Hashim Thaçi

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.

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.

Serb minister dismissed from Pristina government

PRISTINA -- The minister for returns and communities in the Kosovo government, Aleksandar Jablanovic, has said that he learned about his dismissal from the media.

"Death notice" for Serb minister in Kosovo government

BELGRADE -- Photographs showing "a death notice" written in Albanian for a Serb minister in the Kosovo government, Aleksandar Jablanovic, have appeared on the internet.

The mock notice reads as follows:

Anxious for the payment of significant pensions, Kosovo war veterans threatened street protests next week if government does not publish a final list of former fighters in the Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA.

Pristina: U.S. supports creation of Kosovo army

PRISTINA -- The U.S. Department of Defense Ministry has "expressed its support" for Pristina's efforts to transform the Kosovo Security Force (KSF) into an army.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg visited Kosovo on Friday to inspect the NATO mission and meet political leaders who briefed him on the current situation.

Vladeta Kostic, the candidate of the Belgrade-backed Civic Initiative "Srpska", was elected as the new mayor of Gracanica on Sunday with 65 per cent of the votes.

Controversial draft law on Trepca withdrawn

PRISTINA, BELGRADE -- The assembly of Kosovo will not discuss a law concerning the Trepca mining complex on Monday, it has been announced in Pristina.

Montenegrin police have pledged to take all "preventative and, if necessary, repressive measures" to prevent incidents from disrupting the first official visit to Montenegro of the Foreign Minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci - a controversial figure to some because of his past history as a guerrilla leader.