The Trepca miners today announced that they if Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa doesn’t take any action regarding Trepca, they would continue their strike which they suspended in late January this year. "The strike that was suspended in January might as well continue again. We demand solving Trepca’s status and approving the law on Trepca,” said Trepca’s director, Qazim Jashari.
Kosovo’s President, Atifete Jahjaga, and the United Kingdom Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Prime Minister's Special Representative for Sexual Violence in Conflict, Baroness Joyce Anelay, visited the "Medica Gjakova" center in Gjakove/Djakovica today.
Over 15 thousand people have signed a petition to accelerate the visa liberalization process for Kosovo, an activity that started a week ago by civil society, led by the Kosovo Foundation for Open Society (KFOS). The signatures coupled with 500 letters to the European Union representative in Kosovo, Samuel Zbogar and Kosovo Minister for European Integration, Bekim Collaku, through which the people are expressing their need for freedom of movement.
The OSCE Mission in Kosovo, with the help of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), is organizing a preparatory meeting today in Pristina for the technical working group to find sustainable solutions for displaced persons from Kosovo. Representatives of the governments in Belgrade, Podgorica, Pristina and Skopje will present the priorities and action plans for sustainable solutions for displaced persons from Kosovo and together with representatives of international organizations shall agree on the next steps in the context of this initiative.
The first meeting of the National Council for Investment, which was set up a few days ago by the government, is expected to be held in late July. This Council will manage the process of financing of infrastructure projects in Kosovo. This was announced by the Minister of European Integration, Bekim Collaku. According to him, this body aims to ensure synergy between the different sources of funding, namely the budget, loans and grants. He stressed that the EU has allocated 1 billion euros to finance infrastructure projects.
The President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga met on Wednesday in London the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Special Representative of the British Prime Minister for the prevention of sexual violence in conflict, Baroness Joyce Anelay with whom she discussed the institutional and social initiatives in Kosovo to rehabilitate and reintegrate the survivors of rape during the war in Kosovo. Jahjaga informed Baroness Anelay about the inter-institutional commitments to provide legal protection and to strengthen the legal status in the society of the survivors of this war crime.
Kosovo’s President, Atifete Jahjaga, met on Monday the representatives of the Board of the Group of Women MPs, headed by Blerta Deliu-Kodra, Time Kadrijaj and Shukrie Bytyqi. Jahjaga congratulated the new board emphasizing the importance of its work and expressed her commitment to support the group of women, in all activities on the empowerment of women and the achievement of gender equality.
The government of Kosovo in the next few weeks will sign a financial agreement IPA 2014 with the European Commission in value of 70 million €, which would be programmed by the Ministry of European Integration. This agreement, according to the representatives of the government, Kosovo would benefit from this agreement in many developmental sectors. European Integration Minister Bekim Collaku said that through this agreement, Kosovo would benefit the European Union best practices in improving services and increasing capacities in different sectors.
The Supreme Court of Kosovo and the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD) from Berlin, supported by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), organized the "Kosovo Summit on International Law and Human Rights 2015", which will be held today and tomorrow in Pristina.
Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga said on Friday that Kosovo will take care of women, adhering to tell their story because shame is not on them but on those who committed the crime. "This is only the first step and we are left with much to do,” she said. Jahjaga made these comments during the opening of the giant art installation, with thousands of dresses hung on washing lines in a tribute to survivors of sexual violence during the 1999 conflict in Kosovo.