OSCE Broadcast 23 December
• North Mitrovicë/Mitrovica municipality to be constituted on 26 December (All monitored broadcasters, RTK1)
• No Kosovo symbols in Zubin Potok (Klan Kosova)
• Çitaku: IMC should respect EU directives (KTV, TV21)
• Thaçi: Krasniqi faced persecuting interview and incomplete arguments (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Roundtable on Ombudsperson’s role in protecting RAE rights held (RTK2)
Belgrade Daily Media Highlights 23 December
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Dacic: Dialogue with Pristina to continue in January (RTS)
• Dayton brings peace and stability (RTS)
• Ruzic: Serbia ready for negotiations, EU membership in 2020 (TV Pink)
• Vulin: Privatization of Trepca not without Serbia (Novosti)
• VAT abolished for northern Kosovo, again (Politika)
• Pantic: Vucic is coming to Kosovska Mitrovica (Politika)
• Home political scene (Radio Serbia)
• Davenport: Normalization does not mean recognition (B92)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Dodik: Criticisms of entities about Elektroprijenos unsubstantiated (Oslobodjenje)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Ashton Eyes Fresh Serbia-Kosovo Deal in Final Year (Wall Street Journal)
• UK no longer advocates for EU enlargement (EurActiv)
Kuçi: Joint border control of Kosovo and Montenegro (kohaditore.com)
Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo, Hajredin Kuçi, assessed that Kosovo and Montenegro should control the border together, in order to avoid smuggling. “We have a good control of the border with Montenegro,” stated Kuçi, I an interview for Atlas broadcaster in Podgorica, and added that except for the police, on the Kosovo side, sometimes KFOR […]
Read More →Tahiri claims that Association will not have an executive mandate (kohaditore.com)
Chief negotiator of Kosovo, Deputy Prime Minister Edita Tahiri, told RTK broadcaster that Association of municipalities with Serb majority, will not have an executive mandate, but the same one as the existing Association of Kosovo Municipalities. Tahiri stated that the statute of the Association was drafted by Kosovo’s Ministry of Local Government, after the rejection […]
Read More →Thaçi calls Krasniqi’s case “a persecuting interview” (kohaditore.com)
The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi, decided finally to say a “two or three words” on questioning of the Speaker of Kosovo Assembly, Jakup Krasniqi, by an EULEX prosecutor, under suspicion for involvement on war crimes. Three days after Krasniqi spent several hours at the offices of this mission, Thaçi wrote on his profile […]
Read More →Municipal authorities in Kosovo will be formed till 26 December (Vesti online)
Kosovo Minister for Local Government and Deputy PM, Slobodan Petrovic said that according to his expectations all new municipal authorities in Kosovo will be constituted no later than 26 December, which is the legal term for their formation. In an interview for the news agency Beta, Petrovic said that the representatives of the European Union […]
Read More →Ashton expected to invite Thaci and Dacic to new round of talks (rtklive.com)
European Union High Representative Catherine Ashton is expected to send invitations to Kosovo and Serbia prime ministers, Hashim Thaci and Ivica Dacic, to a new round of talks on January 19. Serbian media are reporting that talks will focus on the Association of Serb majority municipalities. The meeting will be held two days prior to […]
Read More →Extended mandate for reserved seats is dangerous (kosovapress.com)
Opposition representatives in Kosovo are rejecting the proposal to extend for another two mandates the reserved parliamentary seats for the Serb minority, saying that this is dangerous and that minority communities already enjoy so-called positive discrimination. Kosovo Parliament deputy speaker Xhavit Haliti meanwhile says that minority communities should not have both reserved and guaranteed seats […]
Read More →Meeting Dacic – Thaci two days before the intergovernmental conference (Vecernje Novosti)
Novosti learns: Prime Minister Ivica Dacic and Hashim Thaci will meet fort the 21st time, ahead of the Intergovernmental Conference. New round scheduled on 19 January, the establishment of the Community of Serbian Municipalities main topic. European head of diplomacy Catherine Ashton in following days shall send a letter to Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic […]
Read More →Branimir Stojanovic to take the office (KiM Radio)
In Gracanica tomorrow at the meeting of the municipality the newly elected mayor and councillors will take the office. Branimir Stojanovic, the newly elected Mayor of Gracanica, tomorrow will take the office together with the newly-elected councillors at 14 pm tomorrow in the Cultural Center in Gracanica. Stojanovic was a candidate of the CI “Srpska”, […]
Read More →Ivanovic: It is important to participate (Dnevnik)
The discussion on whether to hold early parliamentary elections in KiM in the spring of 2014 is followed with great attention. Elections for the National Assembly so far have always been very important for the Serbian community in Kosovo and Metohija, because by going to the polls even with a small number of voters it […]
Read More →Serbs demand more seats in the Kosovo Assembly (RTS)
Serbs and members of other minority groups demand that in the next two sessions of the Assembly, except guaranteed, have and additional seats. In order for this initiative to be adopted necessary is vote of two -thirds for it in the Kosovo Assembly, or 80 members. Currently there is no support for it. In KiM […]
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