Belgrade Media Report 14 September
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Presidency: Serbia will never accept independence of Kosovo (RTS/Novosti)
• Some progress in telecommunications (Novosti)
• Possible agreement on license plates (Danas)
• Maric: No double teams for ZSO (RTS)
• Mihajlovic: Nis-Merdare-Pristina highway priority (Beta)
• Dacic to head Serbian delegation to Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Venezuela (Beta/Novosti)
• Clark building a power plant in Kosovo (Novosti)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• RS Referendum Commission creates its own central voters’ register (BN TV)
• Zvizdic holds a meeting with ambassadors of EU member states to B&H (TV1)
• Plenkovic expects stable government with clear agenda (Hina)
• IDS official rules out possibility of cooperation with right camp (Hina)
• SDP to launch procedure for leadership election on Thursday (Hina)
• Macedonia Elections: Ad Hoc body for media monitoring adopts work agenda (Telegraf.mk)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Refugees Pour Out of Turkey Once More as Deal With Europe Falters (The New York Times)
• Macedonia’s Amazing Disappearing Interior Minister (Global Voices)
• Eastern Europe Risks Losing UN Top Job Race (BIRN)
Serbian Police Director at the regional conference in front of the Kosovo flag (Vesti, KoSSev)
The police directors of Serbia, Kosovo, Albania and FYROM have participated at the regional conference in Skopje. The conference was organized in order to strengthen cooperation between the police of the Western Balkans and coordinate further action in relation to terrorism and organized crime in the Balkans, stated the EU mission in Kosovo. The EU mission […]
Read More →Rašić: There is no official position on the demarcation (KIM radio)
The position of Serbs, in Kosovo institutions, remains unchanged while there are no talks with Kosovo officials about the demarcation of the border between Kosovo and Montenegro, says member of the Assembly of Kosovo Nenad Rašić. Rašić recalls that Serbian MPs have not been invited to any meeting concerning the demarcation of the border with […]
Read More →Negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina in great difficulties (Blic, RFE)
Director of the Balkan group from Pristina Naim Rashiti says that the process of normalization of relations between Serbia and Kosovo fell into great difficulties due to problems with the implementation of the agreements reached, but also due to political developments in Kosovo and in Serbia. “This led to the fact that Prime Ministers of […]
Read More →K-Albanian man beaten in Mitrovica North (Kosovapress)
Citing unnamed sources, the news website reports that a 36 year-old Kosovo Albanian man was beaten up by unknown persons in Mitrovica North on Tuesday. “As he was entering one of the buildings near Raiffeisen Bank to submit documents for a tender, the victim was attacked by four persons, he sustained head injuries and his […]
Read More →Hoxhaj meets Jagland, new cooperation with Council of Europe (media)
Several news websites report that Kosovo’s Foreign Minister Enver Hoxhaj met in Strasbourg with Thorbjørn Jagland, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, and discussed the further advancement of relations. Hoxhaj briefed Jagland on political developments in Kosovo, the need for more substantial relations between Kosovo and the Council of Europe and other issues. […]
Read More →Next Assembly session on 22 September (Indeksonline)
Kosovo Assembly Presidency during its meeting today decided that the next Assembly session will be held on 22 September. The news site reports that the border demarcation agreement is not on the agenda.
Read More →Veseli: Broad consensus over demarcation – no negotiating with Serbian List (Koha)
President of the Kosovo Assembly, Kadri Veseli, said that a broad consensus is necessary to proceed with the issue of border demarcation. At the same time, he reiterated that there will be no negotiations with the Serbian List and certainly no conditions will be accepted.
Read More →Presidency: Serbia will never accept independence of Kosovo (Tanjug, Vecernje Novosti)
Serbia will never accept Kosovo-Metohija’s independence, and it meets the conditions for EU accession as long as recognition of Kosovo is not required, Serbian presidential adviser Stanislava Pak said in a comment on a statement by German Foreign Office official Michael Roth, who said that, before Serbia’s EU accession, everything must be clear regarding Kosovo. […]
Read More →Inter-Ministerial Commission for the Return about the incidents in Mušutište (KIM radio)
Latest incidents in Mušutište and the return of displaced were the topics of a meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Commission for the return. During the meeting once again the Serbian representatives in the Kosovo government, Ministers Dalibor Jevtić and Ljubomir Marić and Deputy Kosovo Prime Minister Branimir Stojanović, have concluded that the recent incidents in Mušutište […]
Read More →Kosovo Delays Vote on Wesley Clark Coal Scheme (Balkan Insight)
A Kosovo parliamentary commission postponed voting on whether to send a government decision to grant extensive coal research licenses to a company chaired by retired US General Wesley Clark for parliamentary approval. http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/kosovo-parliament-postpones-wesley-clark-s-coal-plans-09-13-2016
Read More →Marić: No double teams for drafting the Statute of the ZSO (Blic, RTS)
Minister for Local Self-Government in Kosovo Ljubomir Marić says that there are no double teams for drafting the Statute of the Association/Community of Serb municipalities as well as there is no reason that could hinder its work, and that there is only one management team. He adds that political will is important for the operations […]
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