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  Serbia Info News / Main elements of self-governance in Kosovo and Metohija
The Kosovo and Metohija Assembly is to establish and organize the courts of Kosovo and Metohija, and it is to elect the judges and judges of the jury.
A citizen of Kosovo and Metohija must go to the prison established by the Assembly of Kosovo and Metohija and in accordance with the regulations brought by the Assembly if he or she is sentenced in the court of Kosovo and Metohija.
It is responsible for the Kosovo and Metohija regulations executing and for proposing of the regulations to the Assembly of Kosovo and Metohija.
www.serbia-info.com /news/1999-03/20/9890.html   (2711 words)

  
 Kosovo Since 1999 By Am Johal
Demilitarization of the KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army) and its transformation into a civilian organization and it also its involvement of its political wing in Kosovo politics is another segment that arose from the outcome of post-99 constellation.
The boycott and non-participation in the assembly of Kosovo is one the barriers for the Serb community in Kosovo to have had the voice being heard so far.
Kosovo politicians view Macedonia and Albania as two good neighbors with whom they want to generate friendly and serious cooperation, and I think the prospects of regional cooperation and EU integrative processes will promote the kind of relationship that would prevent any sort of tensions between Kosovo and the other countries of the region.
www.countercurrents.org /johal020306.htm   (1376 words)

  
 UNIFEM Gender Profile - Kosovo - Women, War & Peace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Kosovo women were active participants in the more than 10 years of nonviolent opposition to Serbian repression, whereby ethnic Albanians were discriminated against and disenfranchised from public institutions in Milosevic's quest to build a greater, ethnically-pure Serbia out of the ruins of communist Yugoslavia.
In June 2004, the new Gender Equality Law, adopted by the Kosovo Assembly in February, was promulgated by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in UNMIK Regulation 2004/18.
A second major breakthrough in 2004 was the passage of the Gender Equality Law, adopted by the Kosovo Assembly in February and promulgated by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in June.
www.womenwarpeace.org /kosovo/kosovo.htm   (12889 words)

  
 EAR - Kosovo - Annual programme 2004 - Support to the Kosovo Assembly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Under the Constitutional Framework, the Assembly of Kosovo is the highest instance amongst the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government (PISG).
The implementation of the EC 2003 project “Support to the Assembly of Kosovo” was launched in September 2003.
The Table Office is the office where members of the Assembly are to submit questions, motions and draft laws that are to be circulated to the members of the Assembly or that are to be submitted to the Assembly.
www.ear.eu.int /kosovo/main/kosovo-a1c2f3a4a5.htm   (896 words)

  
 JOKANOVIC TESTIFIES THAT MILOSEVIC DID NOT "REVOKE KOSOVO'S AUTONOMY"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Kosovo Assembly met on March 23, 1989, and it voted to adopt the constitutional amendments.
There were 190 members of the Kosovo assembly, 187 members were present and the vote broke down as follows: 175 in favor, 10 against, 2 abstained, and 3 not present.
In fact the assembly members all stood up and applauded when the speaker of the parliament (who was Jokanovic himself at the time) announced that the votes had been tabulated and the amendments passed.
www.slobodan-milosevic.org /news/smorg120104.htm   (1269 words)

  
 BBC News | EUROPE | Q&A: Kosovo's National Assembly
The Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), under its long-standing pacifist leader, Ibrahim Rugova, won the elections with 45.65% of the vote and took 47 seats.
The PDK is the political successor to the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), which was disbanded after the conflict.
With two-and-a-half years gone since UNMIK took control of Kosovo, the time is ripe to press on with the objective of handing over some of UNMIK's authority to local representatives.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/europe/1701726.stm   (755 words)

  
 USAID/Kosovo Press 2001
It will be open to all judges of Kosovo, regardless of ethnicity and its founders too measures to ensure that the association be and remain transparent and democratic in all its operations.
The object of the poll was to survey public opinion of the campaign for the Assembly of Kosovo, test civic awareness of new institutions resulting from the elections, and determine levels of confidence in existing institutions.
We are interested in continuing to work with citizens of Kosovo toward their common future within the framework of fair political process and the rule of law," said Craig Buck, Director of USAID's Mission for Kosovo.
www.usaid.gov /missions/kosovo/Press/press_2001.htm   (1575 words)

