The President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi said that normalization of the relations between Serbs and Albanians does not pass from Belgrade to Tirana, but through Pristina to the other territories.
The Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama, said during his speech at the Security Forum in Belgrade that Kosovo is the point where he does not agree at all with the Prime Minister of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić. He told the Serbian Prime Minister that it would have been better for everyone if Serbia recognized Kosovo.
He added however that the political leaders in Pristina and Belgrade should be commended for the ongoing dialogue.
The leader of the Vetëvendosje movement, Visar Ymeri, has requested through a status on his Facebook profile from the Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama, not to go to Belgrade where the future of the Albanian-Serbian relations will be discussed.
“The PM of Albania, Edi Rama, is expected to participate tomorrow at a panel with the Prime Minister of Serbia, Vučić, to discuss on “The future of Serb-Albanian relations as well as stability in Southeastern Europe.
It is no surprise that none of the four agreements signed last year have got anywhere when both governments have been insincere about the normalisation process from the beginning.
From the start, the Brussels negotiation process met with serious criticism from civil society and public. The lack of transparency in the process and the exclusion of all parts of society except for governments contributed to the growth of fear and distrust among people on both sides.
The government of Kosovo considers that Serbia’s reactions with regards to the Trepça Law are vain and pointless. To the authorities in Pristina, claims of the Prime Minister of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić that he will annul Pristina’s decisions related to Trepça, do not have any judicial or practical impact.
The Government of Serbia has announced that it has decided to annul all legal consequences of the Kosovo authorities’ actions related to Trepça status.
Kosovo Assembly MP from the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Vjosa Osmani, advised the government to breach the coalition with the Serbian List and replace it with the other Serb party Serbian Liberal Party (SLS), which currently has five MPs at the Assembly.
The Director of Kosovo Police for Mitrovica region, Nehat Thaçi (40 years old), rejected accusations of the Serbian Prosecution for organized crime and for being responsible for expelling a Serb family.
The Prosecution in Belgrade accused Thaçi to have expelled Milivojević family on 1 July 1999, near Lipjan/Ljipljane. He said that at that day he was in Fushë Kosovë/ Kosovo Polje.
Everything that happens on Kosovo has already been negotiated in Brussels and the current situation is only an attempt of Marko Đurić and Aleksandar Vučić to show how they struggle to pull out the best variant of it, assesses the main editor of Danas daily, Dragoljub Draža Petrović.
The Presidency of the Assembly of Kosovo has decided during the today’s meeting to hold an extraordinary session on Tuesday. Serbia’s arrest of the Kosovo Police senior official, Nehat Thaçi, will be the only point of the agenda to be discussed at tomorrow’s Assembly’s session.
The session, initiated by the independent MP Gëzim Kelmendi, will start at 14:00 hours.
First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic has met with US Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation Thomas Countryman.
In an open, constructive conversation on Tuesday, Dacic and Countryman, who is also the acting Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security at the US Department of State, exchanged views on the situation in the region and a range of matters concerning international security and the present security challenges.