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Prishtina Insight #115 July 5 - 18, 2013 Issue No. 115 www.prishtinainsight.com Price € 1 NEWS Draft Amnesty Law EULEX Falls Short of Votes Suds of a Revolution > page 2 NEWS Probed Govt Battles to Boost Recognition Tally > page 4 Highway NEWS Kosovo Maintains Contract Support for Erdogan The EU rule-of-law mission > page 5 requested files about the FEATURE contract to build Kosovo’s Balkan Monuments: first motorway last year, The Weird & Wonderful and state auditors and lawmakers now claim that > pages 8-9 prosecutors are investigat- CULTURE ing the project. NGOMfest Steps Up By Visar Duriqi Electronic Offer osovo’s largest and most expensive public infrastruc- Kture project to date - the national highway - came under the scrutiny of the EU rule-of-law mis- sion, EULEX, and the Kosovo > page 19 police in 2012, according to docu- INSIDE PRISHTINA ments leaked to Prishtina Insight. A letter dated May 10, 2012, The Gouda-maker of shows that the infrastructure min- istry sent EULEX files connected Dragodan to the 660-million-euro contract > page 20 with Bechtel-Enka to build the Ibrahim Rugova Highway. OPINION A second letter dated July 7, 2012, shows that the ministry sent Turkish Youth Speak files files related to the contract to oversee the building of the high- to the World way from Hill International, the > page 21 Luxembourg firm contracted to supervise the highway project, to EULEX’s financial investigations unit and the Kosovo police’s anti- corruption department. Kosovo’s only English-language The reason for EULEX and the newspaper is available: Kosovo police’s interest in the con- tracts is not known. Neither Delivered to responded to requests for com- Your Door ment about the letters, nor did the infrastructure ministry, which From Newsstands was formerly known as the min- across Kosovo istry of transportation, post and telecommunications. Alex Butler and Etida Zeka fell in love in America. Qendresa Mula, spokeswoman Sent To for the auditor general’s office, Your Inbox Butler introduced her to great beer. Zeka told Prishtina Insight last week introduced him to Kosovo. Now, their that it had thus far been unable to From audit the highway project because our partners microbrewery, Sabaja, is set to introduce Kosovo prosecutors are investigating it. to American-style craft beer. STORY ON PAGES 12-13 continues page 2 see page 16 for more info is supported by: 2 July 5 - 18, 2013 news Draft Amnesty Law Falls Short of Votes The controversial legislation, born out of the Kosovo-Serbia deal, fails to win parliament's approval amid widespread public opposition. the Prishtina authorities in the Kosovo Serbs who have been past, which would prevent them charged with resisting Pristina’s from taking roles in Kosovo public rule and fear jail when they come By Edona Peci institutions in the future. under central government control. and Petrit Collaku But critics in Kosovo have The legislation was a result of accused the authorities of pushing the agreement between Serbian Vetevendosje supporters protest in front of Parliament on Thursday as MPs debate the through legislation that could be Prime Minister Ivica Dacic and amnesty law. (Armenia Zajmi Besevic/Betaphoto) draft law to grant amnesty used to absolve high-ranking his Kosovo counterpart Hashim on a wide range of criminal politicians of criminal activity. Thaci, signed on April 19 this year. they would support the law only if front of the building. offences was voted down in A changes, mainly related to article “We want justice, not amnesty,” “The draft law aims to amnesty The day before the first reading, Kosovo's parliament on Thursday France’s ambassador to Prishtina, 3, were changed or deleted. shouted some 150 protestors, urg- after objections from opposition all the corrupt [people] in this gov- Article 3 envisages 20 per cent ing lawmakers not to approve the parties and human rights organi- ernment, in the previous govern- Marsye Daviet, called on MPs to sations. ment and those who cooperated pass the law. reductions in punishments for legislation. The amnesty legislation put for- with them,” said Albulena Haxhiu “We do strongly want this those convicted of a series of One NGO, the Kosovo Law ward by the government of PM from the opposition Vetevendosje amnesty law to be ratified tomor- crimes including murders, Institute, said that the draft law Hashim Thaci had been widely (Self-Determination) Movement. row [July 4],” Daviet said, saying it manslaughter, harassment, contravened international legal expected to gain preliminary “This draft law is against jus- would help to ensure that Serbs defamation, assault and theft. norms. approval during the first reading tice, equality and the interests of became integrated into Kosovo’s “We won’t vote for the law if “The state has no right… to for- of the legislation. Kosovo citizens,” she added. police and judiciary. ordinary