Belgrade Media Report 14 August
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Who is to blame and who will pay for the delay in implementing the Brussels Agreement between Belgrade and Pristina
All are responsible (Danas, By Marija Stojanovic – Jelena Tasic, 13.08.2014)
• President: We would lose friends by taking sides (B92, 14.08.2014)
• Vucic: “I am a small man, why would somebody pressure me,” (Vecernje Novosti, 13.08.2014)
• Ambassador Alexander Chepurin: Serbia would harm itself with sanctions (Vecernje Novosti, 14.08.2014)
• Govt. seeks to criminalize participation in wars abroad (Danas, 14.08.2014)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Deadline for submission of compensation list (Srna, 14/08/2014)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Serbia’s president points to world community’s duplicity over Ukraine (ITAR-TASS, 13 Aug, 2014)
• Premier: Serbia’s investigation into NIS privatization not to damage relations with Russia (ITAR-TASS, 13 Aug 2014)
• Bosnian Struggles to Stem Flow of Islamist Warriors (BIRN, By Elvira M. Jukic, 14 Aug 2014)
• Montenegro’s Only Albanian Paper Pleads for Help (BIRN, By Dusica Tomovic, 14 Aug 2014)
• Croatia War Veterans Draw Comfort From Court Ruling (BIRN, By Sven Milekic, 13 Aug 2014)
• Germany charges Croatian former Yugoslav top spy (NEW EUROPE, By Dan Alexe, 14 Aug 2014)
Extremists in Kosovo well equipped and trained for attacks (RTK2)
Extremists in Kosovo are well equipped and trained to carry out attacks and they pose a danger for the constitutional order of Kosovo, claims the executive director of the Center for Security Studies in Pristina, Florian Cehaja. He assessed that a joint action of the police in the region is needed for successful fight against […]
Read More →Kosovo Police arrest Zekerija Qazimi (Telegrafi)
Kosovo Police today arrested Zekerija Qazimi, imam of the El-Kuddus mosque in Gjilan/Gnjilane. Police also arrested another terrorist suspect, Lulzim Kabashi, from the village of Polac, Skenderaj municipality. Both persons are suspected of recruitment for terrorist activities, organization and participation in a terrorist group, and for inciting hatred, division and lack of national, racial, religious […]
Read More →One month detention for terrorist suspects (Kosovapress)
The Basic Court of Kosovo announced today a 30-day detention measure against forty people suspected of participating in fighting in Syria and Iraq alongside terrorist organizations ISIS and Al-Nusra. A defense attorney told reporters that this is bad news for Kosovo’s image because the court failed to secure evidence that would confirm the alleged activities […]
Read More →Jahjaga praises police operation to arrest terrorist suspects (Koha)
Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga visited today the headquarters of Kosovo Police in Pristina and met with police general director Shpend Maxhuni and other senior police officials. “I came to visit the Police of the Republic of Kosovo today to offer them institutional support for the work and commitment of all men and women in this […]
Read More →Aleksander Chepurin: Sanctions to Russia would harm Serbia! (Vecernje Novosti)
If Serbia would impose sanctions against Russia, it would “shot itself in the foot.” Such a decision could bring only “suicidal politician” because Serbia wouldn’t have any benefits from it, but only huge damage, says in an interview Aleksandar Chepurin, Russian Ambassador to Serbia. “The measures against Russia were introduced only by thirty countries out […]
Read More →No agreement yet on mortal remains (Kosova Sot)
No agreement yet has been reached between Kosovo and Serbia about the handover of mortal remains found in the territory of Serbia. This could keep hostage also the handover of missing persons to their families. Prenk Gjetaj, head of the government commission for the missing, says that Kosovar side does not recognize the existence of […]
Read More →Vetevendosje against „euphoria and exaltation after the arrest of suspected for terrorism“ (Koha)
Vetevendosje through a press release has expressed their views in connection with the latest developments in Kosovo. In this statement among others it says that Vetevendosje considers as damaging the euphoria and exaltation that are being built in a form of a campaign, especially from few media of the regime, in the occasion of the […]
Read More →UN: A house of justice needed for Serbian victims too (Vecernje Novosti)
A request of the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with regard to establishment of the special court for Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) crimes, until the beginning of 2015 at the latest, is of utmost importance, because such request presents the solidarity of the entire world in shedding the light on so far uninvestigated crimes, said […]
Read More →Arrested Imam Faces Terrorism Charges in Kosovo (Balkan Insight)
14 Aug 14 After Monday’s roundup of 40 persons, police on Wednesday arrested an imam and another person suspected of terrorist activities, following raids in Gjilan and Skenderaj. Nektar Zogjani BIRN Pristina Kosovo Police said the unnamed imam arrested in Gjilan was suspected of “encouraging jihad”, meaning “holy war”. They also said they found the […]
Read More →All parties are responsible (Danas)
Implementation of the Brussels Agreement is one of the three areas for which Belgrade, as announced, will receive a positive assessment in the annual report of the European Commission, which should appear in the first half of October. Due to mutual accusations of official Belgrade and Pristina, the fact that the elections on both sides […]
Read More →Ivanovic: The goal of my arrest is elimination from politicks (Politika)
Leader of the Civic Initiative SDP Oliver Ivanovic stated that the real reason behind his arrest is elimination from the political life in Kosovo, whereas it is ‘a paramount insult that EULEX refused guarantees extended by the Serbian government’. “My arrest may be in connection, but doesn’t have to, with my almost certain election for […]
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