Belgrade Media Report 16 March 2015
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Serbian government fully devoted to EU path (RTS)
• Djuric: Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija still not free (Jedinstvo/Tanjug)
• Djuric: Serbia in the political life of Kosovo and Metohija (Vesti/Tanjug/RTS)
• KFOR: Cooperation has contributed to improved security (Tanjug)
• Pristina continues with illegal privatization (Novosti)
• Branimir Stojanovic: We are not conditioning, but insisting on Union of Serb Municipalities (Radio Serbia)
• New symbols do not annul Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (Beta)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• B&H has received the green light from the EU for the SAP (N1)
• Possible blockade of the House of Peoples (Srna)
• Dodik: We continue to be the strongest (Beta, Banja Luka correspondent)
• B&H Journalist Association strongly condemns RS President’s verbal attack on Oslobodjenje reporter (Oslobodjenje)
• Nasa Stranka: Ethnic parties create favorable conditions for extremists (Oslobodjenje)
• Serge Brammertz visiting B&H (Oslobodjenje)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• FIBA grants Kosovo full membership, Serbia unhappy (Reuters)
• Interview: Serbia says Russia ties don’t hamper OSCE role (AP)
• Macedonia’s Gruevski rallies supporters, defies opposition (EurActiv)
• Hooligan Attack Raises Ethnic Tensions in Bosnia (BIRN)
• Confusion After Bosnia Arrests Explosives Smugglers (BIRN)
• US to back Montenegro in final stage of its NATO integration (NEOnline)
Matches with Kosovo must be avoided at all costs – KSS (Tanjug/B92)
BELGRADE — The Basketball Federation of Serbia (KSS) has said that Serbia should “avoid matches with Kosovo at all costs.” The statement came in the wake of the International Basketball Federation’s (FIBA) acceptance of Kosovo as a full member. “The admission of Kosovo to FIBA membership, despite objections from Serbia, was a logical consequence of […]
Read More →Djuric: Serbs in KiM still not free (Tanjug)
BELGRADE – Marko Djuric, director of the Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), stated that 11 years after the March pogrom, Serbs in KiM are still not free, and expressed expectation that the ones responsible for the Golgotha of Serbs will finally be punished. In the pogrom, which lasted from March 17 to 19, 2004, […]
Read More →Return until the end of May? (Danas)
Is boycott of Kosovo institutions strategy of the Serbian List or a ‘theater’? Even though there is no formal deadline for return of the Serbian List in the institutions of self-declared Kosovo state, political analyst Dusan Janjic says to Danas that Serb representatives, if they wish to respect the agreed dynamic of implementation of the […]
Read More →Veseli: The time to come back (Koha)
Kosovo Assembly Speaker Kadri Veseli, in an opinion piece, calls on the Serbian List to return to the Kosovo institutions “and not deny their constituency a basic democratic right: the right for institutional representation”. “If the goal of the Serbian List is to improve the wellbeing of Kosovo Serbs, it can certainly not achieve this […]
Read More →Kastrati: KSF ready to take part in peacekeeping missions (RTK)
Kadri Kastrati, the outgoing commander of the Kosovo Security Force, told RTK today that the KSF is ready to take part in peacekeeping missions abroad. “We are on the verge of transforming the KSF into the Armed Forces of Kosovo,” Kastrati added.
Read More →Lunacek: Five member states aren’t doing anything to recognize Kosovo (Koha/ABC News)
In an interview for ABC News, Ulrike Lunacek, the European Parliament’s Rapporteur on Kosovo, said she was very pleased to hear Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship, Avramopoulos, say that Kosovo is making the final steps toward visa liberalization. “This is the first time that I am hearing something like this from the Commission. […]
Read More →Sale of the Serbian property without Serbs (Vecernje Novosti)
Pristina authorities are trying to use political vacuum, which occurred after Serbian MPs left Kosovo institutions, so they could continue illegal privatization of the property in the Serbian areas. Kosovo Property Agency announced privatization of 9 premises of socially owned enterprise “Luks” till the end of the month. Mayor of Mitrovica north Goran Rakic said […]
Read More →James Ker-Lindsay: Serbia is not a Trojan horse of Russia (Vecernje Novosti)
James Ker-Lindsay, director of the Centre for Southeast Europe of a London School of Economics says that Belgrade must take into account its relations with Moscow until a final solution for Kosovo and Metohija In the West, it is often represented that the countries in the Western Balkans are more inclined to Russia, but we […]
Read More →Rule of law institutions to coordinate actions against corruption (Koha)
Representatives of rule of law institutions held a joint meeting on Monday in order to coordinate actions to be taken in combating corruption. The meeting was attended by Acting Head State Prosecutor Syle Hoxha, head of the Kosovo Judicial Council Enver Peci, director of the Kosovo Police, Shpend Maxhuni, representatives of the Supreme Court and […]
Read More →Kuci urges Greece to recognize Kosovo (Telegrafi)
Kosovo’s Minister of Justice, Hajredin Kuqi, met on Monday with Greece Ambassador to Kosovo, Constantina Athanassiadou. Kuqi and Athanassiadou discussed Greece’s support for Kosovo’s justice system through EU Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX). Kuci stressed that bilateral cooperation in the field of justice must be strengthened even more, because it significantly facilitates cross-border […]
Read More →Interior Minister Hyseni and Peci discuss fight against crime and corruption (Telegrafi)
Kosovo’s Interior Minister, Skender Hyseni, on Monday met with head of the Kosovo Judicial Council, Enver Peci. Hyseni and Peci discussed the cooperation between the two institutions with the aim of providing better services to the people of Kosovo, who face different judicial processes. This meeting is the continuation of the excellent cooperation between the […]
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