Belgrade Media Report 30 June 2016
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• EU: No consensus to open chapters 23 and 24 with Serbia (RTS, Tanjug)
• Dacic: EU decision “shocking, disgraceful, humiliating” (Tanjug)
• Brexit to cause “some delay” for EU hopefuls in W. Balkans (Tanjug)
• Djuric and new EULEX chief on mission’s goals in Kosovo (Beta)
• Croatia building fence on border with Serbia – reports (B92)
• Vucic’s close associates asking for “cessation of communication” with “ill-intended” Bosniak politicians (VIP)
• DS accuses Vucic of deliberately stalling setting up of the Government (VIP)
• “Protests meant to destabilize Balkans” – Russian official (Tanjug)
• 100,598 Migrants discovered in Serbia in five months (Politika)
• Refugee center in the center of Belgrade about to be closed (Tanjug)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• The Official Census Results published (Radio Sarajevo)
• Census results useless and fake (Srna)
• Cormack, Wigemark: Without SAA adaptation there is no guarantee that B&H can move to next stage of EU accession (TV1)
• Izetbegovic: Dangerous game leads B&H to new conflict (Nezavisne novine)
• Gratitude to UN for good cooperation (Srna)
• Oreskovic says new parties and new ideas healthy for every democracy (Hina)
• Montenegro sent a letter of protest to Kosovo (CDM)
• Montenegrin success in EU integration incentive for the whole region (RTCG)
• Gruevski: I Informed EPP’s leader for ongoing processes in Macedonia (MIA)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Adaptation of SAA is one of B&H’s obligations towards EU (Al Jazeera)
• Moscow to Belgrade: We know you’re under huge pressure (TASS)
All sessions on Azem Syla’s case annulled (media)
EULEX failed once again with regards to the special investigation on the case of Azem Syla and the others. According to Syla’s lawyer, Tomë Gashi, all announced sessions for 6, 7 and 8 July 2016 are annulled. “EULEX does not give any explanation for these postponements but it is known that EULEX still does not […]
Read More →Drecun: Reckless political move or provocation (B92, TV Puls)
Pristina Liaison Officer in Belgrade, Valdet Sadiku, will have a new associate. According to Pristina-based daily Zeri, Kosovo government has appointed Xhelal Shaqiri, former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) member, to the post of the Assistant Liaison Officer in Belgrade. “He is actually a technical person and for the nomination of such person no consent of […]
Read More →Svilanović: Western Balkan region to face certain delay in EU accession (InSerbia)
The Western Balkan region will face a certain delay in the EU accession process post-Brexit because a number of institutions that would have dealt with it will now have to deal with other matters, Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) Secretary General Goran Svilanović said Wednesday. “That is the reality,” Svilanović told a Tanjug reporter when asked […]
Read More →Thaçi: We have established a good tradition of cooperation with EULEX (media)
The President of Kosovo Hashim Thaçi, met today with the new Acting Head of EULEX Mission in Kosovo, Bernd Thran, with whom he discussed the cooperation between Kosovo institutions and EULEX after the adoption of the new law and the restructuring of the mission. “We have established a good tradition of cooperation”, Thaçi said, adding […]
Read More →Rakić: Does 250,000 expelled Serbs from Kosovo represent Serbian ‘colonization’? (Kossev)
After the statement of the leader of Self-determination movement Visar Imeri, related to the monument to Prince Lazar and chauvinistic character of Association / Community of Serb Municipalities, reacted the mayor of North Mitrovica, Goran Rakić. “Imeri’s statement is given in a spirit of absolute lack of tolerance and understanding for other nations, in this […]
Read More →Corruption level remains high in Kosovo (dailies)
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Kosovo On Wednesday launched the preliminary report on the findings and recommendations from the “Corruption Risk-Assessment in extractive industries (mining/other)”. The discussion centered around the findings and recommendations, with representatives from local and central institutions, civil society, and independent bodies. Patrick Etienne, director of the Swiss Cooperation Office […]
Read More →Kadaj-Bujupi: Serbia is continuously increasing its influence within Kosovo (Telegrafi)
The Vetevendosje Movement MP, Donika Kadaj Bujupi, said on Thursday that Serbia is interfering in different forms in Kosovo. According to her, Serbia is continuously increasing its influence within Kosovo. “Serbia is interfering in different forms in Kosovo. It’s thanks to this government that we have, the Serbian government is continuously increasing its influence in […]
Read More →Serb national jailed for 13 years in Kosovo on terrorism charges (Reuters)
A court in Kosovo sentenced a Serbian man to 13 years in jail on Wednesday on charges of preparing a terrorist attack after police found him transporting explosives in the streets of the capital Pristina. Slobodan Gavric, born in 1968, was arrested in December 2015 after police found 12.2 kilos of explosives in his car […]
Read More →Kosovar Court Convicts Serbian Found With Bombs On Terrorism Charges (RFE/RL)
A Kosovar court sentenced a Serbian citizen to 13 years in jail for “attempted terrorist” activities after he was arrested in Pristina in a vehicle packed with more than 11 kilograms of explosives. The Pristina Basic Court on June 29 found Slobodan Gavric guilty of “intent to intimidate and destabilize the population, and…to destroy the […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 29 June
• Kosovo wants continuation of co-operation with the OSCE (KTV)
• Delawie: Political violence made Kosovo’s admission in UNESCO impossible (RTKLive)
• Electro-Serbia damages graveyards of Albanians in the north (KTV)
• Montenegro sends a note protest to Kosovo (KTV)
• Rasic: Association’s statute will be done by Brussels (RTK2)
• Slobodan Gavric sentenced to 13 years of imprisonment (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
UNMIK Headlines 30 June
• EC urges Kosovo to ratify demarcation agreement soon (Tribuna)
• Montenegro sends note of protest to Kosovo (Kosovapress)
• “Assembly should create commission for verification of demarcation” (Epoka)
• Delawie: Political violence made Kosovo’s participation at international institutions impossible (Epoka)
• “Britain was a great ally of Kosovo in EU” (Zëri)
• Prosecution does not investigate violations identified by auditor (Koha)
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