Belgrade Media Report 12 August 2015
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• “If the Community of Serbian municipalities gets formed there will be most violent unrests and blockades” (Tanjug)
• Pristina: Signing of law on special war crimes court delayed (Tanjug)
• Dacic: UN refuses to forward Pristina’s bid to join UNESCO (Blic)
• Pristina denies sending UNESCO membership request to UN (Tanjug)
• DS: Ivanovic should be released pending verdict (Tanjug)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• The Party for B&H leaves the coalition with SDA (Patria)
Renzo Daviddi: I hope parties will vote in favor of reform package (Dnevi Avaz)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• News Kosovo-Serbia Car Insurance Deal Starts (BIRN)
• Belgrade Urges Hunger-Striking Kosovo Serb Leader’s Release (BIRN)
Mustafa and Thaci: Not a single meter is being given to Montenegro (Kohanet)
The government of Kosovo approved during today’s regular meeting the report of the government commission for demarcation of the borderline with Montenegro. In this occasion, Deputy Prime Minister Hashim Thaci said that this border is in accordance with the one of 1974 and Ahtisaari’s package. Thaci said that not a single square meter of Kosovo […]
Read More →Bishop Irinej: Together against the Kosovo membership in UNESCO (RTS)
Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) will join diplomatic struggle of the state for the protection of the Serbian heritage in Kosovo and Metohija, as it used to do in the past, said spokesman of the SPC Bishop Irinej in his respond to the call of the Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic. Bishop Irinej added that he […]
Read More →Publication as smear campaign (Klan Kosova/Gazeta Blic)
Klan Kosova’s executive director Baton Haxhiu writes in an op-ed that there is not list of possible indictees of the special court. “There are only witnesses and over 200 interviews and allegations of possible crimes”, he writes. All else is speculation and part of smear campaign against certain individuals, adds Haxhiu. He claims that the […]
Read More →“Unfortunate” that Zagreb, Pristina rejects PM’s initiative (Tanjug)
Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic’s initiative for establishing a joint remembrance day for all victims of the wars of the 1990s “is a great step forward.” It is very unfortunate that “it has not been met with approval in Croatia and Kosovo,” said Franco Frattini, Italy’s former foreign minister and former senior official of the European […]
Read More →Vucic and Rama will discuss the future of the Balkans (Danas)
Zvezdana Kovac, Executive Director of the Centre for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe from Thessaloniki (CDRS) will host premieres of Serbia and Albania in a TV show “Okruzenje”. This idea has been long there, to have premieres of Serbia and Albania, Aleksandar Vucic and Edi Rama in the show. Because they are among the […]
Read More →Tomorrow memorial service for the children murdered in Gorazdevac (TV Most, Radio Kontakt Plus)
In the church of the Holy Virgin and at the cemetery in Gorazdevac tomorrow will be held a memorial service for Ivan Jovovic (19) and Pantelija Dakic (12), murdered on 13 August 2003, when unknown persons from automatic weapons shot children who were swimming in Bistrica River. Djordje Ugrenović (20), Bogdan Bukumiric (14), Marko Bogicevic […]
Read More →Kuci: We are still negotiating special court’s headquarters (Telegrafi)
Kosovo’s Justice Minister, Hajredin Kuci, said today that the special court’s headquarters has not been decided yet and that this issue is still being negotiated. Even though Kuci refused to give more details on the special court, the news site writes that it is already known that special court will be sponsored and managed by […]
Read More →Selimi to Dacic: Kosovo will join UNESCO (Indeksonline)
Kosovo’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Petrit Selimi, reacted to the statements of Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivivca Dacic that the United Nations has rejected Kosovo’s application for membership in UNESCO. Selimi told Radio Free Europe that such statements are totally incorrect. According to him, the expectations are that in October, UNESCO’s Executive Committee will give a positive […]
Read More →Initiative to set up Western Balkans Youth Office (Tanjug)
The governments of Serbia and Albania, in cooperation with civil society organizations, will soon launch an initiative to set up the Western Balkans Youth Office, said the participants of a press conference organized by the National Youth Council of Serbia (KOMS) on Tuesday, on the occasion of the International Youth Day, August 12. The main […]
Read More →SPC eparchy concerned over Ivanovic’s health, urges release (Tanjug)
The Eparchy of Raška and Prizren of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) has expressed deep concern over the health of Civic Initiative SDP leader Oliver Ivanović, who has gone on a hunger strike, and urged the international community in Kosovo-Metohija to ensure that he is released pending a verdict. In a statement, the Eparchy urged […]
Read More →CDHRF condemns violence against Egyptians in Peja (Kosovapress)
The Pristina-based Council for the Defense of Human Rights and Freedoms (CDHRF) condemned today the violence against the Egyptian community in the city of Peja/Pec. “Several days ago, some individuals in Peja set on fire some construction material in an attempt to prevent the return of Egyptians to their properties. This constitutes a violation of […]
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