Prime Minister of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, met today a group of Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) veterans who are protesting over the discontinuance of their pensions as of August under the justification that the budget needs to be reviewed. The veterans are also accusing the head of the KLA veterans association, Hysni Gucati, of manipulating the lists of veterans in exchange for money.
Prime Minister of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, met over the weekend in separate meetings representatives of association for protection of victims of sexual violence during the conflict and members of the government’s commission for verification and recognition of status of victims of sexual violence during the conflict. In the meetings, Haradinaj expressed the readiness of his government in fulfilling all duties in order to move forward the process of verification and recognition of the status of victims.
Prime Minister of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, said today at the meeting of the Council for implementation of government strategy on cooperation with the civil society that if Kosovo does its homework and makes quick progress on implementation of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA), it could gain EU candidate status as well as visa liberalisation. “Implementation of SAA is the matter that brings visa liberalisation. We know liberalisation is also connected to border demarcation with Montenegro.
Prime Minister of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, said today that information from relevant institutions do not support allegations that Minister of Agriculture, Nenad Rikalo, was involved in any criminal offence during the conflict in Kosovo.
The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, held today a meeting with the Government Committee for the Missing Persons and Kosovo organisations that deal with the issue of the missing persons.
Haradinaj said that the intention of the meeting is unification of all individuals who are involved on the issue of the missing persons, in order to identify actions that should be undertaken in the future.
After the meeting with the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, in Tirana, Albania’s Prime Minister, Edi Rama, spoke at the joint press conference about the demarcation of the border between Kosovo and Montenegro. He said that Kosovo is interested to resolve this problem which has become an obstacle on the road towards the EU. “Haradinaj is requesting some time to divide from the opposition position, and I would not want Mustafa, (LDK leader) to object this agreement which he supported until recently.
The Special Prosecution asked police to interview people in Pristina who made allegations that Kosovo’s new Serb agriculture minister Nenad Rikalo tortured Albanians during the war - a claim he denies.
The head of the Kosovo Special Prosecution, Reshat Millaku, told BIRN on Wednesday that police have interviewed several people who alleged that Nenad Rikalo, Kosovo’s new agriculture minister, was allegedly involved in the torture of Albanians during the 1990s war.
By Agron Demi
Ramush Haradinaj takes over the PM office today, and has still not yet presented a governing program. But as things stand, with just a few superficial changes he could recycle his 2004-2007 program.
Aleksandar Vucic late on Tuesday said that Kosovo and Metohija represents the essence of the political "present time, and the future" of Serbia.
Besides, the Serbian president said that he supported the decision of the Serb (Srpska) List to enter the Kosovo government - while Serbia "would not change its opinion" on the new Kosovo government's head, Ramush Haradinaj.
The Serbian list has the strength and the government in Pristina depends on the List, says President of the Serbian List Goran Rakić in the News of the Radio Television of Serbia.
He says that Serbian list will not blackmail that ''will not push a finger in the eyes of the Albanians'' but that they will be a stone in a shoe that will constantly remind Pristina of its obligations, Rakić told RTS.