo should fulfil conditions (Epoka)
• Bomb thrown at Serb’s house in northern Mitrovica (Kosovapress)
• Djuric visits Mitrovica, Kosovo authorities send protest note (Kosova Sot)
• Two police officers suspended for allowing Djuric’s visit (Telegrafi/RFE)
• Jevtic: First decree on Association, then return to the institutions (Lajmi)
• Independent autopsy on Dehari’s death to be published today (Telegrafi)
• Kosovo loses millions of U.S. aid due to corruption (Koha)
Serbian list: Conditions not met for the return to the institutions of Kosovo (RFE, Blic, KIM radio)
President of the Serbian List Slavko Simić says that conditions are not yet matured enough for the return of the MPs and ministers to the Kosovo institutions, although there is a will and that they are waiting the creation of normal conditions to do so. Simić said this for Radio Free Europe (RFE), adding that […]
Read More →Tahiri: Administrative procedures delay agreement on license plates (RFE)
There is no timeline yet on when the Kosovo-Serbia agreement on license plates will start being implemented, Radio Free Europe reports. Kosovo’s Minister for Dialogue, Edita Tahiri, told the news agency that the November 15 deadline for implementing the agreement has passed but that this is a result of administrative delays by Kosovo’s institutions. “Delays […]
Read More →Decision-making crisis can take Kosovo to elections (Radio Free Europe)
The inability of the ruling coalition to conclude issues such as the border demarcation with Montenegro – a requirement for visa liberalisation – and delays in meeting certain obligations from dialogue with Serbia and the inability to form the Armed Forces could take Kosovo to early elections next spring. Kosovo Prime Minister, Isa Mustafa, who […]
Read More →Tahiri: Deadline for implementation of reciprocity agreement on license plates, is due today (media)
Edita Tahiri, Kosovo’s Minister without portfolio engaged in the dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade in Brussels, told Radio Free Europe today that due to the administrative delays, Kosovo authorities did not manage to start with the implementation of the agreement for full reciprocity on the license plates between Kosovo and Serbia and remove the so-called […]
Read More →Fayon skeptical that visas will be removed due to Kosovo Assembly’s declaration (RTK
The European Parliament Rapporteur for removal of visas for Kosovo, Tanja Fajon, told Radio Free Europe that she is aware of the initiative of the Assembly of Kosovo to endorse a declaration with regards to the liberalisation of visas for Kosovo. “I am afraid that it is difficult to say that this (declaration) is sufficient, […]
Read More →Over 26,000 Serbs from the north got issued with Kosovo documents (RFE)
Radio Free Europe reports that there is an increased interest with the members of the Serb community living in the northern municipalities to get issued with Kosovo documents. Adriana Hodzic from the Mitrovica North municipality said getting Kosovo-issued personal documents is no longer taboo among members of the Serb community in the north. “We have […]
Read More →Headlines 11 October
• Thaci calls for resolution of crimes during and after the war (media)
• Corruption and demarcation keeping visa liberalisation pending (dailies)
• Simic: Trepca issue to be solved through negotiations (Zeri/RFE)
• Task force established for Nehat Thaci’s release (Zeri)
• Kosovo never sent list of missing persons to the EU (media)
• Indictment on wiretapped conversations, imminent (Kosova Sot)
• Kosovo to have three-member delegation at PACE (Koha)
• Former ISIS fighter seeks funds to fight extremism (Zeri)