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Agreement on judiciary in Kosovo and Metohijja between the law and politics (Politika)

The Association of Serbian Judges warned that judicial system is part of the integral legal system and that it must be organized in line with the Serbian Constitution. It turned out that the agreement on judiciary in Kosovo and Metohija (KiM), which was reached after a long break in negotiations with Pristina, was to small step for opening the first negotiation chapter on Serbia’s way to the EU.

A thousand people from Kosovo moved to Nis for five years (Danas)

Niš - In the area of ​​Nis Police Department, from 2010 to the end of last year, 1,086 persons from Kosovo have registered residence, and 985 have reported a temporary residence, said the Nis Police Department. According to date of the Police Department, delivered to Tanjug, which requested information about the number of people (Albanian Kosovars) who from 2010 registered residence and temporary residence in Nis, in this period 231 requests were rejected for permanent residence and 135 requests for registration of a temporary residence, and 74 decisions have been passed on annulment of resid

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"UNMIK in 2002 terminated the proceedings against Ivanovic" (KIM radio)

Office for Kosovo and Metohija said that criminal proceedings against the SDP leader, Oliver Ivanovic and four Serbs, for alleged murder of Kosovo Albanians have been conducted and completed. In the Municipal Court in Mitrovica Oliver Ivanovic, Dragoljub Delibasic, Ilija and Nebojsa Vujacic and Aleksandar Lazovic are tried on suspicion that they were responsible for the murders of Kosovo Albanians in 1999 and 2000. As announced by the Office for Kosovo and Metohija against them UNMIK judiciary has led and completed the process in 2002. "On this occasion, the Tribunal, in a panel composed of

Lawsuit for Serbia, Thaci’s “depressing rhetoric” (Koha Ditore)

The paper reports that statement of Kosovo’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hashim Thaci, that Kosovo will file a lawsuit against Serbia for war reparations, was considered as delayed, depressing and hardly feasible. For 15 years, Kosovo has not undertaken a single step that would put Serbia in front of justice for the crimes committed and for the material damages in Kosovo.

Exodus from Kosovo: Why thousands have left the Balkans (The Telegraph)

Kosovo has lost an estimated 50,000 people in the past two months ­ most of them on buses bound eventually for Germany. What is going on in this tiny corner of the Balkans? Nysret Ismaili surveys the small group of children playing on the flinty school football pitch, set in the plains below Kosovo’s rolling hills, and knows he has a problem. His school is in trouble. In the past two months, 36 of his pupils have left, taken by their parents out of the country in the biggest exodus of Kosovans since the war.

Kuci in London, to participate at Global Law Summit (Epoka e Re)

Kosovo’s Minister of Justice, Hajredin Kuci, has traveled on Sunday for London, where he was invited by the United Kingdom’s Minister of Justice, Lord Chris Grayling, to participate at the Global Law Summit. The Summit is organized under the patronage of the Government of the United Kingdom, which gathers justice leaders from the entire world as well as eminent figures such as judges, lawyers and academics.  This even also marks the 800 anniversary of the Great Charter of the Liberties, Magna Carta.

Arrest of Gegovic - further intimidation of Gjakova/Djakovica citizens (Tanjug)

BELGRADE - The Association of Djakovica Citizens, which brings together the expelled and displaced Serbs from that town in southwestern Kosovo, requested on Saturday the release of Miras Gegovic, who was arrested in Podgorica on suspicion that he had committed a war crime against civilians. The Association condemned Gegovic's arrest in the strongest terms, demanding that Serbia's state institutions offer him full legal protection. The Association underscores in a release that the arrest of Gegovic caused a stir among Djakovica/Gjakova citizens in Montenegro and Serbia, adding that it constit

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FM: Kosovo to sue Serbia for ‘war reparations’ (ANADOLU)

ANKARA Kosovar FM Hashim Thaci said that he could not give an exact date, but added that Kosovo will apply to the International Court of Justice after evaluating "internal and international circumstances." Kosovo’s Foreign Minister  Hashim Thaci signaled Friday that Kosovo will ask for “war reparations” from Serbia on charges of genocide during the 1998-99 war. “We are discussing and working on it,” Thaci, who also serves as Kosovo’s deputy prime minister, told The Anadolu Agency in an exclusive interview. Thaci said that he could not give an exact date, but added

KFOR remains committed to providing security in Kosovo (RTK2, Tanjug)

The mission of KFOR remains committed to the mission of providing security and freedom of movement for all citizens of Kosovo, NATO's supreme commander for Europe, US General Philip Breedlove said. The first man of NATO in Europe, US General Philip Breedlove said during a visit to Kosovo that he is extremely pleased with the work and efforts of KFOR soldiers, adding that KFOR daily progresses towards a more flexible and smaller mission in Kosovo, RTK2 reported. Asked about the escalation of terrorism in Europe, the head of NATO said that terrorism is a threat to all of Europe, including Koso

Who does the Republic belong to? (Koha Ditore)

Lumir Abdixhiku writes that the seventh anniversary of Kosovo’s independence must have been the grimmest day, adding however that this was expected under the current circumstances. He writes that two mandates of the seized state were enough, and that the third one brought the exhausted Kosovo into its knees. He claims that there is coldness between the population and the government. “I do not remember to have seen a more sterile relation,” he writes adding that this lack of energy has led to the differentiation between the citizen and the state.