Belgrade Media Report 13 June 2016
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic cancels trip to Brussels and meetings in U.S. (Politika)
• Scott, Davenport: Support to reforms and Vucic’s EU plan (RTS/Tanjug)
• Djordjevic, Li Manchang agree to step up Serbian-Chinese military cooperation (Beta)
• Chepurin: False democrats want weak Serbian government (Novosti)
• Serbia cannot join EU without Kosovo becoming UN member (Danas)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Referendum and local elections should be held on the same day (Klix)
• Ivanic: No one has the right to criticize Serbs for the responses that will follow (Srna)
• Dodik comments on the language in RS (Srna)
• Why is the proposal by the European Commission inacceptable for the RS? (Faktor)
• HDZ official: Zdravko Maric the HDZ’s candidate for the Prime Minister (Nova TV)
• NATO: Montenegro must increase its defense budget (Pobjeda)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Serbian Officials Express High Hopes for Xi’s Visit (CRI Online)
• Serbs protest demolitions for UAE-investment project (AP)
• Serbia’s New Parliament: Debating Chamber or Reality Show? (BIRN)
The incidents in northern Kosovo disturb the citizens (RTK2)
The incidents in northern Kosovo gain momentum, in the night between Friday and Saturday in a shootout in a coffee shop in Zvečan/Zveqan, severely were injured two brothers, while on Saturday evening, near a police station and the court in North Mitrovica, an explosive device was thrown at a police patrol. In the incident one police […]
Read More →The Assembly of Kosovo to gather on Thursday, demarcation and EULEX not in the agenda (Gazeta Express)
The Presidency of the Assembly of Kosovo decided to hold the next Assembly session on Thursday, 16 June, at 10:00 hours. The issue of the demarcation of the border with Montenegro was not even mentioned at the meeting. Discussions and voting on the extension of the EULEX’s mandate for two additional years, did not make […]
Read More →Source: Assembly could meet tomorrow to extend EULEX mandate (Telegrafi)
Citing an unnamed source in the Kosovo Assembly, the news site reports on a possible extraordinary session of the Assembly on Tuesday to extend the mandate of the EU Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX). “Although nothing is certain yet, there are rumours that an extraordinary session could be held tomorrow,” the source said.
Read More →Italian general: Reports on killed Serbs in Kosovo arrived every morning (InSerbia)
Mauro del Vecchio, a former general of the Italian army, who led a unit of 7,000 soldiers who entered Kosovo in June 1999 after the end of NATO bombing of Serbia, said that during the first three weeks of his mandate the reports of the bodies of killed Serbs and Roma arrived on his desk […]
Read More →Thaçi: EULEX, a successful mission whose new mandate will reflect Kosovo’s reality (Indeksonline)
The President of Republic of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi, met today with Gabrielle Meucci, the out-going head of the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX). “I thank you for the work that you have done. You have successfully led a complex organization and you managed to do so thanks to your wisdom and […]
Read More →Former head of CIA: Borders in Balkans will change (Vecernje Novosti, RTK2)
The West should take over the part of responsibility for developments in the region of former Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia, for merciless and brutal war in which many people died. Everything could, and should, have happened in a different way, because big powers were more observing their own interest than the one of the […]
Read More →Jablanović: Belgrade has no freedom to act (KoSSev, Vesti)
The biggest problem for the security of Serbs is that the current Albanian political representatives do not want their return to Metohija, told Vesti Aleksandar Jablanović, founder of the Serbian list and the former minister for return in the Kosovo government. Serbs are once again under attack in Klina/Klinë and Srbica/Skenderaj. Kosovo Ministry for Return […]
Read More →Without Belgrade the establishment of the A/CSM is pointless (TV Most)
‘Serbs will have an influence on the formation of the Association / Community of Serb Municipalities (A/CSM), since the establishment would be meaningless without it.’ This is how Branimir Stojanović, Kosovo’s deputy prime minister commented on the statement of Hashim Thaçi, President of the interim institutions in Pristina, on Belgrade’s role in this process. Thaci […]
Read More →Serbian MPs request withdrawal of the law on census (KIM Radio)
Representatives of Serbs in the Kosovo parliament insist on withdrawal of the draft law on census from the parliamentary procedure because, according to them, conditions are not fulfilled yet for its realization. Leader of the Serbian List, Slavko Simić, said to Tanjug that conditions are not ready for carrying out regular census in Kosovo and […]
Read More →Merkel will be asked to change a focus (Danas)
The MPs of the ruling German party – the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and their coalition partner, the Christian Social Union (CSU) will ask the German Chancellor Angela Merkel to “return the Balkans to the focus of German policy” and to treat it as a “region of special importance.” “The impression is that the Balkans […]
Read More →EU investing in Mitrovica North (TV Most)
Construction works in relation with three big projects funded by the European Union will kick off today in Mitrovica North, where cornerstones will be laid down at three locations. The first cornerstone will be laid down for the construction of a new bus station in Mitrovica North, and this event will be attended by the […]
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