Belgrade Media Report 15 July 2016
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Dodik in Belgrade: RS will give its consent to sign SAA (RTS/Beta/Tanjug)
• Miscevic: Changing strategic documents next step for Serbia (Beta)
• Stefanovic: Serbia must not be a country which migrants would pour into without limits (Beta)
• Joksic: About 3,000 migrants currently in Serbia (Politika/Tanjug)
• Odalovic: So far no trace of existence of mass grave in Pristina (Tanjug)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Izetbegovic: Decision of RS authorities is expected (Dnevni avaz)
• Ivanic: We cannot expect Germany to cover all damages in RS; Ideal scenario would be to adapt SAA and adopt Coordination Mechanism with IMF arrangement (Dnevni avaz)
• Covic: Such outcome was expected (Dnevni avaz)
• Brand: Now we have big expectations from B&H (Dnevni avaz)
• Kovac: Serbia won’t be able to join EU without changing its war crimes law (Hina)
• Montenegrin government to Zaharova: A step too far (CDM)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
Bosnia’s Segregated Schools Perpetuate Ethnic Divisions (BIRN)
Read More →Skills for the future of Kosovo (Koha Ditore / Zeri)
Editorial by Andrew Russell, UN Development Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative 15 July marks the World Youth Skills Day, a day when the world recognizes the value of helping young people to develop the skills necessary to contribute to better futures for all. While more and more young people have better opportunities for education and […]
Read More →Border demarcation debate set for 3 August (RTK)
President of the Kosovo Assembly, Kadri Veseli, said today that the presidency has decided to call a round table on the issue of border demarcation with Montenegro on 3 August. Veseli said the round table as well as the debate on the matter should have taken place much sooner but, “better late than never.” “It […]
Read More →Displaced Serbs planning collective return to Gjakova/Djakovica (Koha)
Displaced Serbs from the municipality of Gjakova/Djakovica are planning to collectively return to the city during this year or the first half of the next, said their representative Djokica Stanojevic. “Individual return is a utopia and has not been successful for 16 years now,” said Stanojevic for the Belgrade news agency Beta. He added that […]
Read More →Zbogar: The trust of Serbs and Albanians is prerequisite for A/CSM (RTK2)
“The situation in Kosovo is not so bad, if you take into account what has been done so far,”’ said the EU Special Representative in Kosovo, Samuel Zbogar, adding that he primarily think about the Stabilization and Association Agreement, Brussels agreement, the integration of the north, the visa liberalization process and the admission of Kosovo […]
Read More →Vulin: Serbs must have A/CSM, because it is the guarantor of their existence in Kosovo (Blic)
Minister of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vulin said that the Serbs must have the Association / Community of Serb municipalities (A/CSM), because that is the essence of the Brussels agreement and a guarantee of the existence of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija. “Serbs cannot be dependent on […]
Read More →Government of Kosovo postpones sending border demarcation agreement to Assembly (Telegrafi)
Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, said in today’s meeting of the government that the draft law for ratification of the border demarcation agreement with Montenegro will not be immediately sent to the Assembly for approval in order to give more time for the issue to be discussed with MPs and the public. According to […]
Read More → Is Kosovo the New European Hotbed of Jihadi Extremism? (The Nation)
Kosovo is tiny, smaller than Connecticut, home to 1.8 million people, over 90 percent of whom are ethnically Albanian, and over 95 percent are Muslim. European in location and feel, the Islam is hard to spot, apart from the five calls to prayer punctuating the day. There are a few hijabs around, but far fewer […]
Read More →Young people are not our future, but our present (EWB)
EWB Op-Ed by Tanja Fajon, member of the European Parliament While I’m at the Gare de Paris Est station, waiting for the train to Strasbourg, where the final plenary session of the European Parliamant before the summer break is about to happen, I am trying to summarize the impressions from the Civil Society Forum held […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 14 July
• LDK and PDK MPs argued about the budget (All monitored broadcasters, RTK1&KTV)
• No human remains found at University of Prishtina campus (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• The request for debate on demarcation to be discussed (Most monitored broadcasters, RTK1)
• UN rebuked regarding its Mission in Kosovo (Klan Kosova)
• Breaking of LDK-AAK coalition in Gjilan/Gnjilane announced (KTV)
UNMIK Headlines 15 July
• PM Mustafa on meeting with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Nuland (Zëri)
• Border demarcation not on today’s government meeting agenda (Koha)
• Hyseni: KAF cannot be formed without demarcation (Koha)
• “Demarcation led by Kosovo administrators not decision-makers” (Bota Sot)
• Mustafa: Concrete results in fight against corruption, organised crime (Koha)
• Kosovo Assembly adopts 2016 budget review (Koha)
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