Kosovo has been accepted as the 215th member federation of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA).  The decision, taken during the FIBA's Executive Committee meeting in Geneva, sees the governing body become the latest to formally approve Kosovo's membership after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) granted full recognition to the Kosovo Olympic Committee at its Session in Monte Carlo in December. FIBA Europe will now work towards incorporating the national teams of the Kosovo Basketball Federation (KBF) into its competitions

Like in case of Serbian police officers who were integrated last year in the Kosovo Police, Kosovo judicial system will integrate Serbian judges, prosecutors and judicial administrative staff in Kosovo and Metohija until the 1 September.

Minister for European Integration in the Serbian government Jadranka Joksimovic says that there is pressure on EU states that didn’t recognize Kosovo. We again have a reinforced and obviously orchestrated pressure from the part of the European Union and the US on five EU states that didn’t recognize Kosovo to do it.

World basketball's governing body FIBA has granted Kosovo full membership amid Serbia's request to make sure that clubs or national teams from the two countries never meet at any level.

"The decision comes on the back of the International Olympic Committee granting full recognition to the Kosovo Olympic Committee in December 2014," FIBA said on its official website (www.fiba.com).

Representatives of Serbs should return to Kosovo government and its institutions, assessed analysts. This topic was discussed on B92 news by former minister for Kosovo affairs in the Serbian government Goran Bogdanovic and analyst Dusan Janjic from the Forum for Ethnic Relations. Bogdanovic said that boycott is not the way to fight for your interests.

European Parliament (EP) has approved on Wednesday a resolution on the progress of Kosovo proposed by MEP Ulrike Lunacek. For the sixth time in a row, the European Parliament called on the European Union to exert its influence upon the five member countries which have not yet recognized the independence of Kosovo. The resolution states that the recognition of Kosovo would further normalize relations between Kosovo and Serbia and it would bring Kosovo further to the EU. Latvian State Secretary for Europe, Kalnina Lukashevica, stressed on behalf of the Council

The current General of the Kosovo Security Force (KSF), Rrahman Rama, will be the future commander of the of KSF. He is expected to take over his mandate on 15 March. Minister of Kosovo Security Force, Haki Demolli, said that the change is happening because the current KSF Commander, Kadri Kastrati, will retire on 15 March. According to Demolli, Rama fulfills all the criteria to lead KSF.

The government has endorsed the request of Minister Demolli, proposing to the President to nominate Rama.