Belgrade Media Report 02 February
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Judiciary continues to be controversial (Danas)
• Djuric on resumption of dialogue with Pristina (Novosti)
• UN interested in a convict sentenced by the court of non-existent country (Danas)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Bosic: Dodik leading Republika Srpska into isolation (Oslobodjenje)
• Djokic: Essential changes in new text of a statement (Srna)
• ICJ to rule on Croatia vs. Serbia genocide claims on Tuesday (Dalje.com)
• Moscow Hopes for Thorough Investigation into failed coup in FYROM (In.mk)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Top UN court to rule in Croatia, Serbia genocide claims (AFP)
• BiH presidency passes statement over reforms, path to EU (Xinhua)
• Montenegro, Bosnia at Loggerheads Over Border (Balkan Insight)
• Russian Crime Gang Suspect Held In Montenegro (RFE/RL)
Belgrade-Pristina talks set to resume (SETimes)
The prime ministers of Serbia and Kosovo, Aleksandar Vucic and Isa Mustafa, will meet in Brussels on February 9th to continue negotiations between the two countries after a break in talks that lasted several months. The precise topics of discussion are still unknown, but the participants will certainly cover implementation of the Brussels Agreement and […]
Read More →Albanians can’t trick A/CSM (Vecernje Novosti)
Interview with the Director of the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Đurić. Continuation of the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina on 9 February is seen by the Serbian side as an opportunity to launch important topics such as Association/Community of Serb municipalities and its statute, along with the review of all unsettled […]
Read More →Parliament Speaker Veseli calls on people not to flee Kosovo (Lajmi)
Kadri Veseli, the Speaker of the Parliament of Kosovo, called on the citizens of Kosovo not to flee their country. “Our people should stay here and try to improve their wellbeing, develop the economy and not flee the country,” he added. The Presidency of Parliament decided today that the parliamentary debate between Prime Minister Isa […]
Read More →Hyseni: Police does not accept ultimatums (Koha)
Kosovo’s Interior Minister, Skender Hyseni, has justified Kosovo Police’s (KP) actions on the protest of 27 January, saying that the police does not accept ultimatums from any group of protesters. Hyseni told the Committee on Internal Affairs and Security that KP would not have retracted after the ultimatum, because according to him, in this case […]
Read More →Government appoints first deputy ministers (Gazeta Blic)
Prime Minister of Kosovo Isa Mustafa has officially appointed Petrit Selimi as Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ramadan Ilazi as Deputy Minister of European Integration and Agim Krasniqi as Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Finance. The first two deputy prime ministers are members of Hashim Thaci’s Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) […]
Read More →The deficit of democracy among Kosovo’s leaders (Koha Ditore)
Brussels-based correspondent Augustin Palokaj argues in an opinion piece that “with their reactions toward the actions of the opposition, with their insulting and paranoid speech against the critical media, with the chronic lack of assuming any responsibility for the problems of society and with tendencies to use the state and public apparatus for their own […]
Read More →Police wants to meet Vetevendosje representatives (Kosovapress)
Kosovo Police general director Shpend Maxhuni said they are trying to set up a meeting with leaders of Vetevendosje and agree on modalities regarding the Wednesday protest. Maxhuni made the comments during his reporting before the parliamentary committee on internal affairs, security and supervision of the Kosovo Security Force. He said the Kosovo Police would […]
Read More →Agron Selimaj appointed as new intelligence chief (all media)
The President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga and Prime Minister Isa Mustafa today appointed Agron Selimaj as director of the Kosovo Intelligence Agency (KIA). Selimaj served as a General Inspector at KIA. The news was confirmed by President’s Office through a press release.
Read More →Former Trepca director: Do not politicize Trepca (Epoka e Re)
The former director of the Trepca mining complex, Ferat Shala, urged the opposition parties not to politicize this enterprise. He said that Trepca issue cannot be resolved in the streets, but in Kosovo institutions by hiring experts to do so. According to Shala, Trepca should not be discussed in any way with Belgrade. “Trepca mining […]
Read More →Health Center in North Mitrovica lacks medicine (KoSSev)
The biggest problem of the Health Center in North Mitrovica is poor supply with drugs, caused by the strict control of the import of medicine and sanitary material at crossing Jarinje, between northern Kosovo and Serbia proper. Deputy Director of the Health Center, Zlatan Elek, said that the biggest problem of that institution is procurement […]
Read More →High-way to Tirana on the Serbian land (Vecernje Novosti)
Serbs in Central Kosovo claim that they are damaged by expropriation of land carried out by the Kosovo government for the sake of construction of the high-way which connects Kosovo with Albania. Besides the low prices for expropriated parcels of the most fertile land, owners claim that they are damaged and because parts of their […]
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