Belgrade Media Report 18 May 2016
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• U.S. suffocating UNMIK (Novosti)
• Dacic: Status neutral engagement of CoE in Kosovo and Metohija (Tanjug/RTS/B92)
• Nikolic to start consultations on government formation (B92/Tanjug)
• Nikolic receives assurances from Algerian officials: We will not recognize Kosovo (Novosti/Tanjug/Beta)
• Djuric: State border with Kosovo and Metohija will never exist for Serbia (B92)
• Introduction into withdrawal of foreign military presence from Kosovo (Danas)
• Who served Serwer (Politika)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Izetbegovic: Crucial to harmonise Coordination mechanism for all levels of government (Srna)
• Reiner didn’t address reporters because Croatian flag was not displayed at RS Assembly (Srna/Fena)
• Crnadak: No opportunity to review the abolition of visas for the citizens of Kosovo (Srna)
• OSCE condemns attacks against reporter in Banja Luka (Fena)
• SDP to initiate Karamarko’s impeachment on Wednesday (Hina)
• Macedonia’s Constitutional judges have different opinions but pass uniformed decision (Telegraf.mk)
• SDSM: Constitutional Court’s judges did not decide on their own, but under pressure (Telegraf.mk)
• EU warns Macedonia elections may not meet international standards (Hina)
• Montenegro’s NATO accession protocol will be signed on Thursday (CDM)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Montenegro’s Ex-President Marovic Faces Jail for Corruption (BIRN)
Read More →America suffocates UNMIK (Večernje Novosti)
According to the budget proposal, UNMIK will receive this year three and a half million U.S. dollars less, while America and Great Britain advocate for downsizing of the mission’s staff. According to our sources the aim is to downsize 20 positions, while the area of human rights, support to the communities, and implementation of UNMIK’s […]
Read More →Jevtić: Displaced persons are not statistical number (Kim radio)
Occupied property, personal documents, health care and education are the biggest obstacles for the return of displaced persons to Kosovo, said Dalibor Jevtić, Kosovo Minister of Communities and Returns. A two-day meeting of technical groups that should find durable solutions for the return of displaced persons to Kosovo began today in Pristina, and the topic […]
Read More →Introduction to withdrawal of foreign military presence from Kosovo (Danas)
The political atmosphere for withdrawal of military forces from Kosovo has been created by the declaration and the recommendations to the Council for Stabilization and Association adopted yesterday in Pristina, and the session of the Parliamentary Committee for Stabilization and Association on the occasion of coming into force of the Stabilization and Association Agreement signed […]
Read More →Police arrests a Vetëvendosje activist on EULEX case (Lajmi.net)
Kosovo Police has arrested today Vetëvendosje activist, Blerim Maqestena. According to Vetëvendosje, KP is seeking to arrest many other activists regarding Vetëvendosje’s action against EULEX in 2009. “Re-actualization of this case and many procedural and legal violations, proved that this is a political set-up process with the aim of political persecution of opposition activists”, notes a […]
Read More →Kosovo at OSCE conference, Serbia and Spain annul their participation (Lajmi.net)
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), is organizing a two-day conference with focus on the development of prospects for economic cooperation in the fields of transport, infrastructures, trade, energy and digital connectivity, as well as the role of the private sector in boosting the economic growth. A delegation of several businesses, led […]
Read More →Serbs expressed themselves about DSS politics (Vecernje Novosti)
Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija had clearly expressed themselves in the last elections about what they think when it comes to political credibility and responsibility of the DSS chairperson Sanda Rašković Ivić, and her ‘fruitless defiance and self-isolation’, communicated the Serbian List. This was the response of the Serbian List to Rašković Ivić’s statement […]
Read More →AAK: Agreement on Association should be rewritten (Indeksonline)
The Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), did not welcome the proposal of Kosovo’s President, Hashim Thaçi to establish a special commission for the establishment of the Association/Community of Serb-majority municipalities. Muharrem Nitaj, senior member of the AAK, said on Wednesday that a special commission cannot produce something that is in violation with Kosovo’s […]
Read More →RTK director to suspend editor who insulted LGBTI community (GazetaExpress)
The director general of the Radio Television of Kosovo (RTK), Mentor Shala, has distanced himself from the offensive language that RTK 3 editor, Arsim Halili, used towards the LGBTI community in Kosovo. “The insults made by Arsim Halimi towards LGBTI people are his personal views and in no way constitute the attitude of RTK. RTK respects the […]
Read More →EU Brings Kosovo Leaders Round Same Table (Balkan Insight)
For the first time since last September, when opposition parties in Kosovo began disrupting parliamentary sessions with canisters of tear gas, leaders of the five main parties took part in a joint round table organised by the EU. After meeting the leaders of the warring parties, Johannes Hahn, Commissioner for European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement, […]
Read More →Coal Plant Modernization: The Best Energy Option for Kosovo (Zëri)
Anthony B. Kim is Research Manager of the Index of Economic Freedom and Senior Policy Analyst for Economic Freedom in the Center for Trade and Economics, of the Institute for Economic Freedom and Opportunity, at The Heritage Foundation. Katie Tubb is a Policy Analyst in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, of the Institute for Economic Freedom and Opportunity.
Read More →Kosovo holds first-ever gay-pride march (AFP)
A few hundred people from Kosovo’s gay and lesbian community held their first ever pride parade Tuesday, May 17, seeking acceptance and respect of their rights in the conservative society. The participants marched under heavy police presence through downtown Pristina, waving rainbow flags to mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia. Many public figures, […]
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