Until lately, Kosovo had a decade of padding to quarantine itself from the rawness, violence and fear that clasped to the coattails of liberation in 1999, infecting the “provisional government” months that followed, carrying their bacillus of internecine murder – of alleged collaborators and of LDK members -- a good two years into the new decade (even longer in Ramush-land). It’s just been ripped away. 1999 is back. In our faces.
Kosovo Press Review - July 2
Pristina | 02 July 2009 |
Here are the top stories in Kosovo’s main newspapers. Balkan Insight has not verified the reports and cannot vouch for their accuracy.
KOSOVA SOT
-Government reacts: Belgrade interferes with integration. Kosovo’s institutions have called Serb President Boris Tadic’s message Kosovo Serbs to boycott local elections very negative.
KOHA DITORE
- UNMIK transforms into a mission for the communities. The UN mission in Kosovo has opened an office to create facilities and support for communities, which will now be the mission’s exclusive task.
EXPRESS
- Five Hectares for America. The municipality of Prishtina has given the US Embassy five hectares of land in the neighborhood of Dragodan for the construction of their new embassy.
LAJM
- Baseless accusations failed. Former Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku finds the accusations Serbia submitted to Interpol about him comic, after his arrest in Bulgaria last week.
ZERI
-Pristina contradicts Tadic, invites Serbs to be part of the elections. Kosovo’s President Fatmir Sejdiu invited all Kosovo Serbs to take part in the November 15 local elections, despite a call to boycott them made by Serbia’s president Tadic.
-Government reacts: Belgrade interferes with integration. Kosovo’s institutions have called Serb President Boris Tadic’s message Kosovo Serbs to boycott local elections very negative.
KOHA DITORE
- UNMIK transforms into a mission for the communities. The UN mission in Kosovo has opened an office to create facilities and support for communities, which will now be the mission’s exclusive task.
EXPRESS
- Five Hectares for America. The municipality of Prishtina has given the US Embassy five hectares of land in the neighborhood of Dragodan for the construction of their new embassy.
LAJM
- Baseless accusations failed. Former Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku finds the accusations Serbia submitted to Interpol about him comic, after his arrest in Bulgaria last week.
ZERI
-Pristina contradicts Tadic, invites Serbs to be part of the elections. Kosovo’s President Fatmir Sejdiu invited all Kosovo Serbs to take part in the November 15 local elections, despite a call to boycott them made by Serbia’s president Tadic.
