The European Union Special Representative to Kosovo, Samuel Žbogar, told Klan Kosova that the EU Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) has succeeded in combating crime and corruption, while referring to cases of former PDK MP Azem Syla and Prizren Mayor Ramadan Muja.  While Syla was arrested last month and is currently in detention for organized crime accusations, Ramadan Muja continues to be the Mayor of Prizren.  Žbogar said that politicians who have problems with the law should leave politics.

Kosovo Assembly President, Kadri Veseli, said today that extremists want to create hostilities between countries and to destroy world cultures. “They want a world in hostility and animosities between cultures and countries; a world of chaos where human rights lose their meaning and value. Now is the time to unite around our liberal and democratic values. Religion is too important to be left in the hands of extremists. Now is the time for the victory of liberal humanism,” Veseli said at the Inter-Faith Dialogue Conference in Pristina.

Bosnia and Herzegovina Security Minister Dragan Mektić said that the country’s authorities received information that Interpol has revoked arrest warrant against Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi, issued on request of Serbia. The announcement came after Thaçi’s travel to Bosnia to attend the Brdo-Brijuni leaders summit.

Albania will host tomorrow for the first time the three-day Summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. 260 people from 28 NATO member countries as well as delegates from the partner countries are expected to attend the Summit. The main focus of the discussions will be global and Balkans security. Kosovo will also be represented at the Summit by Deputy President of the Assembly of Kosovo, Xhavit Haliti. The Assembly of Kosovo gained in 2014 the status of the observer at NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

The President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi, stated that Kosovo does not have an open issue with Montenegro, when demarcation is concerned. He also informed that he was in Podgorica for Montenegro’s tenth anniversary of independence and not for demarcation agreement.

The Kosovo government allocated today EUR 200,000 for the Basic Court of Mitrovica. The funds are aimed at facilitating the implementation of the Pristina-Belgrade agreement on the judiciary in the north.

The news site reports that after 11 years, a liturgy was held today in the partially-reconstructed church of St. Sava in the southern part of Mitrovica. After the liturgy, Father Staniša Arsić said that peace, unity and brotherly love is very important for Serbs living in the southern part of Mitrovica. The news site recalls that the church was demolished during the 2004 March riots.

Kosovo’s President, Hashim Thaçi, will travel to Montenegro on Saturday to meet with Montenegrin President, Filip Vujanović and Prime Minister, Milo Đukanović. President Thaçi is expected to discuss the issue of border-demarcation with Montenegro leaders. “I will have a meeting with the Prime Minister and President of Montenegro to discuss the border-demarcation issue. I believe that this issue will be discussed in the Kosovo Assembly in the near future, and it should not be politicized but must be viewed as a matter of national interest,” Thaçi said.

Mitrovica Mayor, Agim Bahtiri, said today that the borders of the city of Mitrovica will not be changed, but that if they do, he will resign from his post. During a public discussion in Pristina titled “The Bridge Over Ibar”, organized by the Vetevendosje Movement and the municipality of Mitrovica, Bahtiri said that he cannot come to an agreement with the mayor of North Mitrovica, Goran Rakic, on the removal of the barricade on the Ibar Bridge.

Kosovo's President, Hashim Thaci, met today with a European Parliament delegation that will participate in the EU-Kosovo meeting on the implementation of the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA). During the meeting, Thaci said that Kosovo will fulfill all visa liberalization requirements set by the EU, including the establishment of the Association/Community of Serb-majority municipalities in compliance with the Constitution of Kosovo, as well as the ratification of the agreement on border-demarcation with Montenegro.