Belgrade Media Report 11 August
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Special court could spoil Thaci’s presidential ambition (Tanjug)
• Vehicle insurance deal to be implemented as of midnight (Tanjug)
• Serbian and Albanian PMs to take part in TV debate (B92)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Sarajevo doesn’t want to solve case of attack on Vucic (Glas Srpske)
• Izetbegovic: Too early to remember region’s victims together (Nezavisne)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Sparks Fly Over Media Sale in Serbia (BIRN)
• Roma: Discriminated in Serbia, unwanted in Germany (DW)
• Serbia struggling with refugee bottleneck (Ukraine Today)
Djuric: UNMIK and EULEX to engage (Blic, B92)
Head of Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric asked the UNMIK Chief Farid Zarif and EULEX Chief Gabriel Meucci to engage on Ivanovic’s case. Djuric in an official letter addressed to EULEX and UNMIK requested to enable bail for the leader of the Citizens’ Initiative SDP, Oliver Ivanovic and Dragoljub Delibasic. Also, Djuric states […]
Read More →Dutch Foreign Ministry: We haven’t made a decision on the tribunal yet (Express)
The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a reply to the news site saying that it has yet to decide whether or not the Netherlands will host he special court that will address war crimes allegations in Kosovo. “The Dutch Government has yet to decide whether it will host the Tribunal,” Chris Bakker, an information […]
Read More →Hyseni: Around 100 Kosovars fighting alongside terrorist groups (Telegrafi)
Kosovo’s Minister for Interior Affairs, Skender Hyseni, told reporters in Pristina today that around 100 Kosovars are fighting alongside terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq and that 40 Kosovars have been killed in the fighting so far. Hyseni said that according to the information of the government, Kosovo is not a target of a possible […]
Read More →Pacolli confident vehicle insurance agreement will start implementation tomorrow (Lajmi)
Rrahim Pacolli, the head of the Kosovo delegation for talks on vehicle insurance, said today he was confident that the agreement on vehicle insurance with Serbia will start being implemented tomorrow. Pacolli told the news site that the Kosovar side has made all necessary preparations. Asked if Serbia will delay the implementation of the agreement […]
Read More →Oliver Ivanovic’s health is worsening (Blic)
Deputy Chairperson of the Civic Initiative SDP, Ksenija Bozovic, stated today that Oliver Ivanović’s health is worsening after he went on hunger strike five days ago. She said that SDP has no additional information about his health status, and that Ivanović’s friends and family are disappointed with the behavior of the court and EULEX officials […]
Read More →Prizren Cultural Heritage Centre chairman Vesel Hoxha resigns (Koha)
The inability to stop the degradation of cultural heritage and local government irresponsibility, are among the reasons for the resignation of Vesel Hoxhaj from the position of the chairman of the Council for Cultural Heritage of the Historic Centre of Prizren, Koha reports. Hoxhaj accused the institutions that they have done nothing to prevent the […]
Read More →Two more months detention for terrorism suspects in Badovc case (Koha)
The Basic Court in Pristina approved the request of the Prosecution to extend the detention for two more months for the five terrorism suspects arrested a few weeks ago near Badovc Lake. “There is a suspicion that the defendants intended to seriously intimidate the population and destabilizing the situation in Kosovo,” reads the ruling of […]
Read More →Protesters Demand Kosovo Serb Politician Ivanovic’s Release (Balkan Insight)
A group of around 30 people rallied on Monday in front of the EU rule-of-law mission, EULEX offices in the Kosovo capital, calling Ivanovic a political prisoner and demanding he be released until the verdict in his trial. Ivanovic went on hunger strike on Friday after EULEX decided to extend his custody until October 6. […]
Read More →Special court laws are not sent to the President yet (kallxo.com)
The two laws related to the special court, approved on the day of constitutional amendments by the Assembly of Kosovo through an accelerated procedure, have not been submitted to the President of Kosovo for the decree, even nine days after being voted. Arber Vllahiu, adviser to President Jahjaga, said that the approved laws, the Law […]
Read More →(Un)protected witnesses of the special court in Kosovo (RTS, Politika)
Special court for war crimes is supposed to become operational in the early days of 2016, whereas its most difficult task would be protection of witnesses, along with protection of the accused ones. Prosecution in Belgrade claims that 40 witnesses in processes against Ramush Haradinay and Fatmir Limaj were killed or intimidated. Lead prosecutor of […]
Read More →Special own goal (Koha)
Koha Ditore’s publisher Flaka Surroi writes today that Kosovo scored an own goal with regards to the establishment of the special court and it should now bear the consequences. Surroi claims that the constitutional amendment paving way for the court was passed by the Kosovo Assembly because the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) leader Hashim […]
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