ROSU can act in the entire Kosovo, without KFOR's permission (Gazeta Metro)
Sources from NATO Headquarters said that the Brussels Agreement of 2013, mentioned these days by Serbia, does not include Kosovo police forces.
These sources, Serbian media report, claim that “Kosovo authorities do not have to seek KFOR’s permission to send their police forces anywhere in Kosovo.”
Fungo: Only KFOR is authorized army in Kosovo (Koha Ditore)
KFOR Commander Giovanni Fungo, was asked in a written interview of the paper, to comment the war-inducing comments of the Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić, who threatened to send the army to Kosovo. Fungo said that the force that he commands, is the only army that can act in Kosovo. He added that this was also decided by the Kumanovo agreement, signed between NATO and Serbia in 1999. He also stressed that during the tensions of the last weekend, KFOR was in the state of alert.
PM Mustafa calls on Serbia to renounce threats and join dialogue (Koha)
Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, said at today’s government meeting that Kosovo is determined to enforce legal and constitutional order throughout its territory. He said there has been recently intensification of provocations from Serbia but underlined that all Kosovo institutions are well-prepared and coordinated to protect stability of Kosovo.
Vučić: Belgrade and Pristina to forget the weapons (media)
Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić said Tuesday that Belgrade and Pristina should forget the weapons and talk about everything, and hoped that no one would think of killing Serbs in Kosovo.
Asked by journalists to comment on the statement by the President of Serbia Tomislav Nikolić of Serbia's readiness to defend the Serbs in Kosovo with the weapons, Vučić answered the question: "Are you wondering whether someone will kill the Serbs."
‘It’s the Crimea model’: Kosovo accuses Serbia of seeking to annex province (Washington Post)
Kosovo officially declared independence from Serbia in 2008. The Muslim-majority nation had been administered by the United Nations since 1999, when NATO bombed Serbia — a move that forced then-President Slobodan Milosevic to withdraw his troops from the breakaway province.
Deda: Kosovo to respond to Belgrade’s threat by creating the army (Lajmi)
Kosovo Assembly independent MP, Ilir Deda, considers that strengthening the Kosovo Security Force into army of Kosovo should be the response to the threat of the Serbian President. “Strengthening the KSF into the Army of Kosovo should be the response of Kosovo toward Belgrade’s threat, where the President of Serbia states that “what I said about sending the army, derives from the conclusions of the Council for National Security,” Dedaj wrote on his Facebook page.
War of wards as Kosovo stops 'provocative' Serbian train (Euronews)
Kosovo police have stopped a Serbian train described as provocative from entering the Balkan country.
The words “Kosovo is Serbia” were painted down the side in multiple languages; on board was more nationalist material.
“Enough is enough”, said Kosovo’s prime minister Hashim Thaci who ordered troops to the border to stop the train in its tracks.
http://www.euronews.com/2017/01/15/war-of-words-as-kosovo-stops-provocative-serbian-train
Kosovo Police refutes Serbian politicians: the railway was not mined (Lajmi)
Kosovo Police reacted harshly to the untrue statement of Milovan Drečun, MP at Serbian Parliament and member of the Serbian Progressive Party, that ROSU (Kosovo Police Special Unit) uses terrorist methods, that they are a destabilizing factor, who set explosives on the railway in northern Kosovo and recorded videos afterwards.
Multi-ethnic States Have Failed in the Balkans (Balkan Insight)
In response to Jasmin Mujanovic’s comment article, ‘New Partitions are the Last Thing the Balkans Need,’ Timothy Less maintains that the Balkan countries lack even the most basic elements needed to make multi-ethnicity work, so it is time to consider a new territorial settlement.
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