Kosovo government

US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and US Special Representative for the Western Balkans, Matthew Palmer, said in a testimony before the US Senate Foreign Affairs and Subcommittee on Europe and Co-operation on Regional Security that while the negotiations are blocked, the two sides are at risk of missing the best chance.

A month after Donald Trump announced Matthew Palmer as the new US Special Representative to the Western Balkans, the White House said on Thursday that its top diplomatic representative in Germany, Richard Grenell, will be its new special envoy for the Serbia-Kosovo talks.

The reason was, reportedly, emails received by the National Security Council from the office of the then Prime Minister of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj and the company he had paid to lobby for him. Such a move, unprecedented in US diplomatic practice, required a sharp response from US officials.

The online dictionary, which was published on Thursday in Pristina, contains 40,000 words and was presented as a tool for young Kosovo Albanians and Serbs to learn other's language, which they have not done in schools since the break-up of Yugoslavia.

"There will be new opportunities early next year, with a new team in Brussels, with a new team in Kosovo, of course for the Serbian government and for the Serbian opposition - for all of them to participate," Munter told N1.

He added that United States would back the Government in Pristina as it is devoted to dialogue, while Russian wants the region based on disorder and mistrust.
"One of our primary goals is to support the formation of Kosovo Government that is devoted to dialogue, which means suspending tariffs and returning to the negotiations table", he said in an interview for RTCG.

Most of the children joined their Kosovar families. Yvejs and his sister, however, were separated from two younger half-sisters. Fatime and Yvejs were taken in by their uncle in the northern town of Mitrovica, while the two younger girls, Isra and Alsa, joined their father's parents in a village near the central Kosovo town of Ferizaj/Urosevac.

They said that they are prepared to sit down at the table to find a final, legally binding agreement within existing borders, which leads to mutual recognition.
Commenting on the request of the Quint countries for the resumption of dialogue, a statement from the outgoing prime minister's cabinet said for Radio Free Europe that "no conditions should be set on that process".

Berlin also finds unacceptable the conditions that Kosovo Government set, he added.
"It is absurd to request from Serbia to recognize Kosovo as a precondition for dialogue resumption", Hellbach noted for the Pristina based daily Koha ditore.

One week after unexpectedly announcing his resignation as prime minister, Ramush Haradinaj convened his cabinet on Friday amid uncertainty about whether or not his government is now legally entitled to take any decisions before new elections.