crimes aren’t deleted give offences committed against It appears that souring public The government however has Behar Selimi, the deputy head from the list, if public officials one individual,” it said, explaining opinion in recent days - including strongly denied this. of the parliamentary commission aren’t aware that they won’t be that this violated victims’ rights to several protests - may have influ- “There will never be amnesty on the proposed legislation, urged amnestied,” said Ardian Gjini legal recourse as enshrined in the enced lawmakers. [for people] identified with politics the international community to from the opposition Alliance for European Convention on Human Seventy MPs voted in favor the or certain political parties,” said push Serbia to reciprocate by the Future of Kosovo (AAK). Rights. draft law - nine short of the 80 justice minister Hajredin Kuci. granting amnesties to former The Democratic League of Campaign group Amnesty needed to pass it. The legislation “There will be no amnesty for Kosovo Liberation Army guerril- Kosovo, LDK, said that the possi- International also criticised the will be sent back to the govern- offences related to corruption, las. bility of amnesties for officials proposed law. ment, which must revise the law human trafficking or those related “It would help the process of and public servants should be “Amnesty International cannot before it can be voted on again. to vote theft,” he said. normalisation of relations removed from the draft legislation. welcome the draft law on amnesty, The law was intended to grant The law as initially drafted [between Pristina and Belgrade] if “Otherwise, the LDK’s parlia- as some of the ordinary crimes or amnesty for a range of offences would have granted amnesty to all the international community puts mentary group will not support offences included in the law may and was drafted as a part of the those accused of certain criminal pressure on Serbia so it would also this draft law,” said LDK MP Haki amount to human rights viola- EU-brokered deal to normalise offences from 1999, after the war, establish some kind of amnesty Demolli. tions, and we consider that those relations between Prishtina and until June 20, 2013. for ex-Kosovo Liberation Army While the law was being debated convicted of human rights viola- Belgrade. Amnesties proposed for offences fighters who are hunted by in parliament, members of the tions, or reasonably suspected of Serbia wants the amnesty so like armed rebellion and espi- Interpol without being charged for opposition Vetevendosje (Self- human rights violations, should Serbs in north Kosovo cannot be onage came in response to con- anything specific,” Selimi said. Determination) movement and be brought to justice,” the cam- prosecuted for any resistance to cerns about prosecution raised by Most political parties also said civil society groups protested in paign group said in a statement. EULEX Probed Highway Contract from page 1 Highway’s cost near's con- done so far. than three years after it was said the contract with Bechtel- “Bechtel-Enka won the contract signed, although copies have been Enka would be “extremely danger- Mula said the auditor general’s tract value with the ministry of transporta- leaked to the media, including to ous” because it created the possi- office had no information about tion, post and telecommunications Prishtina Insight. bility of large cost increases. the nature of the investigation or The highway is set to run from in full compliance with the rules of Other major contracts, includ- A tender for the highway was which prosecuting authority was Merdare, at the Serbian border, to procurement,” Ruqi said. “Our ing the public-private partnership launched in September 2009. The involved, EULEX or the state pros- Morina, at the Albanian border. focus is to offer a successful and of Prishtina International Airport road was devised to link up with ecutor’s office. Five of six segments are complete, safe modern highway for the peo- and the privatisation of the coun- Albania’s first highway, also built Neither EULEX or the state and it has already dramatically ple of Kosovo.” try’s power grid, have been made by Bechtel-Enka and finished in prosecutor’s office responded to reduced driving times between Hill International would not public. 2009. Prishtina and Tirana. Prishtina Insight’s questions comment on the Kosovo police and Fatmir Limaj, formerly the head That contract had an initial The government has paid about this. EULEX’s interest in its nearly 6 of the transport ministry, said in price tag of 418 million euro, but Bechtel-Enka 658.2 million euro In May, EULEX denied that the million euro contract with the gov- 2010 that the contract was being the final cost rose to more than one for the work completed so far, just mission was investigating the ernment. kept under wraps to protect trade billion.
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