Belgrade Daily Media Highlights 28 February
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Djuric: Formation of Union of Serb Municipalities crucial for Serbia (RTS)
• Veselinovic under house arrest (Tanjug)
• SDP Civic Initiative requests Serbian government to freeze Brussels talks (RTS)
• Constitutional Court annulled decree on cadastre for Kosovo (Politika)
• Constitutional Court decision in effect only within six months (Danas)
• Agreement on postal traffic with Pristina (Novosti)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Dodik: Serbs will never observe 1 March as holiday (Srna)
• Poposki: Brussels agreement improved relations between Macedonia and Serbia (Politika)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Serbian deputy PM condemns arrests of Serbs (Xinhua)
• Hateful Message on Kosovo Church Condemned (BIRN)
• Kosovo and Montenegro Close to Border Deal (BIRN)
• US Blames Serb Hardliners for North Kosovo Violence (BIRN)
• Demonstrations follow years of political promises to improve Bosnia and Herzegovina’s economy (USA Today)
• Bosnian Serb Leader Slates Veterans’ Protest (BIRN)
• Exclusive: Mole Who Met Bin Laden Killed by Al Qaeda in Bosnia (NBC News)
• Macedonia Albanians Demand Early Elections (BIRN)
GI SDP: Suspend dialogue until gov’t guarantees are accepted (Tanjug)
Members of the Citizens’ Initiative “Freedom, Democracy, Justice” (GI SDP) noted on Friday that there were no grounds for the court’s decision to extend detention on remand for their leader Oliver Ivanovic, and added that the court in Pristina thus violated the basic human right of the detainee to be released pending trial. In that […]
Read More →NATO does not decide on Kosovo army (Tanjug)
NATO supports the Kosovo Security Force (KSF) in its present format, which does not envisage its use as a combat unit; it was stated at NATO headquarters in Brussels. NATO does not make decisions regarding the structure, mandate and mission of the Kosovo Security Force, a NATO official who wished to remain anonymous told Tanjug, […]
Read More →NATO does not decide on Kosovo army (Koha online)
BRUSSELS — NATO “supports the Kosovo Security Force (KSF) in its present format, which does not envisage its use as a combat unit,” Tanjug reported from Brussels. “NATO does not make decisions regarding the structure, mandate and mission of the Kosovo Security Force,” a NATO official who wished to remain anonymous told the news agency, […]
Read More →Gjetaj on restart of digging in Raska (Indeksonline)
Head of the Government Commission for the Missing Persons, Prenke Gjetaj, announced that the digging at the mass grave in Rudnica – Raska, for more than 250 bodies of Albanians killed during 1999, is expected to restart by the end of March, this year. Gjetaj stated for RTK that the meeting of experts who will […]
Read More →Thaci: PDK will win even without Limaj and Krasniqi (Kosovapress)
Leaving of Fatmir Limaj and Jakup Krasniqi from the Democratic Party of Kosovo, will not harm the party, stated the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci. He added that it is up to each member to chose his political orientation. Thaci did not want to speak about Krasniqi’s and Limaj’s party becoming official, reiterating that […]
Read More →Home detention ordered for Zarko Veselinovic (Tanjug)
Zarko Veselinovic, one of the four Serb detainees in Kosovo-Metohija, has been put under house arrest, attorney Dejan A. Vasic, a member of his defense team, said on Friday. The decision has been delivered by EULEX judge Nuno de Madureira, based on the Serbian government’s guarantees, as the court ascertained that they reduce the danger […]
Read More →The agreement on the Post office with Pristina (Vecernje Novosti)
According to our findings, Belgrade and Pristina could soon establish regular postal services. This is one of the results of the talks between the two delegations of Chambers of Commerce, which met on Thursday in Paris, in order to implement the agreement of the technical dialogue, and based on the April agreement, reached in Brussels. […]
Read More →Subsidies for farmers this year too (KIM radio)
Application process for registration of farms is ongoing. Farmers who are interested in receiving subsidies can report to the Department of the Treasure in Gračanica/Graçanicë until the end of March. Registration of agricultural farms is ongoing process from 2005 and every farmer wishing to receive subsidies from the Ministry of Agriculture of Serbia is due […]
Read More →Agani: From next year citizens with health insurance (Radio Kosova)
Beginning from next year it is expected that all Kosovo citizens to be equipped with health insurance cards. Minister of Health, Ferid Agani said for Radio Kosova that this public insurance will alleviate the life of citizens. Meanwhile, according to him, institutions are working seriously that this health insurance scheme to be put in function […]
Read More →No master of the house (Koha Ditore)
Columnist Lumir Abdixhiku recaps on the events of the week and claims that there were several stories on the news about misuse of public money and while these would have to make headlines in a normal setting, in Kosovo, people have become so accustomed to such news that they disregarded them completely. The first news, […]
Read More →A late motion (Kosova Sot)
The paper writes today that the Alliance for Future of Kosovo (AAK) missed last year the opportunity to embrace the role of the opposition and contribute to the forming of a powerful bloc that would be able to impose right decisions. However, deceived by a rumoured pact between political parties, AAK leader preferred to play […]
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