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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
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DECLARATION BY THE PARTICIPANTS OF SERBIA-KOSOVO
CIVIL SOCIETY DIALOGUE
Belgrade, May 18, 2011 |
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Serbia-Kosovo relations are
moving towards mutual recognition of realistic needs. This is evident in the startup of
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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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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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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
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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 >>> |
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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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