Belgrade Media Report 5 December 2014
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic at UNSC: Serbs in Kosovo live in ghettos (Blic)
• UNMIK chief Farid Zarif: Kosovo needs government, talks should continue (Tanjug)
• Vucic, Thaci discuss resumption of dialogue (RTS)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• KFOR Commander Visits Macedonia (Kanal 5/Sitel/Telma/MTV1)
• FB&H House of Representatives: Members of the 14 Commissions and 12 Committees (Oslobodjenje)
• SDA, DF and the HDZ assume their positions in ZDK: Galijasevic or Plancic will lead the Government (Oslobodjenje)
• Slovenian President Pahor: To accept the B&H in NATO and prevent the Russian influence (Osobodjenje)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Russia indignant at anti-Serb actions in Kosovo — UN ambassador (ITAR-TASS)
• Europe’s hope to gas Russia fails (Pravda.Ru)
• Bosnia Says It Arrested 15 Involved in 1993 Massacre (The New York Times)
• Serb Cross Above Sarajevo Torn Down (BIRN)
• Republika Srpska Bans Macedonian Meat Products (BIRN)
Hodzic doubts in layoff of employees (RTK2)
The director of the Kosovo government’s Administrative Office in Mitrovica Adrijana Hodzic says that she doesn’t believe that hundreds of employee in northern Kosovo will remain jobless in next year and that the biggest challenge would be creation of the Association/Community of Serb municipalities (A/CSM). “I understood that Pristina is not interested for such thing […]
Read More →Surroi to replace Shala as dialogue coordinator? (Indeksonline)
Citing sources close to Kosovar publicist Veton Surroi, the news website reports that negotiations are being finalized for Surroi’s inclusion in the future government consisting of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) and the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK). According to the same sources, Surroi could take up the post held by Blerim Shala, the […]
Read More →PDK doesn’t want Mustafa for Prime Minister. Lutfi Haziri a compromise solution? (Gazeta Blic)
A senior member of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), preferring to remain anonymous, told the news website that the majority of PDK members don’t want Isa Mustafa, the leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), to be the new Prime Minister of Kosovo. The source also said that even if the PDK gives […]
Read More →Haziri: No Assembly session without agreement with PDK (Indeksonline)
Lutfi Haziri, a member of the chairmanship of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), said on Thursday that the inaugural session of the Kosovo Assembly would not resume without a prior agreement between the LDK and the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK). Haziri also said that “the post of the Prime Minister is a done […]
Read More →German authorities sentence Kreshnik Berisha for joining ISIS (Indeksonline)
Kreshnik Berisha was sentenced today in Frankfurt to three years and nine months in prison for joining the organization of Islamic State (ISIS). Last year, Berisha was accused that he traveled to Syria where he stayed for five months, and fought alongside ISIS, Indeksonline reports. This is the first trial in Germany held for someone who […]
Read More →France does not automatically recognize the right of asylum (Gazeta Express)
The recent information, that France, allegedly, automatically recognizes the right of asylum for citizens of Kosovo is not correct, Gazeta Ekspress reports. Kosovo Minister of Internal Affairs, Bajram Rexhepi, met French Ambassador to Kosovo, Maryse Daviet to discuss illegal migration of Kosovo citizens to European countries. According to Gazeta Express, Daviet told Rexhepi that the […]
Read More →Russian envoy: Ethnic strife persists in Kosovo (Tanjug/B92)
NEW YORK — Violence against Serbs in Kosovo and desecration of Orthodox monasteries “are a clear evidence of persisting ethnic strife in the Kosovo Albanian society.” This is according to Russia’s Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin, quoted by TASS, who late on Thursday took part in in a UN Security Council session dedicated […]
Read More →Make change happen, voluntarily! (Kosova Press)
Today [5 December] is the International Volunteer Day (IVD), set by the General Assembly of the United Nations. This is seen as a unique opportunity for volunteers and organizations to celebrate their efforts to display values, and promote their work among their communities, non-governmental organizations, United Nations agencies, government authorities and the private sector, Kosova […]
Read More →UNMIK chief: Kosovo needs government, talks should continue (Tanjug/B92)
NEW YORK — UNMIK Chief Farid Zarif has called on the political leaders in Kosovo to finish forming a new government. He added that the talks between Belgrade and Pristina need new momentum and that the meetings between top officials of the two sides should continue. The 6-month delay in forming a government in Pristina […]
Read More →PM at UNSC: Serbs in Kosovo live in ghettos (Tanjug/B92)
NEW YORK — Serbia’s Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has said that the basic premises for normal life have not been established in Kosovo to this day. He stressed Serbia’s commitment to reconciliation between the different peoples living in Kosovo and to providing a better everyday life for all. Belgrade is adamant in its decision not […]
Read More →Organized crime and terrorism threaten Kosovo (KosovaPress)
Organized crime and terrorism are threatening Kosovo and the whole region, so the combat against these phenomena must be done with regional cooperation. This was said during the regional conference on “Challenges in combating organized crime and terrorism, and the cooperation in South-Eastern Europe,” Kosova Press reports. Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga said that combating organized […]
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