The Director of the Forum for Ethnic Relations, Dušan Janjić, assessed that it is quite clear, following the reasoning of the ruling in lawsuits for genocide of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia (against Serbia), that eventual lawsuit of Kosovo could not pass. “International Court (of Justice) adheres to strict definition of the genocide.

“There are no doubts that Hague Tribuna'sl ruling in case of ‘Milutinovic and others’, and range of other war crime rulings rendered by courts of different levels, along with some parts of the counter lawsuits of Croatia and Serbia, offer a solid basis for Kosovo to request war reparations from Serbia,” said Deputy Foreign Minister of Kosovo, Petrit Selimi, while clarifying his yesterday’s message on Twitter account, that future lawsuit of Kosovo stands the best chances to be accepted by the International Court of Justice in Hague.

Albanians are leaving Kosovo because ruling authorities didn’t change, because the will of people was not respected, and the biggest responsibility for such situation is on the Prime Minister, Isa Mustafa, who betrayed his electoral, analyst and professor of the political science at Pristina-based AAB University, Nedzmedin Spahiu, said to Kontakt Plus Radio.

Families and members of the Association of kidnapped and killed in Kosovo and Meothija have sent a letter to the Prime Minister of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, asking that request for immediate release of kidnapped Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija during conflict in Kosovo is put on the agenda of Brussels dialogue on 9 February. “Families of kidnapped in 1998 don’t know whereabouts of their kidnapped family members. And, as of 1999 and 2000, until the arrival of NATO, KFOR and UNMIK, number of kidnapped has gone to 1.300.

Interview with the Director of the Serbian Government's Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Đurić.

Continuation of the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina on 9 February is seen by the Serbian side as an opportunity to launch important topics such as Association/Community of Serb municipalities and its statute, along with the review of all unsettled and unimplemented parts of the first Brussels Agreement whose elements should be clarified.

Serbs in Central Kosovo claim that they are damaged by expropriation of land carried out by the Kosovo government for the sake of construction of the high-way which connects Kosovo with Albania. Besides the low prices for expropriated parcels of the most fertile land, owners claim that they are damaged and because parts of their parcels are now cut through and inaccessible. “A high-way section in this part of Kosovo literally goes through all Serbian villages,” said Zivorad Lazic from Kosovo Polje/Fushë Kosovo and added that almost 30 per cent of locals from v

President of the Association of missing and kidnapped Serbs and non-Albanians from Kosovo and Metohija, Milorad Trifunovic, claims that the NGO Humanitarian Law Center did not process witnesses’ statements about crimes against Serbs in Kosovo, but leads an anti-Serbian campaign instead. Trifunovic said that the Association is the only one of that kind that didn’t sign a memorandum of understanding on cooperation with the Humanitarian Law Center ‘because they lead suspicious investigations’. He condemned subjective and ‘orchestrated’ labeling of Serbs as crimin