The OSCE Mission in Kosovo yesterday organized a debate with representatives of NGOs and gender equality offices to discuss gender sensitive reporting in Kosovo media. Representatives of different organisations working on gender equality in Kosovo consider that Kosovo women continue to be misused by the local media. Violeta Kurti-Islami presented a report, which says that gender equality is mainly ignored in Kosovo media. She also criticized the government for not considering the requests of women organisations for advancement of women’s position.

According to Adriatik Kelmendi, the responsibility for the very much discussed issue of the demarcation of the border between Kosovo and Montenegro belongs to greediness, corruption and minor thefts committed by some individuals during the past years. Kelmendi notes that based on the discussions with eminent geography university professors, the commission for demarcation of the borderline was mainly based on municipal border of Peja and Berane (former Ivangrad) which were set in 1931.

The paper’s columnist Lumir Abdixhiku says it is fortunate that in the last two decades Kosovo has managed to keep the US by its side and only thanks to its support did it transform into an independent country. However, Kosovo has not used this support to the full but the first thing it should do it to ensure continuity of this support, suggests Abdixhiku. And the recent confirmation of the US support to Kosovo that came from the Secretary of State Kerry is important and fundamental not only for the survival of Kosovo as an independent state but also for its international consolidation.

KTV editor-in-chief Adriatik Kelmendi in his opinion piece today stresses that justice has not been delivered for around 20 thousand sexual violence victims in Kosovo. “Zero is the number of sentences that have been imposed by the courts in cases of rape, 16 years after the war. While 20 thousand is the number of women raped by Serbian forces during the years 98-99. The worst thing is that in Kosovo same as in Serbia, dealing with criminal and transitional justice has remained hostage of the unresolved political problem.

KTV’s editor-in-chief Adriatik Kelmendi writes that the only true hero in these recent events in Kosovo is the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) MP Donika Kadaj-Bujupi and certainly not Vetevendosje’s former leader Albin Kurti. Kadaj-Bujupi stood up to defend a political cause through means and ways she saw necessary.

The paper’s Brussels-based columnist Augustin Palokaj writes that border demarcation is not necessarily a precondition for membership in the EU and NATO and that there are countries, such as Croatia and Slovenia, which are part of these two bodies and have no border demarcation agreement. In fact, he adds, most of the former Yugoslav countries have amongst themselves unresolved border issues. “Border problems are so extensive and complex that it should be realized that there can be no quick solution,” writes Palokaj.

KTV editor-in-chief Adriatik Kelmendi writes in his opinion piece that the visit by “Serbian General Ljubisa Dikovic, a person accused of war crimes in Kosovo, in addition to insulting the victims of war, a grave mistake by local institutions and the ignorance of KFOR, contains something even more terrible and with serious consequences”. “This involves Serbia’s attempt to bring Kosovo’s airspace under its control and Brussels’ readiness to endorse this”.

The paper runs an opinion piece by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngucka, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General and the Executive Director of UN Women.

Publicist Enver Robelli writes in his opinion piece about the signing of the agreement between NATO and the Serbian Army on the full relaxation of the air safety zone and the presence of Serbian Army commander Ljubisa Dikovic in Pristina on this occasion. Robelli argues that allowing Dikovic to come to Pristina was ridiculing with the victims of the war. “There is sufficient evidence that Dikovic was involved in the massacres of civilians in Kosovo. The decision made by KFOR was scandalous, to say the least.

Brussels-based correspondent Augustin Palokaj recalls in his opinion piece that “dialogue has no alternative” was the most frequent sentence used by EU officials and diplomats whenever someone had remarks about certain developments in the dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia. Palokaj writes: “There is no doubt that dialogue has no alternative. One needs to be crazy, an extremist or radical to argue against dialogue. This is about dialogue as a principle of resolving conflicts and disagreements.