Belgrade Media Report 13 August 2014
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Djuric: Guarantees for Ivanovic’s release pending trial (Tanjug, 13.08.2014)
• Vucic:” I have no information on Brussels 2” (Vecernje Novosti, 12.08.2014)
• The Special Court for KLA crimes awaiting the new government of Kosovo
Williamson may be the chief prosecutor (Danas, By J. Lukac, 13.08.2014)
• PM: Serbs fight on both sides in Ukraine (B92, 12.08.2014)
• Serbian Church denies patriarch was invited to Vatican (Beta, 13.08.2014)
• Central bank to “strive to keep currency stable”(RTS, 13.08.2014)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Kesić: Little chance for appointment of a Special Representative of America in BiH (Glas Srpske, 13.08.2014)
• Croatian court against referendum on Cyrillic (Beta, 13.08.2014)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Serbia, Montenegro to Boost Military Cooperation (BIRN, By Dusica Tomovic, 13 Aug 2014)
• An End to Suspicions About Kosovo’s ‘Just War’? (BIRN, By Edona Peci, 13 Aug. 2014)
ISIS and the Kosovar Albanians (Huffington Post)
Stephen Schwartz Executive Director, Center for Islamic Pluralism Posted: 08/12/2014 2:44 pm U.S. air strikes continue against the terrorists of the so-called “Islamic State” — formerly the “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” or ISIS — in the borderlands of Iraqi Kurdistan. American military action has been impelled by the genocidal ISIS threat to Christians […]
Read More →Jahjaga supports women in business (Lajmi)
President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, has received today in a meeting a delegation of women in business, farmers and activists for women’s rights. President Jahjaga congratulated the women for their hard work and expressed the institutional support for the development of small and medium enterprises run by women.
Read More →Kosovo President Reassures Ethnic Serbs in Gracanica (Balkan Insight)
13 Aug 14 In the wake of reported attacks on Serbian returnees, Atifete Jahjaga toured the Serbian stronghold of Gracanica on Tuesday, hailing what she called a ‘success story’ in terms of integration. Nektar Zogjani BIRN Pristina Kosovo’s President toured the ethnic Serbian town of Gracanica in central Kosovo on Tuesday, on what looked like […]
Read More →War crimes suspect commits suicide in jail (Koha)
Citing unidentified sources, Koha reports that Marian Abazi, accused of committing war crimes against civilians during the Kosovo conflict, has committed suicide today in his prison cell at the detention center in Peja/Pec. Abazi, who was arrested several days ago at the border between Kosovo and Montenegro, was believed to have led the massacre by […]
Read More →Oliver Ivanovic Indicted For War Crimes in Kosovo (Balkan Insight)
13 Aug 14 Kosovo Special Prosecutor on Monday issued an indictment against the prominent Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic. BIRN Oliver Ivanovic, a former Serbian government official and head of the Citizens Initiative Freedom, Democracy, Justice has been indicted for war crimes in Kosovo. The Office of the Kosovo Special Prosecutor raised an indictment against […]
Read More →An End to Suspicions About Kosovo’s ‘Just War’? (Balkan Insight)
13 Aug 14 Human rights campaigners hope that a new special court to prosecute suspected post-war crimes against humanity by Kosovo Liberation Army fighters will finally deal with allegations about abductions and organ trafficking. Edona Peci BIRN, Pristina The new court, which is likely to indict former senior KLA officials for crimes allegedly committed after […]
Read More →More persons suspected for terrorism (Radio Kosova)
Kosovo Special Prosecution has confirmed for Radio Kosova that there are also 56 other persons suspected to be involved in terrorism and organizing to go and fight in Syria and Iraq. In this figure are not included 100 persons that are supposed to be fighting in Syria and Iraq. So far it is known that […]
Read More →Selimi: Hoxhaj has not called for participation in Syrian war (Telegrafi)
Kosovo institutions, namely Minister of Foreign Affairs Enver Hoxhaj, has never made a call for supporting opposition forces in Syria, said Deputy Foreign Minister, Petrit Selimi. He said there are attempts by certain individuals to mask their actions with a meeting Kosovo Government officials had with Syrian democratic opposition in Pristina. Selimi said Kosovo will […]
Read More →Religious extremism has no place in Kosovo (Koha)
Kosovo’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Enver Hoxhaj, writes in an opinion piece that “although Kosovo is a secular state with a secular society, lately we have been hearing radical statements by some Islamic religious leaders who were educated in Arab and Islamic countries. They preach an Islam that is very different from Albanian Islam and a […]
Read More →All masks fell: Recognize Kosovo! (Vesti online)
Further European integration of Serbia is impossible until Belgrade and Pristina reach agreement, indicated Serbian experts on international issues. Analyst Dusan Janjic says that Serbia will have to resolve the issues that Germany insists on, including the fulfilment of the Brussels agreement, and adoption of a second framework agreement between Belgrade and Pristina. “I believe […]
Read More →Free the youth – arrest ideologists (Koha Ditore)
Halil Matoshi in his weekly column comments on the recent arrests of forty Kosovo citizens suspected of being part of terrorist organisations and claims that in a normal country, before the police take a spectacular operation, the society would have to analyse the reasons that led to the spreading of such fundamentalist movements. Political Islam, […]
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