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Hello and Welcome. These are this week’s top news:
Special UN envoy for standards
implementation finished his first visit to Kosovo. The
European Union will play a key role in defining Kosovo's status, EU foreign
ministers concluded. Kosovo K Serbs protested against UNMIK's
decision to free for traffic west Mitrovica bridge
UN Special Envoy for Kosovo Standards, Kai Aide paid his
visit to Kosovo
Upon his arrival at the Prishtina Airport Aide said that his report would not only focused only an evaluation of standards, but also on the
situation in Kosovo in general.
At the beginning of his visit Aide met
with the head of UNMIK, Soren Jessen-Petersen,
COMKFOR Yves de Kemabon, and UNMIK Coordinator on
Standards, Sara Mackintosh.
On
the second day of his stay in Kosovo, Annan’s special
envoy held separate meetings with President Ibrahim Rugova and Prime Minister Bajram Kosumi.
The
Comprehensive Review will then be submitted to the Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, in
The special Envoy will
return to Kosovo at the beginning of July.
The European Union will play a key role in
defining Kosovo's status, EU foreign ministers concluded.
A return to the situation
before March 1999 has been ruled out by the document on Kosovo, which EU
foreign ministers adopted in
Ministers
repeated that there will be no change to the current
The document on
Kosovo will serve as a basis for a declaration on Kosovo, which EU heads of
state and government are expected to pass mid June at the next session in
Montenegrin Foreign Minister paid a visit to Kosovo
The status
issues of Kosovo and Montenegro are not related, but their settlement will have
an impact on regional stabilization and will allow both countries to focus on
their integration into Europe, said the chief of UNMIK Soren
Jessen-Petersen on Monday after his meeting with
Montenegrin Foreign Minister Miodrag Vlahovic.
On the same day
Kosovo’s Prime Minister met with his Macedonian counterpart, Vlado Buckovski. Buckovski and Kosumi said after
the meeting that they agreed the Free Trade Agreement negotiations embark on
political level, as well as in the level of experts.
The third meeting of the Working Groups on
Energy between Kosovo and
Jolly Dickson,
the chairman of the meeting, said on Tuesday that the groups discussed two
major documents: a document on the environment prepared by
“We have had constructive talks. We agreed to establish a better monitoring
mechanism for the environment. The document on energy was deemed very
professional. It represents the basis for further work,” said Dickson.
Meanwhile Pristina –
In their final
declaration, the participants of the conference, organized by Belgrade branch
of Helsinki Committee for Human Rights called on political players on both
sides to accept reality in Kosovo as a starting point for negotiations, bearing
constantly in mind the legitimate interests of the Serbs, Albanians and other
communities in Kosovo.
Representatives of the
international community, of Kosovo institutions and political parties,
political representatives of the Kosovo Serbs, of non-government organizations
and several civic-oriented parties attended the two-day conference
K Serbs protested against UNMIK's decision to free cross over the Mitrovica
bridge
A few hundred
citizens in northern Mitrovica rallied at the
beginning of the week near the main bridge over the
Finally
A former member
of the Serbian State Security Special Unit, Goran Veselinovic, was charged with killing four persons in Mitrovica, in 1999.
The Kraljevo
District Court sentenced him to the maximum prison term of 40 years on
Wednesday.
Veselinovic, from the Jagodina municipality, was
accused of a premeditated murder of
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