Displaced Serbs from the municipality of Gjakova/Djakovica are planning to collectively return to the city during this year or the first half of the next, said their representative Djokica Stanojevic. “Individual return is a utopia and has not been successful for 16 years now,” said Stanojevic for the Belgrade news agency Beta. He added that the displaced persons from Gjakova/Djakovica are refusing individual returns.
The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, replied on his Facebook page to the accusations of the former Assembly President, Jakup Krasniqi, presented today in an opinion piece published in the media, regarding the Agreement on demarcation of the border with Montenegro.
The Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), has reacted through a press release to the statement of the Prime Minister of Kosovo Isa Mustafa, who claimed that establishment of the Kosovo Armed Force (KAF), is conditioned with the ratification of the Agreement for demarcation of the border with Montenegro.
The press release requests from the government of Kosovo not to link up its failed situations.
Forensic teams carrying out investigations into a possible mass grave site near the building of the Orthodox Church inside the Pristina university campus found no human remains on the site, announced the chairman of the Kosovo government commission for missing persons, Prenk Gjetaj. He said however that the forensic teams have now shifted the excavations into another adjacent site.
Kosovo Assembly Deputy Speaker and senior member of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), Xhavit Haliti, told Radio Free Europe that the issue of border-demarcation with Montenegro remains a problem because there are two sides of the story. “On one hand we have the government saying everything is okay, and on the other hand we have opposition parties saying that Kosovo is losing territory with this agreement.
Kosovo’s Prime Minister, Isa Mustafa, after the central meeting of the Summit of Leaders in Paris on Tuesday said that there will be no integration in the European Union without fulfilling all the criteria set by the EU. “Kosovo MPs, in accordance with the work of the state commission and the clear position of the U.S. State Department, should address the issue of border-demarcation with Montenegro as soon as possible.
The Kosovo Assembly presidency decided to schedule the next plenary session on Thursday but the border demarcation agreement with Montenegro will not be on the agenda, said Assembly President Kadri Veseli. Asked by reporters to comment on the recent action by Vetëvendosje MPs who set up a Kosovo sign at the border with Montenegro, Veseli said no one should take actions that could impair neighbourly relations with Montenegro. “Not an inch of our country’s land will be given to another country”, declared Veseli at the end of the Assembly presidency’s meeting.
A group of Serbs arrived in Gazimestan by Kosovo’s official buses, to mark their Vidovdan holiday. Other busses carrying Serbian plates have started to arrive there as well.
As seen in the picture, the bus carries Belgrade vehicle plates, and it is believed that people within the bus are from Serbia as well.
No incidents or provocations were marked so far from these people who are carrying Serbian state flags.
The Kosovar Institute for Policy Research and Development (KIPRED) today presented the report “What happened with Kosovo Albanians: the role of religion in ethnic identity". According to this report, Kosovo's institutions and political parties have failed to prevent Islamic radicalism, although they had a legal obligation to do so.
Kosovo’s Deputy Prime Minister, Branimir Stojanović said in an interview for the Belgrade paper Večernje Novosti that it is a bad thing UNMIK is excluded from processes in Kosovo and added that it is good EULEX is present to control local institutions. “Agreement on the process of transfer of competencies from international missions to Kosovo ones has been achieved through Albanian politicians and EU representatives.