PANA Coalition

Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj told a press conference in Pristina on Friday that he is resigning because he has been summoned to give an interview to the Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor's Office, which is investigating crimes committed during and just after the Kosovo war, from 1998 to 2000.

In the interview with the correspondents in Berlin, Merkel pointed out that Germany has great interest for European integration of "Serbia and Kosovo", to make progress on this road, but, as she stressed, in order to do that, it is necessary to restore Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.

In an interview for KTV, he said that "statements of the leaders of political parties, their positions, even different from those in public and in closed meetings," make Kosovo "seem inferior to Serbia."
According to him, Serbia is doing everything to enfeeble Kosovo, while local Kosovo leaders do the same on their part.

Shops, bakeries, gas stations, hairdressers, pharmacies, fast food shops and all other local businesses closed on Monday in the northern Serb-led municipalities of Kosovo, protesting against the 100-per-cent tariff that the government has imposed on imports from Serbia.

Members of civil society groups in Kosovo accused the security guards of the ruling Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK, of pushing them away from the party building on Monday as they were protesting in a "March for Refusal", as they called it, over the new bill on financing political parties.

The Kosovo Anti-Corruption Agency's report on the declaration of wealth of public servants, published on Thursday, revealed that Rrustem Mustafa, popularly known as 'Remi', has been an adviser to Kosovo President Hashim Thaci for the last four months, unknown to the public.

Kosovo is planning to call on the international community to establish a special international tribunal that would judge crimes committed by Serbs during the war in Kosovo - but experts told BIRN that it is almost impossible that such a proposal will be successful.

And it would deal with "the crimes committed by Serbia" in Kosovo and Metohija.

The foreign minister and first deputy PM said that Pristina's announcements onfthe initiative to form such a tribunal is viewed in light of the attempts to find a balance with the work of a specialist court dealing with the KLA ("Kosovo Liberation Army") .

At a meeting of Kosovo's Central Election Commission on Tuesday, Vetevendosje refused to vote in favour of certifying candidates from the Srpska Lista party to run in the May 19 polls, arguing that three of them had breached the constitution by resigning as mayors of the same municipalities in which they want to run for office again.