Belgrade Media Report 13 February 2015
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Miscevic: Now is the time to accelerate negotiations (RTS)
• Drecun: Right time for opening Chapter 35 (RTS)
• Serbs thinking of freezing contacts with Pristina (Politika)
• Dragisic: Exodus is organized (Beta)
• Exodus (Novosti)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Bosic: SDS does not know which ministries they will get (Fena/Oslobodjenje)
• Wishes outstrip available ministries (Nezavisne novine)
• Jonathan Moore in Banja Luka: Freedom of speech must be protected (Oslobodjenje)
• Zaev possesses material of wiretapping of over 20,000 people (News 24)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Belgrade-Priština dialogue resumes (EurActiv)
• Pristina asks EU to expel illegal Kosovo migrants (EUbusiness)
• German police sent to Serbia-Hungary border to stem Kosovo exodus (Reuters)
• Serbian PM Going to Zagreb For Inauguration (BIRN)
Official: Aleksander Lumezi, the only candidate for chief prosecutor (Gazeta Express)
The Prosecutorial Council of Kosovo has decided to continue with the process of the nomination of the chief prosecutor of Kosovo, with a single candidate, Aleksander Lumezi. The latter will be interviewed next week, and only if he passes the interview, his name will be sent to the President of Kosovo for nomination.
Read More →Serbian illegal operator threatens population in the north (Koha online)
Illegal energy operator in northern Kosovo Elektrokosmet which supplies Serbs in this part with electricity, has started today to distribute notices that if they do not pay the energy bills, the will be disconnected from the network. Sources of Koha.net from the north informed that these warnings have been distributed to the population in Mitrovica, […]
Read More →“Srpska” next week with officials in Belgrade (KIM radio)
Representatives of the Serbian List will meet next week with top officials in Belgrade to discuss the situation in Kosovo occurred after the Kosovo government dismissed Minister Aleksandar Jablanovic, BETA learns from a source close to the “Srpska” list. The same source said that an option would be considered to freeze operation and communication between […]
Read More →Gorani seeking participation in the dialogue (KIM radio)
Gorani Citizens’ Initiative has asked the Government of Serbia and its negotiating team, to include Gorani into talks on Kosovo. The statement says that “at this point, Gorani, as the non-Albanian population in Kosovo, in these negotiations no one represents, or anyone protects our interests.” Gorani Citizens Initiative stated that the best example of this […]
Read More →Open letter to top state officials (KIM Radio)
The Association of Families of Kidnapped and Missing Persons in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) sent an open letter to top state officials on Friday, demanding that they raise the question of abducted and murdered Serbs before all international institutions and in contacts with international officials. In the letter addressed to Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic, Prime Minister […]
Read More →Jahjaga to sign decrees on the appointment of Serbian judges (Danas)
The Government of Serbia adopted yesterday report on the agreement on the judiciary, which Belgrade and Pristina initialled in Brussels earlier this week. The Government of Serbia unofficially announces that the Serbian officials would talk with employees in the Serbian judiciary in northern Kosovo on the implementation of the agreement, which provides their integration into […]
Read More →Ahmeti: Demolition is not a solution; we will work according to the law (RTK2)
Mayor of Pristina Shpend Ahmeti said there will be no discrimination, or privileges, in the process of legalization of buildings, including religious, such as the Temple of Christ the Savior, but also a number of mosques in the territory of the municipality. When asked what kind of message Pristina would send to the displaced Serbs […]
Read More →Still without a Safe House in Mitrovica (Kontakt Plus Radio)
Mothers with children are most frequent victims of a domestic violence according to statistics of the Department for protection of children and youth which operates within the Center for Social Affairs in Mitrovica North, whereas lack of a Safe House makes the problem more complicated. The director of the Center for Social Affairs, Dejan Đinović, […]
Read More →Stricter controls for Serbian passport (Danas)
Serbia will strengthen the control of requests for the Serbian passports, particularly of those people who are trying to reach foreign countries with Serbian passports, learned Danas in the Government of Serbia. As said, Serbia probably will not issue the passport to all Albanians from Kosovo who request it. As explained, the reason for this […]
Read More →Christian heritage in KiM presented in the US Congress (RTS)
A monograph “Christian heritage of Kosovo and Metohija: Historical and spiritual center of Serbian nation” was presented on 10 February at the US Congress library. It is about supplemented edition of “Heritages of Kosovo” in the English language. Several presenters appealed for the end of demolition and desecration of Serbian churches in Kosovo and Metohija, […]
Read More →Dveri: Migration from KiM evacuation before a war (Vesti)
Movement Dveri (extra-parliamentarian party in Serbia) assessed that massive migration of Albanian women and children from Kosovo and Metohija for sure doesn’t’ resemble on economic migration, instead it has all elements of an evacuation of civilians from the future war operation zone. “Migration is carried out fast and in panic, what is never a feature […]
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