OSCE Broadcast 12 December
• Jahjaga: Corruption eating up Kosovo’s future (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Tahiri: Former MUP members will go through verification process (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Minority parties may demand ten more seats (KTV)
• Slavkovic arrested for bribery (Klan Kosova)
Belgrade Daily Media Highlights 12 December
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Vulin: Pristina doing everything to cause a crisis (RTS)
• Bonnet: No plans for postponing negotiations (B92)
• Can Kosovo become a UN member without Belgrade’s recognition (Novosti)
• Pantic’s double function (Danas)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• The federal “five” without agreement (Srna)
• Howitt: Launching accession talks to benefit both Skopje, EU (Dnevnik)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Serbia postpones trilateral meeting with Turkey over Kosovo remarks (Today’s ZAMAN)
• 9 Bosnian Serbs arrested for war crimes (World Bulletin)
• Hague Tribunal Orders Mladic to Testify for Karadzic (BIRN)
• Bosnia in need for economic development strategy (World Bulletin)
Participation of Serbs in Kosovo police 9 percent (RTK2)
There are 8.472 police officers in Kosovo police, out of whom 780 are members of Serbian community, that is 9,21%, learned RTK2 RTK2 tried to find out to what extent are members of minority communities able to be promoted in the chain of command in Kosovo police. Spokesperson of the Kosovo police Baki Kelani said […]
Read More →Restart in politics (Tribuna)
General Secretary of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) and Assembly deputy, Burim Ramadani, considers that Kosovo has been managed weakly and governed without efficiency. Therefore, he says, engagement of everyone is required, therefore change of the present is a necessity. “I do not think that there is a dilemma on what we […]
Read More →Depleted uranium still poisoning us (Vecernje Novosti)
For almost 15years Serbia didn’t manage to find strength and political will to present to international community the complete problem in relation with the bombardment with the ammunition with the depleted uranium, while national strategy should be defined on removal of consequences of the detrimental radiation. This was said amongst the other things at the […]
Read More →Journalists report attacks amid Kosovo elections (Scoop.co.nz)
Television crew says cameraman beaten, correspondent’s car torched in separate incident VIENNA, 11 December 2013 – The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), today condemned pressure directed against journalists in Kosovo amid last week’s elections. A crew from Silovo-based Radio Television Puls said a security guard at […]
Read More →Kan. National Guard soldiers heading to Kosovo (AP)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Approximately two dozen soldiers of the National Guard’s 35th Infantry Division will soon be heading to Kosovo to fill positions in an ongoing NATO peacekeeping mission. The first of the soldiers will be honored in a departure ceremony Saturday at Fort Leavenworth where the division is headquartered. A second departure ceremony for […]
Read More →The negotiations with Serbia will start only if it is fulfilled the agreement of 19 April, says German MP’s (Radio Kosova)The negotiations with Serbia will start only if it is fulfilled the agreement of 19 April, says German MP’s (Radio Kosova)
Radio Kosova reports that the decision of European Union for negotiations with Serbia will depend from the flow of the next meeting between Prime Ministers Thaçi and Dacic, which will be held on Friday in Brussels. Only if is achieved compliance for open issues, respectively for the judicial issues, only the it can be moved […]
Read More →CSM as a mean of integration or division (KIM radio)
“It is unclear whether Community of Serbian Municipalities (CSM) will be an instrument of integration or further divisions,” said Agron Bajrami at the debate hosted by the Group for Legal and Political Studies which presented the analysis labeled “Community of Serbian Municipalities: from the mean of integration toward catastrophe in creation”. The author of this […]
Read More →Belgrade does not give up on request for Basic Court in the north (rtklive.com)
Belgrade is not giving up on the request to have a Basic Court in the northern part of Kosovo, insisting that Pristina agreed to this in the implementation plan for the April agreement. Sources in the Kosovo Judicial Council however confirmed to Radio Kosova that there will not be a basic court in the north. […]
Read More →Economic situation can delay visa liberalization (gazetaexpress.com)
Representatives of Kosovo institutions said today that the European Commission’s fact-finding mission, which visited Kosovo recently to get up-close information on the implementation of visa liberalization criteria, had generally positive assessments on repatriation, reintegration and security. Besnik Vasolli, visa liberalization coordinator at the Kosovo Government, said the eight-member team from the European Commission conducted several […]
Read More →President Jahjaga addresses Kosovo Parliament (indeksonline.com)
“I will continue to meet all my obligations. I will continue to be strongly involved in the fight against organized crime and corruption and in uprooting all negative phenomena in the country,” President Atifete Jahjaga said in today’s annual address at the Kosovo Parliament. Jahjaga talked about the recent municipal elections, Kosovars going to fight […]
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