Media advisory on behalf of UNOHCHR – UN expert on the right to adequate housing launches official visit to Serbia, including Kosovo*
UN expert on the right to adequate housing launches official visit to Serbia, including Kosovo* http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=15954&LangID=E GENEVA (13 May 2015) – United Nations Special Rapporteur Leilani Farha will visit Serbia, including Kosovo*, from 18 to 28 May 2015 to examine the overall achievements and challenges in realizing the right to adequate housing and non-discrimination at […]
Read More →Deputy SRSG concerned about recent incidents in Klinë/Klina, calls for intensified efforts to bring perpetrators to justice
UNMIK/PR/1815 Wednesday, 13 May 2015 Deputy SRSG concerned about recent incidents in Klinë/Klina, calls for intensified efforts to bring perpetrators to justice PRISTINA – During a visit to Klinë/Klina today, the Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General, Jennifer Brush, noted her concern for the number of incidents in recent weeks targeting returnees. She […]
Read More →Belgrade Media Report 13 May 2015
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Nikolic to Matviyenko: Serbia will remain neutral (Tanjug)
• Serbia is the only party for Kosovo Serbs (Beta)
• Dacic: Serbia supports everything except sanctions against Russia (RTS/Tanjug)
• Miscevic: Dialogue has impact on Serbia’s EU integration (Tanjug)
• Davenport: Progress in dialogue must be made in one month (Radio Serbia)
• Stankovic: Situation in Kosovo and southern Serbia peaceful (TV B92)
• Albanians procrastinating if something doesn’t suit them (TV B92)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Meeting Vucic – Zvizdic: Improving cooperation of Serbia, B&H in several areas (Klix.ba)
• B&H Presidency meets with Brammertz (Patria)
• UN Assistant to the Secretary General visits B&H (Novo vrijeme/Srna)
• Terrorists planned to blow up bridge in Skopje (Vecer/Hina)
• More attacks will happen, Islamists aspire to single state (Srna)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Macedonia ministers resign amid phone-tapping scandal (BBC)
• Smoke and gunpowder in the political dust of Macedonia (European Council on Foreign Relations)
• Bosnian Economy Starting to Recover, IMF Says (BIRN)
• Turkey calls for ‘economy for peace’ in western Balkans (Anadolu Agency)
• Montenegro PM Complains of ‘Masochistic’ Coalition (BIRN)
Constitutional amendments for special court sent to Assembly (Koha)
The Legislative Committee decided today to sent to the Assembly the constitutional amendments for the establishment of the special court which will address war crimes allegations. The Presidency of the Assembly has yet to decide on the date when the amendments will be presented to the MPs.
Read More →Limaj: Special court violates Kosovo’s sovereignty (RTKLive)
The leader of the Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA), Fatmir Limaj, called on Kosovo Assembly MPs not to vote in favor of the establishment of special court. According to him. this court violates Kosovo’s sovereignty. He said that the Kosovo Assembly is just a doll which cannot decide on things independently. Limaj made these comments after […]
Read More →Women MPs donate blood (RTKLive)
On the occasion of the “Day of nurses”, a group of women MPs in cooperation with the Municipality of Prishtina organized a voluntary action under the motto “Donate blood, save lives.” Also, on this occasion they presented certificates of appreciation for 14 nurses of the Main Family Medicine Center. The Mayor of Pristina, Shpend Ahmeti, […]
Read More →Preamble should be left even as “a constitutional imagination” (Blic)
Any change of the Constitution should be well planned. The parts of the Constitution should be changed, while the preamble should be left, said Professor of the Constitutional law Vladan Petrov. “My thesis does not correspond to the theses of politicians, since we are not changing the Constitution for the EU, but for us. It […]
Read More →For ZSO status of province in the Republic of Kosovo! (Vecernje Novosti)
According to the new platform on Kosovo, southern province could have the authorities as the republics in the former SFRY (former Yugoslavia), while the Community/Association of Serb municipalities (ZSO) would have powers like autonomous province in former federation. Exactly the content of the ZSO autonomy is the most delicate part of the future State’s plan. […]
Read More →The dialogue affects the integration of Serbia (Blic)
The head of the negotiating team for negotiations on Serbia’s accession to the EU, Tanja Miscevic said today that between Belgrade and Pristina, there is no agreement on the status of Community/Association of Serbian municipalities in Kosovo and added that this dialogue affects the European integration of our country. “We are not hostages of this […]
Read More →“UÇK” graffiti appear in Nis (Vecernje Novosti)
“UÇK” (Kosovo Liberation Army) graffiti have appeared on walls in several locations at the periphery of Nis in southern Serbia, two nights ago. Red color graffiti were found on locations where most of by-passers can see them, what led to anxiety amongst the residents of those suburbs because they remind them on organization that fought […]
Read More →Kosovo institutions do not care about justice (KIM radio)
“Kosovo institutions once again showed that they do not care about law and justice, but continue to do injustice by “switching the same argument”,” was said in the statement of the Association of Djakovica/Gjakove citizens, in regards to the filed indictment against Aleksandar Jablanović. Association of Djakovica citizens pointed out that this indictment and the […]
Read More →Women support the Brussels dialogue (Danas, KoSSev)
Regional dialogue in support to the Brussels Agreement with participation of women representatives of Serbian and Kosovo parliaments and NGO representatives, along with members of the international and regional organizations will be held today in North Mitrovica in organization of the UN Women and Regional Women Lobby. More than 130 women from Serbia and Kosovo […]
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