cross-referenced news and research resources about
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updated Mon. September 16, 2024
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Balkan Insight
April 19, 2018
Central to the agreement was the establishment of a so-called Association/Community of Serbian Municipalities (Zajednica srpskih opstina – ZSO) which, as its name implies, would operate as a coordinating body for Kosovo's Serbian-majority municipalities. These municipalities include four in the north ofÃâà...
Balkan Insight
April 18, 2018
At recent focus group that I held with ten female survivors from the village of Krusha e Madhe/Velika Krusa in western Kosovo, where 241 of the men were killed in massacres in March 1999, some of them recalled how they rebuilt their burned-out houses with their own resources, raised fatherless childrenÃâà...
B92
April 16, 2018
Dacic said that attention should be paid to representatives of the countries that might revoke their recognition of Kosovo, and that other ministries in the ... Asked whether Serbs in Kosovo would form the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO) on their own on April 20, he replied, "Everything depends on ourÃâà...
The National Interest Online
April 16, 2018
But with this military exercise close on the heels of the Kosovo police using force on Serbs in the town of Kosovoska Mitrovica, and the arrest and subsequent expulsion of an EU negotiator, the fear is that the exercise could be a harbinger of an even darker chapter in the relationship between Pristina andÃâà...
Fort Dodge Messenger
April 15, 2018
Those who will sample the delicacies from that country will at the same time be raising money to help build bonds between Fort Dodge and Gjakova, a city in Kosovo. Fort Dodge and Gjakova became sister cities in December 2016. A youth exchange that began last year and an art initiative to be launchedÃâà...
Gazeta Express
April 11, 2018
Kosovo Prime Minister, Ramush Haradinaj, during Government's meeting on Wednesday said the Association of Serb-majority Municipalities, reached during the EU-facilitated dialogue with Serbia in Brussels, will be established based on the Constitution of Kosovo and the decision of the ConstitutionalÃâà...
Prishtina Insight
April 6, 2018
On Monday, March 26, almost five years after the initial agreement on the 'Zajednica,' or the Association/ Community of Serb-majority Municipalities, ASM, was reached, and three years after it was further defined in a separate agreement(General Principles), the Kosovo government finally took toÃâà...
Gazeta Express
April 5, 2018
The EU published a statement on its official website welcoming the announcement by Prime Minister Hamush Haradinaj on giving the mandate to the Management Team to draft the Statute of the Association/Community of Serb majority municipalities. “The drafting process for the Statute has started and willÃâà...
Herald-Whig
March 31, 2018
In this photo on Thursday July 21, 2016, Mustafa Erdem, general director of the Gulistan Educational Institutions in Kosovo, stands outside the Mehmet Akif College near the town of Lipjan, Kosovo. Kosovo police have arrested five Turks, among them Mustafa Erdem, working with a group of schools ownedÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 30, 2018
Tensions between Kosovo and Serbia have heightened in recent days following the arrest and deportation of a senior Serbian official in northern Kosovo. The brief detention ... The Serbian official reportedly took a bypass route into the city, instead of going through one of the border crossings. But once heÃâà...
TASS
March 29, 2018
MOSCOW, March 28. /TASS/. Russia vehemently condemns the provocation put up by Pristina against Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija at the Government of the Republic of Serbia Marko Duric on March 25 in the town of Kosovo Mitrovica, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a phoneÃâà...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
March 29, 2018
The Kremlin says President Vladimir Putin has strongly condemned the arrest of a senior Serbian official by Kosovo police in a call with the Serbian president. ... Kosovo police detained Marko Djuric, the head of the Serbian government office for Kosovo, in the divided northern town of Mitrovica on MondayÃâà...
B92
March 29, 2018
The head of the Serbian Government's Office for Kosovo and Metohija also advised authorities in Pristina who are making threats of arrest, "to arrest themselves first." Djuric said that Serbia expects representatives of authorities in Pristina to start enabling Serbs to work on the formation of the ZSO, "insteadÃâà...
Prishtina Insight
March 29, 2018
On Tuesday, Goran Rakic said that the 10 Serb-majority municipalities in Kosovo will unilaterally form the Association in April. In August 2015, Serbia and Kosovo signed an agreement that stipulates the establishment of a Serb municipality association in Kosovo that would oversee economic development,Ãâà...
Gazeta Express
March 28, 2018
Vucic addressing media on Monday evening said that he will not decide on Srpska List leaving Government of Kosovo. The decision of Serbian political representatives to withdraw from Government of Kosovo came a day after Kosovo Police arrested and deported Director of Serbia's Government Office forÃâà...
The Guardian
March 26, 2018
Air raid sirens have rung out in Serb-dominated northern Kosovo after special police fired stun grenades in a raid to detain a senior Serbian official, raising fresh tensions in the region. Marko Đurić, head of Belgrade's office for Kosovo and Metohija, was seized in the town of North Mitrovica byÃâà...
Balkan Insight
December 31, 1999
Kosovo Special Police intervened following reports that Djuric was participating in a debate in the divided northern Kosovo town of Mitrovica. Kosovo deployed its special police units in the Serb-run far north earlier during the day, after the government banned both Djuric and Serbia's Defence Minister,Ãâà...
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