Belgrade Media Report 21 August 2014
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Joksimovic: We are waiting for good news from Brussels (Vecernje Novosti, 20 August 2014)
• KIM: Representatives of the Serbs boycott Brussels Agreement? (Vecernje Novosti, 20 August 2014)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• The leader of the Wahabi calls young men in B&H to join the jihad (Tanjug, Dnevni Avaz, 19 August 2014)
• Montenegro: A high rate of unsolved crimes (Tanjug, 20 August 2014)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Serbia Hunt for Kosovo War Bodies Inconclusive (BIRN, By Nektar Zogjani, 21 August 2014)
• Russian sanctions give Serbia unique chance — agriculture minister (ITAR-TASS, 21 August 2014)
• Croatia to suffer greater damage from Russian sanction as time goes: ministers (XINHUA, 20 August 2014)
• Croatian Anti-Fascist Street Name Sparks Dispute (BIRN, By Josip Ivanovic, 21 August 2014)
• Bosnian Serb Prisoners Recall Beatings at Silos Camp (BIRN, By Denis Dzidic, 21 August 2014)
Dokufest – a documentary film festival putting Kosovo on cultural map (Reuters)
By Fatos Bytyqi PRIZREN, Kosovo | Aug 21, 2014 (Reuters) – Under a starry sky, young Kosovars take their seats alongside tourists on a platform rising from the shallow Bistrica River that cuts through Prizren, bats darting overhead in the moonlight. Others dangle their legs from the stone riverbank walls – all drawn to the […]
Read More →16 years on, kidnappers of Serb journalists still not found (B92, Tanjug)
August 21 marks the 16th anniversary since the kidnapping in 1998 of two Serb journalists near Orahovac, in Kosovo. The Serbian Government Office for Kosovo issued a statement on this occasion to warn that the kidnappers of Radio Priština’s Đuro Slavuj and Ranko Pereneć have not been found yet. Those who, for the second consecutive […]
Read More →The Constitutional Court session concludes, decision later (kohaonline)
The session of the Constitutional Court, similar to that of the Assembly of Kosovo The hearing of the political contest between the coalition block LDK-AAK-NISMA, supported also by Vetevendosje Movement on one side and the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) on the other, was held in almost the same manner as the Kosovo Assembly session held […]
Read More →Kosovo Rivals Take Speaker Row to Constitutional Court (Balkan Insight)
21 Aug 14 At a Constitutional Court hearing on Thursday, Kosovo’s two main political blocs argued about which of them has the right to nominate the speaker of parliament. Nektar Zogjani BIRN Pristina The court hearing should pave the way for a ruling designed to end a political stalemate in Kosovo over the election of […]
Read More →“The father” of the PDK! (Zeri)
Editor Lavdim Hamidi writes that there are many people who think that after listening to the arguments of political parties in the first hearing session, Enver Hasani, president of the Constitutional Court, will make a decision in favor of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK). “The first question that arises in this situation is why […]
Read More →Messages from the north (Kosova Sot)
The paper’s front-page editorial notes that Thaci’s government managed to sign the agreement for normalization of relations between Kosovo and Serbia, but the part about the judiciary was not finalized due to Belgrade’s tendency to create an ethnic division among Kosovo courts. “In the north, extremist individuals and groups have not stopped their activities and […]
Read More →Ternava: I’m not saying there is extremism in Kosovo (Gazeta Express/Deutsche Welle)
Express carries an interview that Naim Ternava, head of the Islamic Community of Kosovo (BIK) gave to Deutsche Welle. What is your position toward the arrest of people suspected of extremism, jihad and terrorism in Kosovo? The Islamic Community of Kosovo supports every action by our institutions that concerns security in the country, the future […]
Read More →Journalists to be protected (KIM radio)
Following their meeting in Kosovo Polje/Fushë Kosovë, the Minister for Communities and Return Dalibor Jevtic and the head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo Jean-Claude Schlumberger have both requested the case of two missing Serbian journalists Djuro Slavuj and Ranko Perinic to be resolved. Dalibor Jevtic stressed that building of mutual trust between citizens and […]
Read More →Milosavljevic: The Constitutional Court will give guidance (KiM Radio)
If it turns out that Isa Mustafa was not legally elected president of the parliament, the Constitutional Court will provide further guidance, says MP Sasa Milosavljevic. “It is important that the Assembly was constituted and that the mandates are verified. The court could only decide whether the President of the Assembly was elected according to […]
Read More →Popovic: Kosovo Serbs to fight for their rights (Blic)
Director of the Office for communities of Kosovo PM, Srdjan Popovic, believes that Serbs in Kosovo must fight for their rights that are violated. Popovic, who is an adviser to Kosovo Prime Minister, said that many rights of the Serbs are violated – from employment in public institutions, economic development, up to the problems of […]
Read More →Twenty seven displaced families are expected to return to Peja (Koha)
Peja Municipality, the representative of displaced persons and UNHCR on Wednesday have signed an agreement with which it is foreseen the return of displaced persons from this municipality from Montenegro and Macedonia. This way in the list to return are 27 families of Roma and Egyptian community, meanwhile for 7 of them will be constructed […]
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