Berat Buzhala writes that Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama and his Serbian counterpart, Aleksandar Vucic, appear to agree on a very critical issue: denial of existence of Kosovo state. According to Buzhala, Edi Rama went to Serbia “to fish fools in Pristina.” He considers that Rama’s “patriotic” position in Belgrade last November was a weak spectacle. “I was convinced that Rama was acting.

The first session of the Kosovo government’s inter-ministerial group on return will be held on Friday, 3 May, in Pristina. The group will be chaired by the Minister for Communities and Return in the Kosovo government Dalibor Jevtic. Representatives of the EU Office in Kosovo, international missions, UNHCR, IOM and OSCE will also be present, along with ministers and members of the group, at the introductory meeting, communicated the Ministry.

The Director of the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija (Office for Kosovo) Marko Đurić said last night that someone who is a decision maker in Pristina, ‘in political, and maybe in personal capacity’, is afraid of creation of the special court, what is according to him the main reason for the lack of majority for passing the law on special court in the Kosovo parliament.

International community is paying lesser attention to displaced from the territory of Kosovo and Metohija, whereas donors are redirecting funds to new hotspots, argues Boro Tajic from the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija (Office for Kosovo). In the 2015, until late May, only two members of Belosevic family have returned to Kosovo and Metohija, whereas officials claim that the figure is 4.000 and that it is about ‘sustainable return’. It is becoming evident that unless something is drastically changed, concretely if Pristina and international

Albanians have lit candles in Srbica/Skenderaj last night around 20:00  on the occasion of ‘the death of justice’ due to sentences rendered by the court to members of the so called Drenica group, amongst whom are and current Mayor of Srbica/Skenderaj Sami Lushtaku and Kosovo’s ambassador to Albania Sulejman Selimi. MP from the ranks of the Democratic Party of Kosovo Ganimete Musliu, Deputy Mayor of Srbica/Skenderaj Fadil Nura and the Mayor of South Mitrovica Agim Bahtiri were  amongst the ones who lit candles on that occasion, carried web portal Veriu

A festival ‘A month of Pristina in Belgrade’ kicks off today in the Serbian capital and will last until 26 June, said organizers. Young movie and theater artists, writers, painters, musicians and other artists and activists from Kosovo will be offered a chance to present their work to their colleagues in Serbia. The festival is organized by the Helsinki Committed for Human Rights in Serbia in cooperation with the Liberal Democratic Center from Pristina.

Reason behind the postponement of the Kosovo parliament’s session dedicated to the law on the special court is word ‘genocide’, which is included in the draft law on the special court upon the insistence of certain EU states, said advisor to the Minister of Justice in the Kosovo government Driton Lajci. Kosovo has a bad experience with international courts, with UNMIK and EULEX judiciary and because of that it requested clarification about how will all cases be reviewed and how will they be processed eventually, said Lajci to TV Klan Kosovo. The director of th

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic today stated that it would be good that Pristina creates the special court for Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) crimes, and added that Serb MPs will vote for that motion in the Kosovo parliament. While answering journalists’ questions in the Palace of Serbia Vucic said that Serbia believes in what Clint Williamson did, along with many organizations that worked on collection of evidences of crimes, and that they reached some results in their investigations. “The creation of the special court is good,” said Vucic and added tha

In order that constitutional amendments referring to the creation of Kosovo armed forces are adopted by the Kosovo parliament votes of at least 13 MPs from the ranks of non-majority communities are needed. Proposal of the constitutional amendments referring to the creation of Kosovo armed forces can hardly pass in the Kosovo parliament without support of Serb MPs.