Kosovo MP from the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), Daut Haradinaj, said that developments in FYROM are consequence of the leadership there, which according to him, is connected to crime and corruption.
FYROM media, which gained large sums during the VMRO-DPMNE-BDI governing, are using an alleged danger coming from Kosovo, as a justification for the scandalous decision for amnesty by the FYROM President, George Ivanov for the politicians suspected for crimes.
The new conditions of travelling only with ID cards between Kosovo and Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia will become effective on Sunday, 17 April 2016. Kosovo’s Ministry of Internal Affairs announced a ceremony at the border point between Hani i Elezit and Blace. The condition to cross the border for the population of Kosovo is to possess biometric IDs. For several years now, Kosovo population can cross the borders only with IDs while traveling to Albania and Montenegro.
Security analyst, Naim Maloku, said Kosovo authorities are powerless in securing the release of the Kosovo Security Force (KSF) Ministry’s senior official, Gafurr Dugolli, arrested by the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) police on an arrest warrant issued by Serbia. This, according to Maloku, is due to the fact that Kosovo is not a member of Interpol. All Kosovo authorities can do, said Maloku, is to plead to FYROM not to extradite Dugolli to Serbia which wants him on war crimes charges.
The Foreign Ministers of Kosovo and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Hashim Thaci and Nikola Poposki respectively, signed two bilateral agreements in Pristina today, one that will enable the citizens of the two countries to cross the border with their ID cards only, and the other one on opening another crossing point. Kosovo FM Thaci hailed the agreements as very important for the people and the relations between the two countries.
Aleksandar Vucic said at the opening of the OSCE Ministerial Council that the Balkans remains "a powder keg that needs only a spark to explode again."
"I must express my concern for the stability in the Balkans. Serbia is a stable country, but several crisis situation in the region are enough - in Macedonia, Montenegro, Pristina - for the whole region be set on fire again," said Prime Minister of Serbia on Thursday.
President of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) Gjorgi Ivanov has dismissed the country’s ambassador to France and representative to UNESCO, Agron Baxhaku. It is believed that Baxhaku’s dismissal is connected to the support he expressed for Kosovo’s membership in UNESCO during the meeting of the organization’s Executive Board. Baxhaku’s mandate was set to end in December but President Ivanov decided to move it earlier. Kosovo’s membership in UNESCO will be put to vote this November at the general conference and it is not certain which way will FYROM vote go.
After 20 years of peace, Republika Srpska threatens to tear apart the agreement that has held Bosnia together. The West must stop it.
Lost in the cacophony of international news about Russian airstrikes against U.S.-backed anti-Assad rebels in Syria and refugees flooding through the Balkans on their way to Western Europe, a crisis is brewing in Bosnia-Herzegovina on the European Union’s southeast flank. And here, too, Moscow has a hand in the mischief-making.
OSCE Mission in Kosovo, together with UNHCR, will organize on 21 September in Budva Technical Meeting and Forum on the highest level about sustainable solutions for displaced persons from Kosovo.
The working group for technical issues will finalize proposals on 21 September related to priority areas such as property issues, civil documentation, data management and cooperation.
Kosovo police have arrested Sulejman Osmani, suspected of involvement in the two-day shootout in Kumanovo, Macedonia, in May, and wanted by the authorities in Macedonia.
Kosovo Police arrested Sulejman Osmani, aka "Commander Sula", on Tuesday, acting on an arrest warrant issued by the Macedonian police.
Osmani is suspected of having taken part in an armed battle in May against Macedonian special police in a densely populated outskirt of the town of Kumanovo.