Slobodan Petrovic

The Prime Minister of the Provisional Kosovo Institutions Ramush Haradinaj has appointed Dijana Zivic as the new Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development.
She replaced Nenad Rikalo, who was removed from office at the beginning of the month, Pristina press is reporting.

A spate of recent incidents in Kosovo Serb villages in the western Kosovo Peja area have left locals feeling nervous, although it remains unclear what provoked them.

Since last week, the village of Gorazdevac saw two shooting incidents, one at the police and one at a car with Belgrade license plates.

The Council for the Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms, an NGO based in Pristina, called on Tuesday for the immediate sacking of the mayor of the Serbian-majority municipality of Ranilluge/Ranilug after the plan to honour Milosevic caused outrage.

Kosovo assembly elects new government

PRIŠTINA -- The Kosovo assembly elected a new government on Tuesday, headed by the Democratic Alliance of Kosovo leader Isa Mustafa.

73 were in favor, 30 against, and two abstained.

PRISTINA - Groups of MPs of the Kosovo Assembly and the Serbian Assembly have met in Pristina to discuss the role that the parliaments should play in the process of normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina.

"Kosovo army plan doomed to fail without Serb backing"

PRIŠTINA -- Agim Ceku's announcement that Kosovo will soon have its army "is doomed to fail" - as it requires a law that will not be supported by Serb representatives.

PRISTINA - The Independent Liberal Party (SLS) re-elected in Pristina on Sunday Slobodan Petrovic as their president.

Petrovic is also the minister of administration and local government and deputy prime minister in Kosovo's provisional government.

GORAZDEVC- A commemoration was held in Gorazdevac, northwestern Kosovo, on Wednesday to commemorate two Serb youths, Ivan Jovovic and Pantelija Dakic, killed in a terrorist attack by ethnic Albanian extremists 11 years ago.

Officials of the Serbian government office for Kosovo Dusan Kozarev and Zeljko Jovic attended the commemoration.

PRISTINA - Kosovo's Central Election Commission (CEC) has announced the final results of the early June snap parliamentary elections in Kosovo-Metohija, according to which most seats in the new session of the provincial assembly, 37, go to a coalition led by Hasim Taci’s Democratic Party of Kosovo, and Serbs will have 10 members to represent them.

The Central Election Commission on Thursday announced its final tally which closely resembled the preliminary figures from the June 8 national polls that gave the lead to Hashim Thaci’s ruling Democratic Party of Kosovo, PDK.