OSCE Broadcast 3 February
• Dacic wants to see Serbian elections happen in Kosovo (TV21, RTK2&Klan Kosova)
• Draft Law on Electoral Reform to be discussed on 6 February (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Students’ protest nearly escalates (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Thaçi and Dacic to discuss justice system on 12 February (Most monitored broadcasters, RTK1)
• Germany in favour of reserved seats (RTK1)
• Kuçi and Blomeyer discuss EULEX transformation (TV21)
Belgrade Daily Media Highlights 3 February
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Dacic: We want Serbian parliament elections to be organized in Kosovo as well (Beta)
• Dacic: Recognition to Serbia’s leadership (Tanjug)
• Vulin: The most important is that mayor is Serb (RTS)
• Office for Kosovo and Metohija: New attacks against property of Serbs in Kosovo (Blic/Beta)
• Pressure on countries that don’t consider Kosovo a state to change stand (Novosti)
• Lavrov: Serbia is Russia’s strategic partner (Politika)
• New Pre-election Discipline – Staff Hunting (Radio Serbia)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Lagumdzija and Dacic arranging joint session of B&H Council of Ministers and Serbian Government (Fena)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Kosovo, Serbia Say Normalizing Relations Beneficial (RFE/RL)
• Snowden, Ashton, Kosovo and Serb PMs proposed for Nobel (EUbusiness)
• Russia’s Orthodox Culture Warrior Comes To The Aid Of Kosovo’s Serbs (RFE/RL)
• Vojislav Kostunica, a Very Consistent Nationalist (BIRN)
• Serbia Denies Compensation to Tortured Croat Prisoners (BIRN)
• Macedonian presidential election set for April 13 (AP)
• Early Election Fever Grips Macedonia (BIRN)
• ‘Suspicious’ Macedonian Procurements Increasing, Survey (BIRN)
Dacic at the UN Security Council session on Kosovo, on 10 February (Blic)
Prime Minister in the technical mandate, Ivica Dacic said today that he will participate at the meeting of the UN SC on Kosovo and Metohija. Dacic said that Kosovo Prime minister Hashim Thaci will also participate, and two days later, on 12 February, in Brussels, will be continued dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina. At the […]
Read More →Parallel structures in the north, in transition (koha.net)
Doctors and healthcare personnel in northern municipalities of Kosovo, who received salaries from the budget of Kosovo for 14 years now, but who have been working according to Serbian laws and under the competencies of illegal structures in this part of the country, will conclude their “mission” of objecting integration in Kosovo institutions. The same […]
Read More →Noises (Kosova Sot)
The paper in its front-page editorial claims that the law passed recently by the Kosovo Assembly regulating noise has ignited a debate at the religious front thus overshadowing the essence of the legislation. Religious representatives known for radical views have raised their voice against the law claiming it undermines the mosques’ call to prayer, the […]
Read More →UNDP help for Kosovo, irreplaceable (koha.net)
Speaker of the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo, Jakup Krasniqi, met today with Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (RBEC) at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP,) Ayşe Cihan Sultanoglu, and discussed the so far cooperation between the Assembly of Kosovo and UNDP, as […]
Read More →Thaçi calls for solution of the problem at University (koha.net)
The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi, called today the Minister of Education, Ramë Buja, for a meeting in order to report on the situation created at the University. The news came from the Prime Minister himself, through a status in the social network Facebook. “Immediately after returning from the Munich Conference for Security, I […]
Read More →Lavrov: Strategic partnership could be improved (B92,Politika)
BELGRADE — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that relations between Serbia and Russia reached the level of a strategic partnership. But he added that “it still does not fully reflect the needs and possibilities of the two countries.” There is significant potential in trade and economic relations between Russia and Serbia, Lavrov said […]
Read More →Kosovo, Serbia Say Normalizing Relations Beneficial (RFE/RL)
MUNICH, Germany — The prime ministers of Serbia and Kosovo say the process of normalizing relations between Belgrade and Pristina has benefited both sides. Serbia’s Ivica Dacic and Kosovo’s Hashim Thaci also expressed gratitude on February 2 at the Munich Security Conference to EU foreign-policy chief Catherine Ashton for leading the peace-making negotiations. Both prime […]
Read More →Zoran Stankovic: Albanians should not boycott elections (Vecernje novosti)
“Belgrade has repeatedly called on Albanians from southern Serbia to vote, because it is the only legitimate way to influence the adoption or amendment of the law in parliament. If they will boycott the elections, they lose the opportunity to participate in decision -making” said Zoran Stankovic, the head of the Government of Serbia Coordination […]
Read More →Don’t be angry with MEP Lunacek – she is only telling the truth about visas (Koha Ditore)
The paper’s Brussels-based correspondent, Augustin Palokaj, recalls how ahead of elections in 2010, Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi had promised that Kosovo citizens would be able to visa-free travel in European countries within fifteen months from him coming to power and in the absence of any rebuttal from EU, citizens of Kosovo actually believed the promise. […]
Read More →The opinion of the Constitutional Court on the reserved seats (RTK2)
Minority MPs in the Assembly requested the opinion of the Constitutional Court on the expiry of the term for reserved seats. Member of the Presidency of the Assembly of Kosovo Petar Miletic confirmed for Radio Kosovo in Serbian that minority MPs today officially requested the opinion of the Constitutional Court on whether two terms expired […]
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