Belgrade Media Report 25 June
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• “Important that Serbs take part in government” (Tanjug)
• Urosevac: Organizers of prostitution network accused (Tanjug)
• Mihajlovic: Serbs could “tip the scales” in the Kosovo government (Tanjug)
• DSS: The government is concealing the responsibility for handing over Kosovo (FoNet)
• Opposite stances of President and Prime Minister increasingly often (Blic, by Tamara Spaic, 25 June 2014)
• Serbia “supports OSCE” over Ukraine crisis (Tanjug)
• Defense minister: Serbia to be unbiased OSCE chair (Tanjug/B92)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• A citizen of Serbia charged with war crimes in Karlovac (Beta)
• NATO won’t offer Montenegro membership this year (Tanjug/B92)
• Albania to become candidate for EU membership (Beta)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Serbia Delays IMF Talks, Supplementary Budget as GDP May Shrink (Bloomberg, By Gordana Filipovic, 24 June 2014)
• UAE, Serbia to improve business investments and opportunities (Gulf Today, 25 June 2014)
• Serbian Tabloid Editor ‘Won’t Be State TV Chief’ (BIRN, 25 June 2014)
• Hackers Bring Down Serbian Tabloid Kurir’s Site (BIRN, 24 June 2014)
• Macedonian Leaders Meet to Tackle Post-Election Feud (BIRN, by Sinisa Jakov Marusic, 25 June 2014)
Office for KiM: Liaison officer refused entry to Kosovo (Blic)
Belgrade – Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric criticized the Kosovo authorities because they banned Liaison officer Dejan Pavicevic to enter Kosovo. “Denial of entry into the territory of the Province to Dejan Pavicevic, who at the time of the incident was in the car with diplomatic license plates of the EU […]
Read More →118 incidents on the bridge in Kosovska Mitrovica since 1999 (Politika)
In Albanians’ efforts to breakthrough in the south as of 1999, two Serbs died and around 300 were injured. The day after violent protest of around 400 Albanians in southern Mitrovica under the slogan ‘Either you, or us’ situation on the main bridge on the Ibar/Ibër River is quite. American, German and Polish forces within […]
Read More →They were not from ISIS (Koha Ditore)
Publicist Halil Matoshi writes that there are many similarities between Sunday’s protest in Mitrovica which ended in violence and the riots of March 2004. “It was the same scenario but luckily with a lower intensity”, he writes. Matoshi further alleges that the policy makers close to the current government wish to achieve certain goals by […]
Read More →Eparchy condemned desecration of Christ the Savior in Pristina (IRS)
The eparchy of Raska and Prizren and Kosmet has condemned the latest desecration of the unfinished cathedral of Christ the Savior in Pristina. The eparchy states that singer Era Istrefi from Kosovo has made the video clip for one of her songs, in which she is dancing half naked in that Orthodox temple in Pristina. […]
Read More →“Belgrade continues to provide economic aid to Serbs” (B92)
BELGRADE — Belgrade continues to financially help Serbs in Kosovo, but that support should go to development, rather that serve to “pay them to stay (in Kosovo).” This is what the head of the Serbian government’s media office, Milivoje Mihajlović, told B92 TV on Wednesday. Speaking about yesterday’s meeting between representatives of Kosovo Serbs and […]
Read More →LDK: Opposition bloc has not agreed to Vetevendosje’s terms (Indeksonline)
The Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) has denied reports that the opposition coalition has agreed to Vetevendosje’s terms in exchange for its support for the formation of the government. Kujtim Shala, member of the LDK presidency, told Indeksonline that LDK leader Isa Mustafa did not meet this week with Vetevendosje leader Albin Kurti. “The LDK […]
Read More →Hoxhaj: No government without PDK (RTK)
Enver Hoxhaj, deputy leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and Kosovo’s outgoing Foreign Minister, said in an interview for RTK1 that although his party is waiting for the interpretation of the Constitutional Court, the future government of Kosovo cannot be formed without the PDK. Hoxhaj said five countries are in the process of […]
Read More →Thaçi: PDK will reestablish the new government (indeksonline)
Kosovo’s outgoing Prime Minister, Hashim Thaçi, spoke today during the meeting with the governing cabinet about the flow of the elections. “Also, allow me to congratulate all institutions which are currently dealing with post-electoral managing process, Central Election Commission and all the other mechanisms, for their work on concluding this phase of election process, after […]
Read More →Jahjaga participates at SEECP meeting (kohaonline)
The President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga is participating at the meeting of the South-East European Cooperation Process (SEECP) which is being held under organization’s rotating presidency, Rumania. Presidents and representatives of other South European states as well as the European Union Commissioner for Enlargement Stefan Fule, are participating at this meeting. During the meeting, President […]
Read More →Commentary: The Park (Vecernje Novosti)
As soon as Serbs removed the concrete barricades above the Ibar/Ibër River, three years after they erected them, and built the ‘Park of Peace’, Albanians have jumped into the ‘street war’ against the decorative conifers because they can’t remain indifferent toward such ‘provocation’. In a famous sketch of the Sarajevo’s ‘Surrealists’ (humorous program broadcasted in […]
Read More →Myrli positively surprised with Kosovo’s achievements (kohaonline)
The outgoing Prime Minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi, met on Wednesday with a delegation of NATO Parliamentary Assembly, headed by the President of this Assembly, Hugh Bayley. According to a press release issued by the Office of the Prime Minister, Thaçi assured Bayley and the other members of NATO PA that Kosovo will continue its […]
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