Fatmir Sejdiu today resigned from his post of Kosovo president. Beta news agency reports that this came “after the constitutional court said he was in breach of the constitution by remaining at the helm of his party”.
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Sejdiu, Thaci call on UN to reject Serbia’s resolution
August 16th, 2010 |
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Top Kosovo Albanian officials have sent a joint letter to UN member countries and international organizations. In it, Hashim Thaci and Fatmir Sejdiu are calling for Serbia’s resolution on Kosovo to be rejected at the upcoming session of the UN General Assembly.
Kosovo to submit demand for UN membership
July 24th, 2010 |
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Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu said that Kosovo would submit a request for becoming a United Nations member-state in 2011. “We will need new recognitions, but I want to believe that we will be able to present new arguments next year for our demand for UN membership,†Sejdiu said, according to media in Priština.
Sjediu rejects new talks; Rexhepi speaks again
July 12th, 2010 |
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Kosovo Albanian President Fatmir Sejdiu has repeated that Kosovo authorities and Belgrade can talk about anything but the status of Kosovo. “With Serbia we can speak about any topic that is in the interest of the two neighboring countries, but never about the issue of Kosovo’s independence,†Sejdiu was quoted as saying today as he addressed the assembly in Priština, boycotted by some opposition parties.
Kosovo president meets with UNMIK chief
May 29th, 2010 |
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Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu met with UNMIK Chief Lamberto Zannier to ask for the mission to slowly wind down its work in Kosovo. According to reports, Sejdiu also talked about the process of Kosovo recognition and the process of increasing the speed of integration for Kosovo into the European Union and United Nations.
Sejdiu: Kosovo in Sarajevo “only as stateâ€
May 17th, 2010 |
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Fatmir Sejdiu says Kosovo will participate in the Sarajevo conference “only if participants are represented with full state symbolsâ€. Even though PriÅ¡tina has confirmed participation at the Western Balkans-EU summit scheduled to take place in Sarajevo on June 2, they have stated that they will not agree to participating under the name “Kosovo-UNMIKâ€.
Sejdiu: No one above law
May 9th, 2010 |
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Commenting on charges being brought up against Kosovo’s Traffic and Telecommunications Minister, President Fatmir Sejdiu said that no one is above the law. The Kosovo President said that no one is above the law and that the courts will be allowed to do their job in the case of Minister Fatmir Limaj.
Sejdiu visits Serb enclave
April 4th, 2010 |
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Kosovo Albanian President Fatmir Sejdiu visited a Serb family in GraÄanica on Easter, promising that the Kosovo institutions will support Serb municipalities.
Ethnic Serb ministers in the Kosovo government accompanied Sejdiu to GraÄanica, where Bishop Atanasije of the RaÅ¡ka-Prizren Eparchy served the Easter liturgy.
Sejdiu sees “movement” from 5 EU states
March 19th, 2010 |
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Kosovo Albanian President Fatmir Sejdiu has said that the five EU countries that do not recognize Kosovo are “moving” on the issue. Greece is especially “positively moving†toward recognition of Kosovo, he was quoted as saying.
“Tadić, Sejdiu could meet in Marchâ€
February 24th, 2010 |
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According to Priština daily Express, Boris Tadić and Fatmir Sejdiu could meet in Slovenia in March. The daily states that the idea came from the Slovenian foreign minister and that Tadić promised to participate in the March meeting in Slovenia, which is expected to host an EU meeting on the Western Balkans.
“Efforts toward more recognitions”
February 17th, 2010 |
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Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu said that PriÅ¡tina is focusing all efforts to secure new recognitions. Speaking on the second anniversary of Kosovo’s unilaterally proclaimed independence, Sejdiu said that “Kosovo has good relations with its neighbors in Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro”.
Sejdiu calls for “order in north”
February 16th, 2010 |
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Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu said that the strategy for establishing order and rule of law in northern Kosovo is very important. He said that there are “parallel structures that have violated the law†in the Serb-dominated north.
Tadić could snub inauguration over Sejdiu
January 14th, 2010 |
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President Boris Tadić says he will not attend the inauguration of the new Croatian president if Fatmir Sejdiu were also invited to the ceremony. Ivo Josipović’s inauguration has been scheduled for February 18.
Sejdiu says he “won’t invite Tadić”
December 29th, 2009 |
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Fatmir Sejdiu says he will not invite President Boris Tadić to a “mini summit of presidents of Kosovo’s neighboring countries”. “I won’t invite him to a meeting of colleagues from the region. There will certainly be other occasions, but I won’t invite him just for the sake of it. How do you invite a man who is using all his energy to speak against Kosovo’s independence and is doing everything to thwart further recognitions,” wondered the Kosovo president during a reception in PriÅ¡tina on Monday.
Sejdiu, Thaci call for “preservation of peace”
December 4th, 2009 |
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Kosovo president and prime minister Fatmir Sejdiu and Hashim Thaci called on Kosovo residents to maintain peace. They also invited them to have faith in the “effective rule of law and investigations of crimes”.
Kosovo to open embassy in Sofia
November 21st, 2009 |
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Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu said that Priština will soon be opening its diplomatic headquarters in Sofia. “I have already signed an act for sending a Kosovo ambassador to Bulgaria and I expect that it will soon take effect,†Sejdiu told the Bulgarian national radio station.
Sejdiu calls on Kosovo Serbs to vote
November 13th, 2009 |
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Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu has called on the Kosovo Serbs to vote in the local elections scheduled for Nov. 15. “I once again call on representatives of all communities, in this case the Serb community as well, to be active in this process, which primarily concerns the exercising of their constitutional and human rights,” Sejdiu told the press in ÄŒaglavica.
Macedonian, Kosovo leaders hold consultations
October 20th, 2009 |
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Kosovo and Macedonian Presidents Fatmir Sejdiu and Gjorgje Ivanov said today that they were satisfied with relations between Priština and Skopje.
The cabinet of the Kosovo president stated that Sejdiu and Ivanov had spoken on the phone and had voiced their satisfaction about the signing of the demarcation agreement and establishing diplomatic relations.
Sejdiu on missing Albanians
September 8th, 2009 |
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Fatmir Sejdiu has promised the families of missing Albanians that he will use his authority to order the identification of human remains as soon as possible. The Kosovo president is the first provincial official to visit the mothers of missing persons, who have been striking in front of the Forensic Medicine Institute in Priština, calling for light to be shed on the fate of their sons.