Nataliya Apostolova

Commemorations are being held on Wednesday to mark the 21st anniversary of the massacre by Serbian forces in the Kosovo village of Recak/Racak, when 44 people were killed.

The massacre was publicised by the chief of the OSCE ceasefire verification mission to Kosovo, William Walker, who visited the scene the following day and declared it a "crime against humanity".

Speaking for the website Euractiv, Nataliya Apostolova said that there had been "ethnic incidents in recent months involving Serbs and Albanians" - something she said was "worrying, starting to look like tit-for-tat."

The decision to halt construction of the road connecting Decan/Decani with Plave in Montenegro, following the demands of the nearby Serbian Orthodox monastery, has caused conflicting reactions in Kosovo.

Visoki Decani Monastery protested over the construction of the road, claiming that it was being done within its five-km Special Protective Zone, SPZ.

RTK in Serbian is reporting that Nataliya Apostolova said this during a conference organized by the Kosovo Foundation for Open Society (KFOS).

"I'm afraid that member countries may reject the application. What counts in this process is the dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia and fight against organized crime and corruption", Apostolova said.

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According to Tanjug, he told (Albanian language) broadcaster RTV21 in an interview that the EU is at the forefront of these negotiations, which will be "strongly supported by the United States."

Delawie said that the success of the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina is an essential element in achieving progress in their EU ambitions.

The head of the EU office in Kosovo, Nataliya Apostolova, said that by stalling over the new special war crimes court and the border deal with Montenegro, Kosovo MPs are holding their own nation hostage.

PRISTINA - Head of the EU Office in Kosovo and EU Special Representative Nataliya Apostolova on Friday warned Kosovo's political leaders that scrapping the law on a special court set up to try war crimes committed by the "Kosovo Liberation Army" would be a dangerous move.

The European Union is set to deploy an Election Observation Mission—EOM to Kosovo to observe the 2017 general elections in response to an invitation to country's president, Hashim Thaci, Gazeta Express reported.

PRISTINA - The EU believes solving open issues with Belgrade through a normalisation of relations - defined as "visible and sustainable improvement of relations aimed at improving the lives of people" - is in Pristina's interest, says Nataliya Apostolova, head of the EU Office in Kosovo and the EU special representative.

BELGRADE - The stalling talks in Brussels on the normalization of ties between Serbia and Kosovo could grind to a virtual standstill if Kosovo's opposition parties join in, but Nataliya Apostolova, the new head of the EU office in Kosovo, did not rule this out.