Belgrade Media Report 23 January 2015
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Gasic: Serbia continuing policy of military neutrality (RTS/Tanjug)
• Djuric: We need to know who owns what (Danas)
• SRS submits petition for removal of Nikolic (RTS/Tanjug)
• Dveri: Vucic announced recognition of “Kosovo” (New Serbian Political Thought)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Decision made on the destruction of arms and ammunition (Srna)
• Mehmedovic: Dodik will not determine what SDA will do! (Oslobodjenje/Patria)
• IMF: No new tranche of the loan for B&H (Srna)
• Thaqi to Poposki: Pristina¬-Belgrade dialogue is good model for Skopje-Athens (Republika)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Kosovo miners end strike, give government more time to decide mines’s fate (Reuters)
• Murder Testimony Against Kosovo Serb Leader ‘Unconvincing’ (BIRN)
• Serbian minister: For EU integration, we need the understanding of our citizens (EurActiv)
• Islamist Terror Threat Draws EU, Balkans Together (Balkan Insight)
• Hague Tribunal Faces a Dramatic 2015 (BIRN)
Thaci and Dacic to meet at the UNSC on 6 February (Lajmi)
Lajmi reports that the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting on Kosovo will be held on 6 February. The news portal writes that this meeting will be a forerunner of the Pristina-Belgrade dialogue to be held in Brussels on 9 February. According to Lajmi, Kosovo and Serbia are expected to be represented by their respective Foreign […]
Read More →World Bank to support employment in Kosovo (RTKLive)
Minister of Labor and Social Welfare Arban Abrashi met on Thursday representatives of the World Bank (WB) in Kosovo and discussed the possibilities to increase employment. Abrashi informed the WB representatives on the plans and challenges of his ministry. It was emphasized the technical assistance that the World Bank could provide in various areas such […]
Read More →Protests against Jablanovic directed against the government (KIM Radio)
“Story, which is directed against the government and is misused by some for spreading hatred against the Serbs is irresponsible, unserious and is not contributing to anything,” said the Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo, Branimir Stojanovic, on a RTV Kim show ‘Dogovor’ (Agreement). Stojanovic said that protests against Jablanovic are staged by those who are […]
Read More →NATO Secretary General visits Kosovo (KosovaPress)
The Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Jens Stoltenberg, today visited KFOR Headquarters in Pristina. Stoltenberg thanked NATO troops who worked hard to ensure stability and safety in Kosovo. Asked about the future of the Kosovo Security Force (KSF), Stoltenberg said that KFOR will assist in the development of the KSF, and […]
Read More →Police not to confiscate documents any more (RTK2)
Ministry of the Interior informed that Kosovo Police will not confiscate driving licenses and other documents form drivers any more in cases when they violate traffic rules on Kosovo roads, carried electronic media. The decision was made by the Minister Skender Hyseni. Thus, annulled an earlier decision from 19 May 2014 which provided that police […]
Read More →First prosecution witness heard in Ivanovic trial (Tanjug)
BELGRADE – The cross-examination of the first prosecution witness in a case against leader of the Citizens’ Initiative ‘Freedom, Democracy, Justice’ (SDP) Oliver Ivanovic and four other Serbs was completed at the Basic Court in Mitrovica on Thursday. During the evidence hearing, which begun yesterday, the witness, Isa Mustafa, a Kosovo Albanian, said that Ivanovic […]
Read More →Trepca (Koha Ditore)
Columnist Lumir Abdixhiku states that Trepca mine is Kosovo’s most complex asset and this complexity is primarily related to the mine’s historical importance and the development potential it has. This is further increased by the way the mine was managed in the last fifteen years which, Abdixhiku says, was characterized by “inexplicable institutional negligence.” Trepca […]
Read More →Mustafa: We won’t bankrupt the state (Koha)
Several news sites cover Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa’s post on Facebook this morning, focusing on protests against Communities and Returns Minister Aleksandar Jablanovic and the Trepca issue. He wrote: “As Prime Minister, I appreciate the right to protest and organize strikes and other forms of expressing dissatisfaction. But I also believe that we need […]
Read More →Tahiri: We won’t discuss Trepca in Brussels (Express)
Kosovo’s Minister without portfolio Edita Tahiri told the news site on Thursday that the issue of the Trepca mining complex would under no circumstance be discussed in the Pristina-Belgrade dialogue. According to Tahiri, the red lines set in the dialogue with Belgrade do not allow for such topics to be addressed. She also said that […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 22 January
• Miners suspend their strike (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Protests against Jablanovic’s statements continue (Most monitored broadcasters, TV21&KTV)
• Kuçi: Special Tribunal has nothing to do with justice (RTK2)
• The issue of Serbian language implementation raised at the Assembly committee (RTK2)
UNMIK Headlines 23 January
• Trepca miners’ strike suspended (dailies)
• Kerry: We destroyed ISIS cells in Kosovo (dailies)
• EU experts say Kosovo threatened by terrorism (Koha)
• Dacic calls for Pristina meeting to be status-neutral (Kosova Sot)
• “Parliament doesn’t make good decisions for Kosovo” (Zeri)
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