Belgrade Media Monitoring 21 October 2014
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Ladsous: No plans for UNMIK’s reduction (RTS)
• Dacic briefs EU ambassadors (RTS)
• U.S: Embassy welcomes joint statement by Vucic and Rama (Tanjug)
• Kostic calls for international reaction (Tanjug)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• SNSD claims its coalition has majority (Beta)
• Jolevski: Macedonian troops take part in numerous peacekeeping missions (Republika)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• UEFA official says Serbia and Albania will be ‘fined severely,’ but likely not expelled from Euro 2016 (The Washington Post)
• Dispatch: The One Muslim Country That Loves America Is Developing an Extremist Problem (Foreign Policy)
• US Praises Macedonian Law to Jail Militants (BIRN)
• Montenegro under pressure (Inside Europe)
No inter ethnic incidents in Mitrovica (Indeksonline)
After the consecutive attacks on the properties of Albanians throughout Serbia, Belgrade officials have now started to slander that the same thing is happening to Serb properties in Kosovo. However, Kosovo Police claims that there were no incidents in Mitrovica south since 14 October, when the football match between Albania and Serbia in Belgrade was […]
Read More →Bloc will no longer call Assembly sessions to debate (RTK)
Post- election coalition parties – Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Alliance for Future of Kosovo (AAK), Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA) and Vetevendosje – see no reason to continue with debates during Assembly sessions and say that conclusions that came from the last session should now be implemented. AAK’s MP, Donika Kadaj-Bujupi said they are waiting […]
Read More →Before and after the Serbia-Albania match that became a riot: In the Balkans, football rivalries really run deep (The Independent)
The chant from the Serbian fans was, “Gas chamber for the Albanians”. The Albanians replied, “We are better thieves than you and we f*** your sisters”. This was at a football match at Skopje, in 1999; the Kosovo conflict was raging and feelings were running high. Drunken skirmishes followed in the streets. At the time […]
Read More →Daut Haradinaj: Elections remain an option (Telegrafi.com)
According to Daut Haradinaj, deputy of the Alliance for the future of Kosovo (AAK), if President Jahjaga does not address once again the Constitutional Court to clarify article 127, if she refuses this request, then elections remain an option. “There is no progress. All are united and waiting. Elections would remain as another option even […]
Read More →Arben Gashi requests compromise of coalition block on the position of Assembly President (koha online)
Arben Gashi, member of the General Council of the Democratic League of Kosovo and deputy of this party, said that the coalition block should act quickly and that the best solution is redesigning of the coalition. Gashi wrote in his Facebook page that coalition block and Vetevendosje should rush with their actions. “The end of […]
Read More →Nearly all attacks against bakeries solved, 11 detained (Tanjug)
BELGRADE – Serbian police have solved nearly all attacks against bakeries owned by ethnic Albanians and Gorani that took place in the Vojvodina province in the past few days, detaining 11 suspects, says Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic. “Over the past two or three days, 62 people have been questioned in connection with the incidents, […]
Read More →Kostic calls on international community to react urgently (Tanjug)
MITROVICA – Vladeta Kostic, a Serbian MP from Kosovo-Metohija, called on the international community on Tuesday to take all measures necessary to prevent the spread of anti-Serb violence in the province. “Due to the increasingly frequent incidents in Kosovo-Metohija, I call on Eulex. Kfor and Unmik officials to react urgently and take all measures necessary […]
Read More →Serbian List to form a Bloc of 20 MPs alongside minority communities MPs (Gazeta Blic)
Serbian List has acted as an independent political entity in deciding to cooperate only with non-Albanian parties and wants to establish a coalition bloc with them, said head of the List, Aleksandar Jablanovic. “This bloc will consist of twenty MPs that will make an important political force and will represent interests of minorities which are, […]
Read More →Regional meeting set to take place in Belgrade could be postponed (Koha)
Postponement of the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama’s visit to Belgrade could put into question the regional meeting of ministers of foreign affairs, economy and finance with representatives of European Commission, scheduled to take place in the Serbian capital on 23 October. This was announced by Serbian FM, Ivica Dacic, ahead of his visit to […]
Read More →Albania, Serbia, Kosovo trilateral meeting possible (Danas)
Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama will visit Serbia on 10 November, announced yesterday the Government of Serbia. His arrival was first scheduled for October 22, and then postponed by mutual agreement of Rama and his Serbian counterpart and future host Aleksandar Vucic. Vucic and Rama, as said, have discussed yesterday afternoon and agreed that […]
Read More →The Serbian list wants a block with non-Albanian parties (TV Most)
President of the Serbian List, Aleksandar Jablanovic says that the list acts independently as an independent political actor in the Assembly of Kosovo and cooperates only with the non-Albanian parties, and wants to create a block with them. “This is primarily Bosniaks, Ashkali, Gorani, Roma, Egyptians,” said Jablanovic and added “with them it will be […]
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