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REPORT ON PARALLEL INSTITUTIONS ON NORTH OF KOSOVO

BELGRADE - WITH A FOOT ON THE NORTH AND
AN OPEN HAND IN BRUSSELS

May 2011

This year's Saint George, as often during such celebrations brought a loud celebration that started with verbal violence, then resulted with physical fight that lasted for hours in north Mitrovica and ended with use of guns. Such community violence is not strange for north Mitrovica in the last decade, which was distinguished in media with clashes and ethnic division. This year's Saint George was Serb-Serb hostility; in fact it was settling accounts between two youth gangs from Mitrovica and Zvecan, who agreed on the fight arena on an electronic way through facebook. Such violence lasted for hours, where young Serbs after using of alcohol used...   Acrobat PDF (2.56mb) >>>

 

DECLARATION BY THE PARTICIPANTS OF SERBIA-KOSOVO CIVIL SOCIETY DIALOGUE

Belgrade, May 18, 2011

Serbia-Kosovo relations are moving towards mutual recognition of realistic needs. This is evident in the startup of the official dialogue that would have hardly been possible was there not for the

uninterrupted cooperation of civil society activists. The cooperation at the level of civil society has contributed to certain relaxation in the relations, but also to the cornerstones for what awaits us in the period to come. In the context of these changes, our experience shows that dialogue is the only way to open up prospects for both societies in the region anyway challenged by...   More >>>

 

www.lrb.co.uk

WHO IS K144?

Geoffrey Nice

Inhuman Treatment of People and Illicit Trafficking in Human Organs in Kosovo by Dick Marty
Council of Europe, draft report, December 2010

At the end of last year it was reported that in the late 1990s Hashim Thaci, the prime minister of Kosovo, together with other Kosovo Albanian political leaders, had traded in the organs of Serb prisoners held in neighbouring Albania. Some papers implied that organs had been harvested while the prisoners were still alive. The allegations were based on a report commissioned by the Council of Europe and written by Dick Marty, a Swiss senator. They are quite distinct from the charges brought against several people currently on trial in Kosovo, accused of swindling kidney donors of...   MS Word (37kb) >>>

  

REPEATING THE ALLEGATIONS DOESN'T MAKE THEM TRUE

Posted in Balkans - 8 January 2011

Daniel Serwer

Chuck Sudetic, whom I know and respect, in his Washington Post op/ed Saturday repeats Dick Marty's allegations about high-level criminal activity in Kosovo in 1999-2000, this time without the important reservation that no forensic investigation has been conducted and no claims of guilt or innocence can be made. This is pretty rich, coming...
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APPEAL TO THE SERB COMMUNITY IN KOSOVO TO PARTICIPATE IN THE DECEMBER 12 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS

11 November 2010

Serbia's application for EU candidacy and the announced Belgrade-Prishtina dialogue have built a political context favorable to the Serb community in Kosovo. These new circumstances claim the Serb community's more active stance towards its own future, particularly in the terms of lasting...
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COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT

KOSOVO 2010 PROGRESS REPORT

Enlargement Strategy
and Main Challenges
2010-2011

Brussels, 9 November 2010

Since March 2002, the Commission has reported regularly to the Council and Parliament on progress made by the countries of the Western Balkans region. This report largely follows the same structure as in previous years. The report:- briefly describes the relations between...
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CIVIL DIALOGUE - PRECURSOR OF GOOD
NEIGHBORLY RELATIONS

The first Serbia-Kosovo civil society meeting on October 14-15, 2010

On October 14-15, 2010 in Prishtina the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia and the Kosovo Foundation for Open Society organized a meeting under the umbrella title "Kosovo-Serbia Civil Society Dialogue" that assembled 25 civil society figures from Serbia and 50 from Kosovo. Apart from a panel discussion that was...
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DECLARATION

Belgrade - Prishtina Dialogue

October 14-15, 2010

Bearing in mind that the state of Kosovo is a new reality in the Balkans calling for the establishment of new relations in the region, particularly between Serbia and Kosovo, based on mutual respect, understanding and tolerance, and with a view to improve citizens' everyday...   More >>>

 

BUILDING A MULTIETHNIC STATE: THE FUTURE OF KOSOVO'S MINORITY COMMUNITIES

Final Report

Prepared by the Public International Law & Policy Group

July 2010

PILPG is deeply grateful for the grant support provided by the United States Institute of Peace to implement this project.

