Belgrade Media Report 10 February 2016
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Serbian elections in Kosovo with the help of OSCE (Novosti)
• Verdict to KLA terrorists to be delivered on 17 February (Politika)
• ICTY: Serbia is not cooperating and making effort to arrest three SRS members (RTS/Beta)
• Investigation into Tomilir’s death ordered (Politika)
• Djurovic: Austria’s decision will affect Serbia (Tanjug)
• Parliament committee approves agreement with NATO (RTS/Tanjug)
• The Kosovo-Nigerian connection (RTS/Blic)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• B&H Council of Ministers secretly adopted a coordination mechanism (Nezavisne)
• Secret document surfaces: Why did Covic and Zvizdic hide Coordination mechanism from the public? (Patria)
• Secret adoption of the Coordination Mechanism is radical example of closed government (Patria)
• B&H Council of Ministers supports Action Plan for implementation of priorities from EC report (Fena)
• Novic: Consensus needed; Tadic: We are not Dodik’s scapegoat (Nezavisne)
• Vidovic invited as a witness and excluded from Radoncic’s defense team? (Nezavisne)
• At least seventy children from B&H taken to Syria by their parents (Nezavisne/FTV)
• EU Ministers want Macedonia to serve as barricade to refugees (MIA)
• Montenegro to decide independently on NATO membership (RTCG)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Inflation, volatile dinar, to keep Serbian interest rate on hold – Reuters poll (Reuters)
• Bosnians Stunned by Secret Adoption of EU Legislation (BIRN)
• Macedonia’s refugee dilemma (DW)
• Lavrov: Montenegrins have not forgotten NATO bombs (Moskovsky Komsomolets/AP)
CEC suspends 14 parties due to incomplete documentation (KoSSev)
Kosovo Central Election Commission (CEC) suspended 14 political parties yesterday upon justification that these parties did not submit necessary documentation to the Office for Registration and Certification of Political Parties in Kosovo. The deadline was 31 January 2016. Among the suspended parties are parties representing non-majority communities, such as the Montenegrian Party, the United Gorani Party, Social-Democracy, […]
Read More →One year suspended sentence for attack on Serb youth (Kontakt Plus Radio)
Basic Court in Gnjilane/Gjilan has issued a verdict against three Kosovo Albanian juveniles sentencing them to one year of suspended imprisonment for attacking two Kosovo Serb minors from Gornje Kusce village in Gnjilane/Gjilan municipality in December last year. All three of them inflicted serious injuries on one of the Kosovo Serb minors and have admitted guilt and expressed regret for […]
Read More →Nigerian doctors say Thaci is involved in organ trafficking (Blic, B92)
The Nigerian Medical Association in Imo State has accused billionaire and Governor Rochas Okorocha of trafficking human organs. He has been accused of doing so “with officials of Turkey and Croatia, and with Hashim Thaci.” Thaci is currently Kosovo’s Deputy Prime minister and Foreign minister. Belgrade-based daily Blic writes that the association’s president Philip Njemanze spoke […]
Read More →Mr. Mustafa, offer a solution to the homeland (Koha Ditore)
According to the writer of this opinion piece, Halil Matoshi, the President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, cannot succeed in overcoming the political crisis in Kosovo considering that she has served the Democratic Party of Kosovo and Hashim Thaci for almost two mandates. He views her leadership as pitiful. Matoshi believes that Isa Mustafa and his party should sacrifice themselves […]
Read More →Opposition: 17 February protest, the biggest yet (Zeri)
Kosovo opposition parties are confident that the anti-government protest scheduled for 17 February will be the biggest yet. The opposition bloc is already meeting citizens from different municipalities to garner support for the upcoming protest. Adonis Tahiri from Vetevendosje said the united opposition continues to demand the annulment of the agreement with Serbia on the […]
Read More →RAE community members protest in Pristina, demand more jobs (Kosovapress)
The news site reports that a small number of members of the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities protested in front of the Kosovo government building in Pristina today demanding more jobs. One of the protesters said the only way to put pressure on the government is to organize protests. Protesters also expressed dissatisfaction with their […]
Read More →Austrian FM to visit Kosovo tomorrow (RTK)
Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz is expected to visit Kosovo and meet institutional leaders tomorrow. Kurz is currently on a tour of Balkan countries and is visiting Albania today. Yesterday, he was in Belgrade and met Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic. Kurz called on leaders in Serbia to intensify dialogue for normalization of relations with Kosovo as […]
Read More →OSCE will transport ballots to Kosovo (Vecernje Novosti)
Citizens of Kosovo with the right to vote will be able to elect Serbian Parliament MPs. However, to ensure the safety and security of the election process, as in previous years, the OSCE will be included in the process. This agreement was reached during the last round of talks in Brussels, though Pristina unwillingly accepted. However, OSCE officials […]
Read More →Jevtic: The process of profiling IDPs should start as soon as possible (TV Most)
During meetings with representatives of international institutions in Kosovo, Minister of Communities and Returns Dalibor Jevtic discussed the implementation of important projects for the return of displaced persons to Kosovo in 2016. Jevtic met with the head of the UNHCR mission in Kosovo Narasimha Rao. They discussed the creation of a manual for displaced persons. Jevtic […]
Read More →Brussels will be able to assess who speaks the truth (KIM radio)
Commenting on the statement by the Kosovo Government Minister Edita Tahiri, that the Statute of the Association / Community of Serb Municipalities (A/CSM) will be drafted by Pristina and not Serbia, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić stated that he wonders whether the representatives of the two delegations were at the same meeting. However, he believes that […]
Read More →Kosovo ‘on the Brink’, US Ambassador Warns (Balkan Insight)
Ambassador Greg Delawie has delivered a stark warning about Kosovo’s future, following the failure of the latest high-level attempt to resolve the ongoing political crisis. http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/us-ambassador-kosovo-on-the-brink-02-09-2016
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