Belgrade Media Report 14 June 2016
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Chinese, Serbian Presidents to sign strategic cooperation agreement in Belgrade (Beta)
• Vucic: We remain devoted to EU membership (RTS/Tanjug)
• Djuric: Mechanism for returning property to displaced lacking (Tanjug)
• Vulin: Belgrade not to accept migrants forcibly turned back (Tanjug)
• Kocijancic: We expect Vucic in Brussels once government is formed (Tanjug)
• Germany: Serbia will have to introduce sanctions to Russia (Danas)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• B&H Council of Ministers to discuss census (Klix)
• Izetbegovic’s visit to Kazani is a contribution to reconciliation (Novo vrijeme)
• Interview with High Representative Valentin Inzko (Vecernji list)
• HDZ official: Parliament to vote on PM’s impeachment today (Hina)
• Indictment against Serb paramilitary leader upheld (Hina)
• Organization behind protests in Macedonia “CANVAS” is as dangerous as Al Qaeda and Islamic State (Telegraf.mk)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• New law allows Hungary police to return migrants beyond border fence (Reuters)
• Bosnian children with Islamic State are ‘time bomb’, study says (Reuters)
• Without the EU, old demons will return to the Balkans (The National)
Trial to Kosovo hacker (KIM Radio)
Kosovo Albanian Ardit Ferizi is charged for hacking computers of the US service members’ personnel for the interest of the Islamic State. Associated Press reports that he will plead guilty at tomorrow’s trial at the US district court in Alexandria. Ferizi initially pleaded not guilty to charges of providing material support to terrorists and identity […]
Read More →The right to a pension for IDPs mission impossible (RTK2)
Administrative Instruction of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, which contains new requirements for entitlement to a basic pension in Kosovo, has created difficulties to the applicants. Obtaining the necessary documents, such as proof of property tax payment for internally displaced persons is almost mission impossible. For the relevant ministry, new requirements are a […]
Read More →Ugljanin: With LDP for autonomy of Sandžak and recognition of Kosovo (Blic)
The leader of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) of Sandžak, Sulejman Ugljanin, said that his party has established a caucus group in the Serbian Assembly with the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), because they both pledge for five common principles, among which are independent Kosovo and autonomy of Sandžak. He explained that SDA of Sandžak […]
Read More →Thaçi: Brussels dialogue helped in consolidating state sovereignty in the north (Koha)
Kosovo’s President, Hashim Thaçi, said in a meeting with Minister for Dialogue, Edita Tahiri, the EU-facilitated dialogue in Brussels for normalization of relations with Serbia has contributed to advancing Kosovo’s European integration as well as to consolidating Kosovo’s sovereignty in the north.
Read More →Djuric: No mechanism for return of property of IDPs (Tanjug)
In Serbia, there are 204,049 internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Kosovo-Metohija, the director of the Serbian government office for Kosovo-Metohija said on Tuesday, noting that the return of Serbs and other non-Albanians is limited by a lack of a mechanism for a return of usurped property. Seventeen years after the conflict in Serbia’s southern province, […]
Read More →Odalović: One should check information about the mass grave (KiM radio)
President of the Serbian Government Commission for Missing Persons Veljko Odalović considers that the information about a mass graves near the Temple of Christ the Saviour, and which director of the Office of Forensic Medicine in the Kosovo Justice Ministry revealed, must be checked. “This is information that we need to check, but one cannot […]
Read More →AAK and NISMA to boycott Assembly’s voting on EULEX mandate (Gazeta Blic)
Officials from two opposition parties – the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) and Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA) – announced plans to continue boycotting Kosovo Assembly’s session, including the one set to vote on extending the mandate for the EU rule of law mission, EULEX. AAK’s Muharrem Nitaj said the party’s MPs would not […]
Read More →Jevtić: The displaced have no more patience to wait to return (Kontakt plus radio)
Regional Conference for lasting solutions to the question of displaced persons within the Skopje-based initiative is being held in Belgrade. The first day of the conference, a meeting of the technical working group was held, and during the second day of a regional conference there will be a meeting at a high political level. Minister […]
Read More →Houses for Serbs in the north to be constructed despite opposition from Pristina (RFE)
Representatives of Serbs in the north of Kosovo stated that the construction of 300 new houses will commence despite the opposition from authorities in Pristina. Head of the Zveçan/Zvečan provisional authority appointed by Belgrade, Ivan Todosijević, said that it is up to Pristina to demonstrate good will by granting construction permit for the houses. He […]
Read More →Concerns over the increased number of incidents (KiM radio)
Kosovo Deputy Interior Minister Milan Radojević said that he is concerned about the increased number of incidents and attacks on returnees’ areas, south of the Ibar / Ibër River, noting that the responsibility is on the Kosovo institutions. “If one check only the incidents in Paralovo that were happening during the course of previous months, […]
Read More →Kosovo amends draft law to formally prolong EU’s mission (AP)
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) ” The Kosovo government has amended a draft law to prolong the European Union rule of law mission, known as EULEX, for two years. A statement received Tuesday said the previous evening the Cabinet met to amend a draft law on prolonging of the EULEX mandate after a letter. The Cabinet acted […]
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