Kosovo’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hashim Thaci, writes in his opinion piece today about the priorities of the Ministry that he leads, starting from Kosovo’s integration in the European Union and NATO to signing of the Stabilization Association Agreement, liberalization of visas for Kosovo population, application for membership at the Council of Europe, and gaining of the guidelines for Partnership for Peace with NATO.

Global powers intervene in attempt to quell the bloodshed and implement an imperfect ceasefire stalemate. Eventually, events on the ground overtake the status quo and a new country unilaterally declares independence. A majority of United Nations members, but not all, recognise the independence of this new country – while others persist in denying the new reality for years.

House owned by a Serb in village Dugenjive near Klina/Klinë in Kosovo and Metohija was burglarized between 19 and 22 March. The incident has caused anxiety amongst Serb returnees in the village area, said officer for integration of communities in Klina/Kllinë municipality, Ranko Kostic. Kostic said that house of Silivja Raskovic was burglarized and that perpetrators have stolen entire kitchen equipment, whereas the owner was not in the house since she was visiting relatives in Serbia proper.

The Serbian List has condemned today’s statement of the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama on ‘national unification of Kosovo and Albania’ and described it as a threat to Serbs and other non-Albanians in Kosovo.

BELGRADE -- Serbia is on Tuesday marking the 16th anniversary since the beginning of NATO's air war against the country, then a part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

French retired army colonel Jacques Hogard was amongst the first western officers to enter Serbia, that is, Kosovo and Metohija after Kumanovo agreement was signed in 1999 and after withdrawal of the Serbian army. Hogard described what he saw in only 12 days in Kosovo, as a member of KFOR’s advanced group, in a book titled “Europe has died in Pristina’.