After the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted Dick Marty’s report on Tuesday both Belgrade and Priština eagerly expect the investigation.
Marty also expects the investigation into human organ trade in Kosovo and Albania to begin.
Priština officials and analysts do not expect the negotiations with Belgrade to begin soon, but point out that the talks will only be technical.
The public in Kosovo expects that the government will be formed first, based on the results of the December parliamentary elections which are late.
Media in Priština report that Belgrade and Priština have not reached an agreement on new Serbian license plates.
Kosovo Interior Minister Bajram Rexhepi has also confirmed the information.
The government and Commission for Missing Persons are ready to begin negotiations with Priština, Commission for Missing Persons Head Veljko Odalović said today.
“If talks were to begin today, we would be absolutely ready for them,” he told a news conference and added that, regardless of the current situation, the commission had continuity in its work in the southern Serbian province.
An official of the Ministry for Kosovo has reacted to the news that EULEX has a “special unit” to fight crime in northern, Serb areas of Kosovo. State Secretary Oliver Ivanović said on Wednesday that it was PriÅ¡tina that was a hotbed of organized crime and corruption, and that the EU mission in the province “should pay attention to that fact”.
The inhabitants of Priština, Kosovo, have heating only six hours a day, three in the morning and three in the evening. This comes due to shortages in heating oil and lack of funds to buy more of the fuel, used for heating residential and other areas.
Albanian language newspapers published in PriÅ¡tina are report about the ceremony that saw Bishop Teodosije become the head of the SPC RaÅ¡ka-Prizren Eparchy. They describe the act as political, quoting Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Patriarch Irinej’s address, and the fact that several government ministers attended the ceremony in the town of Prizren.
A U.S. state department official says his country expects both Priština and Tirana to cooperate with any possible organ trade investigation.
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Thomas Countryman spoke in reference to accusations of organ trafficking in Kosovo and the involvement of Kosovo Albanian Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, which were published in the report of Council of Europe (CoE) rapporteur Dick Marty.
Agim Ceku says that leader of Alliance for a New Kosovo Bedzet Pacoli and leader of Democratic Party of Kosovo Hashim Thaci have not reached any agreement. Reports previously said that they would form the new government in Priština.
Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic expects that peace will be preserved in Kosovo after the elections and that dialogue will begin as soon as possible.
“Serbia has been ready for dialogue for some time now, the team that will head the talks has been established and we expect the international community to be present at the talks as well,†he told a news conference on Sunday.
FM Vuk Jeremić says that Serbia had developed a strategy for its dialogue with Priština, which, he said, is still not ready to start the dialogue with Belgrade.
“So it seems according to the information we receive from our partners in the international community. Although we believe that it would be better for all of us to start the talks as soon as possible, we will be patient,†Jeremić said in an interview published by Blic today.
An EULEX vehicle was damaged in an attack that happened in the vicinity of the EULEX headquarters in Priština, said a spokesperson for the EU mission in Kosovo. “An EULEX vehicle was damaged in the attack on Tuesday morning, near the EULEX headquarters in Priština,†said Irina Gudeljević.
The goal of the dialogue with Priština is reconciliation of Kosovo Albanians and Serbs, said Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković.
He told Czech daily Lidove Noviny that “the issue of the recognition of Kosovo is set aside for nowâ€.
Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić says that that unlike Belgrade, PriÅ¡tina is still not ready for a dialogue, at least not before elections in the province. “Our government was unanimous in its call to our citizens not to take part in the elections, because the elections were not called in keeping with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244, according to which only the chief of the UNMIK can call them, which he failed to do,†Jeremić said in the central Serbian town of ÄŒaÄak late on Wednesday.
Serbia wants the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina to begin as soon as possible, Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić said on Friday in New York.
We also expect it to focus on the least controversial issues first, he said addressing the UN Security Council regular session dedicated to work of the UN mission in the provincem, UNMIK, at which UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon presented his quarterly report on the situation in Kosovo.
The Kosovo assmebly in Priština has voted in favor of a no-confidence motion against the government on Tuesday. Sixty-six out of 120 deputies voted to bring down the government, while there was one vote opposed and two abstained.
The Kosovo assembly in Priština is expected to vote against Hashim Thaci’s government next week, probably on Wednesday or Thursday.
Such decision would be enough to call early elections in Kosovo and there are speculations that they could be held on December 12 or 19.
International Civilian Representative (ICR) Pieter Feith has stated that the Kosovo assembly will be dissolved after the fall session. This will be followed by early elections.
Leaders of two major parties of Kosovo Albanians and coalition partners Hashim Thaci and Fatmir Sejdiu agreed to temporarily maintain their coalition.
Thus the Democratic Party of Kosovo and the Democratic League of Kosovo will continue to cooperate. The two also agreed to call early elections, PriÅ¡tina’s daily Koha Ditore reported on Friday.
