Unrest in Kosovo

In case Pristina fails to form the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO) in Kosovo on its own, the Serbs have the full legitimacy and legality to do so.

The chairman of the Serbian National Assembly Committee on Kosovo and Metohija, Milovan Drecun, said this on Tuesday, Tanjug reported.

The building of a concrete wall by the Serb authorities near their side of the bridge that ethnically divides the Kosovo town of Mitrovica was ordered to stop after strong criticism by Kosovo Albanian officials.

BELGRADE - Serbian officials have released a Kosovar Albanian who was arrested last week on suspicion of committing war crimes during the 1998-99 conflict in Kosovo.

Sead Spahovic, the lawyer for Hilmi Kelmendi, said on November 3 that his client will "leave jail today" and "is a free man."

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic on Monday received Peter Due, director of the UN Department for Peacekeeping Operations for Asia, Middle East, Europe and Latin America Division, as part of his regular visit to the region.

Pristina’s foreign ministry sent a protest note to Belgrade after the second arrest of a Kosovo Albanian in recent weeks, as Serbia released a police director who was held for over a month.

Photo: MFA

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic on Monday received Peter Due, director of the UN Department for Peacekeeping Operations for Asia, Middle East, Europe and Latin America Division, as part of his regular visit to the region.

President Hashim Thaci sent letters to Kosovo prosecutors urging them to take action to resolve a series of crimes against both ethnic Albanians and Serbs during and after the war in 1999.

Nehat Thaci told a court hearing in Belgrade on Monday that he denied charges accusing him of expelling a Serb family from the village of Lipljan during the Kosovo war in July 1999 and threatening them with a bomb.

BELGRADE - The Interior Ministry of Serbia on Thursday officially confirmed the Serbian police had arrested a 40-year-old resident of Urosevac, Kosovo-Metohija, identified as N.T. pursuant to an indictment issued by the High Court in Nis on terrorism charges.

The Serbian police have arrested the director of the Kosovo police for the region of Kosovska Mitrovica, Nehat Thaci.

The Serbian Interior Ministry (MUP) confirmed this on Thursday morning.