Atifete Jahjaga

Kosovo president cancels trip to Belgium

PRIŠTINA -- Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga has decided not to travel to Belgium for an event commemorating the 100th anniversary of the First World War.

Kosovo's head of state Atifete Jahjaga has received Bobi Bovev, the Bulgarian Ambassador, to mark the end of his mandate.

Political deadlock continues in Kosovo

PRIŠTINA -- DPK leader Hashim Thaci has said that deputies from that party will not attend the "informal and illegal session of the Assembly of Kosovo on October 9."

PRISTINA - Italian General Francesco Paolo Figliuolo assumed at a ceremony in Pristina on Wednesday the post of KFOR commander in Kosovo.

His predecessor, General Salvatore Farina, turned over the commanding duties to Figliuolo.

The ceremony was held at the KFOR base in Film City, Pristina, and Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga thanked Farina for his work at the head of KFOR.

Kosovo to address religious intolerance

The president seeks greater institutional co-operation to reduce religious hate speech and vandalism.

Kosovo authorities are trying to undermine a trend of religious intolerance that has affected religious harmony and also the work of the dominant Islamic Community (BIK), experts said.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic stated on Tuesday that the publication of the report of the special investigative team headed by U.S. prosecutor Clint Williamson will confirm the objectivity of EU institutions and the international community in the investigation of crimes committed during the war in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM).

Opposition leaders from the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Nisma and the Vetevendosje Movement failed on Monday to reach a deal aimed at stopping outgoing Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, head of the Democratic Party of Kosovo, from forming the next government.

Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga said on Monday that the recently-elected legislature should convene for the first time on July 17 so she can “submit to parliament the proposal for the new prime minister nominate to parliament”.

The ruling from the constitutional court on Tuesday advised President Atifete Jahjaga that the party “that won the highest number of seats as a result of the elections to be given the possibility to propose a candidate for prime minister to form the government”.

A standoff between ethnic Albanian protesters and police officers erupted on Sunday in Kosovo's divided town of Mitrovica.

At least twenty people were hurt as the police was trying to disperse the hundreds-strong crowd attacking a renewed Serbian blockade at a bridge across the Ibar river, Macedonian daily Kurir reports, citing Kosovo police spokesman Avni Zahiti.