Head of the Parliamentary Group of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, Pal Lekaj, proposed today again during the Assembly session a resolution related to Ramush Haradinaj’s case. He said that discussions with Serbia should suspend until Haradinaj’s release.

The coalition government parties, the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) were pro resolution for Haradinaj, however they said that the text of the resolution should be harmonized.

Kosovo Assembly presidency has unanimously decided to submit the draft law on Kosovo Security Force (KSF) transformation to the Government. Kosovo Assembly President Kadri Veseli said he expects the government to forward the bill to the Assembly as quickly as possible. “Every step we undertook in the last 18 years has been in partnership with international community,” Veseli said after the meeting of the Assembly presidency. He called on the Serbian List to return to Kosovo institutions “where they belong.” “We have tried to reach political consensus for three years.

In a meeting with Kosovo Assembly President Kadri Veseli today, President of Kosovo Hashim Thaci officially presented the draft law for transformation of the Kosovo Security Force (KSF) into an armed force.

Opposition MPs decided to leave the Assembly session after the decision of the French court to postpone the verdict for the former Prime Minister of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj for 6 April.

Kosovo Assembly MP from the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), said that today’s decision of a provincial court in France to extend Haradinaj’s staying in France is a clear abuse of the human rights and a tendency to discredit an entire war.

The Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) parliamentary group has announced it will boycott the work of the Kosovo Assembly until 6 April when its leader will once again appear before a French court regarding an extradition request against him by Serbia. "AAK MPs are disappointed with negligence of Kosovo institutions on Haradinaj case and on Serbia's illegal arrest warrants against Kosovo citizens," the party said in a statement.

Representatives of KLA veterans associations have called on the Kosovo Assembly MPs to urgently vote on changing the law on special court so that it included trying crimes committed by Serb forces in Kosovo. KLA war association representatives made the call from inside the Assembly following the French court postponing a decision on the possible extradition Ramush Haradinaj to Serbia. KLA veterans said they would not leave the Assembly until the MPs vote on the changes proposed earlier in the session by PDK MP, Nait Hasani.

The government of Kosovo is expected to resubmit the border demarcation agreement to the Assembly this week, reports the news website quoting sources from the government. This will pave way for the presidency of the Assembly to include the border demarcation agreement on the agenda for one of the upcoming sessions in March. The voting is expected to take place days after the EU High Representative for Security and Foreign Policy, Federica Mogherini, visits Kosovo.

Based on reliable sources, Lajmi.net reports that the Assembly session for ratification of the Agreement for border demarcation with Montenegro, will be held on 9 March.  “The European Union and the United States of America are requesting urgent ratification of the demarcation, because Kosovo has stagnated on the Euro-integration processes, concretely on visa liberalization,” the source said.

President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, said told German papers, Frankfurter Rundschau and Badische Zeitung, said that the decision on visa liberalisation is in the hands of Kosovo Assembly MPs and that to achieve this, they need to ratify the border demarcation agreement with Montenegro. “This is the only condition that has not yet been met,” Thaci said.

President of the Kosovo Assembly, Kadri Veseli, told reporters that the border demarcation agreement with Montenegro needs to be passed as soon as possible. “The moment the government resubmits agreement for ratification of demarcation, we will immediately forward it to the Assembly,” Veseli said after the meeting of the Assembly presidency. Veseli announced that the next sessions of the Assembly have been scheduled for Monday and Thursday.