Kurti

Kurti, your time is running out...

The deadline that the US and the EU set for Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti expires today, and Washington's special envoy for the Western Balkans, Gabriel Escobar, said that if Kurti does not accept three conditions for calming the situation in the north of Kosovo, then it means that he does not want cooperation with the EU and the US and that it cannot go without consequences.

Lajcak: Three demands for Kurti

The EU special envoy for dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, Miroslav Lajak, said tonight that he and the US special envoy for the Western Balkans, Gabriel Escobar, asked the prime minister of the temporary institutions of Pristina, Albin Kurti, to calm down the situation in northern Kosovo, hold new elections and return to dialogue.

Dacic: No one will be on Pristina's side if it defies entire world

BELGRADE - Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said on Thursday the Serbian leadership had reacted "sternly, swiftly and well" to complex developments in the north of Kosovo-Metohija.

He said restoring the situation from before the recent local elections held by Pristina in the north of the province was the only way of de-escalation.

5 permanent UN Security Council members condemned Pristina: "Unprecedented consensus"

This attitude of all five permanent members of the UN Security Council - USA, France, China, Great Britain and Russia is an extraordinary turn of events, assesses the foreign policy advisor of the Prime Minister of Serbia, Nikola Stojanovi.
This is a rather unprecedented consensus in the current global political landscape.

"We would mourn the dead if it wasn't for KFOR..."

"Thirty KFOR soldiers, of whom 19 Hungarians and 11 Italians, were injured on Monday in a cowardly attack by urban guerrillas. I am with them and their families. Nine Italians are in the hospital at the Camp Villaggio base in Italy, one was admitted to a health facility in Pristina, and one in Skopje. None of them are life-threatening, they will recover quickly," said Ristuccia.

Hovenier: The need for de-escalation, mayors not to work from municipal buildings

He said this after the meeting of the ambassadors of the Quinte countries with the Prime Minister of Pristina's temporary institutions, Aljbin Kurti, and added that the US recommendation is that mayors do not work from municipal buildings, but from other buildings.
Hovenier, however, did not say whether Kurti agreed with the recommendation, saying it was not his place to speak.

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