  
 Complete UN Kosovo Coverage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Kosovo Serb participation was "patchy," with a higher turnout in the enclaves than in northern Mitrovica, Mr.
The statement also welcomed the signing by the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and Belgrade on 5 November of a Common Document, which was consistent with Security Council resolution 1244 and the Constitutional Framework for Provisional Self-Government in the province.
Kosovo: head of UN mission, Transitional Council voice outrage at attacks on US 12 SEPTEMBER – The top United Nations official in Kosovo and the Kosovo Transitional Council today expressed outrage over the terrorist acts against the United States yesterday, while a rally of solidarity with the victims was held in the streets of Pristina.
www.un.org /peace/kosovo/news/kosovo2.htm   (7522 words)

  
  Workshop on Developing Good Governance for Kosovo Assembly Members | USIP
Kosovo citizens should be treated as individuals and their basic human rights protected, including freedom of movement for all, protection of property, equality before the law, and return of refugees and displaced persons.
The Assembly members are now looking forward to the next stage, when the Assembly and Government will take on greater responsibilities from UNMIK and will be held accountable for their governing capabilities.
The members of the Assembly agreed on the necessity to expand the space for societal dialogue and to work together to work together and with UNMIK to increase the transparency of communications between the Assembly and constituents.
www.usip.org /events/pre2002/airlie2002/report.html   (2330 words)

  
 Kosovo threatens to ignite fresh Balkan conflict
The Kosovo Provisional Assembly has passed a declaration challenging the Border Delineation Agreement signed in February 2001 and establishing an internationally recognised border between Yugoslavia and the Republic of Macedonia.
The establishment of the Kosovo Provisional Assembly and the elections last November were hailed as a cornerstone for future Balkan stability and a victory for political moderation.
Kosovo remained a Western protectorate with the UN having the last word on the final status of the province.
www.wsws.org /articles/2002/jul2002/koso-j01.shtml   (1972 words)

  
 CNN.com - Kosovo assembly marks historic day - December 10, 2001
The 120-seat assembly, designed to give the volatile southern Yugoslav province autonomy under a United Nations umbrella, met on Monday amid tight security in the regional capital Pristina.
"This is a historical day for Kosovo," Kosovo's U.N. governor Hans Haekkerup, who is temporary chairman of the assembly, told the legislators, who were searched before entering the building and had to walk through a metal detector to reach the chamber.
But the meeting was marred by a brief walkout by deputies of the assembly's second largest party, the Democratic Party of Kosovo led by former guerrilla leader Hashim Thaci, protesting that their proposals were ignored.
archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/12/10/kosovo.parliament/index.html   (468 words)

  
 Kosovo: Timeline of Important Events 1989-1999. USIA
Separatists, in a secret referendum, proclaim the Republic of Kosovo, which is recognized by Albania.
September 24 -- NATO takes the first formal steps toward military intervention in Kosovo, approving two contingency operation plans, one for air strikes and the second for monitoring and maintaining a ceasefire agreement if one is reached.
March 29 -- The tide of refugees fleeing Kosovo for Albania, Macedonia and Montenegro increases amid reports of Serbian atrocities.
www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /Kosovo/Kosovo-chronology3.htm   (1173 words)

  
 ISN Security Watch - Belgrade splits over Kosovo election boycott
In the Serb-populated parts of Kosovo, “police, justice, health, education must be in Serbian hands within three months” after the formation of the parliament, he said.
Belgrade and the Kosovo Serbs had called for an election boycott due to the lack of guarantees for their security following the massive anti-Serb violence in March, as well as for decentralization in the province to protect them from Albanian dominance.
The president of the Association of Serbian assemblies in Kosovo, Marko Jaksic, said Tadic’s decision was a “knife in the back of the government of Serbia”.
www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?id=9875   (746 words)

  
 UNDP Kosovo - Support to Parliamentary Electronic Archives in Kosovo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
SPEAK Project seeks to establish an Electronic Archive, to record the Assembly’s proceedings and hearings, standardize the document workflow and information process, and improve mechanisms of transparency and accountability, through the dissemination of the work of the Assembly to the Kosovan Public bearing in mind the different linguistic needs of a multi-ethnic Kosovo.
The Kosovo Assembly elections of November 2001 and the subsequent election of a President in March 2002 were the first steps towards Kosovans exercising the considerable autonomy provided to them under Security Council Resolution 1244.
Added to this, is the inability of developing or even preserving the institutional memory of the Assembly of Kosovo that in due time, should become an important record of these historic days in the midst of Kosovo’s peace building and democratic recuperation process.
www.kosovo.undp.org /Projects/SPEAK/speak.htm   (1028 words)

