President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi, said today at the opening of a training centre at the Kosovo Security Force (KSF) barracks that the force is gradually growing in the direction of maintaining operational capacities. “KSF is Kosovo’s future army”, said Thaçi without giving a timeline of when the transformation process will start. “KSF is a good indicator of our state and society’s character by integrating members of all communities”, Thaçi said further.

The President of Kosovo Hashim Thaçi, and the Ambassador of the United States of America in Kosovo Greg Delawie, signed today amendment of the bilateral agreement on the Development Objective Agreement Grant (DOAG) .

The agreement includes determination of the U.S. government to help Kosovo institutions attain reforms which would push Kosovo’s development forward.

President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi, will not decree 34 judges from the Serb community nominated by the Kosovo Judicial Council (KJC) since 2015. Thaçi’s office said the KJC nominations have not been processed due to the expiration of the legal deadline. It also stated that they have asked the KJC to resubmit the nominations including for another 14 candidates for judges from the non-Albanian communities.

Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi on the occasion of the International Peace Day, has urged the people of Kosovo to reflect and reject violence. He said the people of Kosovo have open wounds from the last war, and they should know how valuable peace is.  “The International Peace Day, which is celebrated around the world, delivers messages of peace, solidarity and understanding between people.

Dusan Janjić, Director of the Forum for Ethnic Relations, says that it is important to prepare well indictments.

- It is about the prosecutor who is familiar with the region and the work. For the situation in Kosovo and among the Albanians, it is very important that this is a citizen of USA. Objectively, trials awaits new budget, March of 2017. I assume that this is the period in which the prosecutor will decide whether to start with small or larger cases, and will he tie several cases - Janjić told Vesti.

The President of Kosovo Hashim Thaçi, met on Sunday during the ceremony of Mother Teresa’s being declared a saint, Pope Francis.

The news site reports that the President of Kosovo Hashim Thaçi is visiting northern Kosovo today and that he currently is in Jarinje border-crossing point. The news site also notes that this is the first time a president of Kosovo is visiting the northern border-crossing points. Thaçi’s political advisor, Ardian Arifaj, confirmed the news to Klan Kosova. “President Thaçi today visited Jarinje border-crossing point,” Arifaj said.

The President of Kosovo Hashim Thaçi, said today after visiting the memorial of the missing persons in Pristina that no one has the right to keep the European future of Kosovo hostage based on any kind of provincial logic. Therefore I believe and strongly hope that things will move in the right direction,” Thaçi said.

“The missing remain one of the gravest wounds which the war in Kosovo has left behind, whereas the resolving of the fate of the missing is one of the most urgent and most important tasks of all,” Kosovo President, Hashim Thaci, said on the eve of the International Day of Missing Persons, August 30th.

Kosovo President, Hashim Thaçi, said today that he is confident that the Assembly of Kosovo will ratify the demarcation agreement with Montenegro on September 1. Thaçi said the border deal must be ratified so that Kosovo can move forward with its integration processes, "such as the implementation of its international agenda, visa liberalisation for the citizens of Kosovo and the transformation of the Kosovo Security Force into the Kosovo Armed Forces".