COLOMBIA has expelled former Kosovo prime minister Agim Ceku, sought by Serbia for alleged war crimes, intelligence sources said. The Administrative Department of Security - Colombia's intelligence service known as DAS - declined to detain Ceku because the crimes he is accused of took place prior to January 2005, when Colombia's current penal law took effect, the DAS said in a statement. So...

During a recent visit to Portugal, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stated that were committed to an independent Kosovo and we will get there one way or another. In the current delicate political juncture, when key international players (including UN Security Council members and EU nations ) involved in helping determine a fair resolution to the Kosovo issue have agreed that a new round of g...

Any visitor to the Balkans knows that to sit down for coffee or throat-rasping raki with a person from any ethnicity in the region is to risk a not so quick, uninterruptible, vitriolic five-hundred-year history lesson so skewed that it doesn’t deserve the name of history . . . real history just about ceased to exist within Albanian and Serbian discourse. It has largely been replaced by m...

Text of report in English by independent internet news agency KosovaLive Prishtina [Pristina], 11 August: Kosova [Kosovo] Prime Minister Agim Ceku has welcomed the decision of the District Court in Gjilan to Gen Selim Krasniqi and other Kosova Liberation Army [UCK] members to be defended in freedom. Ceku voiced full confidence in the innocence of the former UCK and later on Kosova Protection Cor...

Tod Lindberg is right that the EU and NATO countries should not turn their backs on Balkan countries wishing to share in the peace and prosperity of the new Europe. However, he is wrong to suggest that it was only Slobodan Milosevic's "genocidal policies" that set the Balkans in flames in the early 1990s and wrong to condemn Serbian determination to maintain Kosovo as an integral part of its terri...