OSCE Broadcast 15 April
• Cliff: Kosovo needs to clean up its reputation (Most monitored broadcasters, RTK1)
• Special Court establishment procedure starts (KTV)
• Trajkovic: Serb MPs should not vote for Constitutional amending related to armed force (TV21)
• Another war crime Serb suspect arrested (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Forum 2015: Impunity is increasing corruptive affairs (RTK1)
Belgrade Daily Media Highlights 15 April
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Vulin once again banned from entering Kosovo and Metohija (RTS)
• Report by Inquiring Committee on misuse of funds for Kosovo and Metohija (Tanjug)
• New parliament convocation to include 12 parties from 7 lists (RTS)
• Serbia and Montenegro reach agreement on embassies (Beta)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Inzko: RS will not break away, period! (Klix.ba)
• Priorities – fight against corruption and economy (Nezavisne novine)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• PACE Vote on Russia Splits Serbian Parties (BIRN)
• Serbia Ruling Party Backs Republika Srpska Opposition (BIRN)
• US ambassador to Kosovo hired by construction firm he lobbied for (The Guardian)
• OSCE Sees ‘Uneven Playing Field’ in Macedonia Polls (BIRN)
The bitter cocktail of the Vetevendosje chief (Koha)
Publicist Enver Robelli argues in his opinion piece that by positioning himself “against international justice, against the law that sanctions Kosovars participating in foreign wars, against the symbols of the state of Kosovo, against talks with Serbia, Vetevendosje leader Albin Kurti is disappointing many hopes for positive changes in Kosovo. “He could very easily pay […]
Read More →Hoxhaj, Kosovo will answer organ trafficking accusations (ANSAmed)
(by Cristiana Missori) (ANSAmed) – ROME, APRIL 14 – Kosovo has nothing to hide with regards to accusations against it of organ trafficking during the 1998-99 Kosovo war, Kosovar Foreign Minister Enver Hoxhaj told ANSAmed on Monday. Council of Europe rapporteur Dick Marty alleged in a 2010 report that senior commanders of the rebel ethnic […]
Read More →Trajkovic: We are not going to vote constitutional changes about Kosovo Armed Forces (Radio Kosova)
Kosovo Assembly could gather next week to discuss constitutional changes in connection with Kosovo Armed Forces. Serb deputies say that they are not going to vote this constitutional change.. It looks live that two third of minority votes for the amendment of constitution about transformation of KSF in to Kosovo Armed Forces will be conditioned […]
Read More →Tahiri: No court can diminish the fight of the KLA (Koha)
Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister, Edita Tahiri, said today that Kosovo will cooperate with the international community in the establishment of the special court, but added that no court can diminish the fight of the KLA because the cause of Kosovo Albanians was righteous. “Kosovo has not only gotten closer to the European Union and NATO, […]
Read More →Cliff: Kosovo needs to clean its image from Marty’s allegations (publiku.net)
In an interview for Publiku, British Ambassador to Kosovo, Ian Cliff, talked about the establishment of the tribunal that is expected to address alleged war crimes committed by the former Kosovo Liberation Army. Cliff said the proposal is not to establish a tribunal that will investigate the KLA, but rather to create a Special Court […]
Read More →Vulin banned from entering Kosovo (B92)
BELGRADE — The Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo said that Aleksandar Vulin was denied entry to Kosovo by the authorities in Priština on Tuesday. Vulin heads the office and is the minister without portfolio in charge of Kosovo and Metohija in the outgoing government. The office called on the international community to condemn Priština’s move […]
Read More →NATO and referendum (Politika)
You ask them one thing, they answer something tenth. You ask them how is it that Obama in his speech in Brussels said that the Kosovo split from Serbia, “followed a referendum organized in accordance with international law” when we all know that Kosovo declared independence without a referendum and without the consent of Belgrade. […]
Read More →Grabovci: PDK is ready for elections (Indeksonline)
Adem Grabovci, head of the PDK parliamentary group, wrote on his Facebook profile today that the PDK is ready to go to parliamentary elections. He said the PDK decides when laws are adopted in the assembly. “The Democratic Party of Kosovo is ready to go to elections whenever opposition parties deem this necessary. It would […]
Read More →Vuckovic: We defended Kosovo (Vecernje Novosti)
Vice President of Democratic Party (DS) Natasa Vuckovic said that voting in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for the rejection of the right on decision -making to Russia, presented pro-Serbian and not anti-Russian stance. “Resolution for which we voted emphasizes the importance of the principle of territorial integrity. I think that […]
Read More →EULEX arrests Serb on suspicion of murder (Tanjug)
EULEX police has arrested a Serb in northern Kosovo as part of investigations into serious crimes that allegedly took place in Kosovo-Metohija after the 1999 conflict in the province. EULEX spokeswoman Irina Gudeljevic told Tanjug that EULEX police acted on an order issued by the international prosecutor at the Kosovo Special Prosecutor’s Office (KSPO) and […]
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