Do mišljenja MSP o Kosovu najmanje godinu dana

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Excerpt: Predsednik Srbije Boris Tadić izjavio je danas da će proces donošenja savetodavnog mišljenja Međunarodnog suda pravde o legalnosti proglašenja nezavisnosti Kosova trajati najmanje godinu dana i izrazio uverenje da će se taj sud odupreti političkim pritiscima država koje su priznale jednostrano proglašenu nezavisnost južne srpske pokrajine. “Ne treba imati dileme da će postojati i politički pritisci, ali apsolutno smo uvereni da će Međunarodni sud pravde pokazati najviši mogućio nivo nezavisnosti i pravnog pristupa ovom pitanju”, rekao je Tadić novinarima u Beogradu. Prema rečima predsednika Srbije, nije od odlučujuće važnosti koliko će zemalja podneti podneske Međunarodnom sudu pravde, već kakav će biti kvalitet…

Trideset pet država dostavilo mišljenje Sudu pravde

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Excerpt: Međunarodni sud pravde u Hagu saopštio je da je u predviđenom roku 35 zemalja članica Ujedinjenih Nacija dostavilo sudu podneske u postupku za utvrđivanje legalnosti proglašavanja nezavisnosti Kosova i Metohije. Pisana dokumenta dostavili su Češka, Francuska, Kipar, Kina, Švajcarska, Rumunija, Albanija, Austrija, Egipat, Nemačka, Slovačka, Rusija, Finska, Poljska, Luksemburg, Libija, Velika Britanija, SAD, Srbija, Španija, Iran, Estonija, Norveška, Holandija, Slovenija, Letonija, Japan, Brazil, Irska, Danska, Argentina, Azerbejdžan, Maldivi, Siera Leone i Bolivija, saopštio je Međunarodni sud pravde. Pored tih zemalja, podnesak su uložile i kosovske vlasti, ali zbog činjenice da Kosovo nije članica UN, dokument pravnog tima kosovskih Albanaca tretiraće se kao…

Five years since Kosovo violence

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Excerpt: Five years ago today the largest-scale attack against Kosovo’s Serbs took place since the international administration was established in the province in 1999. Ethnic Albanians attacked the Serb enclaves, massively destroying property, leaving 19 people dead and 950 wounded after a two-day rampage. On March 17-18 2004, some 4,000 Serbs were driven out of their home, while 900 of their houses and 35 Serbian Orthodox churches and monasteries were destroyed – some of them precious culture monuments built in the 14th and 16th centuries. The international forces in Kosovo were surprised by the violence, so their reaction was late, reports said. The event…

Der Bund – Intervju sa Ministrom Jeremićem

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Excerpt: Der Bund, 7. mart 2009. Samstagsinterview: (Rudolf Burger, Jürg Müller) Gospodine Jeremiću, kada ste poslednji put bili na Kosovu? Nisam bio od kada sam ministar spoljnih poslova, od maja 2007. Za minisra spoljnih poslova bi bilo neobično da posećuje deo svoje države. Da li Vaša Vlada ima kontakte sa kosovskom vladom u Prištini? Ne. Nema komunikacije od 17. februara 2007, kada je jednostrano proglašeno otcepljenje od Srbije. Kosovo je  priznalo 54 države, među njima i Švajcarska. Koliko su loši odnosi izm. Srbije i Švajcarske? Ja odnose ne bih ocenio kao “loše”. Nakon jednostranog proglašenja otcepljenja, Srbija intenzivno pokušava da otkloni razlike u odnosima sa onim državama, koje su…

Ten suspects for killing kidnapped Serbs identified

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Excerpt: The Serbian War Crimes Prosecution has so far identified ten members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) suspected for the killing of Serbs kidnapped from Kosovo, who were secretly transported to camps in northern Albania in 1999, Prosecution spokesman Bruno Vekaric said on Wednesday. “Those identified are linked with the case of decapitated soldiers, which has been publicized by press”, said Vekaric, refusing to reveal their names because the process of identification is still in progress. Members of the Association of Families of the Kidnapped and Missing Serbs and other non-Albanians will be assisting in the identification of victims and perpetrators of…

The Economist lobbying for Kosovo

As part of the campaign for changing Kosovo image in the world, the Pristina authorities engaged the renowned London weekly paper The Economist, earmarking 200,000 euros for the publishing of several texts in 5,000 copies of this paper’s latest issue.

Kosovo goverment hired the Israeli branch of the Saatchi & Saatchi marketing agency to improve international image of Kosovo, for which they allocated 5,7 million euros.

Source: Kosovo Compromise

Jeremić: UN committed to six-point plan

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Excerpt: NEW YORK, 18 February 2009 Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić says that he has received confirmation that the UN remains committed to the full implementation of the six-point plan in Kosovo. After speaking with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Jeremić stated that the secretary general intended to report in March to the Security Council on the plan’s implementation. “We are still dedicated to the plan and will work actively with the UN to implement all elements of the six-point plan on the ground, and it’s very important for the UN, as the secretary general told me, not to withdraw its presence in Kosovo or…

Czech Documentary: “Stolen Kosovo”

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Excerpt: State-owned Czech co-produced Vaclav Dvorak’s Stolen Kosovo prior to the Czech Government’s recognition of the mafia state on Serbian territory, and then banned it after that recognition. According to the Czech daily Aktualne, representatives of Czech TV justified their refusal to show the one-hour documentary about the suffering of the Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija province by claiming the documentary is “unbalanced” and marked with “pro-Serbian bias”, and so “the tone of the documentary could cause negative emotions”. To which Dvorak responded that the same could be said for “Holocaust documentaries, where the Nazi Germany ’side’ and ‘views’ were also appropriately ignored”. The makers…