Belgrade Media Report 24 June 2015
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Progress made during Kosovo round, no agreements reached (B92)
• Vucic: Certain progress made in negotiations on ZSO (Tanjug)
• Russian, Serbian officials discuss situation in Macedonia (Tanjug)
• FBI considers opening regional office in Belgrade (B92, Beta)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Crnadak: Chairing Council of Europe B&H’s most challenging task since the war (Fena)
• B&H Foreign ministry apologizes to Israel for flag-trampling in Zenica (Oslobodjenje)
• Leaders agree national distribution of positions in state institutions (Nezavisne)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Balkans Track ISIS Fighters Flowing Through Turkey, Overwhelmed By Lax Border Control (IBI Times)
• Macedonia and Greece agree to work on building confidence (Associated Press)
• Arrests over Bosnia-France human trafficking ring (BBC)
Kosovo Serb politicians condemned the attack on Kata Grujić (KIM Radio)
Representatives of Serbs in the Kosovo government have most sharply condemned the attack on returnees in Klina/Kllinë. Kosovo Deputy prime Minister Branimir Stojanović, Minister for Communities and Return Dalibor Jevtić and Minister for Local Government Administration Ljubomir Marić said that yesterday’s incident when complete poultry had been stolen from seventy-four year old Kata Grujić, in […]
Read More →Serbia, Kosovo Sound Upbeat Over Brussels Talks (Balkan Insight)
After the latest round of Kosovo talks in Brussels, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said was convinced that sufficient progress had been made for Belgrade to able to to open the first chapters in its EU accession negotiations.
Read More →Humanitarian aid for North Mitrovica Hospital Maternity Department blocked again (KoSSev)
Delegation of the Students’ Parliament of University in North Mitrovica that was transporting humanitarian aid in equipment from Serbia proper to North Mitrovica Hospital Maternity Department, has been stopped again at integrated crossing Jarinje. The same shipment was also blocked from entering Kosovo on 10 June due to alleged lack of a license issued by […]
Read More →Speaker Veseli fails to secure KLA veterans’ support for special court (Koha)
Kosovo Assembly Speaker Kadri Veseli had a meeting today with representatives of Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) associations in a bid to convince them to support the establishment of the specialized chamber and not protest against it. The meeting took place behind closed doors and lasted for over two hours. After the meeting, Veseli said he stressed […]
Read More →Democracy on a brink of collapse (Kosova Sot)
In a front-page editorial the paper comments on a recent Freedom House report on the level of democracy in the world and the fact that Kosovo has been ranked among the semi-consolidated authoritarian regime, according to the paper, is devastating. If this situation persists, warns the paper, Kosovo could easily slip into a totalitarian regime. […]
Read More →Issue of missing persons to be a priority (RTK)
Chairman of the Kosovo government’s commission for missing persons Prenk Gjetaj had a meeting yesterday with the British Ambassador to Kosovo, Ruairi O’Connell and discussed the process of determining the fate of missing persons during the 1998-99 conflict in Kosovo. Gjetaj said the issue of missing persons should be treated with priority by the government […]
Read More →PM Isa Mustafa avoided journalists last night, today he tells what happened in Brussels (Gazeta Blic)
The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, avoided the journalists last night in Brussles, while today, he informed on social network Facebook that that the next meeting will be held on 29 June. This is what he wrote: “Yesterday we closed a very busy day of the dialogue with Serbia in Brussels. Our experts who […]
Read More →Krasniqi: It is the last moment to interrupt discussions with Serbia (Gazeta Express)
Former Kosovo Assembly Speaker and current head of national council of the Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA), Jakup Krasniqi, reacted against the statements of Belgrade senior officials who claimed that Belgrade will not give up Gazivoda Lake. He wrote on his Facebook profile that “according to Serbian media, Vucic told Isa Mustafa in front of the […]
Read More →Russian, Serbian officials discuss situation in Macedonia (Tanjug)
MOSCOW – Secretary of the Security Council of Russia Nikolai Patrushev and State Secretary at the Serbian Ministry of the Interior Aleksandar Nikolic discussed the situation in Macedonia on Wednesday. The meeting was held ahead of the sixth international meeting of senior security officials that should start in Ulan-Ude, the capital city of the Russian […]
Read More →Janjić: Talks successful, compromise reached over A/CSM (Tanjug)
The director of the Forum for Ethnic Relations Dušan Janjić today said that talks between prime ministers of Serbia and Kosovo, Aleksandar Vucic and Isa Mustafa, were successful and that compromise was reached with regard to the Association/Community of Serb municipalities (A/CSM) in Kosovo and Metohija. Janjić said that the meeting was successful and that […]
Read More →Kotzias: We will discuss security situation in Balkans (Tanjug)
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias, who is arriving on an official visit to Belgrade on Thursday, has said that with Serbia’s officials he will discuss the security situation in the Balkans. We will discuss prospects for joint endeavors in the fields of energy and transport and consider the security situation in the Balkans, challenges relating […]
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