Politics in Pristina

With days to go before snap parliamentary elections are held in Kosovo on October 6, the decision of the five main candidates to run separately has left the race wide open.

Johnson visited Belgrade and Pristina last week.
He told the Ukrainian Voice of America service that it is up to leaders in Belgrade and Pristina to decide whether they can reach an agreement.

The president of the Kosovo Assembly said this at a joint press conference with representatives of the provisional Pristina institutions, Hashim Thaci, Ramush Haradinaj, and Shpend Ahmeti, one of the coordinators of the dialogue team.

This took place Friday's session of the Serbian government.

This decision of Pristina causes great concern and represents a gross violation of international law, first and foremost of UN Security Council Resolution 1244, the government announced.

On her first official visit to Pristina, the president of the new Kosovo Specialist Chambers, established to prosecute wartime and post-war crimes, said witneses will be protected.

PRISTINA - Srpska list mayoral candidates have won in all ten majority-Serb municipalities in Sunday's local elections in Kosovo-Metohija.

According to figures released by the central electoral commission, Srpska list representatives won the race for mayors in nine municipalities, with one representative to head to run-off elections after winning the most votes.

In a bid to repeat the success it had in the June general elections, when it came in second place, Kosovo's opposition Vetevendosje movement has announced the names of its mayoral candidates for several towns in the October local elections.

Aleksandar Vulin says he can "go in and out of Kosovo, anywhere" without the Pristina authorities knowing about it, or being able to stop him.

The member of the Serbian government reacted in this way to a ban on his entry to Kosovo, announced by Pristina.

A high ranking official of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) has visited the grave of the party's founder, Ibrahim Rugova.

On this occasion, Haki Borovci revealed, he "informed Rugova about certain issues."

MP and former Kosovo Liberation Army commander Fatmir Limaj, who is already on trial for war crimes, has been questioned by prosecutors in Pristina about another wartime case.