In a very positive development, the respective heads of delegations from Pristina and Belgrade met in Pristina to discuss issues of substance in a productive bilateral working meeting just a couple of days ago.

She graduated from the University of Prishtina Faculty of Law in 2000.

We expect high level visits to Pristina from both Skopje and Tirana to take place shortly.

Later continued his studies at the University of Pristina and received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Mass communication.

Most authorities in Belgrade have not been supportive of participation by Kosovo Serbs in the Provisional Institutions or in processes designed to address their special needs, including decentralization and the high level group on security proposed to Belgrade in 2004 by my Special Representative.

Rita Parashumti walks around Pristina similar to the 10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman video for Prishtina s Take Back the Night.

Although there has been no positive reply from Pristina, the invitation to a sincere dialogue, without any conditions, stands.

He underwent chemotherapy, conducted by U.S. Army doctors, at his residence in Pristina but the treatment failed to resolve the cancer.

PRISTINA Hundreds of people disappeared ten years ago in Kosovo, the former Serbian province that is now the world s newest state.

I am pleased to inform the Council that direct dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade is about to resume, after 12 months of boycott by Belgrade.

We are firmly committed to helping in a constructive manner so that the months long deadlock in relations with Pristina are overcome as soon as possible.

Since October 2000, Pristina and Albanian leaders have been consistently evading the necessary dialogue with Belgrade, shifting the blame to Belgrade.

I welcome the fact that Belgrade has decided to resume direct dialogue with Pristina and that the working group on missing persons will meet in early March.

It is already active in supporting a dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade, as well as between the various communities, and is ready to pursue this role further.

Cafe Turco writes about Portugal's failure to recognize Kosovo and a discount offered at one Pristina hotel to visitors from countries who support the independence.

We welcome recent proposals to hold high level meetings between Pristina and Belgrade as a step forward and hope that they will contribute to confidence building between the two parties.

The Working Group on Returns, held on 12 May between Pristina and Belgrade under the chairmanship of UNHCR, was a successful first meeting and will continue.

Local Serbs fear that the government in Priština simply wants to impose its will on Serb majority areas rather than engaging with them as Kosovo citizens equal under the law.

From Kabul to Pristina, from Ramallah to Kinshasa, the EU is monitoring borders, overseeing peace agreements, training police forces, building up criminal justice systems and protecting shipping from pirate attacks.

On 30 August 2005, Rugova left Kosovo and went to the United States Air Force Landstuhl Military Hospital in Germany for medical treatment after earlier treatment in Pristina and Camp Bondsteel, the main US base in Kosovo and the second biggest in Europe.

We are ready to seek, in cooperation with all international actors and through direct dialogue with Pristina, a peaceful, comprehensive and permanent solution to the Kosovo and Metohija problem, which includes the full implementation of resolution 1244 (1999).

While the European Union is encouraged by the fact that the authorities in Belgrade have announced their readiness to restart a direct dialogue with Pristina, it regrets that they have not as yet encouraged Kosovo Serb participation in any of the ongoing processes.

That comprehensive review can, inter alia, draw on existing structures and working groups in Pristina to support its work on reviewing the standards, and all interested parties will no doubt have a chance to make their voices heard.

Dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade, although welcome and important, cannot substitute for the direct involvement of the Kosovo Serbs in shaping their own future in an internal dialogue in Kosovo.

Despite recent encouraging developments on dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade, I am concerned that, after more than 15 months, there is still no clear signal from Belgrade to the Kosovo Serbs to participate in the institutions.

My visits to returnees in several areas, including Bablyak and Brestovik, have convinced me that conditions exist to allow tomorrow's returns to take place and that positive encouragement by responsible politicians, in both Pristina and Belgrade, can convince more displaced persons to return to Kosovo.

We hold the view that decentralization should occur in parallel with the shaping and the strengthening of the central Government structures, that the autonomy of local authorities should not escape or harm the vertical line of power, that local structures must remain accountable to Pristina and that parallel structures must be integrated into Kosovo's structure or dismantled.