Since the early postwar years after 1999, significant progress has been made at the grass roots level in...
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A NEW KIND OF BALKANS DRAMA

Daniel Serwer

United States Institute of Peace, June 3, 2010

Summary
The Balkans face more trouble in Kosovo as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina unless the United States and European Union take dramatic steps to get both back on track towards EU membership. In Bosnia, the international...
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http://www.bosnia.org.uk/
news/news_body.cfm?
newsid=2761

FIFTY YEARS OF COMMUNISM MORE IMPORTANT THAN NEARLY 500 YEARS OF OTTOMAN RULE

Noel Malcolm- interviewed for BIRN by Jeta Xharra

22 August, 2010

It is the legacy of the last 50 years not the previous 500 that weighs on Balkan countries, as they struggle to overcome a culture of corruption and cliente...
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INTERNATIONAL COURT
OF JUSTICE

ACCORDANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL LAW OF THE UNILATERAL DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE IN RESPECT OF KOSOVO

22 July, 2010

Jurisdiction of the Court to give the advisory opinion requested. Article 65, paragraph 1, of the Statute - Article 96, paragraph 1, of the Charter - Power of General Assembly to request advisory opinions - Articles 10 and 11 of the Charter - Contention that General Assembly acted outside its powers under the Charter - Article 12, paragraph 1, of the Charter - Authorization to request...
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KOSOVO AT THE CROSSROADS: IMPACT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE RULING

Janusz Bugajski

22 July, 2010

Q1: What impact will the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) regarding Kosovo's declaration of independence have on the country's international standing?
A1: The ICJ's advisory opinion that Kosovo's declaration of independence in February 2008 did not violate international law has been acclaimed in Kosovo and criticized by Serbia...
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Article.aspx?id=23676

SETTLING THE BALKANS

by Morton Abramowitz and James Hooper

08 July 2010

The curtain is about to rise on the next act of Balkan diplomacy: the fallout from the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the legality of Kosovo's independence in 2008, expected to be announced later this summer. The resort to the ICJ was a shrewd diplomatic stroke by Belgrade, buying over two years for Serbia to slow international momentum toward recognition of Kosovo and put the...
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REPORT ON THE EXCURSION OF CITIZENS FROM THE SERBIAN COMMUNITY FROM THE MUNICIPALITY OF NOVO BRDO ON JANUARY 17th 2010 TO PRISTINA, ZOCISTE, VELIKA HOCA AND PRIZREN

17 January 2010

In the organization of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, on January 17th 2010, 51 citizens of Serbian nationality from the villages of Prekovac, Izvor, Zebince, Svracka, Monisince and Cuka, belonging to the newly extended municipality of Novo Brdo, visited Pristina, Zociste and Velika Hoca in the municipality of Orahovac...   More >>>

 

REPORT ON THE EXCURSION OF YOUTH FROM THE MUNICIPALITY OF KOSOVSKA KAMENICA ON JANUARY 16th 2010

16 January 2010

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A total of 38 boys and girls of Serbian nationality, mostly primary, high school and university students from Kosovska Kamenica and the surrounding villages of Robovac, Berivojce, Ropotovo, Korminjane and the new municipality of Ranilug, visited the...   More >>>

 

REPORT ON THE FIELDTRIP FOR CITIZENS OF SERBIAN ENCLAVES FROM THE TERRITORY OF KOSOVSKA KAMENICA MUNICIPALITY ORGANIZED ON NOVEMBER 22, 2009.

On November 22, the Kosovo Office of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia organized a fieldtrip for citizens of Serbian enclaves from the territory of Kosovska...   More >>>

 

REPORT ON THE FIELDTRIP FOR CITIZENS FROM SERBIAN ENCLAVES FROM THE MUNICIPALITIES OF NOVO BRDO AND KLOKOT, ORGANIZED ON NOVEMBER 21, 2009

On Saturday, November 21, the Priština Office of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia organized a fieldtrip for citizens from Serbian enclaves of Novo Brdo, Prekovce, Bostane, Izvor, Jasenovik, Klobukar, Straža and Klokot. A group of 68 people, mostly young people and women, participated in the fieldtrip. They visited Štrpce and the Brezovica Ski...   More >>>

 

A SIGH OF RELIEF IN KOSOVO

As Kosovan Serbs defy Belgrade's call for a total boycott of elections, obstructionism is starting to look an outmoded policy

Anna Di Lellio

www.guardian.co.uk, 16 November 2009

Kosovo held the first elections after independence without incident, and apparently without any loser. The new state had to choose mayors and local assemblies, and although the turnout was low at 45%, it was higher than the last...
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