Belgrade Media Report 17 June
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Lavrov, Dacic: Serbia’s EU membership doesn’t threaten relations with Russia (RTS/Tanjug/Beta)
• Office for Kosovo and Metohija: Kosovo Privatization Agency breaks into Junior Hotel in Strpce (Tanjug)
• Borhart: Strong institutions and impartial rule of law (Radio Serbia)
• Seselj doesn’t accept conditions for temporary release (RTS/Tanjug)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Bevanda: Donors’ conference to be organized at the beginning of July (Fena)
• Lavrov: All agreements on “South Stream” confirmed at meeting with Dacic (Srna)
• Kosarac: Link between Bosniak political elite and NGOs in attacks on the RS (Srna)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Russia appreciates Serbia’s position of uniting Europe: Lavrov (Xinhua)
• Russia: new pipeline will go ahead despite setback (AP)
• As NATO Membership Gets Closer, Montenegro Feels The Heat From Russia (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
• Boycott of Macedonian Parliament Starts to Fray (BIRN)
There won’t be secret arrest warrants (Blic)
With the new two-year mandate of EULEX in Kosovo there will be less international officials in Kosovo institutions, whereas number and importance of local judges and prosecutors will be increased, said the EULEX head of mission Bernd Borchardt to Belgrade-based Blic. Borchardt was due to visit Belgrade early this week and meet with Serbia’s leadership […]
Read More →Kosovo must overcome hell (Koha Ditore)
Publicist Enver Robelli argues in his opinion piece that Kosovo badly needs a different government. “The first capital task of responsible politicians in Kosovo, if there are any left in this mafia system, is to make the Republic functional and to save the state. Success can be achieved only if international circumstances are taken into […]
Read More →Mustafa: We will set timeline for dialogue (Telegrafi)
Isa Mustafa, leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), writes on his Facebook account that the agreement with the other two opposition parties, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) and the Initiative for Kosovo (Nisma), will set a timeline and framework for dialogue with Serbia. “We will follow policies of cooperation and […]
Read More →Two winning projects for “Digital Pristina” (Kosova Sot)
Joint initiative between Pristina Municipality, Kosovo Innovation Center and UND for Digital Pristina gathered many youth with creative ideas about different mobile applications and web. The challenge for Digital Pristina had two winners, with a financial reward of four thousand euros, support and expertise fir development of application. Winning applications will be placed in the […]
Read More →Kosovo needs an Albanian majority government (Tribuna)
Vjosa Osmani Sadriu, member of the presidency of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), writes that many people talk about reserved and guaranteed seats for minority communities in Parliament, “but only a few people mention the fact that the Constitution of Kosovo obliges us to have minority communities represented in the government”. “In such circumstances, […]
Read More →Thaci: Constitution must be respected, I will be Prime Minister (evropaelire.org)
In an interview for Radio Free Europe, outgoing Prime Minister Hashim Thaci said he will be the designate to form the new government because he represents the party that won the 8 June parliamentary elections. Thaci said after the certification of election results he would commence consultations with political parties that could join the new […]
Read More →Krasniqi: Parliament speaker belongs to the biggest parliamentary group (Radio Kosova)
About the dilemma who have the right to form the government has been expanded to the post of parliament speaker, Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) and Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA) have announced a single parliamentary group to win the right for the post of parliament speaker, according to […]
Read More →Breakup of former Yugoslavia from the perspective of a Kosovo Albanian (RTS)
Philosopher and political analyst Shkelzen Malliqi this weekend in Belgrade presented the book “Kosovo and the breakdown of Yugoslavia.” It was an opportunity for Serbian audience to hear how the breakup of Yugoslavia and the subsequent events in Kosovo looked from the perspective of a Kosovo Albanian. Belgrade student, sixty-eight years old, whose father in […]
Read More →“Thaci’s Serbs became Vucic’s” (Vesti)
It is a false thesis that it will be better for Serbs if Hashim Thaci or Ramush Hardinaj is prime minister, because the problem is a fundamental and systemic. Both of them are for the realization of an independent state and a controlled number of Serbs that would stay in Kosovo, or just enough of […]
Read More →Counting of conditional votes begins today (Kosovapress)
The Count and Results Centre (C&RC) has begun today counting of conditional ballots that include those that have arrived through post and those of persons with disabilities. Coordinator of the counting centre, Burim Ahmetaj, said these votes will be counted within one or two days. “Based on the CEC (Central Election Commission) decision, the C&RC […]
Read More →Results published yesterday, incomplete (Indeksonline)
Indeksonline sources within the Central Election Commission (CEC) said the results published yesterday in the media about how many votes each candidate running in elections has received include votes from only 1,932 polling stations. According to sources, these results do not include the ballots from 458 polling stations that are being audited nor conditional votes, […]
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