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A part of the General Hospital in Gjilan will be used for the construction of the High School of Medicine, which until now has developed activities in the school of economics of this municipality.

After losing to Ukraine, the Kosovo women's national football team will face Wales on Tuesday in group 4 in the qualification for the Euro 2025 European Championship.

The President of the International Sanjëtari Federation (ISSF), Luciano Rossi, visited Kosovo today, whereupon he was received by the President of the Kosovo Olympic Committee, Ismet Krasniqi, the leaders of the Kosovan Sports Sanjëtari Federation, the chairman Gëzim Hazrolli, the secretary of general, Driton Sejdiu and vice president Agron Jusufi.

Foreign Affairs Minister Luminita Odobescu said on Saturday, as the Russian Federation's war of aggression against Ukraine enters its third year, that day by day, Moscow "mercilessly inflicts unimaginable suffering and loss of human lives" in what represents "a direct attack on the principles of the UN Charter."

More than 200 young people trained in the field of information and digital technology are certified within the project “ICT For Kosovo’s Growth”, semester Vll for this year. Young people were certified in the training of the most advanced modules of programming languages such as Web Dev Prof, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence.

The chairman of the Commission for Work, Budgets and Transfers, Armend Muja, said that the draft law for the budget allocation of 2024 has been approved, after discussions with the Ministry of Finance. He points out that budget expenditures are proposed to be over 3 billion euros.

The Alliance for the Future of Kosovo has stated that the refusal of the Prime Minister of the country, Albin Kurti, to meet with the Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama, is a scandalous act.

The British humanitarian aid worker, Sally Becker helped women and children during the war in Kosovo and Bosnia. Even though she was imprisoned, injured and beaten, she did not stop helping, especially refugee children.

On the 20th anniversary of its operation in the financial market in Kosovo, Raiffeisen Bank today organized the two-day Summit “Environment, Society and Governance”, focused on the topic “Transition to the green economy”.

The Parliamentary Group of Vetëvendosje in the Assembly of Kosovo has expressed support to the Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, for the de-escalation of the situation in the north.

The filing of indictments for the trial in absentia for the punishment of the perpetrators of crimes during the war in Kosovo is not expected to produce any legal effect for the accused, nor justice for the victims. This is what justice experts and human rights defenders say. Meanwhile, the Special Prosecutor’s Office has already filed two indictments for trial in absentia for war crimes.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has met with President of Estonia Alar Karis in Kyiv.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on the sidelines of the European Political Community Summit in Moldova.

Speaker Glauk Konjufca stated that internationals are misunderstanding Kosovo’s institutions regarding the situation in the north of the country. He considered as negative the fact that Kosovo has been suspended from the “Defender Europe ’23” military exercises, whereas he called the statements of American Secretary Antony Blinken “bad” for Kosovo. He said that a solution must be found to get out of this situation.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has honored the courage and self-sacrifice of the Americans who defended freedom and thanked them for their support for Ukraine in resisting Russian aggression.

The director of the organization “Medica Zenica”, which operates in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sabiha Husiq says that four prosecutors are not enough, as Kosovo currently has, in punishing war crimes. She says that the state must create a safe environment for survivors to testify about what they experienced and for the perpetrators of the crimes to be prosecuted. In an interview for KosovaPress, she also talks about the genocide lawsuit against Serbia, for which she believes that Kosovo should learn from Bosnia-Herzegovina’s mistakes. Also, she talks about the experiences of this country in the treatment of victims of sexual violence by Serbian criminals.

The Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, considers the Albanian diaspora to be a precious asset for Kosovo, while adding that with the new Law on general elections, the injustice towards the diaspora is being put to an end.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has made an address at the opening of the 4th Council of Europe summit in Reykjavik.

The high representative of the European Union, Josep Borrell, has stated that the Western Balkans Region as a whole has the duty to fight against violence, against traffickers, against trafficking, to prevent them from contaminating the entire continent.

During the session of the European Parliament where the report on Kosovo for 2022 was discussed, some MEPs called on the five European Union countries that do not recognize the independence of Kosovo, to do so. According to them, Spain, Cyprus, Romania, Greece and Slovakia, by refusing recognition for domestic reasons, are encouraging Serbia in its efforts to destabilize and provoke a possible conflict in the region.

The Security Service of Ukraine released a video showing the Ukrainian defenders who were released from Russian captivity as a result of a prisoner swap on Saturday, May 6.

We must return and will return all our people from Russian captivity.

Speaker Glauk Konjufca stated that Kosovo and Serbia are far from reaching an agreement on the Association of municipalities with a Serbian majority due to the positions of the parties. He said that Serbia must change in order to have an agreement. Konjufca welcomed the decision of the Government of Kosovo to dismiss the management team for the proposal of the draft statute of the Association, while warning that Kosovo will not give up its principles regarding this mechanism and that it will not allow it to have executive powers.