Belgrade Media Report 9 September 2014
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Dacic: Serbs to serve their sentence in Serbia (Politika/RTS)
• Serbia-Russia relations at a very high level (Tanjug/Radio Serbia)
• Belgrade strengthening activities towards preventing new recognitions of Kosovo and Metohija (Novosti)
• Italian media: More fighters from Kosovo in the ranks of the “Islamic state” (RTS/B92)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Sorensen leaving for Geneva (Dnevni avaz)
• Bosniaks looking for a leader (NIN)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Belgrade Prosecutes Serbian Fighters for Deadly Kosovo Attack (BIRN)
• Serbia Caught in Middle Over Ukraine (Associated Press)
• UN Says ISIS Using Children as Suicide Bombers (RIA Novosti)
A threat from Jihadists from Kosovo (RTS)
Hundreds of fighters from Kosovo have departed to Iraq and Syria. Dozens of fundamentalist have been arrested and 16 have died. One suicide bomber has blown up himself in Baghdad. One of the ISIS leaders has posted pictures on social networks of beheading of someone’s head. Six years after declaration of independence, Kosovo has turned […]
Read More →The ramp for Kosovo at the East River (Vecernje Novosti)
Belgrade is strengthening its activities aiming at preventing new recognitions of Kosovo. Our delegation at UN will have meetings with around 30 world dignitaries between 21 and 27 September. Belgrade has prepared a comprehensive diplomatic activity as the ‘counter-attack’ to Pristina’s plans to provide new recognitions of independence. According to Novosti, lobbying of Serbia will […]
Read More →The enraged insults all partners (Koha)
Publicist Enver Robelli writes in his opinion piece that “Hashim Thaci’s recent insults against Albanian political parties that don’t want to enter a coalition with him reveal that the PDK chief sees Isa Mustafa, Ramush Haradinaj, Fatmir Limaj and Albin Kurti only as means to get to power through their votes”. Robelli notes that the […]
Read More →Ymeri: We have agreement, to be signed soon (RFE)
In an interview for Radio Free Europe, Vetevendosje MP Visar Ymeri confirmed they have reached an agreement with the coalition bloc between the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Alliance for Future of Kosovo (AAK) and Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA) and this is expected to be signed during the week. He said that the principles on […]
Read More →PDK youth in Pristina meet Mufti Ternava (RTK)
A group of youth, members of the Kosovo Democratic Youth met in Pristina head of Islamic Community, Mufti Naim Ternava. The meeting focused on current developments in Kosovo and also on the act of burning the ISIS flag in Pristina. The youths explained that their act yesterday was not intended to insult religious feelings of […]
Read More →Belgrade Prosecutes Serbian Fighters for Deadly Kosovo Attack (Balkan Insight)
Three former Serbian fighters, including special police commander Vladan Krstovic, are accused of war crimes during an attack on the Kosovo village of Ljubenic that left 46 ethnic Albanians dead. The case against Vladan Krstovic, Lazar Pavlovic and Milan Ivanovic for the attack on Ljubenic during the Kosovo war on April 1, 1999, during which […]
Read More →Serb List to support Isa Mustafa (RTK)
While the coalition bloc between the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Alliance for Future of Kosovo (AAK) and Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA) is making efforts to gather as many votes as possible for the 12 September Assembly session, the Serb List has already come out in support of Isa Mustafa’s nomination to the speaker’s post. […]
Read More →International institutions mediated for Gorani pupils (Vecernje Novosti)
In the elementary school “Zenuni” in the village of Brod, near Dragas, in Gora the classes for pupils are divided according to two curriculums, the Serbian and Kosovo. In addition, students on Sar Planina now attend classes in Bosnian language. “Our school has 115 students, out of which 80 attend school in Serbian language,” says […]
Read More →Vetevendosje to be part of talks with Serbia (Telegrafi)
Sources inside the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Alliance for Future of Kosovo (AAK) and Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA) coalition told Bota Press paper that the bloc has already agreed to have one representative from Vetevendosje part of talks with Serbia. “The composition of the delegation for talks with Serbia will be determined based on […]
Read More →Kosovo Islamic Union reacts on the burning of ISIS flag (Gazeta Blic)
Kosovo Islamic Union (KIU), reacted today against the action of around 20 young members of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) who set on fire the flag of the Islamic State, on Monday in Pristina, joining in this manner the world initiative #Burn ISIS Flag Challenge. The KIU stresses in a press release that Monday’s […]
Read More →Roma return to Kosovo from Montenegro (TV Most)
From Montenegro to Kosovo voluntarily returned on Monday 57 persons, who have fled to Podgorica in 1999. Roma were escorted from camp Konik in Podgorica to Klinavac in Klina/Kline municipality in Kosovo, where houses were built for them, said the representatives of the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare of Montenegro and UNHCR. Returnees will […]
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