  
 Security Council Deplores Kosovo Assembly’s Resolution Concernin
Today's action by the Council followed a veto yesterday by the Secretary-General's Special Representative and head of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), Michael Steiner, of a Kosovo Assembly resolution that sought to challenge the border agreement signed in February 2001 between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
"The Security Council deplores the adoption by the Assembly of Kosovo, in its session of 23 May 2002, of a 'resolution on the protection of the territorial integrity of Kosovo'.
It urges Kosovo's leaders to work in close cooperation with the United Nations Interim Administration in Kosovo (UNMIK) and the international security presence (KFOR) with a view to promote a better future for Kosovo and stability in the region.
www.unis.unvienna.org /unis/pressrels/2002/sc7413.html   (488 words)

  
 BBC News | Kosovo | Timeline: Countdown to conflict
The clandestine separatist group Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) emerges for the first time claiming responsibility for a series of bomb attacks.
Tens of thousands protest in the Kosovo capital, Pristina, against the violence, and street clashes erupt.
Kosovo Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova, disregarding Western calls for compromise, demands outright independence for Kosovo.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/special_report/1998/kosovo/99748.stm   (925 words)

  
 KOSOVAREPORT: Kosovo Assembly adopts status negotiation group
According to the paper some participating parties in the Assembly have said that bad managing of the session by Parliamentary Speaker Nexhat Daci has “dimmed the initiative of President Rugova for consensus and unity”.
Under the headline Hope dies the last, Koha Ditore reports in a separate article that the SRSG was hoping status preparations could start after the approval of President’s proposal by the Assembly.
Following five years of United Nations control and billions of dollars of international aid, Kosovo is a lawless region "owned" by the Albanian mafia, characterized by continuing ethnic cleansing and subject to increasing infiltration by al Qaeda-linked Muslim jihadists, according to a whistleblower interviewed by Cybercast News Service.
kosovareport.blogspot.com /2005/09/kosovo-assembly-adopts-status.html   (535 words)

  
 Kosovo Elections 2004
The Kosovo Assembly Elections were held on 23 October 2004, as announced by the Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG).
Together with the election regulations, the CEC rules govern the conduct of the Kosovo Assembly Election in 2004.
In carrying out its responsibilities and functions, the CECS is assisted by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo (OMIK) Department of Elections which retains mainly an advisory and assisting role.
www.kosovoelections.org   (289 words)

  
 Serbian President's Call for Participation in Kosovo Elections
The United States will continue to work closely with leaders in Belgrade and Pristina, the UN Mission in Kosovo, and our partners in the Contact Group to address security concerns of Serbs and other non-Albanian communities in Kosovo, particularly in the vital area of decentralization.
Full participation by Kosovo's Serbs in these elections, and in UN-sponsored working groups on local government, security, returns and other key issues, will further these goals.
We join President Tadic in encouraging Kosovo's Serb community to register and participate in the Assembly elections as its best means to ensure that its concerns are addressed and its voice heard.
www.state.gov /r/pa/prs/ps/2004/36840.htm   (228 words)

  
 JURIST - Kosovo
The parliament's unanimous support for the draft, which still needs to be approved by a....
[JURIST] The National Assembly of Serbia [official website] voted 219-5 on Tuesday to refer to Kosovo as an "integral and historic" part of Serbia [press release] in Serbia's forthcoming constitution, voicing its opposition to efforts by Kosovo....
Annan: Kosovo progress slowed by intimidation of judges, corruption
jurist.law.pitt.edu /countries/kosovo.php   (705 words)

  
 Assembly of Kosovo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Assembly of Kosovo (Albanian: Kuvendi i Kosovës; Serbian Скупштина Косова) is the highest provisional self-government and representative and law making institution of Kosovo.
Committee on Missing Persons - it is a relatively unique committee that deals with the issue of large number of missing persons and prisoners of war as a result of the Kosovo War.
National Movement for the Liberation of Kosovo (Lëvizja Kombëtare për Çlirimin e Kosovës)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Assembly_of_Kosovo   (356 words)

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