Government of Kosovo

UNSC to hold session on latest Kosovo report

BELGRADE -- The UN Security Council will on Friday hold a session on Kosovo to consider the latest report by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Kosovo, BiH work together to combat drug smuggling

Regional co-operation in combating organised crime, especially drug trafficking, is a matter of legal assistance between the states.

Suspected drug lord Naser Kelmendi (right) arrives at the court in Pristina for his trial on January 16th. [AFP]

Decision on Serb participation "next week"

BELGRADE -- The Government's Office for Kosovo has announced that its Director Marko Djuric, Serbs from Kosovo and Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will meet next week.

Djuric spoke on Thursday, after a meeting in Belgrade held in the government building with Serb representatives in the Kosovo government.

WASHINGTON - Head of the Serbian People's Party (SNP), which has no seats in the parliament, Nenad Popovic has met in Washington with head of US State Department office for Southern and Central Europe Steven Banks.

Serbian ministers in Kosovo's coalition government threatened to withdraw after the dismissal of Minister of Communities and Returns Aleksandar Jablanovic on Tuesday.

The decision of Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa to dismiss Jablanovic came after a series of violent protests in the country, which demanded his resignation.

Serb List deputies miss Kosovo assembly session

PRISTINA -- The Kosovo assembly is meeting in Pristina on Thursday without the deputies from the Serb List, who decided not to attend the session.

One of the items on the agenda includes the increasing migration from Kosovo, considering that the latest estimates show some 35,000 inhabitants have left the territory.

BELGRAD - The UN Security Council will on Friday hold a session on Kosovo to consider the latest report by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, during which Serbia's stands will be presented by First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic.

Mustafa's decision to sack Aleksandar Jablanovic as Minister for Communities and Returns, after a remark he made in January caused mass protests, has unsettled the remaining Serbian ministers in the coalition government.

The minister had infurated Kosovo Albanians by calling protesters "savages" and after a series of tumultuous protests, Musfa axed him on Tuesday.

The process of implementing EU-led Serbia-Kosovo agreements on the Serbian side is marked by a lack of transparency, while much of the decision-making is in the hands of Srpska List, a Kosovo Serbian party backed by the Belgrade government.

These are the results of a report published last week by a Belgrade think tank, the Bureau for Social Research, BIRODI.

International experts have praised the Humanitarian Law Centre's database on victims of the Kosovo conflict, the Kosovo Memory Book, which was presented on Wednesday in Pristina.