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Veseli on the special court: Let us rise above the individual emotions, and act with state reason (Koha)

Kadri Veseli, Speaker of the Assembly of Kosovo said at the third conference of Ambassadors that is being held in Pristina that courtesy diplomacy is not sufficient for Kosovo. “We need concrete actions of measurable effect. We need concrete agreements with the countries that we have bilateral relations, especially in the field of economic cooperation. It should be clear to us that no one will come pleading for this,” said Veseli.

PM Isa Mustafa avoided journalists last night, today he tells what happened in Brussels (Gazeta Blic)

The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, avoided the journalists last night in Brussles, while today, he informed on social network Facebook that that the next meeting will be held on 29 June. This is what he wrote: “Yesterday we closed a very busy day of the dialogue with Serbia in Brussels. Our experts who are covering their fields with full responsibility, worked for a long time on the issues that were treated. There is no schedule here, the work at two o’clock in the morning is done the same as at 10:00 am.

Mustafa: We will send draft law on special court to Assembly today (Koha)

Kosovo's Prime Minister, Isa Mustafa, said today that the Kosovo government will send the draft law on the special court to the Assembly today. Mustafa said he hopes the Assembly will discuss the bill on June 26. On the detention of Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) leader Ramush Haradinaj, Mustafa said his government is in constant touch with the Slovenian authorities and that he expects Haradinaj to return to Kosovo soon. Mustafa also ruled out Haradinaj's eventual extradition to Belgrade.

Kosovo Commission to Shed Light on Kumanovo (Balkan Insight)

Kosovo MPs are to form a commission to clarify whether politicians had any previous knowledge about suspected terrorist groups in Macedonia - including information on those involved in the fighting in Kumanovo.

Kosovo's parliament is to ccompile a report on all previous knowledge possessed by relevant security institutions relating to the “suspicious movements” of Kosovo citizens in Macedonia.

Media reports have claimed that some of the young men arrested or killed in Kumanovo on May 9th were already being investigated by the Kosovo police.

Government adopts constitutional amendments for Armed Forces (RTK/Lajmi)

The Kosovo government today has sent to the Assembly the constitutional amendments for the establishment of the Kosovo Armed Forces. Prime Minister Isa Mustafa said at today’s government meeting that the Armed Forces are not being established on ethnic basis but for all Kosovo people. The two Serb ministers coming from the Serbian List, Branimir Stojanovic and Dalibor Jevtic, voted against the transformation of the Kosovo Security Force into the Armed Forces.

The Special Dilemma (Zeri)

Lavdim Hamidi writes today that the dilemma on the Special Court should definitely resolve by Friday. “If there is no third solution and if only two options are on the table, then there is no doubt that this dilemma should resolve with establishment of the court by the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo, in order to prevent the United Nations Security Council to do so,” writes Hamidi.

The rise and fall of a political class (Koha Ditore)

Ismet Hajrullahu, writes in his opinion piece that falling of the current government during these few months on the political field as well as on the economic and social ones is obvious. He considers that it is not a coincidence that the image of Kosovo in the world is falling. There are many reasons, he notes, the most important one being massive emigration of the people as a result of the worsening of life conditions and lack of perspective.

Traveling to EU without visas in 2016: everyone’s  victory (Lajmi.net)

Blerim Shala, former deputy leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo and current coordinator in the dialogue between Pristina and e Belgrade,  writes that states and societies, just as individuals and families, can reach a situation when they need an event to regain their dignity, and self-confidence, an event which could be later used as a source to move forward, and mobilize political and social power to improve themselves.

Assembly approves legislative package on justice,as criteria for visa liberalization (KosovaPress)

The government of Kosovo on Wednesday approved the package of draft laws for the justice system in Kosovo, including changes that are expected to occur in the Judicial Council, Prosecutorial Council, State Prosecution and courts.

The hopeless Republic (Kosova Sot)

The front page editorial of this daily stresses that according to the most recent study of the Group for Judicial and Political Studies the level of the Kosovo people willing to emigrate remains high, even after the massive emigrations of the last months. This paper further criticizes the current government for “not managing to return hope to the disappointed people and for deepening their grief with the corrupted system.”