Organisations that monitor war crimes cases and the families of missing persons in Kosovo said they were surprised by a recent statement by Kosovo’s Minister for Dialogue, Edita Tahiri. The latter told members of a parliamentary committee on Monday that the issue of missing persons is not being discussed in Brussels because the European Union has asked for the lists of missing persons and that neither Pristina nor Belgrade provided such lists.

Kosovo’s Minister for Dialogue, Edita Tahiri, said today before an Assembly committee that the Association/Community of Serb-majority municipalities is in full accordance to the constitution of Kosovo and all relevant legislation. Furthermore, she said that the Association/Community statute will be drafted in line with the Constitutional Court’s decision. “The Association of Serb municipalities can in no way become owner of Kosovo’s public assets, be it in the central or local level.

BELGRADE – As Belgrade and Pristina resume talks to normalize their relations, the latter’s request for its own telephone code present a problematic precedent for China and other countries across the world, Dusan Prorokovic, former state secretary in Serbia’s Ministry for Kosovo and Metohija, told Sputnik Serbia on Tuesday.

The news website reports on the third day of the new round of talks between the Kosovo and Serbian delegations brokered by the European Union in Brussels. Kosovo’s Minister for Dialogue, Edita Tahiri, told Indeksonline that the Kosovo delegation has a firm position on the issue of the telephone code. “Talks on the telephone code are continuing. Our position is firm. Serbia needs to send a letter to the ITU agreeing that Kosovo should get its telephone code from the ITU,” Tahiri said.

Kosovo’s Minister for Dialogue, Edita Tahiri, said in an interview that the European Union has made it clear that the telecom agreement needs to be implemented the way the parties agreed to earlier in Brussels. However, she admitted that there are still some issues that have to be “finalized”, particularly that pertaining to dialing code for Kosovo. Tahiri said the recent reports that the site where a mosque stood in the northern part of Mitrovica is being used to construct a tennis court as part of the project for revitalization of the Ibër/Ibar bridge in Mitrovica were false.

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Kosovo and Metohija says that Kosovo's Minister for dialogue Edita Tahiri "with her bellicose statements" is deceiving the public in order to preserve ministerial position because her shift is getting closer.

Drecun says that it could be learned from Albanian political circles that Tahiri will be removed from the position in the announced reconstruction of the Kosovo government.

The Kosovo delegation, led by Minister and chief negotiator Edita Tahiri, and including representatives of ARKEP and mobile telephony operators, attended a meeting in Brussels on the issue of the telecom. The meeting, which lasted 20 hours, focused on the final steps for the ITU to give the state telephone code 383 to Kosovo.

Kosovo’s Minister without portfolio, engaged in the dialogue with Serbia, Edita Tahiri, said today that progress has been reached in many significant fields of the processes for establishment and consolidation of Kosovo institutions in the north. She said that preparations are being made for round up this process.

Kosovo government's commission for verification of victims of sexual violence during the war has not yet been established, while the verification of the victims cannot be done without this commission, the paper reports. Sokol Havolli, advisor to Prime Minister Isa Mustafa, told the paper that it is very important to receive the applications initially. According to him, the secretariat for accepting the applications is functional and one cannot say that the process is being delayed.

Kosovo’s President, Hashim Thaçi, said in a meeting with Minister for Dialogue, Edita Tahiri, the EU-facilitated dialogue in Brussels for normalization of relations with Serbia has contributed to advancing Kosovo’s European integration as well as to consolidating Kosovo’s sovereignty in the north.