Belgrade Media Report 14 July 2015
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic: Serbia ready to resume dialogue with Pristina (RTS)
• Djuric: Pristina squandered the status of Brussels’ favorite (Tanjug)
• Kozarev: Tahiri’s statements on removal of Peace Park irresponsible (Politika/Tanjug)
• MPs condemn attack on Vucic (Radio Serbia)
• The other side of Srebrenica (Politika)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Izetbegovic rejects allegations linking his party to attack (Dnevni avaz/Klix.ba)
• Report for attempted assassination of Vucic (Srna)
• RS parliament to discuss the issue of referendum (Nezavisne/Srna)
• Cvijanovic: B&H judiciary is clumsy experiment (Srna)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Serbia’s president condemns ‘savage’ attack on PM at Srebrenica (AFP)
• EU’s Hahn to Try to Broker Definitive Political Deal in Macedonia (Southeast Europe)
• The Srebrenica Massacre was a Gigantic Political Fraud (Global Research)
Society that can’t establish the court can’t move forward (KIM Radio)
Serbian Minister for Labor Aleksandar Vulin said today in Zočište near Orahovac/Rahovec that creation of the special court for Kosovo Liberation Army war crimes would come late but is welcome anyways, and added that society that can’t create such court can’t move forward. Vulin also said that he is worried due to latest incidents in […]
Read More →“Pristina gambled away status of Brussels’ favorite” (Tanjug, B92)
Director of the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric says Belgrade continues activities in normalizing relations with Pristina. This is the case “although there are plenty of problems in the implementation of what had been the agreed in the Brussels dialogue,” he said on Tuesday. In an interview with Tanjug, Djuric said […]
Read More →Pavicevic: I don’t believe that incidents are coincidence (Tanjug, Most)
Belgrade’s liaison officer with Pristina Dejan Pavićević said today in Zočište near Orahovac/Rahovec that he doesn’t believe that latest incidents in Kosovo and Metohija are coincidence. Pavicevic visited the Monastery of Saint Healers in Zočište on the occasion of Saints Kozma and Damjan’s Day and stated that incidents are more frequent lately, particularly in Goraždevac, […]
Read More →Internationals reject LDK’s request for special court to investigate post-war crimes (Indeksonline)
The possibility for the special court to investigate the post-war murders is closed, being that the international factor has rejected it. Adem Salihaj, deputy from the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), who was a victim of an assassination attempt, said that the international factor is against the proposal for the special court to investigate crimes […]
Read More →Minister Hyseni in Brussels, requests membership at Interpol (Koha)
Skender Hyseni, Kosovo’s Minister for Internal Affairs, is staying for a two-day visit in Brussels. Today, he met with Deputy of the General Secretary at the European People’s Party (EPP), Christian Kremer. They discussed the general situation in Kosovo and the region, with a special focus on the situation of the rule of law in Kosovo. […]
Read More →An Albanian police officer injured in the Serb village Gorazhdec, Peja/Pec (lajmi.net)
Unidentified attackers have shot today, early in the morning an Albanian police officer while he was commencing his duty. According to the police sources, the police officer has received injuries in his stomach. Peja/Pec regional police spokesperson, Teki Syla, confirmed the news for Lajmi.net. However, he did not want to give any further information, with […]
Read More →Green card to replace vehicle insurance as of 1 August (RTK2)
Implementation of the new agreement reached between Belgrade and Pristina with regard to vehicle insurance is due to start as of 1 August, Pristina negotiation team confirmed. Kosovo registration plates RKS and KS will still be valid in Kosovo, whereas head of Pristina negotiation team Edita Tahiri said that registration plates KS will still be […]
Read More →Lunacek urges Kosovo government to resubmit constitutional amendments to Assembly (Lajmi)
The Vice President of the European Parliament and Rapporteur for Kosovo, Ulrike Lunacek, today called on the ruling-coalition parties in Kosovo to resubmit to the Assembly the constitutional amendments that enable the establishment of the special court. Lunacek said that the government of Kosovo must try the second chance to pass these constitutional amendments. According […]
Read More →Kozarev: Statement of Tahiri over the Peace Park irresponsible (Politika)
The deputy director of the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija Dusan Kozarev has refuted yesterday’s statement of the Kosovo minister Edita Tahiri that the Peace Park over Ibar River in Mitrovica will be removed on 1 October, and added that such statements are irresponsible and counterproductive. Kozaerev said to Tanjug agency that unlike […]
Read More →Jevtić: I request protection for Serbs (RTK2)
Minister for Communities and Return in the Kosovo government Dalibor Jevtić has appealed to relevant institutions to finally start protecting Serbs in Kosovo. Reflecting on the Sunday attack on family Dešić, which returned to village Brestovik near Peć/Peja in 2004, Jevtic condemned another attack in a row on Serbs and said that such incidents are […]
Read More →Still not known if Kosovo Assembly will break for summer (Kosovapress)
August is normally the time when Kosovo Assembly breaks for one month for summer holidays. It is not known though whether this will be the case this year because of events relating to the creation of the special court and legislative package for the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA). Officials at the Assembly and the […]
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