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To the U.S. and G.B., delay on establishment of the special court is disappointing (Gazeta Express)

Assessing that the special court was the issue “that has preoccupied the Security Council,” Kosovo’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hashim Thaci, told the members of the Security Council that Kosovo will establish this institution on Tuesday “in order to cleanse our war and to isolate individual cases and negative actions.”

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UN Security Council waiting for the Kosovo Assembly (RTK)

If the Kosovo Assembly fails to adopt the special court, which is expected to address war crimes allegations, then the United Nations Security Council will do so. Eri Kaneko, the Associate Spokesperson to the United Nations Secretary-General, told Radio Kosova via email that the UN General Assembly or the Security Council have the mandate to establish the special court and that the process would have to be initiated by Security Council member states.

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Ban: Kosovo to redouble efforts on establishment of special court (Koha)

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon on his quarterly report on Kosovo which will be reviews on 26 May, has welcomed the continuation of the Pristina – Belgrade dialogue and the reaching of agreement on judiciary, and stressed that one of the remaining crucial issues is the establishment of the Association/Community of Serb-majority municipalities. According to the report published on the UN website, Ban Ki-moon stresses that the agreement on the integration of the judiciary in northern Kosovo, reached on 9 February, shows that both sides are committed to the implementatio

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James Ker-Lindsay: Serbia is not a Trojan horse of Russia (Vecernje Novosti)

James Ker-Lindsay, director of the Centre for Southeast Europe of a London School of Economics says that Belgrade must take into account its relations with Moscow until a final solution for Kosovo and Metohija  In the West, it is often represented that the countries in the Western Balkans are more inclined to Russia, but we who follow Balkan region we know that this is not true, that the loyalty of the countries is much more on the side of the West.

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Analysts: It would be bad if UN would establish a Special Court (Blic)

Pristina analysts have estimated that a failure in the formation of the Special Court would severely affected statehood and the image of Kosovo.  Analyst of the British group for policy Naim Rashiti has said that it would be terrible if the obligation to establish the court would be transferred to the UN Security Council, because of the lack of readiness of Pristina. In such case, the subjectivity and Kosovo's statehood would come into question and the term of the court’s functioning would be unlimited.

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Ban concerned with migration of people from Kosovo (RTK)

In the recent quarterly report on Kosovo, the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, expressed concern over the migration of people from Kosovo. At the same time, he welcomed the establishment of the Kosovo Assembly and the government and provided a chronology of events that will be discussed at the Security Council meeting this Friday, 6 February.

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UN Security Council meeting on Kosovo set for November 13 (Tanjug,NMagazin,Akter,Blic)

The UN Security Council will meet to discuss the quarterly report on Kosovo by UN Scretary General Ban Ki-moon on November 13. According to the provisional meeting schedule posted on the UN website, the Security Council will hold a debate on the situation in Kosovo on November 13. Ban said in his most recent report, covering the period from April 16 to July 15, that the Kosovo authorities and the EU should make sure that a special court was established no later than early 2015 to deal with war crimes committed by the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo in 1999. Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica

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Jahjaga: Leaders must put aside party interests (RTK)

The President of the Republic of Kosovo, Madam Atifete Jahjaga, received today the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Kosovo, Mr. Farid Zarif and his associates, with whom she discussed about the current developments in Kosovo on the verge of holding the next meeting of the quarterly evaluation of the situation in Kosovo in the UN Security Council, appointed on 13 November. President Jahjaga and Mr.

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