The outgoing Prime Minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, informed through Facebook that he has received a letter from the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, where she proves the determination to implement during the coming months the goals discussed during the meeting at the Conference for Western Balkans on 28 August 2014.
KTV’s editor-in-chief Adriatik Kelmendi remarks in a column for the paper that today is exactly four months since parliamentary elections took place and four months since political parties for which the citizens voted continue to keep Kosovo suspended. Everything has now beginning to resemble a cynical farce which is not only insulting for the Kosovo voter but is dangerous for Kosovo itself, considers Kelmendi.
The President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, accepted today from the Special Representative of the European Union in Kosovo, Mr. Samuel Žbogar, the Progress Report for 2014 and the EU Enlargement Strategy approved by the European Commission, which assesses the overall progress of Kosovo towards European integration.Wednesday, 08 October 2014
Ivan Gorbunov, official at the Russian Embassy in Serbia, stated that Moscow’s position on Kosovo remains unchanged and the announcements “which in a provocative manner were attributed to the head of the Russian Embassy in Serbia based in Pristina do not comply with the truth,” reported Serbian media.
After the meeting with the chairperson of the Assembly’s constitutive session, Flora Brovina, member of the leadership of the Democratic League of Kosovo, Vjosa Osmani, said that she represented the 62 deputies who signed the request for the session to be held on Thursday and expressed their position regarding this session.
Eduard Kukan, Slovak diplomat said Kosovo is in a very difficult position due to the failure to create its institutions after holding the elections.
“Kosovo is in a very difficult position, a situation which they created themselves. They should all prove that they are interested for a European agenda,” he said. Euro-deputy Kukan said he does not know what is going to happen during this period but according to him, what is well known is that “Kosovo is wasting time.”
Coalition block and Vetevendosje are determined to continue with the constitutive session of the Assembly tomorrow, no matter if the Democratic Party participates or not. They will even hold a debate and draw conclusions through which they would offer a solution and inform all respective bodies, such as the Presidency and other bodies which recognize parliamentary majority.
Publicist Enver Robelli writes that the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) has captured all institutions of Kosovo and there are two recent examples that demonstrate this situation. The first relates to the pending indictment against PDK MP, Azem Syla, by Swiss authorities on charges of abusing the country’s social welfare system and although the investigations against Syla began almost two years ago, the PDK has never distanced itself from him and even nominated him for MP.
The paper’s Brussels correspondent, Augustin Palokaj, says that there is very little curiosity for this year’s European Commission (EC) progress report and one of the reasons for this is that there is no uncertainty regarding possible recommendations that will derive from the document. Now, when Kosovo has already closed negotiations for Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) and can make no further integration steps without being recognised by five EU member states, the EC has nothing to recommend, claims Palokaj.
Reaction of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, to yesterday’s headline in Danas
Belgrade – The headline in Danas newspaper, which transmits statements from Marko Djuric’s ‘Koha Ditore’ interview, does not match the content, conversation or attitudes of Marko Djuric, the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, or the Government of the Republic of Serbia.