Belgrade Media Report 17 September 2014
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Serb list without Self-Determination (RTS)
• Djuric and CoE delegation discuss Belgrade-Pristina dialogue (Tanjug)
• Ashton welcomes implementation of freedom of movement (Beta)
• Forest thief Naim Zumeri charged with three offences (Politika)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Dodik: Approved loan worth 76 million euros and direct supply of heavy fuel oil and gas (RTRS)
• SBB B&H: Our destiny is not going to be decided by Erdogan’s or Putin’s liegeman, we want EU and NATO (Dnevni avaz)
• New indictments for war crimes announced (Dnevni Avaz)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Kosovo Police Swoop on Hardline Muslim Leaders (BIRN)
• Hill International to manage €600m Kosovo highway project (The Construction Index)
• Hundreds of Balkan Jihadists Have Joined ISIS, CIA Says (BIRN)
Serbian List in the government without Self-Determination (RTS)
Political representatives of Kosovo Serbs and Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic agreed today that the Serbian List is ready to participate in future Kosovo government without the members of the Self-Determination movement. At the press conference Director of the Serbian Office for Kosovo Marko Djuric said that the Serbian List is ready to talk with […]
Read More →Kosovo makes arrests in new push to stem flow of fighters to Syria, Iraq (Reuters)
9:49am BST By Fatos Bytyci PRISTINA (Reuters) – Police in Kosovo arrested 15 people on Wednesday, including a number of imams, in the second major operation in weeks to stem the flow of young ethnic Albanians joining Islamist fighters in Iraq and Syria, a police source said. Local media reported that an influential imam of […]
Read More →Romanian Election Raises Kosovo’s Hope of Recognition (Balkan Insight)
17 Sep 14 If Victor Ponta wins the presidential poll in Romania, Kosovo will be waiting to see if he acts on his pledge to rethink Romania’s opposition to Kosovo’s independence. Nektar Zogjani BIRN Pristina Victor Ponta said he would rethink Romania’s opposition to Kosovo’s independence | Photo by: Wikimedia Commons / anti.usl Refusal to […]
Read More →Hundreds of Balkan Jihadists Have Joined ISIS, CIA Says (Balkan Insight)
17 Sep 14 The latest CIA report says several hundred jihadists from a number of Balkan countries have joined the extremist group Islamic State in the Middle East. Dusica Tomovic BIRN Podgorica Car bomb explosion in Iraq | Photo by: Wikimedia Commons Bosnia, Kosovo and Albania are the main recruiting grounds in the Balkans for […]
Read More →Kosovo Police Swoop on Hardline Muslim Leaders (Balkan Insight)
17 Sep 14 Party leader Fuad Ramiqi is among a number of Islamic leaders seized by police as part of a crackdown on Islamists in the majority-Muslim country. Nektar Zogjani BIRN Pristina Kosovo Police on Wednesday arrested Fuad Ramiqi, leader of Levizja Islamike Bashkohu [Islamic Movement Unite], LISBA, a hard-line Muslim organization that has transformed […]
Read More →Kosovar Imams Arrested In Bid To Stem Militant Recruiting (RFE/RL)
By RFE/RL’s Balkan ServiceSeptember 17, 2014 http://www.rferl.org/content/kosovo-arrests-terrorism-recruiting/26589932.html Fifteen influential Muslim leaders have been arrested across Kosovo in a crackdown targeting what authorities say is a recruiting network for Islamic State militants and Al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria, the Al-Nusra Front. Authorities in Pristina told RFE/RL that those arrested on September 17 include Shefqet Krasniqi, the imam […]
Read More →Vote for Arsim Bajrami (Koha Ditore)
Publicist Halil Matoshi in his weekly column for the paper writes that the Constitutional Court has left no legal mechanism available for the parliamentary majority to be able to nominate and elect its candidate to the post of Assembly speaker. Being that, as Matoshi says, the president of Kosovo and the Constitutional Court openly support […]
Read More →Tahiri: Agreement on energy has been reached (Kosovapress)
Kosovo’s Deputy Prime Minister and chief negotiator, Edita Tahiri said today that Kosovo and Serbia have reached an agreement to cooperate on energy transmission and that the agreement will be implemented immediately. Tahiri said the two sides also reached an agreement to expand the agreement on freedom of movement, including the travel of Kosovo citizens […]
Read More →Kosovo Police confirms 15 arrests (Gazeta Blic)
Kosovo Police issued a press release today confirming that 15 persons were arrested in several locations. After several months of investigations and in cooperation with State Prosecution, Kosovo Police this morning conducted a country-wide operation to arrest people suspected of committing criminal offenses against the constitutional order and security in the Republic of Kosovo. The […]
Read More →This is how Thursday’s Assembly session will go about (Gazeta Blic)
An international diplomat spoke to Gazeta Blic on anonymity conditions and said that “the recent developments in the Constitutional Court have been more than unfortunate and have made Quint countries, in particular, review their position after the session”. The source said that Thursday’s session is expected to be a repeat of the one from 17 […]
Read More →Police escorts Fuad Ramiqi to his home, LISBA reacts (Gazeta Express)
Fuad Ramiqi, leader of the Islamic Movement for Unification (LISBA), was arrested early this morning, and later in the day escorted by police to his home to be present during the raid. LISBA reacted against the arrest of Ramiqi and the imams saying that it “will organize protests and undertake legal measures in order to […]
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