Several media report that former Vetevendosje leader and Kosovo Assembly member, Albin Kurti, was pelted with eggs by two persons today as he was entering the Assembly premises. Police managed to arrest one of the attackers. The Vetevendosje Movement later issued a press release saying it suspects that the attackers were police officers in civilian clothes.

Kosovo Assembly approved a resolution condemning the recent decision by a Serbian court sentencing, in absentia, eight former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) members to sixteen years for an attack on Yugoslav Army troops in 1998. Two of the convicted persons, Anton Cuni and Rrustem Berisha, are Kosovo MPs. The voting took place under a cloud of tear gas released by the opposition MPs as the Kosovo Assembly President Kadri Veseli began to read the resolution text.

Deputy President of the Assembly of Kosovo from Vetevendosje movement, Aida Derguti, participated today at the meeting of the Assembly Presidency, which decided to hold the regular session of the Assembly on Friday. Referring to the Agreement on Association/Community of Serb-majority Municipalities, Derguti said that the government is insisting to bring back into life a dead agreement.

The President of the Assembly of Kosovo, Kadri Veseli, confirmed after the meeting with the heads of parliamentary groups that the regular plenary session will be held on Friday at 10:00 hours. They will discuss 22 points of the agenda.

“We are continuing with a positive atmosphere. Being that tomorrow is a special day, we congratulate citizens for the eighth anniversary of the independence,’ Veseli said.

Head of the parliamentary group of the Democratic League of Kosovo, Ismet Beqiri, said on his way out from the meeting of the Assembly Presidency, that opposition parties were against holding of a solemn session to mark the eighth anniversary of the independence of Kosovo.

Citing sources in the offices of international representatives in Kosovo, the news site reports that that the Kosovo Assembly Presidency will meet on Tuesday and schedule the first assembly session of the year this Friday. The news site notes that the Assembly was supposed to meet this week to elect the President of Kosovo, but following a request by international officials, this was postponed until after the opposition protest announced for 17 February.

Final preparations for the next Kosovo Assembly session are underway and, according to sources from the government, the session could take place as early as next Monday. Foreign Minister and candidate for the next president of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, is expected to meet with the US Secretary of State John Kerry in Tirana on Sunday and the most suitable date for the session is Monday as the following days will be busy with events organised to mark the eighth anniversary of Kosovo’s declaration of independence.

The former deputy UN Special Envoy for the final status negotiations for Kosovo, Albert Rohan, in an interview with Pristina-based news site Republika, said the violent actions of recent months have seriously damaged Kosovo's image in the international arena. "In a democracy, political confrontations are done peacefully, arguments and political debate should take place in Parliament," said Rohan. He suggested that the only way to get out of this situation is the return of the opposition in institutions.

The news site reports that a small number of members of the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities protested in front of the Kosovo government building in Pristina today demanding more jobs. One of the protesters said the only way to put pressure on the government is to organize protests. Protesters also expressed dissatisfaction with their representatives in the Kosovo Assembly. They even refused a meeting with a RAE MP.

The front page of the paper says that new elections in Kosovo are unavoidable because “all the other alternatives to overcome the political crisis, created since the establishment of an insatiable government of elephants, and later the signing of the anti-constitutional agreements, have been exhausted.”  Kosova Sot further notes that based on the Constitution, the power to dissolve the Assembly and announce the date for new elections belongs to the President.