Belgrade Media Report 12 April 2016
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Government to discuss support for Jeremic’s candidacy (B92/Novosti)
• Miscevic: Chapter 23 is not on COELA meeting’s agenda (Tanjug)
• Djuric: Settlement for returnees built in northern Kosovo (Beta)
• Kandic ordered to pay damages to Dikovic (Tanjug/B92)
• SRS in Kosovska Mitrovica without Seselj (Tanjug)
• Sarovic: Kosovo Serbs are interested in freedom, not EU (RTS/Tanjug)
• Stojanovic: Prominent members of the SNS Nis board threaten and blackmail citizens (Juzne vesti/B92)
• CeSID and TV Prva: Expected turnout in Vojvodina 53% (RTS)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Vucic in Mostar: Regional cooperation of crucial importance (Srna)
• SDA waited for 12 years to admit to have given everything to HDZ in Mostar (Patria)
• Orucevic: I’m not interested in the politics, my sole motive is Mostar (Patria)
• Grabar-Kitarovic: B&H’s Euro-Atlantic integration Croatia’s strategic interest (Hina)
• Croatian President calls for uniting on fundamental values, joint Jasenovac commemoration (Hina)
• PM says government condemns Ustasha crimes (HRT)
• Markovic: Partners in the political dialogue to show responsibility (RTCG)
• Montenegro hopes for the ratification of NATO protocol (RTCG)
• Council of Europe’s Robert Walter calls on SDSM to reconsider election boycott decision (MIA)
• Balkan countries ministers to jointly discuss migrant/refugee Crisis (MIA)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• ‘Who knows what spark might ignite Bosnia?’ (Politico)
• Azem Vllasi, ‘Vucic Understands the New Age’ (BIRN)
Two girls verbally and physically assaulted in Preoce village (RTK2, TV Most, KIM radio, Blic)
Two nights ago, in the village of Preoce, around 8 pm, unknown persons verbally and physically attacked two girls, sisters aged 12 and 14 years, their parents told the RTK2. A month ago in Gracanica, a girl (9 years) was attacked. However, both cases were not reported to the police. A jeep of unknown license […]
Read More →Tahiri: Serbian elections won’t take place in Kosovo (KIM Radio)
Parliamentarian elections called by the Government of the Republic of Serbia will not take place in Kosovo because “there is neither legal nor political justification for it”, claims Kosovo minister without portfolio Edita Tahiri, writes Pristina-based paper Epoka e re. Tahiri stated that senior Serbian officials have misused the agreement on normalization of relations between […]
Read More →A Serb from Novo Naselje village detained (KIM radio)
Yesterday around 2.20 pm at the Merdare crossing, Sinisa Arsic from Novo Naselje village, was detained. KIM radio learned that the police detained him for possession of payroll lists for workers of the Serbian municipality of Stimlje. As confirmed by Sinisa’s brother to the RTV KIM, this happened when the police searched Arsic’s vehicle, as he was returning […]
Read More →Vucic: I do not interfere in the decision of the Kosovo Serbs (KIM radio)
Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic says that he does not interfere with daily or an individual political decisions of the Kosovo Serbs, neither with the issue of whether the Serbian List will leave the Kosovo Assembly. He points out that they will certainly have the support of Belgrade, until it is unambiguously clear that their […]
Read More →EU’s Mogherini and Hahn to visit Kosovo in May (RTK)
The EU High Representative of Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini and Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn are expected to visit Kosovo in May to discuss implementation of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with Kosovo MPs. Following the Agreements’ entry into force, Kosovo Assembly has set up a […]
Read More →Gnocchi: Violence and boycott do not bring Kosovo closer to EU (Koha)
Thomas Gnocchi from the EU’s Office in Kosovo said today in Pristina that the violence and boycott of the Assembly do not make Kosovo more independent or bring it closer to the EU. He said the opposition parties should rejoin political life as their absence in the Assembly damages the functioning of Kosovo and goes […]
Read More →Serbian General Wins Compensation for War Crimes Claims (Balkan Insight)
The founder of Belgrade’s Humanitarian Law Centre, Natasa Kandic, has been ordered to compensate Serbian Army chief Ljubisa Dikovic for accusing him of involvement in war crimes in Kosovo and Bosnia. http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/belgrade-rights-group-slam-verdict-against-serbian-general-04-12-2016
Read More →Prizren NGO accuses Kosovo Central Bank of illegal construction in historic zone (Klan Kosova)
The Prizren-based NGO Ec Ma Ndryshe has accused the Kosovo Central Bank of carrying out construction works inside the city’s legally-protected historic zone. The NGO said no building permit has been issued by relevant authorities and warned that the lack of institutional coordination is undermining efforts for establishing law and order within Prizren’s historic zone.
Read More →Freedom also for murder suspects (unfortunately)! (Koha Ditore)
The paper’s columnist Enver Robelli, in an opinion piece today, criticizes Kosovo’s justice system for “arresting the Serb general Milovan Bojovic for illegally entering Kosovo territory and not for war crimes committed against K-Albanians during the conflict in 1999.” “Bojojvic was sentenced to 30 days in prison for illegal border crossing. It is very likely […]
Read More →Government “to back Jeremic’s bid for top UN job” (B92, Vecernje Novosti)
The government will on Tuesday discuss supporting the candidature of Vuk Jeremic for the post of the next UN secretary-general, B92 learned. The daily Vecernje Novosti is reporting that it learned that the government will decide to back the candidature of Serbia’s former foreign minister, who also in the past served as president of the […]
Read More →Journalist association condemns ban on reporter from attending PM Mustafa’s press event (Telegrafi)
The Association of Kosovo Journalists (AKJ) has reacted against a ban imposed by the head of the Kosovo Medicines Agency Jeton Shala on Koha Ditore journalist from following the visit of Prime Minister of Kosovo Isa Mustafa to the Agency offices today. AKJ considers such a ban to be unacceptable and unlawful in a democratic country. […]
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