Kosovo Albanians

Veton Surroi's novel "Billionaire," published by Samizdat B92, was promoted in Belgrade's Dom Omladine venue on Monday.

This work of the Albanian journalist and author from Kosovo has been translated to Serbian by Shkelzen Maliqi.

The opposition parties, who are against the planned new EU-backed special court because they believe KLA fighters were heroic liberators who should not be prosecuted, vowed on Monday to try to block an expected vote in parliament which would enable it to be established.

General John Allen visited Kosovo on Thursday, meeting top officials on a mission to strengthen cooperation within the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, of which Kosovo is a part.

President Atifete Jahjaga said in a meeting with the US General that mainly Muslim Kosovo was determined "never to become a haven for terrorist groups or a source of extremism".

Dutch ambassador Robert Bosch told newspaper Kosovo Sot on Thursday that Thaci's claim that the verdict convicting the ex-guerrillas was politically motivated was inappropriate.

"Officials should never comment on the decision of the court," said Bosch.

A festival in Belgrade of Kosovo Albanian films, exhibitions, concerts and debates about the 1990s conflict is aimed at restoring personal contacts between Serbs and their neighbours.

Kosovo needs to establish a special court for KLA war crimes as that is part of its obligations arising "from the correspondence between Brussels and Pristina."

This has been reported on Tuesday by the Beta news agency, that quoted the Albanian language daily Koha Ditore, citing EU officials.

Dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina should be resumed on June 23, a Belgrade-based daily writes.

On that day prime ministers of Serbia and Kosovo Aleksandar Vucic and Isa Mustafa should meet in Brussels, according to Danas.

The Kosovo assembly has postponed a sitting on constitutional amendments that would allow for a special war crimes court for the former KLA to be formed.

The decision came at the request of Hashim Thaci's Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), it was announced in Pristina on Friday.

Kosovo war veterans protested over the conviction of two former KLA commanders of the 'Drenica group' on Wednesday by blocking a road.

Two former senior members of the Kosovo Liberation Army, Sami Lushtaku and Sylejman Selimi, were convicted of crimes against civilians during the 1998-99 conflict.