A court in Pristina has issued arrest warrants for four Serbs, former Kosovo Police officers charged with smuggling goods from Serbia, the Insajderi portal reported on Thursday.

The court is reported to have issued the arrest warrants on August 2, the KoSSev portal said.

Insajderi said that the four former police officers are suspected of abusing their powers by smuggling goods illegally across the border in both directions.

The Assembly of Kosovo adopted a resolution on ''genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes of the former regime of the Serbian state committed in Kosovo,'' yesterday.

The headlines of Kosovo media, however, were marked with a photo of a scene of an alleged group rape, which Kosovo MP Flora Brovina showed to the media in the assembly, emphasizing that it shows an Albanian woman being raped by Serb forces in the presence of members of her family.

The news website reports that although Kosovo’s Minister of Internal Affairs, Flamur Sefaj, said this week that Interpol has confirmed lifting arrest warrants for former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters, wanted by Serbia, there are two more that are still on the list of wanted persons. Sources told Insajderi that former KLA members, Ramiz Qeriqi and Genc Zogaj, are still on Interpol’s wanted list as Serbia has charged them with war crimes.

The Assembly Presidency decided today to suspend all the visits of the Kosovo Assembly MPs abroad. The decision will be in power until the 20 February. The Assembly Presidency held its first meeting today after the holidays. This gave the first opportunity to the Presidency to discuss the specialist chambers, as there was no quorum in the past.

Arban Abrashi, spokesperson for the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), said that the party has yet to discuss possible coalitions but that it will do so after certification of election results. "I believe the presidency will review all requests in the coming days", Abrashi said.

Deputy leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), Enver Hoxhaj, said in an interview aired on Klan Kosova that he believed visa liberalisation will happen in 2018. “I don’t wish to mention dates but I believe that in January of 2018 citizens will be able to travel without visas,” Hoxhaj said.

Ramush Haradinaj, leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) and candidate for prime minister from the coalition with the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and the Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA), said at a memorial ceremony in the village of Jabllanica that he would use the trust given by the citizens and the political parties for the good of Kosovo and not political interests of his party.

The Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) announced officially that Avdullah Hoti will be their candidate for the Prime Minister at the early elections on 11 June.

This decision was made today at the meeting of the party. The leader of the party, Isa Mustafa, said that all heads of LDK branches supported Hoti for Prime Minister of Kosovo.

In an interview to Insajderi news website, the US Ambassador Greg Delawie said that Kosovo should have an army but that this should be done through constitutional amendments and in consultation with all communities in Kosovo. Delawie dismissed statements by Kosovo officials that the creation of the Kosovo army is happening in full coordination with international partners. “This is not how we envisaged the process to take place. This does truly not reflect the content of discussions we had with Kosovo Government officials more recently,” he said.

Kosovo’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs today sent a note of protest to Serbia over the arrest of Kosovo citizen Hilmi Kelmendi on Sunday.  Bashmir Xhemaj, media adviser to Minister Enver Hoxhaj, confirmed the news. “Today we have sent a note of protest to Serbia for the recent arrest, and we informed all international institutions and the EU for this unacceptable behavior of Serbia. This behavior jeopardizes the achievements in the dialogue for the normalization of relations,” Xhemaj said.