Thaçi avoids Tahiri’s mistakes (Koha Ditore)

The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi, is not using the model of the behavior of his deputy at the Government, Edita Tahiri, regarding the meetings with Serbian state officials on the dialogue. Different form the chief of the delegation of Kosovo in the discussions withSerbia, who never expressed the will to report to the legislative, Kosovo Assembly chairmanship will discuss on Monday the request of the Prime Minister to report on the meeting that he had withSerbia’s Prime Minister, Ivica Dacic. This daily reports that the resolution for the normalization of the relations withSerbia, endorsed this month, obliges Thaçi to report in front of the Assembly. “The Government of the Republic Kosovo is obliged to report on regular basis on the process of normalization of the relations between theRepublicofKosovoand theRepublicofSerbia.

Deputy of the Assembly Speaker, Glauk Konjuvca, stated that Hashim Thaçi’s readiness to report to the legislative does not mean transparency. “The essence of the problem is not the reporting, but the meeting with Dacic itself and the start of the negotiations withSerbia,” said Konjuvca.

Nikolic wants urgent discussions with Kosovo, without recognizing it   (Koha Ditore)

Serbia’s President, Tomislav Nikolic, stated that he has written himself the platform for the discussions with Kosovo and that now it is the turn on Ministers to give suggestions or remarks. “I want to start the discussions with Albanians as soon as possible and this was announced in the meeting between the Prime Ministers Dacic and Thaçi inBrussels. It is good that the meeting happened. I do not want to wonder, it is the matter of the “status of Kosovo,” said Nikolic to the journalists inSkopje, where he is staying for an official visit.

Clark promises investment of millions of euros in Kosovo (Koha Ditore)

The pensioned General of the U.S. Army and former candidate for President, Wesley Clark, who is the owner of the Canadian power company, Envidity, is requesting the permission of the Government of Kosovo to explore Kosovo’s coal underground, which if refined, could be transformed into fuel for vehicles and airplanes. “I hope that we are going to be able to do this. Because if so, it will make a big difference for the state,” saidClarkduring his visit to Kosovo. “The project would bring investments of millions or perhaps billions to this state,” saidClark.

Ivanovic: We met with Thaçi and Rexhepi (Zëri)

The so-called leader of the Serb National Council, Milan Ivanovic, said that Serbs of northern Mitrovica met with Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi and the current Minister of Internal Affairs, Bajram Rexhepi, at the Hospital centre in northern Mitrovica. In an interview for local media, Ivanovic did not give a precise date of the meeting, but explained that they discussed healthcare. “We were together with representatives of UNMIK for a visit at the Mitrovica Hospital Centre in the north of Mitrovica. We discussed the health issues. They (UNMIK representatives) insisted on bringing Albanian health care employees at the hospital in the north. We insisted on symmetry and reciprocity, for the Serb health care employees to be returned at 20 hospitals. The discussions took place in presence of the UNMIK representative, while Thaçi and Rexhepi came without being invited. Under those circumstances, and in the presence of Thaçi’s armed bodyguards, who later after our insistence left, we did not shake hands, and there was no introduction,” said Ivanovic, who is also a doctor at theHospitalCenterin northern Mitrovica.