Belgrade Media Report 15 September 2014
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Nikolic and Radmanovic for best possible cooperation (RTS)
• Serb list MPs not selling themselves to Thaqi (Politika)
• Kosovo Serbs still weighing a coalition with Self-Determination (Novosti)
• Joksimovic: Negotiations to open by end of year (Novosti)
• Kosovo – from precedent to rule (Politika)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Dacic and Popovski agree on joint diplomatic offices (Republika)
• Macedonian citizen killed in Iraq (Dnevnik/Utrinski Vesnik/Kanal 5)
• Lavrov: Dangerous revision of Dayton agreement (Blic)
• Vienna a center for radical Salafists from B&H (Tanjug)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Serbia Repatriates 24 War Victims’ Bodies to Kosovo (BIRN)
• Kosovo Albanian Prisoner Recalls Beating by KLA (BIRN)
• Lavrov warns against revision of Dayton Agreement (ITAR-TASS)
• Scottish referendum raises Bosnian Serbs’ independence hopes (AFP)
• Macedonia Opposition Spurns Plan to Clean Electoral Roll (BIRN)
Serbs, people on the margins (Vesti)
Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija are the most vulnerable population in Europe. They absolutely depend on Serbia, whereas in Kosovo’s society they are on the margins of all margins. “I don’t know whether it would be possible to explain to an average German that someone is able to enter into your house, live there, work […]
Read More →Hoxhaj: Sanctions to Russia, war to ISIS (Gazeta Tribuna)
“When the EU and the U.S. have decided to put such sanctions against Russian Federation and when they are more determinant than ever, of course Kosovo would do the same thing. So, there is a logical and coordinated flow of the democratic world to condemn the Russian behavior and there is no doubt that Kosovo […]
Read More →Albanian flag at the crossing (KIM radio)
The flag of the Republic of Albania has been posted at the main mast on the Kosovo side at the border crossing Djeneral Jankovic/Hani i Elezit between Kosovo and Macedonia. Even though placing of flags of other states at Kosovo institutions is forbidden by the law, since it provides that only Kosovo insignia could be […]
Read More →Headquarters in action (Zeri)
The paper’s editor-in-chief Arbana Xharra observes that the increase of tensions between the two political groupings in Kosovo has activated the “special war” with the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) on one hand having the right to nominate a candidate for Assembly speaker and on the other, the parties making the majority in the Assembly […]
Read More →Kosovo should not remain hostage to dialogue (Koha Ditore)
Augustin Palokaj writes today that it is almost certain that the new EU foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, will insist on continuation of the Pristina-Belgrade dialogue and implementation of all agreements reached in the course of it. In fact, adds Palokaj, normalization of relations between Kosovo and Serbia is also the condition the two countries […]
Read More →Serbia Repatriates 24 War Victims’ Bodies to Kosovo (Balkan Insight)
15 Sep 14 The remains of the ethnic Albanians who were killed during the late 1990s war and buried in a mass grave near the Serbian town of Raska were sent back to Kosovo for identification. Marija Ristic BIRN Belgrade The EU rule-of-law mission in Kosovo, EULEX, said on Friday that it had received the […]
Read More →Security and order matters treated at the Presidency (Koha online)
President Atifete Jahjaga held today a joint meeting with the outgoing Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci, the Chief Prosecutor, Syle Hoxha, head of the Judicial Council of Kosovo, Enver Peci, Director of Kosovo Police, Shpend Maxhuni and Deputy Director of the Kosovo Intelligence Agency, Muharrem Ajeti, to assess the recent developments in Kosovo, after the last […]
Read More →Constitutional Court lacks quorum, it cannot review political cases (Gazeta Express)
The work of the Constitutional Court is now blocked after the resignation of U.S. judge Robert Carolan. Sources told Express that the Court no longer has the required quorum to address political cases. “The Court currently has seven judges, but Mr. Kadri Kryeziu cannot participate in the addressing of political cases because he was dismissed […]
Read More →PM with Vucic, Kurti with Djuric (Blic)
Kosovo political analyst, Fatmir Sheholi, believes that representative of the Government of Kosovo will lead the political dialogue, and representative of the Self-determination will be at the forefront of technical dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, which will be soon continued. He rejected the ambiguity, caused by the attitude of Self-determination, that Belgrade should not participate […]
Read More →Tahiri: We are waiting for a reply from the UN about the petition (RTK)
A working group in Pristina that organized a petition seeking international justice for women raped during the war in Kosovo is waiting for a reply from the United Nations headquarters in New York, before they can submit the petition. Kosovo’s Deputy Prime Minister Edita Tahiri, who leads the working group, said the UN needs to […]
Read More →Robert Carolan no longer to serve as judge in Constitutional Court (Koha)
U.S. judge Robert Carolan will no longer serve as a judge with the Constitutional Court of Kosovo. Sources told Koha Ditore that Carolan turned down another mandate with the court. “His departure has to do with the fact that he was the only one not to agree with the two latest decisions of the Constitutional […]
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