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Kosovo: Against the special status

Kosovo: Against the special status M-Magazine President of Kosovo Assembly Jakup Krasniqi said that there can be no other plan for the north of Kosovo except Ahtisaari plan, which Belgrade and the UN Security Council did not accept. Similar views have also representatives of other parliamentary ... and more »

Burns: Serbia should recognize Kosovo

Burns: Serbia should recognize Kosovo M-Magazine It would be important for Serbia to recognize completely Kosovo's right to exist as an independent state, Nicholas Burns, former US undersecretary of state, said, REL reports. "I think it will be important for Serbia to recognize completely Kosovo's ... and more »

Tahiri: Kosovo will not renounce its sovereignty

Tahiri: Kosovo will not renounce its sovereignty M-Magazine Pristina - Chief negotiator, Edita Tahiri, after the meeting with the mediator Robert Cooper has said that there is no attempt to approximate the positions of Serbia regarding Kosovo's participation in regional cooperation. Tahiri also stressed that ... and more »

Ban Ki Moon: Situation in the north, a permanent risk for Kosovo

Ban Ki Moon: Situation in the north, a permanent risk for Kosovo M-Magazine New York ? ?Potentially unstable situation in Kosovo affects the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue under the auspices of the EU, as well as in talks for the European perspective of the whole region,? Ban Ki Moon, UN Secretary General, has estimated in the ... and more »

EULEX: Report on the Situation in Kosovo

EULEX: Report on the Situation in Kosovo M-Magazine Pristina - EULEX Chief Xavier de Marnhac the Executive Director for the Balkans, Russia and Eastern Partnership, Miroslav Lajcak, introduced with the current situation in Kosovo. In the statement was added that the European diplomat at the yesterday's ...

North of Kosovo under strong restrictions of electric energy

North of Kosovo under strong restrictions of electric energy M-Magazine In the north of Kosovo, for some days is the strict regime in force are restriction of electricity. In the morning hours restrictions are implemented by the system 2 hours with, 1 hour without power, and in the afternoon and evening hours 2 hours with ...

Mitrovica is expected to have the Psychosocial Centre

Mitrovica is expected to have the Psychosocial Centre M-Magazine The city of Mitrovica seems to have soon the Psychosocial Centre, in order to mitigate the trauma of people who have experienced the recent war in Kosovo. Previously many organizations and institutions were engaged to provide professional staff for ...

Kosovo gives up from the term Republic, Serbia from 1244

Kosovo gives up from the term Republic, Serbia from 1244 M-Magazine Pristina - Robert Cooper, technical dialogue mediator, has prepared the conclusion that will define how Kosovo will be presented in regional initiatives without being hindered by Serbia. The agreement, on which the parties will be agreed in the meeting ... and more »

Petrovic: The situation in the north unstable

Petrovic: The situation in the north unstable M-Magazine Pristina ? ?The process of decentralization is a process that is best carried out in Kosovo, and I believe that this process will end successfully in the creation of the new municipality in northern Kosovo?, Slobodan Petrovic, deputy PM and Minister of ... and more »

At the Kosovo plate should be written

At the Kosovo plate should be written M-Magazine Head of the Belgrade negotiating team in dialogue with Pristina in an interview for Novosti said that the solution of the issue on the representation of Kosovo plate to be written could be found immediately, "if on the plate for regional representation ... and more »

Muharrem Dashi, a 43-year-old ethnic Albanian teacher, told the U.N. war crimes tribunal that Milosevic’s forces destroyed more than half of the 180 houses in the village of Stagovo. Although he couldn’t see the fighting from his hiding place, Dashi said he saw the bodies of several Muslim victims in the ruins afterward. Milosevi, who has led his own defense, sought to discredit Dashi, getting him to acknowledge that he had been a "non-fighting" member of the Kosovo Liberation Army, which the Serbs considered to be a terrorist organization. Dashi said he hadn’t had a weapon and denied knowledge of any murders of Serbs by the KLA, which Milosevic has alleged.

"To tell you the truth, it was people who organized themselves," Dashi said. "Some were able to find arms, but the point was not to try to fight the police or army, but to try to survive a massacre."

Milosevic has refused to appoint a lawyer to assist him since the start of his trial in February. He claims that the tribunal is illegal and biased. The monthlong summer recess provided a needed rest for Milosevic. Medical experts warned in July that the ousted president, who had taken heart medication for years, was at serious risk of heart failure. Hearings have been delayed several times because of his ailments. Prosecutors said they will call at least 26 more witnesses in the part of the trial dealing with Kosovo, including several political insiders such as Milosevic’s predecessor as Yugoslav President, Zoran Lilic.

Prosecutors have until Sept. 13 to conclude their case on Kosovo. After a two-week adjournment, hearings will then turn to the wars in Croatia and Bosnia. Charges against Milosevic during the wars in 1991-1995 include genocide for the slaughter of thousands of Muslims in the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica and 60 other counts of war crimes. Prosecutors have been negotiating the conditions under which several U.S. officials can testify in the landmark trial, but have not yet agreed to the exact terms.

Among the witnesses they hope to call during the public hearings is Richard Holbrooke, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and the Clinton administration’s special envoy to Yugoslavia. The U.S. government is concerned that issues of national security could be revealed and had indicated they would only allow former government representatives to appear in closed sessions.

Hearings also reopened Monday in several other war crimes trials in The Hague, including the genocide trial of Bosnian Serbs Radoslav Brdjanin and Gen. Momir Talic, accused in the persecution and expulsion of more than 100,000 people in Bosnia.