Kosovo’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci said Kosovo is a regional leader in fight against religious terrorism and extremism and vowed a zero-tolerance policy against terrorism. “There have been individuals who went to Syria and Iraq but we have taken measures against them”, said Thaci adding that Kosovo will very soon pass a law banning participation in foreign conflicts.

Kosovo Deputy PM Hashim Thaci's lecture, scheduled for Thursday in Montenegro's capital Podgorica, has been canceled for security reasons.

Thaci was to speak about "NATO integrations."

The daily Dnevne Novine quoted unnamed sources who said it was assessed that the lecture would have been "a good opportunity for some citizens to express their dissatisfaction with Thaci's visit, so the idea has been abandoned."

Indeksonline sources confirmed that Montenegro’s intelligence services and security forces have been put on alert for the upcoming visit of Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci. Security intelligence agencies are reported to be concerned that Thaci may be the target of an assassination attempt by Serb nationalists. This has led to changes in Thaci’s agenda and an increase in security measures for the visit.

The Association of the displaced people in Montenegro has called citizens to respond in a great number to the protest against the visit of Kosovo’s Deputy Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, on 15 and 16 January. On the other hand, the Association of Montenegrins in Kosovo, has hailed this visit.

Kosovo’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hashim Thaci, said in Tirana that there is nothing to worry about the visit of Serbian Prime Minister, Aleksandar Vucic, to Kosovo. “The visit of the Serbian prime minister is being done through the permission of Kosovo authorities. It is not the first visit and it will not be the last. These visits are taking place after the visits of Kosovo ministers to Belgrade so they are almost normal, ordinary, visits between two countries”, said Thaci to the media after meeting his Albanian counterpart, Ditmir Bushati.

The President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, said that the issue of posts was never mentioned during her discussions with Hashim Thaci and Isa Mustafa on creation of the new government. She also denied to have been asked to hand over her mandate.

In 2015, Serbian officials will travel to Pristina and meet with representatives of the Kosovo provisional institutions, but Belgrade officials claim that these will not be bilateral meetings.

Despite the fact that the newly elected Kosovo Foreign Minister, Hashim Thaci, said that he had already invited both Serbia’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister to visit Kosovo, and that there is willingness for this to happen, a necessary condition would be for the meetings to adopt a status-neutral format.

Several news sites publish a guest blog by Kosovo Foreign Affairs Minister Hashim Thaci for LSEE.

Federica Mogherini, the European Union’s foreign-policy chief, must stay directly involved in talks between Kosovo and Serbia if the dialogue is to succeed, Hashim Thaci, the country’s foreign minister, said Thursday.

To lock in the reconciliation between the two former foes, Kosovo and Serbia should also start work on a second agreement in the new year, Mr. Thaci said in a sit-down with The Wall Street Journal in Brussels. Mr. Thaci, who was Kosovo’s prime minister for seven years until earlier this month, is still widely considered the country’s most powerful politician.

The Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hashim Thaci, met in Brussels with EU Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn.