Kosovo government

The embassy also expressed concern over the appointment of those who have been convicted of other serious criminal offenses, as well as the recruitment of persons without proper qualifications to positions in the executive branch.

Speaking for Belgrade's Vercernje Novosti daily, Maja Kocijancic made the comment after it has been hinted that Germany, and France, in particular, could assume an active role in the process.

The meeting of the Kosovo government on Thursday. Photo: The office of Kosovo PM

Hoxhaj said that Kosovo Serbian political representatives in the Belgrade-backed Srpska Lista party, as well as state officials in Serbia, had long hidden the truth and denied proven crimes committed by Serbia in its former province.

Ground-penetrating radar unit. Photo: Kosovo Institute of Forensics.

In August last year, a UN expert team used ground-penetrating radar equipment in a five-day search at three locations in Kosovo - in the village of Bukosh in the Vushtrri/Vuciterna municipality, the village of Uglar in the Gjilan/Gnjilane municipality, and in Kishinca.

Djuric is the director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija.

NATO started bombing the next afternoon, on March 24, 1999. The air campaign lasted 78 days until Milosevic surrendered. I was proud of America for going to war to stop the genocide in Kosovo.

This week is the 20-year anniversary of NATO's intervention. Kosovo is free and independent. That can't be reversed.

He described statements about a planned intervention in northern Kosovo as statements "for internal use of Serbian politicians."

Namely, the part of the report dedicated to Kosovo states that the problems are attacks on ethnic minorities, including by the security forces, as well as endemic corruption in the ranks of the government, and threats and attacks against journalists.

After talks with political representatives of Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija, Vucic said that he would "onsult with all major European and world partners, including China, regarding this development of the situation."

As stated, this was done because of the taxes (increased by 100 percent) that Pristina has imposed on goods from Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.