Belgrade Media Report 9 June 2015
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Ban appoints Miculescu UN representative to Serbia (Tanjug)
• Vucic: McAllister has a realistic attitude towards Serbia (Tanjug)
• Nikolic calls for condemnation of Albanian terrorist act (Novosti)
• Dacic: EU perspective enabled progress in Belgrade-Pristina dialogue (Politika)
• Gojkovic thanked Belarus for principled stand (Radio Serbia/Tanjug)
• Miscevic: Work on both normalization and Chapters 23, 24 (TV N1)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• DF ministers won’t participate in FB&H government session: We are the opposition! (Patria)
• Izetbegovic to Komsic: If you don’t attend the FB&H Government session you will endanger the reform path of B&H! (Dnevni avaz)
• Radoncic: I’m not interested in power with the state-mafia (Nezavisne)
• Papal visit a farce that Sarajevo is multiethnic, more Chinese living there than Serbs and Croats together (Srna)
• B&H charges 3 for planning attack in Sweden (Srna)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• US, Germany Put Conditions on Serbia Support (BIRN)
• Greece and FYROM set for talks to ‘resolve differences’ (neoskosmos.com)
• Macedonia at the Crossroads (The New York Times)
• Does Hahn get the Macedonia crisis? (EUobserver)
• Putin’s Prowl: Bear in the Balkans Sniffing at Macedonia (the-american-interest.com)
• Will Macedonia Scuttle Gazprom’s New Mega Pipeline? (worldcrunch.com)
Gojkovic thanks Belarus for not recognizing Kosovo (Tanjug)
Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic thanked President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko for the support his country gives to Serbia’s territorial sovereignty and integrity. The Parliament Speaker also thanked Belarus for not recognizing the independence of Kosovo, unilaterally proclaimed by ethnic Albanians in Serbia’s southern province in February 2008, and for the support of the Belgrade-Pristina […]
Read More →Opposition vows to halt establishment of special court (Kallxo.com)
The opposition parties said they were prepared to use “all the necessary means” to stop the vote on the establishment of special court, which is expected to address war crimes allegations. They say that they are against the special court, because they believe that the former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) fighters were heroic saviors who should […]
Read More →Kosovo to sign legal aid agreement with Hungary (KosovaPress)
Kosovo’s Justice Minister, Hajredin Kuci, and State Secretary of the Ministry of Justice of Hungary, Barna Berke will sign today an agreement on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters. This is the first field of international legal cooperation that both parties sign to proceed further with the negotiation of agreements on extradition and transfer of […]
Read More →Gender inequality in employment (Epoka e Re)
The paper reports that around 40 percent of women fit for work, are unemployed in Kosovo, while the employment rate among women of working age is about 13% while for men is 40%. These data were published in the latest report of the Kosovo Statistics Agency, called “Women and Men”, which states that nearly 50% […]
Read More →Jahjaga’s office: Nikolic paradoxical (Telegrafi)
The Office of the Kosovo President, Atifete Jahjaga, has reacted to the statements the Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic made against Jahjaga at the Brdo-Brijuni regional summit. Jahjaga’s office said that Nikolic caused a “paradoxical situation” and reverted to his old rhetoric after being outraged by the serious and equal treatment of Kosovo in the summit. […]
Read More →Miscevic: We will work on both, the process of normalization and Chapters 23 and 24 (Blic)
Serbia is aware that the normalization of relations with Pristina is a key political issue and an important moment that will define when the opening of the first Chapters in the negotiations with the EU will happen, said the head of the negotiating team, Tanja Miscevic. “The same importance have two Chapters related to the […]
Read More →Serbs still waiting for six posts of deputy ministers (RTK2)
Following the creation of the inter-ministerial group for return, chaired by the Kosovo Minister for Communities and Return Dalibor Jevtic, establishment of another one has been announced that will deal with the representation of non-majority communities in public institutions and companies, and will be chaired by the Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Branimir Stojanovic. “It will […]
Read More →“Kumanovo group” prepares new attacks (RTK2)
Macedonian police has raised the security level at the higher level following information that members of the “Kumanovo grouop” are preparing revenge attacks in Macedonia, stated spokesman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Macedonia Ivo Kotevski. Kotevski said to Meta agency that police has learned that members of the group are planning to carry […]
Read More →Jevtic: We work on solutions (Kontakt Plus Radio)
Minister for Communities and Return Dalibor Jevtic attended the session of the Kosovo parliament’s committee for the rights and interests of communities and return, chaired by the MP from the Serbian List Jasmina Zivkovic. Minister Jevtic said at the committee’s session that Ministry for Communities and Return is the institution focused on developing policies that […]
Read More →Surroi: The establishment of the Special Court complicated process (Blic)
”The process of the establishment of Special Court happens for the first time and of course that it requires the time and energy. On the other hand, it is obvious that part of the MPs within the Kosovo parliament are afraid of the Special Court”, said Journalist and publicist from Kosovo, Veton Surroi. Commenting the […]
Read More →Kosovo, IMF agree 185 million-euro standby loan (Reuters)
PRISTINA: The International Monetary Fund and Kosovo have agreed the terms of a 22-month standby loan worth some 185 million euros ($209 million), an IMF official said on Tuesday. “Kosovo has no financial crisis, no fiscal crisis, but this deal will help Kosovo with its economic growth,” IMF mission chief Jacques Miniane told a news […]
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