Kosovo government approved today the decision to allocate 20 thousand Euros to support the project of the Coordinating Council of Family Associations of the Missing Persons in Kosovo for the rehabilitation of the families of missing persons. Kosovo’s Deputy Prime Minister, Hajredin Kuci, said this amount of money is intended for different activities for family members of missing persons, including spa treatments for their rehabilitation.

The Kosovo government has annulled its decision made on May 13 whereby Petrit Selimi, Deputy Foreign Minister, was appointed as national coordinator of the Millennium Challenges Corporation. Kosovo’s Prime Minister, Isa Mustafa, said today that the government received complaints from the Anti-Corruption Agency that Selimi cannot hold both the post of Deputy Foreign Minister and MCC coordinator. Principal Deputy Prime Minister, Hajredin Kuçi, said today that the government will recruit a civil staff to the post of MCC national coordinator.

Kosovo’s Deputy Prime Minister, Hajredin Kuçi, said on Wednesday that in the coming days there will be intensive meetings of the political spectrum to discuss the border-demarcation agreement with Montenegro. According to him, issues of national importance such as demarcation, must overcome the political differences. However, when asked whether the coalition between the Democratic Party of Kosovo and Democratic League of Kosovo is in crisis, Kuci said there is no crisis in the ruling-coalition.

The paper’s front-page editorial today criticizes the newly appointed Justice Minister Dhurata Hoxha for her statements that she will follow the path of previous Justice Minister Hajredin Kuci. “During the years while the justice sector was led by Minister Kuci, the crisis only has deepened in the rule of law. Minister Kuci’s biggest failure was the extreme degradation of justice and the failure of presenting radical reforms by removing corrupt judges and prosecutors.

Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo, Hajredin Kuçi, stated that messages of the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs at the United States Department, Victoria Nuland, on the demarcation issue, are good for the government. “Those messages will be taken seriously by the government,” Kuçi said. Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo, Hajredin Kuçi, said during the introduction of the future Minister of Justice, that “we will use each opportunity to find a consensus on proceeding the agreement further.”

Kosovo’s Minister of Justice, Hajredin Kuçi said to the members of the parliamentary commission for European integrations that the mandate of the EU rule of law mission, EULEX, came after lengthy negotiations. Kuçi said that the new EULEX mandate will have a different set of competencies. “The ongoing cases will remain under EULEX while the new cases will be taken on in coordination with the judicial and prosecutorial councils, [and] the state prosecution”, Kuçi said.

Representatives of Ministry of Justice, Kosovo Judicial Council, Kosovo Prosecutorial Council and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) participated today in the round-table on coordination mechanisms for strengthening the rule of law in Kosovo.

The government of Kosovo has approved the draft law for ratification of the international agreement between Kosovo and the European Union, with regards to the extension of the mandate of the EU mission for the rule of law in Kosovo (EULEX), until 15 June 2018.

Kosovo’s Prime Minister, Isa Mustafa, today appointed Hajredin Kuçi in the post of Deputy Prime Minister and Enver Hoxhaj as the new Foreign Minister. Kuçi will also hold the Justice Minister post for the time being. During a joint press conference with the PDK leader Kadri Veseli, Mustafa said the changes made today will contribute to government’s efficiency and its goals.

Kosovo Justice Minister Hajredin Kuci said on Monday that the Kosovo - Montenegro border had never been decided by Albanians. “Determination of the border with Montenegro has always been a problem. We have two choices, the first is revision of the agreement on border-demarcation with Montenegro, or the case to be resolved by arbitration,” Kuci said. He made these comments during the conference “Borders in international law - contesting and acknowledgement” that was organized by the Faculty of Law in Pristina.