The EULEX panel of judges, which sentenced Oliver Ivanovic to nine years in prison, has not submitted a written judgment to his defense, stated his lawyer Nebojsa Vlajić. The deadline for submission of the judgment in the official form is 15 days, but according to the law, the court may request an extension of 60 days, which was done in this case. The deadline for delivery of the judgment expires on 4 April. “I hope that the judge will prepare and deliver a judgment within the statutory period,” said Vlajić.

"Based on expert opinion, the six Serbian youths in Pec/Peja were killed in 1998 with the same weapon as the EULEX customs officer Audrius Šenavičius in northern Kosovo in 2013," said the source for portal tesheshi.com

Kosovo, over the past few months, has lost several diplomatic battles, leading to the frustration of the people of Kosovo, especially the opposition. The high level of support that Kosovo has had over the last fifteen years from Western countries culminated in 2008, when Kosovo declared independence.

Head of the Kosovo-based think tank FOL, Petrit Zogaj, said today that the EU rule of law mission (EULEX) has failed in fighting corruption and organised crime in Kosovo. He said that in the seven years since being established, the mission had only taken 47 court decisions in cases of organised crime and corruption.  According to FOL, EULEX’s poor performance has increased the mistrust of the people in the justice institutions.

The Vetevendosje Movement issued a media communique today reacting against the arrest of its activists, including its parliamentary group chief Glauk Konjufca and spokesman Frasher Krasniqi by Kosovo Police, in relation to the destruction of EULEX vehicles in Pristina in 2009. The Vetevendosje Movement argues that “seeing that the 17 February protest will be massive and powerful, the government of cowards Isa Mustafa and Hashim Thaci is continuing the campaign of persecution and arresting Vetevendosje activists”.

Civic Initiative SDP Oliver Ivanović announced that "twenty-three days since the EULEX panel announced Oliver Ivanovic's political sentence due to political pressure and lack of professionalism, a legal team, professionals and the general public are still waiting for the judgment." SDP emphasizes that "obviously it is problematic to write a judgement explaining why Ivanovic has been condemned, seeing as the witnesses were not able to connect him with the indictment.

The War Crimes Prosecutor of the Republic of Serbia sent to the competent authorities of the Federal Republic of Nigeria requests for interview with Dr Philip Njemanze, a doctor who said that Hashim Thaci, together with Rochas Okorocha, traded the organs of kidnapped Serbs in Kosovo. The prosecution office sent request in accordance with provisions of the Law on International Legal Assistance.

The Kosovo government's Commission for Missing Persons has urged Belgrade to open military and police archives to help find the location of mass graves. "The opening of these archives could lead us to the mass graves," said Prenk Gjetaj, President of the Commission for Missing Persons of the Government of Kosovo. Gjetaj added that the Commission intends to ask for help from the international community to obtain military satellite images that may also help in localizing mass graves.

The meeting of the two Prime Ministers in Brussels sends the message that talks are the only way of resolving problems between Serbia and Pristina, regardless of the situation on the ground, said President of the European Movement of Serbs, Rada Trajkovic to RTK2. She said that Mustafa going to Brussels is due to the encouragement he feels from the clear presence of America.

Defenders of Oliver Ivanovic will respond today to the prosecutor's appeal, who insists that the leader of CI SDP should remain in jail until the final verdict, instead of currently being in house arrest. “Regardless of everything we have greater confidence in the international EULEX judges,” said Ljubomir Pantović, Ivanovic's attorney.

When do you expect a written verdict of the Trial Chamber according to which Ivanovic was sentenced to nine-years in prison?