Belgrade Media report 15 May
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Vulin: Office for Kosovo and Metohija to operate at full capacity (Tanjug)
• Serb parties disunited for Kosovo elections (Novosti)
• Serbs to take part in Kosovo elections with 60 MP candidates (Danas)
• Ivanovic to be candidate from prison (Novosti)
• NATO soldiers to arrive in “South” military base (Danas)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• General elections to be held on 12 October (Srna)
• Lagumdzija: SBB completely lost in its steps (Oslobodjenje)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Kosovo Serbs Eye Belgrade Ahead of Elections (BIRN)
• Serbia Urged to Prosecute US Albanians’ Killers (BIRN)
• Kosovo Massacre Survivors Mourn Anniversary in Anger (BIRN)
• Physicists take up key science posts in Serbian government (Physics World)
• The EU’s Silence Should Worry Serbia (BIRN)
• Serbian Central Bank Sees Economic Growth Below 2% in 2015 (Bloomberg)
• Serbia’s central bank says Ukraine crisis, austerity measures to drive future rate cuts (Reuters)
• Russia Surveys Former Yugoslav Cities Bombed by NATO Uranium Weapons (RIA Novosti)
• Bosnian-Turkish Ties have Room to Grow, says President (Daily Sabah)
• Macedonia MP’s Boycott Faces Parliament With Dilemma (BIRN)
Better results with return (KIM radio)
Minister for Communities and Return Dalibor Jevtic and Head of Operations Section of the European Union Office in Kosovo Christof Stock pointed out the progress achieved in the return of displaced persons. Jevtic and Stock discussed continuation of successful projects related to return of the displaced persons, such as stabilization of communities and return of Roma […]
Read More →Northern municipalities to discuss amendments of statutes (KIM radio)
Four municipalities in northern Kosovo will hold sessions where councilors are due to decide on amendments of the text of statutes, which they adopted earlier. The Mayor of Zubin Potok Nemanja Jaksic said to Beta agency that councilors of that municipality are due to decide on technical, spelling and linguistic mistakes in the text of the […]
Read More →International justice for rape victims (RTK)
A steering committee has been set up to organize a petition, which will call for international justice for around 20,000 women raped during the Kosovo conflict. At the inauguration of the committee’s board in Pristina today, Deputy Prime Minister Edita Tahiri, a member of the committee, said that, after the petition was signed, they would […]
Read More →Jahjaga and Maxhuni discussed about security during elections (RTKlive)
Kosovo President, Atifete Jahjaga welcomed today in a meeting General Director of Kosovo police, Shpend Maxhuni, with whom she talked about the progress of early election process in Kosovo, set to be held for 8 June. President Jahjaga and General Director of Kosovo police, Shpend Maxhuni, put particular emphasis in the issue of security of […]
Read More →From July, Kosovo part of the “green card” system (Tribuna)
All Kosovo citizens living in Europe will not have to pay for car insurance at the border points when they come to visit this summer. The same will also apply to the citizens of Kosovo travelling to European countries. Rrahim Pacolli, head of Kosovo delegation dialoguing in Brussels for the green card, told the paper […]
Read More →Russians examined bombed places (TV Most)
The experts of the Russian Ministry for emergency situations examined the areas of former Yugoslavia, which NATO air force bombed with the depleted uranium, stated the official of the Ministry Vladislav Bolov. The Russian team, which has worked within the international program FOCUS, examined land and buildings in 14 cities and locations in Central Serbia, […]
Read More →“Serbian List” aims to finalize Serbia’s projects in Kosovo (Kosovapress)
Kosovo Serbs want to run with a joint list in the 8 June parliamentary elections. They will announce their decision tomorrow, the last deadline to submit lists to the Central Election Commission. Political analysts meanwhile argue that 15 years after the war the situation has changed with Serbs agreeing to participate in parliamentary elections. They […]
Read More →Northern municipalities to discuss amendments of statutes (KIM radio)
Four municipalities in northern Kosovo will hold sessions where councilors are due to decide on amendments of the text of statutes, which they adopted earlier. The Mayor of Zubin Potok Nemanja Jaksic said to Beta agency that councilors of that municipality are due to decide on technical, spelling and linguistic mistakes in the text of the […]
Read More →German Defense Minister visiting Kosovo (RTK)
German Defense Minister Ursula Von der Leyen said the mission of KFOR in Kosovo has been a success story. During a visit to German peacekeeping troops in Prizren and Pristina today, the German Defense Minister said Kosovo is a good example how a dead-end situation can change course toward a peaceful future. Von der Leyen […]
Read More →Ban: Forming community of municipalities remains challenge (Tanjug)
Challenges remain in the implementation of certain provisions of the Brussels Agreement – in particular with regards to the establishment of the community of Serb municipalities – which, however, should not overshadow the remarkable progress achieved in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in the latest report on Kosovo-Metohija. The EU-facilitated dialogue has […]
Read More →Waiting for complete lists of Serbian parties (RTK2)
Although the deadline for the submission of lists of candidates is coming to an end, the Serbian List and the Progressive Democratic Party list have not yet been completed, but from these political organizations say the list will be submitted to the end of the deadline, May 16 at midnight. Representatives of all parties point […]
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