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-U.S. 'Concerned' About Serb Threats Ahead Of Kosovo Elections
December 09, 2010
A top U.S. diplomat says Washington is "concerned" about statements made last week by Serbian officials in northern Kosovo regarding the upcoming December 12 parliamentary elections.
Local leaders have warned that the establishment of polling stations in four Serb-majority municipalities in the north would constitute a provocation....more...
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-Kosovar Serbs Caught Between Belgrade And Pristina (video)
December 11, 2010
By Milos Teodorovic
DOBROTINA, Kosovo -- When Kosovo broke away from Serbian rule, Sladana Vukadinovic decided to remain in the newly independent country despite her apprehensions.
Like other ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo, Vukadinovic, a primary-school teacher with two small children, has been heeding Belgrade's call to boycott elections, part of an effort to discredit the authorities in Pristina. ...more...
-Calm now, a storm to come?
Dec 13th 2010, 11:13 by T.J. PRISTINA AND NORTH MITROVICA
Dec 13th 2010, 11:13 by T.J. PRISTINA AND NORTH MITROVICA
OVERNIGHT snow has blanketed Pristina, muffling the noise of the hurly-burly of daily life in Kosovo's capital. Now everyone is waiting to see if the response to allegations of fraud in Kosovo’s elections, held yesterday, will also be quietened, or whether this morning's calm is merely the precursor to the storm. One senior diplomat says he witnessed “industrial-scale” fraud in the central region of Skenderaj; another says that in the same area the words “vote count” should be substituted by “vote cook”....more...
-Kosovo premier claims victory in first poll since independence
By Vesna Peric Zimonjic in Belgrade
Monday, 13 December 2010
Kosovo's prime Minister, Hasim Thaci, claimed victory last night as exit polls put the ruling PDK in the lead in a historic parliamentary election, the first since the unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008. ...more...
-Kosovo Prime Minister Thaci Declared Victor In Preliminary Election Results
Last updated (GMT/UTC): 13.12.2010 15:00
By RFE/RL
The party of incumbent Prime Minister Hashim Thaci has been named the preliminary winner of the December 12 parliamentary vote in Kosovo -- the first general election there since the territory's ethnic Albanian leaders declared independence from Serbia nearly three years ago.
By RFE/RL
The party of incumbent Prime Minister Hashim Thaci has been named the preliminary winner of the December 12 parliamentary vote in Kosovo -- the first general election there since the territory's ethnic Albanian leaders declared independence from Serbia nearly three years ago.
Kosovo’s electoral commission said Thaci’s Democratic Party Of Kosovo (PDK) won with 33.5 percent of the total vote, while its main rival and former coalition partner, the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) took 23.6 percent of the vote.
Both the PDK and LDK say they back the reforms needed for eventual European Union and NATO membership for Kosovo....more...
-Kosovo Prime Minister Thaci Declares Victory In Elections (video)
Last updated (GMT/UTC): 13.12.2010 06:19
By RFE/RL
By RFE/RL
WATCH: PDK leader and outgoing Prime Minister Hashim Thaci and LDK leader and Pristina Mayor Isa Mustafa vote in Pristina (video by Reuters)
Prime Minister Hashim Thaci has claimed victory for his Democratic Party of Kosovo in the first general election in Kosovo since the territory declared independence from Serbia nearly three years ago.
Thaci made his claim after an exit poll put his party in the lead with 31 percent of the December 12 vote, ahead of main rival the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) at 25 percent....more...
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