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Hoxhaj: Kosovo will always be independent (indeksonline)

The conference of the foreign ministers and ministers of economy of the Western Balkans countries has just started. They are expected to discuss regional cooperation and good economic governance.

According to Kosovo’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs the Conference is continuance of the Berlin Summit led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in August of this year.

Where are the political analysts today, do they not see the results of the dialogue? (gazetaexpress)

Ernst Reichel, Former German Ambassador in Pristina and current Envoy of German Chancellor Angela Merkel for Balkans, hailed yesterday’s developments, Kosovo's membership at International Olympic Committee (IOC) as well as traveling of the two Kosovo ministers to a regional meeting in Belgrade.

Another Serb returnee's house in Kosovo set on fire (Tanjug)

ISTOK - A house owned by the Serb returnee family Pantic in the village of Ljug, Klina municipality, was set on fire, the head of the Pec District Vinka Radosavljevic told Tanjug. The incident occurred last night, said Radosavljevic, adding that the part of the house that caught fire was empty as the Pantic family no longer lives in it. Only six Serbs have remained in Istok. This is the second incident of setting fire to Serb-owned houses in Klina and Istok in the last two days. A house owned by a Serb returnee family in the village of Drsnik, Klina municipality, was set on fire Monday nig

Kosovo FM to go to Serbia for first time as tensions ease (AFP)

Kosovo's foreign minister Enver Hoxhaj said Wednesday he will attend a regional conference in Belgrade in his first such visit since the territory unilaterally seceded from Serbia in 2008. "This visit is an indicator of the normalisation of relations between Kosovo and Serbia as two independent and sovereign states," Hoxhaj said in a statement. While refusing to recognise the independence of its former southern province, Serbia has agreed to improve relations with Kosovo for the sake of its integration into the EU. More than 100 countries, including the United States and most EU member nati

Kosovo granted provisional Olympic recognition by IOC (Reuters)

Kosovo is on track to take part in its first ever Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 after the region in the Balkans was granted provisional recognition by the International Olympic Committee on Wednesday. It could now achieve full membership as early as the IOC session in December, the IOC said in a statement on Wednesday. The decision angered Serbia's Olympic Committee which has lodged an official protest with the Olympic body. Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, almost a decade after NATO went to war to halt the massacre and expulsion of Albanians by Serbian forces wag

Both sides to refrain from wrong moves (Danas)

Burning a house of Serbian returnees in village Drsnik, Klina was the latest in a series of everyday incidents in Kosovo, which followed after political scandal in the football game between teams of Serbia and Albania in Belgrade. Mostly returnees' houses south of the river are burned and slogans with threats written on their walls. The flag of Serbia was burned; Molotov cocktails and stones were thrown at the former building of the Municipal Assembly.

For TV N1 Kosovo is not an independent state (Danas)

Regional TV stations follow the attitude of the United Nations Belgrade – Kosovo will be not be an independent state for the new regional television N1, which is the exclusive partner of CNN for the region, told Danas Jugoslav Cosic, Director of the Program for Serbia of the new regional television , which will broadcast from Belgrade, Sarajevo and Zagreb. He said the new regional TV station will treat Kosovo as the United Nations. - N1 will formally follow the UN, according to which Kosovo is not an independent state.

KiM Committee meeting on security in province on Oct. 27 (Tanjug)

BELGRADE - The Serbian parliament’s Committee on Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) will hold a meeting on the security situation in the southern Serbian province on Monday, October 27, Milovan Drecun, chairman of the body, said Tuesday. "The meeting will discuss the current security situation in Kosovo-Metohija, with special emphasis on the security of the Serbian population,” Drecun told Tanjug. Drecun said that he would invite the following officials to the meeting: Director of the Serbian government’s Office for KiM Marko Djuric, Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic, Defense Minister Bratislav Gasic,