Ramush Haradinaj, Kosovo's Prime Minister, told KoSSev portal that a solution for the normalisation of relations between Pristina and Belgrade was in Serbia’s recognition of Kosovo's independence and that without it the import taxes would stay in place and there wouldn’t be any dialogue.
''The event in Gazimestan on the occasion of the Vidovdan holiday occurred without any individual incidents, while the reports of the Serbian media about it are tendentious and untrue,'' the Kosovo Police explained in yesterday’s detailed report following the June 28th celebration.
According to their estimates, between 800 and 1000 participants registered at Gazimestan. Kosovo Police also refuted the claims made by the Belgrade-based tabloid Kurir in their news: ''Scandal at Gazimestan: Albanian police forced a Serbian grandpa to take off his T-shirt!''
Kossev porta reports that a visit of the director of the KiM Office, Marko Djuric, has been announced for today. Djuric previously himself announced to the Serbian media the opening of the water supply system in the North Kosovo.
Kossev reports as the latest news that Djuric is in Zubin Potok.
''A shock message by the Alliance to the Serbs, NATO: Take the north of Kosovo, we will not interfere'' – Belgrade tabloids wrote early in the week, referring to the idea of the chair of the Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies, Jelena Milic, wrote Kosovo north portal KoSSev.
KoSSev added that Milic, for years, has openly advocated what was perceived in Serbia as a pro-NATO stance, while recently, since last year, she also represented the ideas interpreted as a proponent of the partition of Kosovo along ethnic lines.
Serbs will say Gazivode is poisoned, RTK claims. On the other hand, the Kosovo Office accuses Pristina of spreading ''false news out of despair''.
After Kosovo Prime Minister, Ramush Haradinaj accused a group of Serb entrepreneurs from the north of Kosovo last week of ''attempting to stage a humanitarian catastrophe'' in coordination with Belgrade, citing names of the alleged organizers of this action, media reporting in Albanian started paying close attention to the situation in the north.
A group of senior officials of the German Christian Democratic Union, led by European Parliament Vice-President Reiner Wieland, visited the Visoki Decani Monastery today where they talked about the current situation in Kosovo, as well as about the monastery itself with Abbot Sava Janjic.
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''The Football Federation of Kosovo is the only competent organization that organizes, manages and regulates football competitions throughout the territory of the Republic of Kosovo'', therefore, the organization of ''improvised competitions in the north of Kosovo is illegal'', the Football Federation of Kosovo (FFK) announced today, reported portal KoSSev.
The text ''Serbian Spirit of Resistance'', published by the French magazine ''Le Figaro'', had recently caught the public’s eye.
I must admit that I barely managed to read all ten pages on the life of the Serbian people in Kosovo and hold back the tears, as well as powerlessness and anger towards those who led them to such a position, who did nothing for years to help change anything in their favor – quite the opposite.
In northern Mitrovica, Zvecan, Zubin Potok and Leposavic, sessions were held yesterday where the elected mayors of these municipalities officially started their mandate after winning the 19 May elections.
Oaths were laid by mayors Goran Rakic, Vucina Jankovic, Srdjan Vulovic and Zoran Todic.