Belgrade Media Report 4 April
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Vulin: Essentially, UNMIK is violating CEFTA agreement (Tanjug)
• Urgent meeting in Vienna on ADR certificates (RTS/FoNet)
• Dacic: We are prepared for dialogue, but not for blackmail from Croatia (Radio Belgrade)
• Dacic: Instead of reconciling, ICTY generating instability (RTS)
• Djordjevic: Serbia will not be a refugee reception center (Beta)
• Ugljanin seeks United Nations intervention; Dacic: Nonsense (Novosti)
• Omerovic condemns Ugljanin’s request to Security Council (Tanjug)
• Miscevic: United Nations goes where there are conflicts (TV Pink)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Srebrenica in the wake of Seselj’s acquittal (Patria)
• Frequent operations of SIPA do not represent a blow to the RS banking system (Srna)
• Session of the B&H Presidency today (Klix)
• Boyle replied: Lawsuit of B&H against Serbia is getting sabotaged again (Novo vrijeme)
• B&H registers several thousand potential terrorists (MIA)
• ICTY suspends Hadzic trial indefinitely – attorney (Hina)
• Vujanovic: I do not see Djukanovic’s statement on Seselj as a statesman’s or politician’s opinion (RTCG)
• Draft Agreement acceptable to opposition in principle (CDM)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Rewriting the Balkan wars (AFP)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina: Ethnic tensions escalate in Mostar, ‘most divided’ city (AA,)
Kosovo’s “status neutral” government (Koha Ditore)
Brussels based correspondent of the paper, Augustin Palokaj, criticizes the government of Kosovo for not being serious on its promises. ‘The government is not serious on the claims that Kosovo has full sovereignty, on complete reintegration of the north, promises for hundreds of thousands of new jobs, visa liberalization, EU and NATO integration just as […]
Read More →Ivanovic’s defense lawyers provided with written verdict (KIIM Radio)
EULEX panel of judges today provided defense lawyers of the leader of the Civic Initiative SDP Oliver Ivanovic, with a written verdict sentencing him to nine years in prison for war crimes committed in Mitrovica in 1999. This has paved the way for defense lawyers to appeal the decision. Ivanovic’s lawyer Nebojsa Vlajic said that […]
Read More →Maric: Vucic’s visit shows that Serbs are not alone (RTK2)
Representatives of Kosovo Serbs assessed that visit of the Serbian Prime Minister Vucic to Kosovo on Sunday serves as an important benchmark showing that Belgrade will never abandon Serbs in Kosovo. One of two Serb ministers in the Kosovo government, Ljubomir Maric, said to Tanjug that Vucic’s visit is a message that Serbian Government and […]
Read More →Health Center in North Mitrovica promoted to a Clinical Hospital Center (TV Most)
“As of today this is not called the Health Center, this is Clinical Hospital Center (KBC) Kosovska Mitrovica,” Serbian Minister for Health Zlatibor Loncar said yesterday in North Mitrovica. In the presence of the Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, Loncar said that Serbia will continue to help Serbian people in Kosovo in its struggle to […]
Read More →AAK: Constitutional Court’s decision, not fair (Indeksonline)
The Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), through a press release today reacted against the decision of the Constitutional Court to declare as inadmissible the opposition’s request to contest the election of Hashim Thaci as Kosovo President. “We consider that Hashim Thaci does not meet the main criteria for the country’s president, who is […]
Read More →Mustafa: Constitutional Court’s decision was already known (Koha)
Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa, today while commenting on the decision of the Constitutional Court to declare as inadmissible opposition’s request to contest the election of Kosovo President, said he knew that the Constitutional Court would give this answer, because, according to him, there was no violation in the presidential election process. Mustafa also commented on […]
Read More →Vulin: Essentially, UNMIK violates the CEFTA agreement (Politika)
UNMIK, essentially violates the CEFTA agreement, because it has signed it and is responsible for its implementation. Why UNMIK does not respect its signature, this is something that should be answered, said the Minister of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs Aleksandar Vulin. He told reporters that UNMIK, which by the Resolution 1244 has the […]
Read More →Constitutional Court declares as inadmissible opposition’s request regarding President’s election (Koha)
The Constitutional Court today has declared as inadmissible the opposition’s request to contest the election of Hashim Thaci as Kosovo President. “The Court observes that the Applicants have not presented any arguments in relation to the substance of the contested Decision. The Constitutional Court, based on Article 42, paragraph 1.3 of the Law and Rule 36 […]
Read More →“Serb MPs not informed or consulted about vote on Kosovo Armed Forces” (Indeksonline)
Kosovo Serb MP Nenad Rasic told the news site today that no one has informed or consulted Serb MPs about the voting on the law that will transform the Kosovo Security Force into the Kosovo Armed Forces. “Lately, we haven’t discussed this issue in the Serbian List, but our position remains the same. No one […]
Read More →Rasic’s party support Vucic (KiM radio)
Progressive Democratic Party of Nenad Rasic decided to support the coalition gathered around Aleksandar Vucic in the upcoming Serbian parliamentary elections. The decision was taken on Saturday, at a meeting of the Main Board of the Progressive Democratic Party (PDS). “Aleksandar Vučić has proved to be above all a brave man and he did not […]
Read More →Tahiri: We will not discuss Kosovo assets with Serbia (kallxo.com)
Kosovo’s dialogue minister Edita Tahiri said the statement of Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic that Trepca mine belongs to Serbia is part of his election campaign. “The media know that in time of campaigns, there are illusionary statements made for political marketing aims,” Tahiri said in an interview. Tahiri dismissed possibility of the Trepca mine […]
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