Belgrade Media Report 31 October
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Dacic: Serbia’s foreign policy priority is EU membership (Tanjug)
• Djuric: Ivanovic is victim of “rule of law” in Kosovo (RTS)
• Kerry: U.S. grateful to Serbia for support in battle against Islamists (Novosti/Tanjug)
• What is rotten in EULEX (Politika)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Confirmed alliance between SNSD and HDZ B&H (Danas/BHRT)
• Dodik: Chairman of the Council of Ministers will be a Bosniak (BHRT)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Atifete Jahjaga had been invited to take part in a meeting in Belgrade of the Trilateral Commission, a biannual gathering of influential business leaders, academics and policymakers (World Bulletin)
• Bosnians Punished Parties in Power, Panel Says (BIR)
• The Chance for a Multi-Ethnic Bosnia (Anadolu Agency)
• Mladic Witness: Serb-Run Hospital Helped Bosniaks (BIRN)
Haradinaj: Institutions to be formed in line with coalition agreement (Gazeta Blic)
Ramush Haradinaj, leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), said today that the process of forming new institutions should be concluded in line with the agreement between the coalition partners. “The leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), Ramush Haradinaj, met today with the party’s forum, the chairmanship and […]
Read More →What is rotten in the EULEX ? (Radio Kontakt Plus, Politika)
The falsification of evidence against Oliver Ivanovic show that international judges and prosecutors in Kosovo adopted the local way of behavior, instead to impose legal standards of the countries from which they came, writes Politika. The first blow mission suffered when the Pristina daily Koha Ditore on Monday announced that the prosecutor of the United Kingdom, […]
Read More →Pristina: Religious communities request registration (KiM radio)
The leaders and members of the Islamic, Serbian Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, Evangelical and Jewish communities reiterated the appeal to be allowed to register as legal entities and requested the return of property, as well as regulating of their finances. The second annual conference, “Inter-religious dialogue”, organized by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo was held in […]
Read More →Bojic: Police is not behind the attack on Ilic (KIM radio)
The Head of Operations of the Kosovo police in northern Kosovo Zeljko Bojic denied accusation of family Ilic that ‘the leadership of the police in Kosovo North region’ is behind the attack on its member Caslav Ilic. “Exactly from that reason we have requested that Serious Crimes Unit from the Kosovo police headquarters takes over […]
Read More →Kocijancic:Suspension unrelated to disclosure of information (Tanjug)
Eulex had suspended one of its staff members before media reports of alleged corruption among the mission’s top officials were published, and it is a separate case, unrelated to a suspected disclosure of information, says Maja Kocijancic, spokesperson of EU High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Policy Catherine Ashton. The person had been suspended […]
Read More →Trilateral Commission to discuss region’s EU path (Tanjug)
BELGRADE – The upcoming meeting of the European branch of the Trilateral Commission, set to open in Belgrade on Friday, will bring together participants from all European countries, who will discuss the progress of the entire region on the path towards EU accession, says Tahir Hasanovic, president of the organising committee of the European Trilateral […]
Read More →Mustafa: Kosovo doesn’t need elections, it needs a solution (Telegrafi)
Isa Mustafa, leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), writes on his Facebook account today: “Dear citizens, five months have passed since the agreement between the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) and the Initiative (NISMA), later joined by the Vetevendosje Movement, and our efforts to respect […]
Read More →Haziri confident deadlock will be resolved next week (Gazeta Express)
Lutfi Haziri, deputy leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), toldRadio Dukagjini today that intensive meetings of the coalition bloc this week are signs that a solution for the political deadlock will be found soon. Haziri said he was confident that the Assembly will be formed next week. “There have been tremendous efforts this week […]
Read More →Ivanovic victim of the “rule of law” in Kosovo (RTS)
“One part of the Brussels agreement envisages that, in Serb-majority municipalities in Kosovo, Serbs must be employed in Courts and Prosecutors’ Offices in proportion with the ethnic composition of the population. That part of the agreement must be implemented as soon as possible,” said Marko Djuric, Director of the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo and […]
Read More →The Commission for Missing Persons: Raska still in focus (RTK2)
“Raska region for us has not been completed. We have checked only the quarry, we have some points that were suspicious for us and we will process it at the working group in Belgrade,” says Prenk Gjetaj, President of the Government Commission on Missing Persons. A meeting of the Commission for Missing Persons in Pristina/Prishtine […]
Read More →Serbs from Đakovica/Gjakovë to attend All Souls Day (KIM radio)
Displaced Serbs from Đakovica/Gjakovë announced their plan to visit the town they were born on the occasion of the All Souls Day. Djokica Stojanovic, the chairperson of the association of displaced Serbs from Đakovica/Gjakovë, said that Serbs are planning to visit graveyards in villages Piskota and Petrovac on Saturday in an organized fashion, and later […]
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