Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa met yesterday in Gnjilane/Gjilan with representatives of Preševo, Bujanovac and Medveđa and MP in the Serbian Parliament Fatmir Hasani, reads the statement from the office of Prime Minister.
The mayors from northern Kosovo decided to terminate the communication and co-operation with KFOR until further notice, for organizing the visit of Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa and the ministers of Internal Affairs of Kosovo, Hyseni and security forces Haki Demolli on the occasion of the opening of the bridge over the Bistrica River near Leposavić/Leposaviq.
Councilor of the Municipality of North Mitrovica Igor Simić believes that this is the correct decision and the only possible one at the moment.
The Human Rights Watch published on Wednesday a report which notes that journalists across the Western Balkans face a hostile environment that impedes their ability to do critical reporting.
"In Kosovo, the Association of Journalists of Kosovo registered 14 cases of violence and threats against journalists in 2015, and eight cases in the first half of 2016," notes the report.
The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, told the Serbian List that there is no decree on the Association of the Serb-majority Municipalities.
This was Mustafa’s response to the requests of the Serb ministers, Ljubomir Marić and Dalobor Jevtić, who have sent a message to the government of Kosovo that they should endorse the decree for establishment of the Association of the Serb-majority Municipalities if they really want Serbs’ return to the institutions.
The Prime Minister of Kosovo Isa Mustafa, said that the role of the civil society in Kosovo is very important, and proposed for them to be more involved in the Brussels dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade as well as on the implementation of the Stabilization Association Agreement signed between Kosovo and the European Union.
Mustafa also considered that the civil society should be involved on the election reform.
While official Pristina expects soon the full implementation of the Brussels agreement on the judiciary from 2015, in the north say that the process of integrating the north into Kosovo's judicial system stopped.
Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa announced that a judicial system will be established in the north, with one Basic Court and one prosecution office for six municipalities.
The Prime Minister of Kosovo Isa Mustafa, congratulated the elected President of the United States of America, Donald Trump.
“The United States of America is the main strategic ally and partner of Kosovo. Kosovo population and the government of Kosovo are fully determined on further expansion of cooperation with the United States of America and the American administration in all fields,” is written in the letter.
After signing Memorandum of Cooperation with the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa and the Assembly President, Kadri Veseli, the Ambassador of the United Kingdom in Kosovo, Ruairi O’Conell,
said that the state cannot be built or function through nepotism. O’Conell made this comment speaking about Adem Grabovci’s tapping made public recently.
Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa said that negotiations with Belgrade under the Brussels agreement must be given a time limit, and the end of the dialogue, but also a completely different form of negotiations. Mustafa has announced that he will appeal to Brussels for the "behaviour of Belgrade in the dialogue" because as he said "we cannot waste time endlessly in the dialogue with Serbia."
Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Đurić calls on the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, not to invent new conditions for the formation of the Community/Association of Serb Municipalities and stresses that he expects from the EU to put pressure on Pristina to implement the signed agreements.