OSCE Broadcast 12 March
• Gaon: Election material will be transported to Serbia (RTK2)
• OSCE to involve hundreds of staff members for Serbia’s elections in Kosovo (RTK1)
• North Mitrovica/Mitrovicë municipality statute still not finalised (RTK2, Klan Kosova)
• Serb MPs still hope for another mandate of reserved seats (RTK1)
• Zubin Potok Serbs protested (RTK2)
• North Serbs owe KEC EUR 100 million (TV21)
• Kuçi: Next EULEX mission needs to be defined soon (TV21)
• Krasniqi blames LDK for failure to investigate SHIK (KTV)
Belgrade Daily Media Highlights 12 March
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Nikolic: Annex of the Brussels agreement necessary (RTS)
• SDP wants Ivanovic to be released pending trial (Tanjug)
• Djuric instead of Mrkic? (Novosti)
• Election campaign – what did they tell us and what they did not (Radio Serbia)
• Devil’s Advocates (NIN)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Ashton: Help B&H in drafting long-term economic plan (Fena)
• Russian Patriarch decorates RS President (Srna)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Economy the key to Serbian voters (World News Radio)
• Kosovo Told to Cooperate With Organ Trafficking Probe (BIRN)
• Russia Stance on Kosovo Unchanged Despite Crimea (BIRN)
• Russian Foreign Minister meets leader of Bosnian Serbs (ITAR-TASS)
• Serbia and Croatia’s Competing Genocide Claims (The Daily Beast)
• Montenegro: a fistful of democracy (Open Democracy)
The locals blocked the police station in Zubin Potok (TV Most)
About seventy people blocked police station in Zubin Potok today, protesting the arrest of a person by the Kosovo police. As we unofficially learn, one men was arrested (S.S) for disturbing the peace. It turned out that there is a warrant issued for detainee. The locals are still in front of the station KPS.
Read More →The Tribunal (Kosova Sot)
The front page editorial of this daily writes that the fact that the international community plans establishment of the Tribunal for Kosovo outside Kosovo and keeping the convicted in prisons also outside Kosovo, is a clear message that they do not trust Kosovo’s judicial system. “However, for the sake of the truth, they allowed this […]
Read More →Çitaku: More work on integration of the repatriated (RTK live)
Minister for European Integration, Vlora Çitaku, stated on Wednesday that more work has to be done on integrating the repatriated individuals from the communities that live in Kosovo. She made these comments during the meeting with head of UNHCR for Europe, Vincent Cochetel. During this meeting, they discussed issues of mutual interest, such as irregular […]
Read More →Stolen legitimacy (Tribuna)
The paper’s political editor, Agron Halitaj, claims that the agreement between political leaders – Hashim Thaci, Isa Mustafa and Behgjet Pacolli – three years ago for electing president of Kosovo was clearly anti-constitutional at least in one of its aspects. It aimed to cut short regular mandate of the president, Atifete Jahjaga, so that her […]
Read More →The independence of the Crimea by the model of Kosovo (Politika)
The Preamble of the Declaration of Independence of the Crimea refers to the case of Kosovo and the advisory opinion of the UN International Court of Justice of 22 July 2010. Simferopol – The Supreme Soviet of Crimea (Ukrainian Parliament of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea) yesterday issued a Declaration of Independence of the Crimea […]
Read More →PMO clarifies: Thaci was not interviewed by Williamson (Lajmi)
Kosovo Prime Minister’s Office says Prime Minister Hashim Thaci was not interviewed by the American prosecutor Clint Williamson who is investigating allegations raised by Dick Marty regarding organ trade. According to the PMO, the news reported by the media is completely false. “The Office of Prime Minister of Kosovo rebuts the report published in a […]
Read More →EU Task Force: Prosecutor Williamson neither met nor interviewed PM Thaci (Express)
EU Special Investigative Task Force (SITF) denied reported that Prime Minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, was interviewed yesterday by the lead prosecutor, Clint Williamson. Its officials claim investigations are ongoing and if there is evidence, all individuals with personal responsibility will be prosecuted. Officials from the EU SITF that is conducting investigations into allegations of […]
Read More →KAF should have their own intelligence mechanism (RTK live)
Kosovo’s Parliamentary Commission for Security considers that Kosovo Armed Forces should have its intelligence mechanisms like all the other armed forces in the world. Head of the Commission for supervision of Kosovo’s Intelligence Agency, Florin Krasniqi, stated that every security body should have its own intelligence. Deputies Fadil Demaku and Burim Ramadi shared the same […]
Read More →Minority Parliament, minorities could have 22 deputies (Radio Kosova)
At the time where are ongoing discussions about reserved seats in Kosovo Assembly, experts do not reject the possibility that it could be added two more reserved seats to the Assembly. This will happen if Kosovo gets two more communities, Montenegrin and Croatian communities. The request of Montenegrins and Croatians to be recognized the right […]
Read More →Minority MPs crucial to the formation of the Kosovo army (RTK2)
Although the process of formation of the Armed Forces of Kosovo could last for a decade , the first step towards it is a change of the Constitution, which requires a two-thirds majority, not only of all the members, but also members of minority communities who have the power to block the process. Parliamentary committee […]
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