European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Tuesday described the murder of Oliver Ivanovic as an act of terrorism.

And Serbia will treat that act accordingly, Vucic told reporters in Belgrade after an extraordinary session of the Council for National Security, convened in the wake of the killing of the Serb politician in the town of Kosovska Mitrovica, in northern Kosovo.

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.

Kosovo President Hashim Thaci has pardoned three former members of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) who were found guilty of killing five people.

The victims were five members of the Hajra family, who came under automatic weapons fire while traveling in their car near the town of Glogovac in Kosovo, in 2001.

One is closed, while there is no information about the three remaining, the Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) said it learned.

These are considerably different data compared to those UNS received from EULEX a month ago when we were told that there were only two open investigations.

Kosovo's president on Tuesday openly called for international missions to leave the country and complained that the international community is discriminating against Kosovo when it comes to war crimes investigation and the process to join the European Union.

BRUSSELS - EU foreign policy and security chief Federica Mogherini walked out of Friday's meeting of the Stabilisation and Association Council between the European Union and Kosovo, insulted by Kosovo PM Ramus Haradinaj's insistence on stepping up the US involvement in the process of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.

The president of the judges in the European Union's rule-of-law mission in Kosovo, EULEX, Malcolm Simmons, announced his resignation in an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde on Thursday, saying that "EULEX is a political mission".

"In the past few weeks, I raised a number of concerns regarding corruption within the mission," Le Monde quoted Simmons as saying.

BRUSSELS - The effectiveness of the EU Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) is highly questionable and its fate is uncertain, says Filip Ejdus of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy.

On the occasion of International Day of the Disappeared, the head of EULEX in Kosovo said that the issue "continues to be a top priority" for the mission.

The retrial of three men originally convicted of involvement in organ-trafficking from the Medicus clinic near the Kosovo capital began at Pristina Basic Court.