Belgrade Media Report 16 November
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic: Additional security measures following Paris attacks (Tanjug)
• Stefanovic: Security situation Serbia stable (RTS)
• Djuric: Pristina killing dialogue (TV Pink/Tanjug/Danas)
• Jevtic: Serb List leaving Kosovo government if agreement on ZSO is not respected (Dnevnik/Tanjug)
• Belgrade not giving up from Brussels agreement (B92)
• Cvetkovic: Suspension of Brussels agreement endangers Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija (Politika)
• Novosti Internet poll
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• B&H Security Minister: Attacks in Paris demonstrate seriousness of situation (Srna)
• Dodik: Decisive international anti-terrorism combat required (Srna)
• Mourning Day in FB&H on Monday, minute of silence at noon (Klix.ba)
• Radical Islamic website threatens more blood in Europe, including B&H (Fena)
• SBB in B&H Council of Ministers by the end of November (Klix.ba)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Serbia Probes Suspected Kosovo War Mass Grave (BIRN)
• Holder of Syrian passport found in Paris attack sought asylum in Serbia (Reuters)
Serbs could leave the Kosovo government over failure to implement deal (B92)
Ahead of a final decision of the Constitutional Court in Pristina, Belgrade is saying it has no intention of giving up on what was signed in Brussels. Representatives of Serbs in Kosovo are announcing they could leave the government if the Community/Association of Serbian Municipalities (ZSO) is not formed. Although Serbia has no alternative to […]
Read More →Assembly to convene tomorrow to vote on 2016 budget (RTK)
Kosovo Assembly will convene tomorrow with only one item on the agenda – the voting of the next year’s budget. The decision to call a session was reached today at the meeting of the Kosovo Assembly presidency. Meanwhile, opposition parties – Vetevendosje, Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) and Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA) – […]
Read More →Veseli: We should not send negative images for Kosovo (Telegrafi)
Kosovo Assembly President Kadri Veseli said after the meeting of the presidency that it is very important for the MPs to be able to vote tomorrow on the 2016 budget. “The budget includes economic perspective, infrastructure investment, improvement of the citizens’ lives and salaries of public sector servants,” said Veseli adding that there should be […]
Read More →Konjufca: Opposition determined to block any session of the Assembly (Koha)
Vetevendosje Movement parliamentary group chief, Glauk Konjufca, said today that the opposition is determined to block any session of the Assembly. “The united opposition is determined to block any session of the Assembly. The Assembly can hold the session only after the government withdraws from the Brussels agreements. So far the government has not given […]
Read More →EPS: Unpaid electricity bills to be re-programmed (RTS)
“EPS Trgovina” and “Elektrosever” won’t be new companies and there won’t be new employees, said executive director of the Serbian Energy Company (EPS) Aleksandar Obradovic, and added that these will be only two departments through which EPS will do business throughout Kosovo territory. Obradovic said to RTS that authorities in P ristina have agreed, within […]
Read More →Dečani third municipality that voted against A/CSM and demarcation with Montenegro (KoSSev)
At an extraordinary session on Friday Dečani/Deçan Municipality supported, with maximum votes, a declaration against the creation of the Association/Community of Serb municipalities. At the same session, local councilors rejected the agreement on demarcation with Montenegro. Dečani/Deçan Municipality thus became the third municipality after Đeneral Janković/Hani Elezit and Mališevo/Mališevë that voted against those two agreements […]
Read More →Mustafa: Serbia’s aggressive campaign, obstacle to continuation of dialogue (Koha)
Kosovo’s Prime Minister, Isa Mustafa, in an interview with the Turkish news agency Anadolu Agency, said that Serbia’s aggressive campaign against Kosovo’s membership in international organizations, in which Kosovo was compared with ISIS, will undoubtedly adversely affect the continuation of the EU-brokered dialogue. “Serbia’s aggressive campaign against Kosovo in UNESCO is an obstacle to continuation of the dialogue. […]
Read More →Klokot – small municipality, big problems (KoSSev)
There is a realistic possibility that Serb-majority municipality of Klokot-Vrbovac/Kllokot-Verbovc in Kosovo becomes Albanian-majority municipality because Serbs are selling their properties to Albanians, warned the Mayor of municipality Srecko Spasic. Residents say that municipality Klokot-Vrbovac that encompasses villages Klokot, Grnčar, Mogila and Vrbovac is small municipality but faced with big problems. Besides unemployment, poor neighborly […]
Read More →Jevtic: Idea of radical Islamism also present in Kosovo (Tanjug)
The idea of radical Islamism is also present in Kosovo, and society in Kosovo should reject it, Kosovo government minister Dalibor Jevtic has said in the wake of the Paris terror attacks. It is important that society in Kosovo – in particular, the institutions responsible for preserving peace – work on preventing the spread of […]
Read More →Opposition to organize rally against government (Koha)
The three opposition parties – Vetevendosje Movement, Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) and Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA) – through a joint statement announced that they will organize a “rally against the government and harmful agreements” on 28 November. “For more than two months, the opposition parties have actively opposed the Kosovo government plans to install […]
Read More →Kosovo Police arrests three terrorism suspects (KosovaPress)
Kosovo Police yesterday arrested three individuals suspected of the criminal offense “Organizing and participating in terrorist groups”. The suspects were arrested in Hani i Elezit after they were stopped and returned from Turkey by the Turkish police while trying to travel to Syria. Also, two locations were searched and there were found enough evidence to […]
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