Janjić: Kosovo’s lawsuit stands no chances (RTK2)
The Director of the Forum for Ethnic Relations, Dušan Janjić, assessed that it is quite clear, following the reasoning of the ruling in lawsuits for genocide of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia (against Serbia), that eventual lawsuit of Kosovo could not pass. “International Court (of Justice) adheres to strict definition of the genocide.
Ban Ki-moon: To establish a court for war crimes (RTK2)
Trajkovic and Spahiu: Jablanović politically immature; to avoid repetition of 17 March 2004 (RTK2)
UNMIK: Violence has nothing to do with the exercise of the democratic right (RTK2, Politika, Vecernje Novosti, Blic, B92, TV Most, Tanjug, Kontakt Plus Radio, IRS)
The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in Kosovo, Farid Zarif, commended proportionate response of the police during yesterday unrest in Pristina, and said that democratic rights are not exercised through violence.
UNMIK expressed concern by the recent events in Pristina city centre. Such acts have nothing to do with the exercise of the democratic right to express legitimate grievances, stated UN mission in Kosovo (UNMIK).
Mustafa: Decision up to Jablanovic, his resignation maybe desirable (RTK2)
The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, stated yesterday that demonstrations in Pristina went out of the opposition’s original demands for resignation of the Minister for Communities and Return, Aleksandar Jablanovic, and transformation of Trepca into u public company, and assessed that it was about a political protest with the request for resignation of the government and an effort to topple the authorities with the use of force.
Joksimovic: I do not want to raise dust (RTK2)
We will do everything to prevent attacks on journalists (TV Most)
UNS and DNKiM are requesting resignation of the management of RTK 2 (KIM Radio)
Condemnations of the attack on Serbian journalists (KIM Radio, RTK2))
Civic Initiative Srpska (CI Srpska) most sharply condemned the attack on the RTK2 Serbian journalists’ crew, Aleksandar Jovanovic and Bojan Kosanin, and RTS cameraman Vladimir Milic, during yesterday’s protests in Pristina.