Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa said today in Pristina that the Kosovo Assembly will very soon vote on the special court that will address war crimes allegations. After meeting United Kingdom’s Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and British Prime Minister's Special Representative on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict, Baroness Joyce Anelay, Mustafa said that a vote in favor of the special court will be a victory for the people and the government of Kosovo. He also called on all members of parliament to vote in favor of the court.

The Serb deputy at the Assembly of Kosovo, Nenad Rasic, considers that it is impossible for him to have any impact on the Serbian List to vote the Kosovo Armed Force (KAF). He said that the Serbian List is being influenced by Belgrade and they consider that it is not in interest of Kosovo Serbs to vote KAF at the Assembly. “As you know, the Serbian List has a majority of votes of Serb community, and I am a deputy that cannot change their position with regards to the Kosovo Army.

The opposition parties have left today the meeting of the Kosovo Assembly chairmanship, because the coalition parties have decided to remove from the agenda constitutional amendments for the Kosovo Armed Force (KAF).

In a presentation about the work of the Kosovo Assembly, Driton Selmanaj from the Kosovo Democratic Institute said that the continuous statements of Kosovo leaders that the constitutional amendment paving way for establishment of specialist chambers will be once again put to vote at the Assembly present pressure on MPs. Selmanaj said that while it is not a customary practice for a legal amendment to be put to vote twice it is not a precedent either.

August is normally the time when Kosovo Assembly breaks for one month for summer holidays. It is not known though whether this will be the case this year because of events relating to the creation of the special court and legislative package for the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA). Officials at the Assembly and the office of the Speaker Kadri Veseli said the holidays issue has not being discussed. However, Prime Minister Isa Mustafa had said that the specialist chambers would be established before the Assembly breaks for summer.

Kosovo Assembly Speaker, Kadri Veseli, called the individuals who are trying to destabilize Kosovo “rotters.” He made this announcement after the meeting of the Assembly chairmanship. “I would like to convey a very special message: such rotters, who tend to lead Kosovo which has western orientation, towards an abyss, primitivism and manipulation with Islam faith, will not be tolerated,” said Veseli.

Head of the Assembly Commission for Foreign Affairs, Enver Hoxhaj, denied during the meeting of the commission for demarcation of the border, the news reported by Montenegrin media that Kosovo and Montenegro have reached an agreement on definition of the borders.”

According to Montenegrin media, Kosovo and Montenegro reached agreement on border demarcation 20 days ago and the agreement is based on the 1974.

The leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), Ramush Haradinaj, has left the meeting of the Assembly Commission for Foreign Affairs. He called the head of the commission for demarcation of the border with Montenegro, Murat Meha, “a liar.”

Haradinaj threw a map that he had with him and said that this commission is working for Montenegrins. He also said that members of the commission are “corrupted and ignorant.”

Opposition parties MPs from Vetevendosje, Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) and Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA) walked out of today’s Assembly session in protest of the parliamentary commission’s proposal regarding the petition against increase of electricity price. Glauk Konjufca from Vetevendosje said the commission dropped two items from the petition while Donika Kadaj-Bujupi said she was not permitted to take the floor and raise concerns about the issue.

At the today’s session, the Kosovo Assembly observed a minute of silence in commemorating the victims of the Srebrenica massacre which marks this year its 20^th anniversary. Assembly Speaker Kadri Veseli said Srebrenica massacre was the worst crime in Europe after World War II and justice for it has not yet been served.