Belgrade Media Report 19 August 2015
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
UNMIK maid to measure the Brussels Agreement (Danas)
Kocijancic: Serbian-Russian joint exercise would be a mistake (Tanjug)
Ministry: Acting according to Serbian neutrality (RTS)
Dacic: Serbia will build neither border walls, nor migrant camps (Danas)
PM: Reception center for migrants to be built in Belgrade (Tanjug)
EU: Cyrillic issue in Vukovar not in our competence (Tanjug)
Vucic: I will not allow anyone to humiliate Serbia (Tanjug)
Highway to Albania important for regional interconnection (Tanjug)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
Investigation into attack on Vucic too slow (Srna)
Vukovar Serbs to complain against new town statute (HINA)
Police report decline in illegal migrants entering Croatia from Serbia (HINA)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
Political Propaganda on TV Prva: Superminister Vučić’s Sisyphean Day (Balkanist)
Vote to Scrap Cyrillic in Vukovar Angers Serbia (BIRN)
Vujanovic: The countries of former Yugoslavia should be one state, except … (Albeu)
Highway to Albania important for regional interconnection ( TV Most)
The construction of Nis-Pristina-Durres highway will be one of the most important projects presented in the Western Balkans Summit in Vienna on August 27, since it should link Corridors 10 and 8, and interconnect the region, the Serbian Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure stated. State Secretary Dejan Trifunovic said that Serbia is ready for […]
Read More →Invitation for democratic debate with Muslim Kosovars (Koha Ditore)
Opinion writer of this daily, Halil Matoshi, considers that the global anti-terror war in Kosovo is fabricated. “Without wanting to deny Al-Qaeda’s immorality and especially ISIS’s brutality, it should be stressed that our “guilty conscience” at this era which the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard assesses as the beginning of the fourth world war, in Kosovo […]
Read More →Djuric denied entry to Kosovo (Indeksonline)
The Deputy Director of the Serbian Office for Kosovo, Dusan Kozarev, said today that the Director of the Serbian Office for Kosovo Marko Djuric was not allowed to enter Kosovo today. According to him, Djuric was going to distribute some aid to the farmers. Kozarev said the decision to stop Djuric does not show strength, […]
Read More →Family visited Ivanovic in hospital (KIM Radio)
The family of leader of the CI SDP Oliver Ivanovic, who has been in Kosovska Mitrovica hospital since Saturday because he started hunger strike in prison, managed to visit him on Tuesday. Ivanovic’s sister Natasa Ilic said that the Kosovo police denied hospital visits for three days, and that even yesterday they were waiting for […]
Read More →Mayors request formation of the ZSO (Blic)
According to the statement signed by the mayors of ten Serbian municipalities in Kosovo, governments in Belgrade and Pristina as well as the Management Team for the establishment of the Community/Association of Serb municipalities (ZSO) are requested to reach the agreement on the establishment of ZSO, during the next meeting in Brussels. As stated, that […]
Read More →Warrants for high officials of Serbia? (Danas)
“I believe that Kosovo will use possible membership in Interpol simply to raise false indictments against citizens of Serbia who are in high positions, in order to politically balance indictments against their politicians,” said Darko Trifunovic, secretary of the Institute for Security Studies. He illustrated this thesis by the example of Momir Stojanovic, former head […]
Read More →Kostic against Kosovo’s membership in UNESCO (GazetaExpress)
The Mayor of Gracanica, Vladeta Kostic, told Pristina-based Rrokum TV that he is against Kosovo’s membership in UNESCO because he doesn’t believe that the cultural heritage that was damaged and burned in 2004, would be preserved now. He said that there is no need for UNESCO to take care of the Serb heritage monuments since […]
Read More →Serb Mayors call on Kosovo and Serbia to establish Association/Community (RTKLive)
The Mayors of ten Serb-majority Municipalities in Kosovo sent a request to the Governments of Kosovo and Serbia that at the next meeting in Brussels to reach agreement on the establishment of the Association/Community of Serb-majority Municipalities. The Serb-majority Municipalities through a statement, have asked the representatives of both governments to hold consultative meetings before […]
Read More →EULEX chief concerned with Ivanovic’s health (Indeksonline)
Head of EULEX Gabriele Meucci has expressed concern over the health of the leader of the Serb Civic Initiative (CI) Oliver Ivanovic currently on trial on war crimes charges. In a letter to Kosovo Serb leaders, Meucci said that EULEX shares the concerns over Ivanovic’s health during his hunger strike but added that EULEX is […]
Read More →Ban Ki-moon: Islamic state threatens Kosovo (Blic)
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his latest report expressed regret because of the slow pace of Kosovo’s institutions in the formation of a Special court for crimes of so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), but also warned that “Islamic state” threatens Kosovo. The report covers period from 16 April to 15 July this year, and […]
Read More →UNMIK will be reorganized according to the Brussels Agreement (Danas)
Security Council is preparing a new reorganization of the UN Mission in Kosovo “The main topic of the briefing on UNMIK, in the Security Council on 21 August, will be the reorganization and reduction of the UN mission in Kosovo. Format of UNMIK should be adapted to the results of the Brussels agreement on the […]
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