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Mustafa: Jablanovic no longer minister (RTS, Politika)

Aleksandar Jablanovic no longer is part of my cabinet, said Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa. The decision was made without consultation with the Serbs, says Branimir Stojanovic, Kosovo's deputy prime minister. Mustafa did not explain whether Jablanovic resigned or he was removed from the office. "We faced the demands of demonstrators in the previous period related to the Trepca and Minister Jablanovic.

I share Nikolic’s concern (Politika)

We have a president with the same constitutional authority that had Milosevic and Tadic. Nikolic's position in the political relations is weaker because he is not head of the largest party, while Milosevic and Tadic were. I do not know what is the idea of President Nikolic and on what refers a new platform on Kosovo. As the Prime Minister told me, so far he and the president did not discuss about what is actually meant when it comes to this platform. There is no dispute about that in Serbia there are talks about it.

Could Serbia do more for chapter 35 (Politika)

Even in case that Belgrade had implemented any other detail from the Brussels Agreement, I am not convinced that it would be enough for opening negotiations with the EU, said Laslo Varga, deputy chairperson of the Serbian parliament’s Committee for European integrations. With that regard the question emerges why Serbia didn’t ask additional explanations from the EU.

A Serb beaten in Pec/Peja (Tanjug, Politika)

A group of ethnic Albanians attacked Pavic Gojkovic, a 61-year-old Serb, on Wednesday in Pec/Peja, northwestern Kosovo, and members of the Kosovo police saved him from being lynched. Gojkovic told Tanjug that a group of Albanians attacked him after he walked out of a lawyer's office onto the street, together with his mother and a close friend who drove them to Pec/Peja. As he explained, he and his mother went to see a lawyer in order to settle a dispute with a Kosovo Albanian over their land.

Army chief, KFOR commander discuss security (B92, Blic, Politika)

Serbian army chief Ljubisa Dikovic KFOR commander Francesco Paolo Figliuolo met and discussed the security situation in Kosovo and on the administrative line. Dikovic and Figliuolo also discussed the cooperation between the Serbian Army and KFOR so far and the directions of their future cooperation, the Serbian Ministry of Defense said. This is the first official meeting between the two general since Figliuolo assumed office as the KFOR commander in Kosovo in September 2014. This was a high-level meeting of the joint commission for implementation of the Military-technical agreement com

OSCE: Still no solution for return of displaced to Kosovo (Politika, Tanjug)

PRISTINA - As many as 15 years after the Kosovo conflict, there are still no lasting solutions for the return or integration of around 220,000 people displaced outside Kosovo and the 17,000 internally displaced living in Kosovo, shows the latest report of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). According to the report, the number of returnees is declining every year, although Kosovo's ministry for communities and return has undertaken significant measures to help the displaced population. The OSCE said that, in collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner

The witnesses did not confirm the EULEX suspicions against Slavisa Ristic (Politika)

The EULEX Prosecution has not filed an indictment against Slavisa Ristic, a former president of Zubin Potok, who is suspected of alleged serious crimes. After hours of interrogation, Ristic was determined the measure of mandatory reporting to the Mitrovica and Zubin Potok police station. Ljubomir Pantovic, Ristic's lawyer, says "my client is still under investigation, he is suspected of two events, and even though I know for sure that quite a number of witnesses were interogated, I do not know when the prosecution will conclude its investigation.

EULEX covering up corruption and protecting Kosovo political elite (Politika)

While Prosecutor Maia Bamiah still suffers EULEX sanctions, because she should face EULEX Disciplinary Committee, EULEX scandal spreads quickly. Brussels portal EU Observer, which regularly monitors developments related to the "EULEX affair ", yesterday reported that a former official of the International Civilian Office (ICO) in Kosovo, Andrea Capussela, said in his new book that EULEX protected the political elite in Kosovo. "The mission did not intend to prosecute crime at a high level ...

The United Nations recognized the independence of the IOC and sports (Politika)

The "historic resolution" besides autonomy of the International Olympic Committee recognized the right of management of the Olympic Movement. The IOC to decide 8th and 9th December about full-fledged membership of the Olympic Committee of Kosovo. The International Olympic Committee announced that at the 69th session of the UN General Assembly a "historic resolution" was adopted, whereby the autonomy of the International Olympic Committee and sports was recognized. "We warmly welcome this resolution as a historic turning point in the relationship between sport and politics.

What is rotten in the EULEX ? (Radio Kontakt Plus, Politika)

The falsification of evidence against Oliver Ivanovic show that international judges and prosecutors in Kosovo adopted the local way of behavior, instead to impose legal standards of the countries from which they came, writes Politika. The first blow mission suffered when the Pristina daily Koha Ditore on Monday announced that the prosecutor of the United Kingdom, Maria Bamieh found evidence that two senior officials of the EULEX mission received a bribe to dismiss at least three criminal cases, cited Politika.