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The Community/Association will burst as soap bubble (Vesti)

The first of nine conditions set by the Serbian List for a coalition with the prime minister of Kosovo is the Community/Association of Serbian municipalities (ZSO), whose formation was agreed in Brussels a year and eight months ago. The ZSO was the main argument of the official Belgrade, led by Aleksandar Vulin, to motivate Serbs in Kosovo to participate in the Kosovo local elections held last year. Only a month ago, the coordinator of the management team for the establishment of the ZSO, Ljubomir Maric (from Tuesday the Minister for Local Self-government in Pristina) announced that draft of

The UN Security Council tomorrow on Kosovo (Vesti)

The UN Security Council tomorrow to discuss the situation in Kosovo on the basis of regular reports by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in which he expressed concern over the political deadlock in Pristina. The Prime Minister of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic earlier had announced participation in the session in New York, and the outgoing Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci already went. "I am particularly concerned about the prolonged political stalemate in Pristina and the negative consequences that it might have on the current progress in strengthening democratic institutions and processes in Ko

Kosovo under the flag of 'great Albania' (Vesti)

While most Kosovo leaders officially claim that they don’t support ‘great Albania’, judging by the displayed flags in Kosovo, the old ‘project’ seemingly became a legitimate and indisputable. The feature which presents a direct attack on Serbian territories, but sovereignty of Montenegro, Macedonia and Greece too, is not a matter of an individual presenting his own political view any more, after the flag of ‘great Albania’ was displayed on the official institutions in Deçan/Dečani last week.

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The prosecution of war crimes in Kosovo and Metohija (1): For eight killed persons two years in prison (Vesti online, KoSSev)

Although "beyond any doubt" was determined that the war crime in village Opteruša was committed by a group, the Supreme Court presided by EULEX Judge recently convicted two persons - Ejup Kabashi (designated as the leader of the attack) and Sokol Bitici on two years in prison. Despite the established guilt, the verdict in a strange way explains how it is imposed a symbolic sentence of two years in prison, although according to the Kosovo criminal law for war crimes is prescribed minimum five years in prison.

Arrogant EULEX and powerless citizens (Vesti)

Everything that appeared these days about EULEX is neither a news nor surprise for us, says Mayor of Leposavić/Leposaviq and member of the Steering Board for Implementation of the Brussels Agreement, Dragan Jablanovic. He went on to say that it’s been half a year now since they have pointed out numerous misuses of the part of EULEX, particularly the prosecution, but no one was willing to listen to them.

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EULEX persistently ignoring the case of family Jovanovic (Vesti)

Family Jovanovic from village Preoce in Gračanica/Graçanica Municipality has sent more than 50 letters so far to different addresses of the EU mission in Kosovo, including the Head of EULEX, where they presented their suspicion on corruption since their property case has been dragged by courts for more than six years now. “Behavior of EULEX, in the course of our struggle to preserve our property, leads us believe in claims presented by the EULEX prosecutor Maria Bamieh.

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Ashton’s associate to be blamed for the chaos in Kosovo (Vesti online)

EULEX Prosecutor Maria Bamieh, which publicly spoke about corruption and violation of the investigation rules by EULEX judges and prosecutors in Kosovo, claims that Fernando Gentilini, an associate of former EU High Representative, Catherine Ashton, has to bear responsibility for "chaos" in the EU mission in Kosovo, was stated on the Brussels-based portal Euobserver. Together with Catherine Ashton, Gentilini was chief mediator, on behalf of the EU, in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.