Members of KFOR, EULEX and Kosovo Security Force, the police, and the Agency for Management of Emergency Situations have started a joint exercise.
This has been reported by RTK in Serbian.
As stated, the aim of the exercise is to train commanders and staff of KFOR, EULEX and Kosovo security organizations in managing operations in cases of assistance in natural disasters and civil unrest.
All diplomatic representatives of Russia have been instructed to express their concern over the recent events in Kosovo.
A group of non-governmental organizations from northern Kosovo in the strongest terms condemned yesterday excessive use of force by the Kosovo special police unit against citizens, participants in a roundtable and journalists reporting on the event, Serbian media reported.
Russia and the US have both reacted to Monday's incidents in Mitrovica North and the arrest of Serbian official Marko Djuric.
Terrorists dressed in special police uniforms of a non-existent state of Kosovo wanted to show they can occupy northern Kosovo, says Aleksandar Vucic.
Kosovo’s Justice Minister, Abelard Tahiri, said the government of Kosovo has not yet reached a decision on what will happen after the EU rule of law mission’s mandate expires this June. “We are in consultations stage and we have not yet come to a conclusion on the role of EULEX beyond June,” Tahiri said in a visit to the Forensic Institute in Pristina.
Ksenija Bozovic, close associate of murdered Oliver Ivanovic, speaking in “Dogovor” show urged EUELX and representatives of embassies in Kosovo to tell what are they doing to find killers of Oliver Ivanovic, and Hashim Thaci to say “who will be hurt with the truth (about assassinated Serb politician),” KIM Radio reports today.
Four persons accused for the murder of two UNMIK police officers in 2004 will be tried by EULEX, Kosovo Judicial Council has decided. In its decision, KJC stated that the case will be tried by a body majority of which will consist and be chaired by officials from the EU rule of law mission.
More than three weeks have passed since the murder of Oliver Ivanovic, leader of Civic Initiative, Freedom, Democracy, Justice, and apart from political statements, there are still no details as to who and with what motives shot at him on January 16, TV N1 writes today on its website.