Most of central institutions in Pristina send invitations and announcements exclusively in Albanian language to Serbian media in Kosovo, thereby violating the Law on Use of Languages, according to which the Serbian language is one of the two official languages. Most of the documents issued by different departments are in incorrectly written Serbian language.
Former head of the Bulgarian national intelligence service, Kircho Kirov, thinks that Serbia is becoming "a regional military factor."
Beta agency reported this on Thursday, citing Kirov as saying that his country, as a NATO member, "has problems with its rearmament, while Serbia is receiving modern Russian combat equipment for free."
Serbian Ambassador to UNESCO Darko Tanasković says that Turkey is among the most agile countries that are lobbying for membership of Kosovo in UNESCO, adding that it is a part of their Neo-Ottomanism strategy.
Authorities in Kosovo consider that there are great chances that the Presidential elections in Serbia this spring would affect not only Kosovo Serbs but also the process of the political dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia.
Officials of the government of Kosovo claim that election campaigns and incentive statements in Serbia “always affected Kosovo.”
According to Amnesty International, human rights around the world are at risk due to politicians who use “toxic and inhumane” rhetoric against ethnic or religious minorities, with the scope of strengthening their position in power.
In the annual report called “Situation of Human Rights in the World”, this organization says that over 1600 people remain missing since the last war in Kosovo.
Unknown persons have damaged a memorial plaque in Pristina dedicated to Slovak KFOR soldiers who died in a plane crash in 2006.
The Kosovo police announced this on Tuesday.
The police said they launched an investigation after receiving a report that the memorial, installed last year in a park in Pristina by Slovak representatives in KFOR, had been damaged.
Bilateral cooperation is developing successfully between Serbia and Kazakhstan, "and there are no outstanding issues."
Serbia's First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic and Kazakhstan's ambassador to Serbia based in Budapest, Nurbahom Rustemov, said this during their meeting in Belgrade on Tuesday.
The Foreign Minister of Kosovo, Enver Hoxhaj, said in an interview for the Serbian news portal, N1, that Pristina has good official relations with Sarajevo and that he is a good friend with his Bosnian counterpart. “I think that the matter of non-recognition of Kosovo by Bosnia and Herzegovina is less related to Sarajevo and more to Belgrade. I would like to see an independent foreign policy in Bosnia. And the manner that Kosovo is treated is a good parameter to see how independent Bosnia’s foreign policy is,” Hoxhaj said.
The creation of a Kosovo army would represent a new step toward the deepening of regional instability and Serbia expects the UN Security Council to react.
This is according to the Serbian Ambassador in Moscow Slavenko Terzic.
According to Russian daily Izvestiya, Terzic also remarked that the answer to the question, "who and why needs a destabilization of the region" should be found.
Pristina has not applied for membership in the Council of Europe, said head of the permanent delegation of the Serbian Parliament in the Assembly of the Council of Europe Aleksandra Đurović.
Đurović suspects they will bring this decision and said that Pristina authorities have been announcing this for two years.
Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi announced on Sunday that Pristina would once again apply for the membership in UNESCO and the Council of Europe.