Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga says her country has increased its efforts to arrest citizens who have become foreign fighters with Islamic State (IS) in Syria or Iraq.
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The news site runs the full text of Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga’s speech during a visit to Georgetown University. “It’s a great pleasure to be back at Georgetown University to discuss what is shaping up to be one of the main generational challenges of this century – namely how we define the role of the religion and how we accommodate religion – or religions – in our pluralistic democracies.
The Pristina-based TV station reports that the Vice President of the United States of America, Joseph Biden, will meet today at the White House with Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga. The US Embassy in Pristina confirmed that the meeting will take place today.
The Duchess of Cornwall wept with the rape victims of the Kosovo war today as they shared deeply harrowing stories of the brutal attacks they suffered at the hands of Serbian police officers during the 1998 to 1999 conflict.
The heartrending meeting was hosted by President Atifete Jahjaga at her office in the capital Pristina, where a group of survivors of sexual violence bravely shared their stories.
President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, visited the village of Krusha yesterday, in the municipality of Rahovec. There she met with women, members of the village cooperatives and received detailed information on the work process and difficulties faced by the members and leaders of the cooperatives, Fahrije Hoti. During the talks with women of Krusha, President Jahjaga said that she will be a powerful voice for them and that she has used their example often at several meetings she has had in Kosovo and abroad.
President of Kosovo Atifete Jahjaga met with leader of the Democratic Party of Albania, Lulzim Basha, in Pristina today. Jahajga and Basha discussed the current situation in Kosovo, with special emphasis on the latest developments in the Kosovo Assembly as well as other processes related to visa liberalization requirements, the Stabilisation and Association Agreement and the Pristina-Belgrade dialogue.
The paper has published an editorial by the President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, writen for the International Women's Day:
Every woman of this country has a valuable history of sacrifice, resistance, faith and hope. Histories which we might have heard, which we might have shared with one another with pride, or which we have asked to be acted upon in order not to allow similar histories to occur ever again.
Today, Adriatik Kelmendi praised the leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), Ramush Haradinaj, for participating in the meeting called by the President of Kosovo Atifete Jahjaga, in an attempt to find a solution to the political crisis. “To reach a situation that is beneficial for all, often one must act courageously, despite the danger this may incur for one's personal position. There is no doubt that this is applicable to Ramush Haradinaj,” Kelmendi writes.
According to the writer of this opinion piece, Halil Matoshi, the President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, cannot succeed in overcoming the political crisis in Kosovo considering that she has served the Democratic Party of Kosovo and Hashim Thaci for almost two mandates. He views her leadership as pitiful.
The front page editorial of the paper says that yesterday’s meeting between party leaders at the office of the President did not offer anything new, instead, it only proved that the governing coalition has no intention to compromise with opposition, and that protests throughout Kosovo remain the only solution. According to Kosova Sot, the President failed to offer any interesting options either.