Belgrade Media Report 1 October 2015
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Nikolic: Kosovo’s UNESCO membership would set a dangerous precedent (RTS/Beta)
• Dacic: Serbia ready for contemporary security challenges (Tanjug)
• Gasic: NATO hasn’t approved “Kosovo Army” (Blic)
• Djuric: Election of Stojanovic – end to divisions (Novosti)
• How much longer before Belgrade-Pristina relations normalize? (Tanjug)
• Miculescu: Women in conflicts can be mediators and heroes (Tanjug)
• Maric: We will establish ZSO despite threats (Novosti)
• Conclusions from 7th session of the Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo-Metohija (New Serbian Political Thought)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Covic: B&H is committed to fight against ISIS and terrorism (klix.ba)
• Dodik: UN Security Council to reject report of High Representative (Srna)
• Izetbegovic: International community must clearly draw red line and stop Dodik (Oslobodjenje)
• Dodik: I’m ready for B&H prosecutor to confirm that story of kilo of gold is a lie (Oslobodjenje)
• What was concluded at the session of the House of Representatives (klix.ba)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Kosovo, Serbia Clinch New Deal on Diplomas (BIRN)
• Shell ‘ends Bosnia quest’ (Upstream)
• Analysis: Bosnia’s Reckless Borrowing Brings Crisis Closer (BIRN)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina in peril once again (Open Democracy)
• Croatia’s prime minister dismisses Hungary’s plan to build a fence as a threat (Associated Press)
Tahiri meets new EU Director for Balkans (RTKlive)
Kosovo’s Minister for Dialogue, Edita Tahiri, met in Brussels with the new EU Director for Western Europe, Western Balkans and Turkey, from the EU’s Foreign Service, Angelina Eichhrost, successor of Fernando Gentilini. The intention of the meeting was assessment of the floe and results of the Brussels dialogue during the last period. They both agreed […]
Read More →Massive EULEX and police action, 30 properties throughout Kosovo raided (Lajmi.net)
EULEX and Kosovo Police have started a massive action today at 05:00 a.m. throughout the entire Kosovo, and they are raiding 28 private properties. Reliable sources within security institutions told this new agency that these private properties belong to judges, lawyers, attorneys, as well as people who do not carry public positions. These individuals are suspected to […]
Read More →Haradinaj: Association/Community to be in accordance to Ahtisaari plan (Koha)
Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) has issued a statement from its leader Ramush Haradinaj who says that the opposition has no choice but to prevent the implementation of agreements on border demarcation with Montenegro and creation of Association/Community of Serb majority municipalities. “We as opposition can never agree to have anyone strike such […]
Read More →Opposition blocks Kosovo Assembly session (all media)
Kosovo Assembly Speaker Kadri Veseli ordered a half-hour break in today’s Assembly session after members of the opposition prevented the start of the session by standing around the speaker’s stand. Head of Vetevendosje parliamentary group Glauk Konjufca said there can be no regular session until Prime Minister Isa Mustafa comes back and withdraws signature from […]
Read More →Farewell multi-ethnic Kosovo! (EU Observer)
Opinion piece by Jeton Zulfaj Few would question that the EU-mediated negotiations have brought Kosovo and Serbia closer to each other and are contributing towards a more stable Balkans. The high-level dialogue has broken down communication barriers and addressed essential issues, on freedom of movement, customs, border control, education, and telecommunications. In a TV debate […]
Read More →The Prime Ministers of the “Zajednica” (Koha)
Albulena Haxhiu, a Vetevendosje MP and chair of the Kosovo Assembly’s committee on legislation, argues in her opinion piece that the five-page document on the formation of the Association/Community of Serb-majority municipalities and the agreement on telecommunications, the energy and the Iber Bridge, show that Prime Minister Isa Mustafa, Deputy PM Hashim Thaci and chief […]
Read More →The alternative that the opposition has yet to present to us (Koha)
KTV editor-in-chief Adriatik Kelmendi writes in his opinion piece that in order to break the civic skepticism and present itself as a serious alternative, the opposition bloc should urgently create a shadow government that would provide alternative solutions/projects/ideas on government matters and individuals that would run the respective ministries and compare their expertise and management […]
Read More →Government of Aleksandar Vucic has betrayed national and state interests (NSPM)
The assembly of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija (body which is not recognized by Serbian administration) has said in conclusions following its seventh session, held yesterday in Mitrovica North, that by signing the agreement on energy and telecommunications, along with the one on the telephone code for Kosovo, government of Aleksandar Vucic has […]
Read More →Ivanović: Kosovo government to step down until the spring (Novi Magazin)
“Kosovo government will most probably succumb to pressure which is of extra-institutional nature,” said Ivanović in an interview to Belgrade-based New Magazin, and added that Kosovo government will be brought down because they won’t be able to settle vital issues and difficult problems that bother population in Kosovo, rather than actions of the opposition parties. […]
Read More →President Jahjaga was received at the US Congress (RTKlive)
The President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, was received today at the Congress of the United States of America in Washington. She met at the Capitol Hill senior members of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US Congress, headed by Congressman Ed Royce and the senior member of the Committee, Congressman Eliot Engel. President Jahjaga thanked […]
Read More →A special court to deal with usurped property in Kosovo (TV Most)
Representatives of Serbs in Kosovo institution announced that they will seek the formation of a special court or a special court unit that would exclusively deal with the issue of usurped property in Kosovo. Minister of Communities and Returns in the Kosovo Government Dalibor Jevtic told Tanjug that the support for such an idea he […]
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