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Kosovo women call on Mustafa to dismiss Jablanovic (Kosovapress)

Kosovo Women’s Network (KWN) in an open letter to Prime Minister Isa Mustafa stated the KWN members participated in the recent protests calling for dismissal of Communities and Returns Minister Aleksandar Jablanovic and the transformation of Trepca into a public enterprise. “KWN continues to support the citizens of Kosovo who are using their rights, guaranteed by law, to express their dissatisfaction through peaceful protest.

Serbs in fear of demonstrations in Pristina (Politika)

Political consequences of the Tuesday’s violent demonstrations in Pristina are twofold. Most important shot-term consequence is an adamant request for resignation of the Minister for Communities and Return in the Kosovo government, Aleksandar Jablanovic, because he called protestors in Đakovica, who prevented the passage of buses with displaced Serbs, savages. He later apologized.

Deda: Jablanović must go (Blic)

MP of the opposition Self-determination Movement Ilir Deda said that the protests in Kosovo are not directed against Serbs. Still, Minister for Communities and Returns in the Kosovo government Aleksandar Jablanović "must resign" and that is clear to all political factors in Kosovo. 

Deda has announced that the opposition protests in Kosovo will be discontinued if Jablanović leave the government and if Government of Kosovo promise that in the short term the law on forming Trepca as a public company will be sent to the Assembly. 

Exercises for "Democracy and state" exam" (Koha Ditore)

Adriatik Kelmendi writes that Kosovo government and opposition had their chance to use each other in order to draw the red line for Belgrade’s destabilizing impact in Kosovo “and to end the Jablanovic episode. However, he continues to be a Minister of Kosovo government considering for his chief the Prime Minister of Serbia, and using his opportunity to fail Kosovo.

Kurti is toppling Kosovo government, not me (Vecernje Novosti)

“Request for my dismissal is just a pretext for toppling the government, since it is obvious that Albanian opposition is not able to win the power by democratic means,” said Minister for Communities and Returns in the Kosovo government, Aleksandar Jablanović, regarding the request of the Movement "Self-determination" for his dismissal. 

While requested your dismissal protesters demolished Pristina. 

Jablanović resigns? (Blic)

Minister for Communities and Returns in Kosovo Government Aleksandar Jablanović will soon resign, reports the Pristina television KTV quoting "reliable sources". According to these sources Jablanović decided to resign after a request of leaders of LDK and PDK, the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa and Hashim Thaci, who requested him to do so several times. 

Kosovo Politicians Trade Accusations After Unrest (Balkan insight)

Kosovo’s government accused opposition leaders of trying to seize power using violence after protest clashes in Pristina that left over 170 people injured, while the opposition blamed the police.

Government and opposition have blamed each other for six hours of unrest near the government building during protests in central Pristina on Tuesday which resulted in 120 arrests.

Jablanovic to be dismissed this week (Lajmi)

A senior member of the Kosovo government told the news site that Communities and Returns Minister Aleksandar Jablanovic will be dismissed this week. “Minister Jablanovic will not be dismissed because of yesterday’s protest by the opposition but because the government of Kosovo wants to avoid tensions in interethnic relations that are being provoked by certain groups and parties,” the source said. “The decision [to dismiss Jablanovic] was made after consultations that the government of Kosovo has had with Quint representatives. The decision will be implemented in a few days.”

Djuric: Protests in Pristina due to the poor economic situation (RTS)

The real reasons for the protest in Pristina are economic and social, not political, say the director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric. The property question will certainly be on the agenda of the talks in Brussels, said Djuric.

Marko Djuric, visiting the RTS morning news, said that 15 years nobody deals with accumulated problems in Kosovo.

Police, protesters fight running battles in Kosovo (Reuters)

Riot police fought running battles with protesters hurling rocks and petrol bombs in Kosovo's capital Pristina on Tuesday in the worst unrest since the former Serbian province seceded in 2008.

Triggered by remarks by an ethnic Serb cabinet minister and a row over a disputed mine, the violence was a potent reminder of the depth of popular dissatisfaction in majority-Albanian Kosovo, still mired in poverty and corruption seven years since declaring independence from Serbia.