Belgrade Media Report 17 August 2015
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Belgrade accepting Pristina’s entry into international organizations? (Danas)
• Batakovic: Withdrawal from the Brussels discussions because of UNESKO (Dnevnik)
• Belgrade: Pristina’s Interpol bid “not acceptable” (Tanjug)
• Vukcevic: Progress in investigation into Bytyqi brothers case (Danas)
• Former commander of Serb forces in Croatia dies in prison (RTS, B92)
• Erdogan “launders millions by building mosques in Kosovo” (B92)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Ferguson: B&H is a country with two entities and will remain so (Nezavisne)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Montenegro, Bosnia to Sign Border Agreement (BIRN)
• EU provides civil protection experts to former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia following recent floods (EU Reporter)
• Bosnians Deny Youth Radicalization Claims (OnIslam)
Djuric: Key interest of Serbia is stability in Kosovo (Blic, Tanjug)
The key interests of Serbia are stability in Kosovo and normalization of the Belgrade-Pristina relations, as well as improvement of the Serb community’s position in Kosovo, Director of the Serbian government’s Office for KiM Marko Djuric said Monday during a meeting with the head of UNMIK Farid Zarif. Zarif, who is on a farewell visit, […]
Read More →Dacic meets with new head of UN Office in Belgrade (Tanjug)
Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic conferred on Monday with the newly-appointed head of the UN Office in Belgrade Simona-Mirela Miculescu. During the first meeting, the cooperation with the UN Office in Belgrade so far has been qualified as positive and the officials expressed the belief that it would continue and develop even more […]
Read More →UNMIK chief Zarif undertakes farewell visit to Belgrade (Presheva Jone)
Head of the UN Mission in Kosovo Farid Zarif met today in Belgrade director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo Marko Djuric. The two officials are reported to have discussed the situation in Kosovo, developments in the north, Pristina-Belgrade dialogue and Kosovo’s membership in UNESCO. Djuric said that Serbia’s vital interests rest on Kosovo’s […]
Read More →The failure of the political elite in the Balkans (Deutsche Welle)
War, hunger and torture are no longer commonplace in Kosovo, Albania, Serbia and Macedonia. For a decade and a half now, the states of the former Yugoslavia and their neighbors have been living in peace. Croatia and Slovenia have joined the European Union. The other Balkan countries have been working toward membership for years. Read […]
Read More →Stojanovic: We will react to any violation of the rights of Serbs (RTS, KIM radio, TV Most)
Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Branimir Stojanovic said today that all Serbs are interested in the case of the detention of the Civic Initiative leader SDP Oliver Ivanovic and that they would react each time when an individual’s rights were threatened. “So far we did not interfere as the political representatives, but now it becomes clear […]
Read More →Serb politician on hunger strike “denied visits in hospital” (Politika, Vecernje Novosti, KIM radio, TV Most)
Oliver Ivanovic’s lawyer Nebojsa Vlajic has said that the health condition of his client is becoming “increasingly more serious.” His lawyer, who visited him late on Sunday, told the state broadcaster RTS that Ivanovic was exhausted, disoriented, suffering from insomnia and “unable to concentrate.” In addition, Vlajic said, the court’s decision to prevent his client’s […]
Read More →We’ll solve the murder of the Bytyqi brothers (Danas)
Interview: Vladimir Vukcevic, the War crimes prosecutor The Prime Minister said recently that only the case of murder of the Bytyqi brothers hampers excellent relations with the United States. Is there any progress in the case that you took over? It’s a case listed under number one in our Prosecution. The team working on this […]
Read More →Dialogue with Serbia will last at least ten years (Koha Ditore)
The Brussels Based correspondent of this daily, Augustin Palokaj, numbers the senior political figures of Kosovo, their assistants and the technical teams that are involved in the dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade, stressing that their frequent traveling to Brussels costs a fortune to Kosovo. “The problem with this dialogue stands in the fact that it […]
Read More →Belgrade accepts the entry of Pristina in international organizations? (Danas)
Continuation of political negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina was announced for 25 August and talks could be completed by signing four new agreements, claim the EU sources. As stated, the prime ministers of Serbia and Kosovo, Aleksandar Vucic and Isa Mustafa should sign agreements on energy, telecommunications, Community/ Association of Serbian municipalities (ZSO) and the […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 17 August
• Mustafa: Elections will be held in 2018 (Epoka e Re)
• Haziri: Forget elections (Zeri)
• Dacic: UNESCO, Pandora ’s Box (Zeri)
• Murtezaj: Kosovo insists on package agreement (Epoka e Re)
• Kirby: Kosovo and Serbia to normalize relations soon (Epoka e Re)
• Ivanovic displaying signs of mental disorder (Zeri)
OSCE Broadcast 16 August
• Preteni: Judiciary lacks courage to fight corruption (Most monitored broadcasters, RTK1, KTV)
• Stojanovic: Ivanovic should be released pending trial (RTK2 & Klan Kosova)
• Haziri: No need to have new elections (TV21)