Kosovo News

The Republic of Kosovo became the 186th member of the International Monetary Fund today when President Fatmir Sejdiu and Prime Minister Hashim Thaci signed the IMF's original Articles of Agreement at a ceremony in Washington D.C. Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn welcomed President Sejdiu and Prime Minister Thaci into the Fund at IMF ...

Pristina Here are the top stories in Kosovo's main newspapers. Balkan Insight has not verified the reports and cannot vouch for their accuracy.

More than 200 Serb police officers, members of the Kosovo police, KPS, returned to their duties on Tuesday, a KPS spokesman said.

Former Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku arrived back in Pristina today, officials from his party have informed FoNet.

Pristina Kosovo's Intelligence Agency is still out of action because decisions over who will head it have yet to be decided.

Prosecutors said on Wednesday former Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku, wanted in Serbia on war crime charges, would stay in custody in Bulgaria for 72 hours while Sofia decided whether to extradite or release him.

BULGARIA Ex-prime minister of Kosovo arrested SOFIA Bulgarian authorities have detained a former Kosovo prime minister on an international arrest warrant issued by Interpol, and Serbia sought his extradition Wednesday.

In a report released on Wednesday, Human Rights Watch has urged authorities in Kosovo to immediately shut down a lead-contaminated camp housing displaced Roma since the end of the Kosovo war in 1999.

Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov Tuesday will leave for Vlora in Albania to attend the informal meeting with his colleagues from Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro, Bamir Topi, Fatmir Sejdiu and Filip Vujanovic respectively.

Srecko Latal UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon unveiled his quarterly report on Kosovo yesterday to the Security Council.

Serbia has reiterated its opposition to Kosovo's independence, with Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic telling the UN Security Council that Belgrade will never recognize its former territory as a separate entity.

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon unveiled his quarterly report on Kosovo yesterday to the Security Council.

NATO's commander has announced a significant stand down in Kosovo. Admiral Mark Fitzgerald said today the alliance will reduce its presence from 14,000 to 2,500 peacekeepers within two years.

Kosovo Sets Election Deadline Pristina Pristina Local elections in Kosovo are to be held by November 15 of this year.

A report on Kosovo by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon is to be discussed by the Security Council on June 17 2009.

The former UN mediator in the Kosovo status talks, Martti Ahtisaari, was in Pristina on Monday.

A Serbian man and his son in Caglavica were reported to have been assaulted yesterday morning by off-duty members of the Kosovo police, the KPS, according to local media.

In an interview ahead of his visit to Kosovo to participate in celebrations of the first anniversary of the constitution, former United Nations special envoy Martti Ahtisaari said that "things were moving well" in the state, for which his recommendations opened the way to independence.

Belgrade Pristina Jovan Stojic, chief of the Agency director's office told Beta news agency at the weekend that "The Security and Information Agency has no agents in Kosovo, and therefore they could not have been arrested." Pristina Ekspres, on Friday June 12, cited police sources in their claims that police in Kosovo had arrested three Serbs, two ...

The European Union Special Representative in Kosovo, Pieter Feith, has appointed a Bulgarian judge to the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Kosovo.