Belgrade Daily Media Highlights 27 December
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Dacic: Problems in Kosovo solved every day (Tanjug)
• Vulin: Pristina trying to slow down forming of Union of Serb Municipalities (RTS)
• Vulin: 2014 – year of stabilization for Kosovo Serbs (Novosti)
• Bishop Teodosije: Serb heritage important issue (Beta/Jedinstvo)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Dodik: RS shows stability in year full of challenges (Oslobodjenje)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Santa gangs rob jewelry shops in Albania, Kosovo (AFP)
• 8 Bosnian war victims identified (World Bulletin)
• Izetbegovic blames SDP for chaos in Bosnia (Hina)
• Creeping towards fascism? Croatia tests European (The Conversation)
Blackmail as a governing example (kohaditore.com)
Lumir Abdixhiku, writes today that the Government of Kosovo used twice a simple trick of including selling of Post Telecommunication of Kosovo in the Budget Law, knowing that rejection of the article on PTK would mean rejection of the budget. This would then bring to the payment of salaries for administration, teachers, doctors, police, soldiers […]
Read More →President and Prime Minister mention achivments to Ambassadors (kohaditore.com)
“Isolation of Kosovars from the European Union is unjust,” stated the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, at the second conference of the Ambassadors of the Republic of Kosovo. Thaci stated that a lot of work and priorities remain for foreign policy and diplomacy. “One of the priorities of the foreign diplomacy, is work for […]
Read More →Belgrade, Pristina working groups to meet on 9 January (Tanjug)
BELGRADE – Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic announced on Friday that the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue will continue in Brussels after the holidays, but an exact date is yet to be determined, and he also underlined that problems in Kosovo are being resolved every day. For the time being, it is certain that the working groups of […]
Read More →Jevtic dissatisfied with the return of displaced persons (KIM radio)
Minister for Return and Communities in the Kosovo Government Dalibor Jevtic stated that 172 families have returned to Kosovo in the course of this year, that is 426 individuals. “We are not satisfied with the return, however figures are double in comparison with the 2012. We have achieved certain results and goals, but the number […]
Read More →Pantic needs approval from the Agency (Danas)
Deputy Director of the Office for K&M Krstimir Pantic will have to seek the approval of the Anti –Corruption Agency for employment on second position, in this case the post of mayor of northern Kosovska Mitrovica, for which he was elected on first December. According to this agency, Pantic shall, within three days from taking […]
Read More →Teodosije: Protection of Serbian heritage (Akter)
Bishop of Raska and Prizren Teodosije stated that it is important for the issue of the valuable Serbian heritage in Kosovo and Metohija to be initiated in the frame of Brussels agreement. Currently, there are certain laws and benefits, which are provided by Kosovo institutions following international leverage, but without written guarantees and any long […]
Read More →Santa gangs rob jewellery shops in Albania, Kosovo (AFP)
Kosovo: Four armed men dressed as Santa robbed a jewellery shop in a Tirana mall, police said Thursday while another “Santa gang” injured two people during a robbery in neighbouring Kosovo. The four thieves, armed with automatic weapons, burst into the Tirana shop on Tuesday, threatening the owner at gunpoint as they filled sacks with […]
Read More →Vulin: A year of stability and development follows (Vesti)
The Minister in charge of Kosovo in the Government of Serbia Aleksandar Vulin said that in Kosovo 2014 will be a year of political stability and economic development. During a visit to the site of the regional water supply system in the village of Jagnjenica, the Minister said that “the action 1,000 jobs by July […]
Read More →Constitutional status of Montenegrins in Kosovo is not questionable (Akter)
Radovan Miljanic, chargés d’affaires of the Montenegrin Embassy in Pristina, today expressed expectation that issue of constitutional definition of the status of Montenegrins in Kosovo will be defined at the beginning of next year. “Amendments of Kosovo Constitution could begin already in the second half of January, and that will be a unique opportunity for […]
Read More →To save guaranteed seats in Parliament (KiM Radio)
Serbian deputies and deputies of other minority communities in Kosovo Parliament will not give up the initiative to keep in the next two terms guaranteed seats in Parliament. In a joint statement Serbs, Bosniaks, Turkish, Ashkali, Roma and Gorani deputies stressed that they will use all the democratic, political and institutional means to reach that goal. “The […]
Read More →Two members of the Kosovo Independent Media Commission were dismissed (Blic)
Kosovo Assembly adopted a proposal of the competent parliamentary committee and due to violation of the law dismissed two members of the Independent Media Commission (IMC), Sefki Ukaj and Vesna Jovanovic. The Assembly of Kosovo declared that their previous and current involvement in the political life is contrary to the law. 59 MPs voted for […]
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