Stability in the West Bank is vital to the prospects of peace in Gaza, UN Special Coordinator Tor Wennesland said over the weekend, warning against further escalation. He also said civilian attacks, including settler violence, need to end. Meanwhile, the new Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Muhannad Hadi, visited Gaza for the first…
Briefing ambassadors, Caroline Ziadeh, Special Representative of the Secretary-General cited a “serious” incident on 24 September, that saw five people – including a Kosovo police officer – killed and others injured. “[These events] exacerbated an already deteriorating security environment, characterized by an atmosphere of mutual suspicion and contradictory perceptions touching much of the population,” she…
Turkish commandos Turkey’s Defense Ministry has announced that it will send one of its commando battalions to deal with unrest in northern Kosovo. According to foreign news agency, NATO’s Joint Force Command requested Turkey to send troops. The Turkish commando battalion will join NATO’s Kosovo Force (KFOR) in the region as a reserve unit. A…
Pristina: Violent protests against the Albanian mayor in the Serb community area of Kosovo have also left 30 NATO-led peacekeeping force personnel injured. Serbs tried to seize the offices of a municipality in northern Kosovo where Albanian mayors took office last week. Some of the clashes took place in the municipality of Zvicin, 45 km…
File photo Serbia ordered its army to advance towards the Kosovo border. According to foreign news agencies, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has ordered the army to be on full combat alert. The Minister of Defense of Serbia has said that there is terrorism against the Serbian community in Kosovo. According to foreign media, clashes between…
Belgrade: Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has put the army on full combat alert while ordering troops to advance near the border with Kosovo. According to international media reports, the decision by the President of Serbia came amid clashes between protesters and the police in Zvicin, a predominantly Serbian town in neighboring Kosovo. Serbian Defense Minister…
UN Special Representative and head of the UN Interim Administration Mission, Caroline Ziadeh, told ambassadors that the most recent Secretary-General’s report on developments in Kosovo, which declared independence in 2008 but is not recognized by Serbia, “included serious challenges as well as an important collective effort to bring Belgrade-Pristina relations nearer to stability and normalisation.”…
