Prior to his detention by French authorities on 4 January, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) leader Ramush Haradinaj was apparently detained by the German police but let go shortly after. An official from the AAK told Indeksonline that Haradinaj was detained until authorities verified the same arrest warrant on which he was subsequently arrested for in France. This took the Germans eight minutes, the source said.
Kadri Veseli, President of the Kosovo Assembly and leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), said that this month he will organise a round-table with political leaders to discuss major unresolved issues such as the Association/Community of Serb-majority municipalities and the border demarcation with Montenegro. Representatives of opposition parties however are saying that they will not attend the roundtable if the ruling parties will only try to “recycle” these issues.
Ramush Haradinaj, leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), has received an invitation to attend the inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States of America in January next year. An advisor to Haradinaj confirmed the information and said that further details would be revealed in a press communique later during the day.
Representatives of opposition parties in Kosovo are adamant that the current version of the border demarcation with Montenegro will not pass and they also claim that Prime Minister Isa Mustafa is well aware of this. Valdete Bajrami, head of the NISMA parliamentary group, told the news website: “If he [Prime Minister Mustafa] tries to bring back the agreement we will reiterate our position against it. Our position is known and the people know that the agreement is damaging and unacceptable for Kosovo.
Kosovo Assembly independent MP, Ilir Deda joined the request of his colleagues for an international investigation of Astrit Dehari’s case.
Deda said that it is tragic for a political activist to die in hands of the state, be it a murder or a suicide.
He said that heads of the institutions should be punished, by resignation. The normal request in an abnormal situation is international involvement on Dehari’s case.
“The responsibility of the heads of the institutions is resignation,” Dedaj repeated.
Kosovo Assembly MP from the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) Nezir Çoçaj, said at the extraordinary Assembly session today on Astrit Dehari’s case that they have gathered to discuss a tragic case, which should have been held after the conclusion of the investigation on the grenade attack on the Assembly of Kosovo. “This is what Asrtit Dehari together with other Vetëvendosje activists was arrested for,” he said.
After the statement of the mayor of Mitrovica North, Goran Rakić, that the concrete wall between north and south Mitrovica will not be demolished but only redesigned with stairs which would be connected to the roundabout that will be built in the northern part, Kosovo’s Minister for Dialogue, Edita Tahiri, told Indeksonline that the wall will be removed. “It is a wall that appeared illegally. All institutions, the government and opposition are against this wall and the logic of walls,” Tahiri said.
The Prime Minister of Kosovo, met five days ago in Albanian city Shkodra, his Montengrin counterpart, Duško Marković. The meeting made many headlines in the media however there was no information about the issues discussed on Saturday evening.
Faton Abdullahu, adviser to the Prime Minister of Kosovo, said that building of the wall in Mitrovica north is a political hara-kiri for Serbs there.
The European Union Special Representative to Kosovo, Nataliya Apostolova, today during the meeting of the Committee on European Integration said that the EU has never built walls and will never do it. She said that the EU builds bridges and since it is not their project, the EU cannot control it. “The EU builds bridges, not walls. We are putting pressure to respect citizens' rights and transparency in dialogue. You have to make a solution. One calls it a wall, another calls it differently.