Belgrade Media Report 1 August
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Dacic: Policy towards Ukraine unchanged (Beta/Tanjug)
• Djuric: Even if we disagree for 200 years… (B92)
• Policemen from Kosovo dismissed over the Brussels agreement (Danas)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Tuzla protest ends (Fena)
• Ivanov: Athens not contributing to overcome the name issue (Dnevnik)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Kosovo Leaders Have Been Accused of Killing and Harvesting Organs (Vice)
• Slovenia’s Cerar May Reverse Election Vow on Asset Sales (Bloomberg)
• As preparations for President Putin’s visit inspires the launch of a local café named after the Russian President (ITAR-TASS)
A hot chair awaits Serbia in the OSCE (Vecernje Novosti)
From 1 January, when Serbia starts presiding over the OSCE, a hot chair will await our representatives, unless the tensions about reheated cold war calm down. Assigning the role of first among equals in this society is considered a confirmation of the reputation and represents the signal that we are reliable, but the timing for […]
Read More →Selimi: KLA should be treated separately (Politiko)
Rexhep Selimi, one of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) founders and Vetevendosje MP, said that what the EU Special Investigative Task (SITF) prosecutor, Clint Williamson, presented were the results of a two-year investigation which produced no evidence that KLA committed crimes. Selimi said the report which “claims and presupposes” that crimes were committed against Serbs […]
Read More →Shterpce/Strpce will not assist those who sold property in Kosovo and bought in Serbia (Koha)
Municipality of Shterpce/Strpce will not provide assistance to Serb displaced persons who came from other communities after the conflict and who have sold their property, said Mayor Bratislav Nikolic who added that he categorically opposes giving assistance to those who bought property in Serbia. Nikolic made the comments after a request from the International Organization […]
Read More →Kosovo is trembling from the Williamson’s report (Politika)
The statement of EULEX Chief Investigator, Clint Williamson, that he possess the indisputable evidence to press charges against several former senior KLA officials for war crimes – has caused a hush in the Kosovo Albanian public. Excluding public statement that the report “will end doubts about unproved accusations,” in Pristina press are prevailing restrained, but […]
Read More →Opposition says no reason for new elections (Radio Dukagjini)
Opposition block Democratic League of Kosovo LDK, Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA) and Vetevendosje movement don’t see a reason for new elections. LDK General Secretary, Ismet Beqiri, said that opposition coalition has the votes and the same as it has elected Assembly Speaker it will also establish the government.
Read More →On Kosovars’ relations to the state (Koha Ditore)
Columnist Lumir Abdixhiku writes about a poll carried out this June by the Kosovo-based research institute “Riinvest” which he took part in and presents some of its findings. The poll that included 1,000 respondents, according to Abdixhiku, provides a clear picture of the relation between the citizens and the state and that it is the […]
Read More →Vucic: Free textbooks in Albanian language (Tanjug)
Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic promised on Thursday that Albanian students in Bujanovac, Presevo and Medvedja, southern part of central Serbia, will get free textbooks in their mother tongue by September 1, but at the same time he called on Albanians to fulfil their obligation toward the Republic of Serbia and start paying their electricity […]
Read More →New local councilors’ caucus in Štrpce/Shtërpcë municipal assembly (KIM radio)
Five councilors from the Independent Liberal Party (SLS) of Štrpce/Shtërpcë municipal assembly decided to create a separate councilors’ caucus – ‘Napred Štrpce’ (Go Strpce). At yesterday’s regular session of Štrpce/Shtërpcë municipal assembly five councilors, who so far represented the SLS, decided to present themselves in future under the name ‘Napred Štrpce”. The Deputy Mayor of […]
Read More →Drenovac: A cow stolen from a returnee (KIM radio)
A cow was stolen from Ranko Bogicevic last night in returnee village Drenovac in Klina/Kllinë municipality, carried Miinstry of Communities and Return. Ministry stated that it most sharply condemns the theft and stressed that attacks and intimidation of the returnee families negatively influence on return of Serbs to Kosovo and added that such and similar […]
Read More →Đurić: We don’t have to hate each other (B92)
Talks about the ‘Park of Peace” and flower pots at the bridge in Kosovska Mitrovica will continue in Brussels in September, stated Head of the Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Đurić. Đurić said to B92 that contrary to Edita Tahiri’s claims with regard to ‘Park of Peace’, everything will remains as it […]
Read More →EULEX: We don’t have secret lists (KIM radio)
Chief EULEX Prosecutor Jaroslava Novotna stated that there are no secret lists for arrests, however there are investigations involving members of all nationalities. Novotna said that speculations on existence of secret lists for arrests or secret indictments are completely groundless and that EULEX mission categorically states that there are no such lists. “The law doesn’t […]
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