Former Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Petrit Selimi, has expressed his revolt regarding the government decision to dismiss him from the position of the national coordinator of the Millennium Challenges Corporation, considering it as unjustifiable and illegal. He said that he has offered his resignation from the position of the Deputy Foreign Minister in order to avoid conflict of interest. He believes that today’s decision will be annulled.

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 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.

Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, said in today’s meeting of the government that the draft law for ratification of the border demarcation agreement with Montenegro will not be immediately sent to the Assembly for approval in order to give more time for the issue to be discussed with MPs and the public. According to Mustafa, Kosovo is not losing territory through the agreement and the debate will confirm this.

The Pristina-based Kosovo Democratic Institute (KDI) issued a media communique today saying that uncertainties surrounding the border demarcation between Kosovo and Montenegro should be clarified, before the Kosovo government sends the demarcation deal for ratification to the Assembly. The communique notes: “Nearly one year after the signing of the agreement on the border between Kosovo and Montenegro, there is a need for an open parliamentary debate on the matter. The delineation of Kosovo’s borders is important for its political future and overall security.

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.”

The Kosovo government seems determined to send the border-demarcation deal with Montenegro to the Assembly. Unnamed sources told RTV Dukagjini that the government will meet on Wednesday at 10:00 to adopt the demarcation deal and then submit it to the Assembly. According to the same sources, the Assembly will meet in an extraordinary session to ratify the deal. “The agreement with Montenegro will be submitted [to the Assembly] on Wednesday. Everything is ready.

Kosovo government’s Inter-Ministerial Commission for Communities yesterday held its second meeting and adopted the proposal on the strategy for promotion of language rights, and a document related with the functioning of this Commission, communicated the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo, Branimir Stojanović.

The Prime Minister of Kosovo Isa Mustafa, has requested from the Assembly to vote the draft-law on extension of EULEX's mandate, being that this would help on strengthening the justice in Kosovo.

During the plenary session which is going on right now, Mustafa expressed the position of the government and of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), on extension of the EULEX’s mandate in Kosovo. According to Mustafa, this would strengthen the rule of law and the war against corruption, while the people would feel safer.

 The government of Kosovo has conditioned establishment of the Association/Community of Serb-majority Municipalities with removal of the barricade over the Mitrovica bridge and Serbia’s unblocking of international telephone code for Kosovo. Furthermore, Faton Abdullahu, adviser to the Prime Minister of Kosovo, said that with the current stance, Serbia is risking continuance of the dialogue. According to him, normalization of the relations between Kosovo and Serbia strengthens Kosovo’s towards European integration.