“If they want to turn me into Julian Asange, that’s what they will get. I believe they think I talked to Koha Ditore, but all that is published in Koha is in the domain of public information,” said Maria Bamieh, EULEX prosecutor, after suspension. She stated that the information she possess, when discovered, will shock the EU. “Yes, it will shock the EU, because the organization (EULEX) wastes the taxpayers' money and is doing nothing for the people of Kosovo,” added suspended prosecutor.

Oliver Ivanovic was yesterday handed a new decision on remand in custody for another two months. CI SDP leader, who has been in custody since 27 January, was accused by the Kosovo authorities and EULEX prosecutor of war crimes committed in 1999 and 2000, for which Ivanovic pleaded not guilty.

Former US diplomat Gerard Gallucci, who was the regional head of UNMIK in Mitrovica, said that he, at the time when he was the UN representative in this city, considered Oliver Ivanovic "a person committed to protect the Serbian community in Kosovo - but by political means, not violence".

KFOR commander, Francesco Paolo Figliuolo, and the new head of EULEX, Gabriele Meucci, talked in Pristina about the security situation in Kosovo and the recent events that have affected the security situation in the region, announced the KFOR.

"KFOR, as the third line of response, is providing a safe and calm environment in Kosovo, in accordance with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244. KFOR has a strong and successful working relationship with EULEX, which is the second line of response," the statement said.

MITROVICA - Vladeta Kostic, a Serbian MP from Kosovo-Metohija, called on the international community on Tuesday to take all measures necessary to prevent the spread of anti-Serb violence in the province.

"Due to the increasingly frequent incidents in Kosovo-Metohija, I call on Eulex. Kfor and Unmik officials to react urgently and take all measures necessary to prevent the spread of violence and find the vandals who have assumed the right to attack the property of returnees", Kostic said.

Outgoing Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci, received today the new chief of EULEX, Gabriele Meucci, and discussed continuation of cooperation between EULEX and Kosovo institutions to implement rule of law and fight corruption and organised crime. In a Facebook post, Thaci said he assured Meucci that institutions of Kosovo will continue support for efforts in strengthening democracy, rule of law, economic development, conclusion of visa liberalization process and implementation of EU and NATO integration criteria.

In his first official meeting with representatives of Kosovo institutions since assuming office, new head of EULEX,Gabriele Meucci, spoke of challenges in fighting organised crime and corruption and the mission’s new mandate in Kosovo. In a meeting with President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, Meucci said that he shared the concerns about organised crime and corruption in Kosovo. “I committed to doing all I can within my mandate and resources to assisting Kosovo in this challenge.

Representatives of EULEX and the Serbian government's commission on missing persons have exchanged the remains of three Serbs and 12 ethnic Albanians, Veljko Odalovic, chairman of the Serbian commission, said on Tuesday.

The exchange of the remains was done at the Merdare administrative crossing between central Serbia and the province of Kosovo-Metohija on Monday, and Odalovic underscored that this was the first time that the victims of the 1999 conflict in Kosovo-Metohija were at the same time given and taken.

Despite progress in all other areas, a key condition for Serbia’s EU membership remains the solving of the Kosovo issue and signing a legally binding agreement with Pristina. The pace of negotiations on all other issues will depend on what happens with Chapter 35. 

PRIŠTINA, BELGRADE -- The search of a location in the Piskote village near Đakovica has been concluded with no result, a Priština official has said.

It was suspected that the location contained a mass grave with the remains of Serb civilians kidnapped in Kosovo in 1998 and 1999 by members of the ethnic Albanian KLA, and illegally imprisoned in the Likovac camp before they were murdered.

A total of 73 Serb civilians went missing in the area of Đakovica during the that period of time.

Radomir Kasalovic, who was arrested by the EULEX police in the north, was released on bail after the hearing, said his lawyer Ljubomir Pantovic. Pantovic in a statement to Kontakt Plus radio said that Kasalovic made ​​a statement in the southern part of Mitrovica, after which he was released on bail.