Belgrade Media Report 30 November 2015
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Gasic: Vucic most endangered person, army prepared to protect him (Tanjug)
• Djuric: Kosovo Serbs have been and will be support to Vucic (RTS/FoNet)
• SNP: Discontinue Brussels negotiations over endangerment of life of Kosovo Serbs (New Serbian Political Thought)
• Joksimovic: Chapter 35 is not a replacement for dialogue (RTS)
• Serbian peacekeepers set off to Lebanon (Tanjug)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• RS officials reject state constitutional court ruling (Srna)
• RS Parliament should call a referendum on the decision of the B&H Constitutional Court (Srna)
• International conference in Belgrade: Court and Prosecutor’s Office of B&H in the context of (De)Stabilization of RS (Srna)
• Daniel Serwer, US expert on the Balkans: If the referendum proceeds, the US government will take action against Dodik (Oslobodjenje)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Kerry’s Serbia-Kosovo Tour to Focus on Security (BIRN)
• Bosnian Serbs dismiss top court’s order to change discriminatory law (Reuters)
• Migrants protest on Greece-Macedonia border (press.chronicle.com)
Ilir Deda: Suspension of the opposition, suspension of democracy (Koha Ditore)
Vetevendosje deputy, Ilir Deda, considers suspension of the opposition, suspension of democracy. He wrote on his Facebook page that such suspension did not occur even in Russia, Venezuela or Belarus. “Today’s act marks the end of the Mustafa-Thaci government. PDK-LDK coalition represents the most anti-democratic regime in Kosovo during these 16 years of freedom. Of […]
Read More →Brawl between police and “Civil Protection” in northern Kosovo (Kosovapress)
Unnamed sources told the news site that a brawl broke out in Mitrovica North today between members of the Kosovo Police and the so-called Civil Protection after police towed away a vehicle that was inappropriately parked. The source said: “the vehicle that was towed away by Kosovo Police belongs to Danilo Delibasic, an assistant to […]
Read More →Derguti: Suspension of the opposition in contradiction with regulation and Constitution (Gazeta Express)
Vetevendosje deputy and Vice-President of the Assembly of Kosovo, Aida Derguti, stated that exclusion of the opposition deputies from today’s session of the Assembly, is in contradiction with the working regulation of the Assembly of Kosovo and the Constitution of Kosovo. She also announced organizing of the protests. “In a country where opposition is not […]
Read More →Police arrest NISMA MP Haxhi Shala (Lajmi)
The Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA), one of the opposition parties, confirmed that police have arrested one of its MPs, Haxhi Shala. “We want to inform the public that Kosovo Police have detained MP Haxhi Shala inside the Assembly premises. The Initiative for Kosovo demands the immediate release of MP Haxhi Shala and all other MPs,” […]
Read More →Police arrest Vetevendosje MP Fisnik Ismaili (Lajmi)
Kosovo Police arrested today Vetevendosje MP Fisnik Ismaili as he was entering the premises of the Kosovo Assembly. Police later said Ismaili was arrested because he was found carrying two gas canisters. The Vetevendosje official webpage reported that the prosecution has ordered a 48-hour detention for Ismaili.
Read More →Konjufca calls for popular protest to bring down government (Koha)
Glauk Konjufca, head of the Vetevendosje parliamentary group, said today that the government is trying to eliminate the opposition. He called for a popular protest to bring down the government if the opposition is not allowed to attend Assembly sessions. “We will resort to the people. A popular protest to bring down this government,” Konjufca […]
Read More →Agreement with Montenegro has a solution, the one with Serbia hardly does (Koha Ditore)
The paper’s Brussels-based columnist Augustin Palokaj writes that border demarcation is not necessarily a precondition for membership in the EU and NATO and that there are countries, such as Croatia and Slovenia, which are part of these two bodies and have no border demarcation agreement. In fact, he adds, most of the former Yugoslav countries […]
Read More →PDK deputy, Latif Gashi, resigns after being sentenced (koha.net)
Kosovo Assembly deputy from the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), Latif Gashi, who was sentenced a few days ago by the Appellate Court with six years of prison, addressed today the Assembly Chairmanship with a letter, where he informs his resignation from the position of Kosovo Assembly deputy. Gashi considers that the verdict of the […]
Read More →Police confirms finding of hand grenades and bullets at University Clinical Center of Kosovo (Koha Ditore)
Kosovo Police has informed through a press release to have found two hand grenades and 15 bullets at the Eye Clinic of the University Clinical Center of Kosovo. It also confirmed that exploding devices are removed from the clinic in a controlled manner, in order to return the situation at UCCK to normality. The police […]
Read More →Assembly Chairmanship suspends opposition deputies for the day (media)
Security has blocked the deputies from the Kosovo Assembly opposition parties and it does not allow them to climb to the alternative hall of the Assembly. Kosovo Assembly President, Kadri Veseli, informed after the meeting of Assembly Chairmanship that the meeting would resume in thirty minutes, however, leaders and deputies of the Vetevendosje Movement, Alliance […]
Read More →Jutarnji list: Bosnia & Herzegovina, Albania and Kosovo are the most vulnerable (TV Most)
According to estimates of security experts, in the last fifteen years in the Balkans was created a good network of cells of radical Islamist groups, willing to go into battle against the western civilization. Most of them are located in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania and Kosovo, writes Zagreb daily Jutarnji List. Citing unnamed interlocutors close […]
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