Kosovo Judicial Council (KJC) has called on political parties to refrain from statements regarding court rulings. “Court decisions are based on the law and anyone that seeks to intervene in these decisions directly interferes and undermines the independent work of the judiciary,” said KJC in a statement. Anyone who is not happy with court decisions can challenge them in an institutional and legal manner and not by perverting the course of justice, KJC noted further.

The head of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) parliamentary group, Pal Lekaj, has penned an open letter to Kosovo’s Prime Minister, Isa Mustafa, asking him to provide clarifications over his Deputy Branimir Stojanovic’s trip to Brussels where he is reportedly lobbying against Kosovo Assembly’s law on Trepca mining complex. Lekaj asked Mustafa on whether he is informed about Stojanovic’s trip and on who is funding his lobbying efforts. “Are you informed with your coalition partner’s agenda? Do you oversee where and why your deputies travel”, Lekaj asks.

Kosovo Special Prosecution has filed an indictment against two persons from Peja/Pec on terrorism charges. The suspects are accused of managing a radio station and a web portal in the territory of Kosovo for spreading of terrorist propaganda aimed at encouraging the Kosovo youths to join terrorist organisations in Syria and Iraq. They are also being accused of joining foreign troops.

The Kosovo Police (KP), responding to allegations made by some media that KP members are not allowed to pass through Serbia, clarified that KP respects everyone's right to move freely. "Kosovo Police respects the rights of everyone to move freely, however, referred to the latest developments and the arrest of Regional Director Colonel Nehat Thaci by Serbian authorities, Kosovo Police has an obligation to inform and its employees and suggest that passing through Serbia may not be safe and may have unpredictable consequences for our employees.

“The Trepca mining complex is an inseparable part of Kosovo and it belongs to all the citizens of the country and not to a single community or municipality,” Slobodan M. Vujicic, chairman of the Association and the Union of Montenegrins in Kosovo, wrote in a letter sent to the news website. “Attempts to present Trepca an exclusive property of Serbs is just another manipulation by Belgrade and its servants in Kosovo, such as the Serbian List. With their actions and rhetoric, they are humiliating and deceiving their people.

Vetevendosje leader, Visa Ymeri, took to Facebook to comment on the recent decision of the Kosovo government to submit to the Assembly draft law on the Trepca mining complex. According to Ymeri, the bill has a series of flaws and if not amended, it will fail to save Trepca. He said the government of Kosovo plans to privatise the mine. “All investing modalities in Trepca foreseen in the law are privatising modalities”, wrote Ymeri. He added that Kosovo needs a law on Trepca but it should be aimed at transforming it into a public enterprise with a special status.

People of Kosovo are very little informed about the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) and they are largely unhappy with the political and economic situation, indicates a poll carried out by two Kosovo-based think tanks, the Pristina Institute for Political Studies and the Group for Political and Legal Studies.  Leonora Kryeziu from the Pristina Institute for Political Studies said the SAA requires Kosovo institutions to undertake a series of reforms for which the people have no knowledge of.

Government of Kosovo in its routine meeting today endorsed the draft law on religious freedoms in Kosovo paving way for the Assembly’s vote. Deputy Prime Minister, Hajredin Kuçi, said that draft law aims to recognise the legal status of religious communities. “Kosovo will respect religious communities by recognising their representatives but always by preserving secularism of the state”, he said.

Faton Abdullahu, spokesperson of the government of Kosovo, told Telegrafi that re-proceeding of the demarcation at the Assembly will not be delayed. “The Prime Minister Mustafa has just returned from New York, where he stayed for a week. He had many constructive and beneficial meetings including the one with President Obama. The priority of Prime Minister’s agenda is now demarcation and the positive thing is that there is an agreeable and coordinated will of the coalition parties not to prolong this draft-law unjustifiably.

Kosovo’s Islamic Community insists that the mosque near the Ibër/Ibar river in the northern part of Mitrovica, destroyed during the conflict, will be reconstructed in its original place. Islamic Community’s Secretary General, Resul Rexhepi, said the reason why the mosque was not reconstructed by now has to do with security concerns.