Djuric: No normalization if Pristina ignores the agreement (Beta)
Director of the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric assessed that there won’t be further normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina, if Pristina continues to ignore obligations deriving from the Brussels agreement. “We don’t think that further progress in normalization of our relations is possible if Pristina would permanently ignore its […]
Read More →Serbia Restarts Body Hunt at Kosovo Mass Grave (Balkan Insight)
07 Aug 14 The authorities are restarting the search for the remains of Kosovo Albanian victims at a mass grave at the Rudnica quarry in southern Serbia, where 45 bodies have already been exhumed. Gordana Andric BIRN Belgrade The Serbian war crimes prosecutor’s office said it was resuming the search at two locations at the […]
Read More →Kosovo promises to co-operate with war crimes investigation (SETimes)
By Linda Karadaku for Southeast European Times in Pristina — 06/08/14 Kosovo pledged to continue to work with the EU Special Investigative Task Force (SITF) to investigate war crimes and crimes against humanity committed after the 1999 Kosovo war. SITF announced last week it will file indictments against senior former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) officials […]
Read More →Kosovo ex-MP on Run After Killing Ex-Soldier (Balkan Insight)
06 Aug 14 Kosovo Police are searching for a former MP who has admitted having killed a man on Monday and is now in hiding. Nektar Zogjani BIRN Pristina Police are hunting for Gani Geci, an MP when Kosovo declared independence in 2008, who has admitted killing Ruzhdi Shaqiri, a veteran of the Kosovo Liberation […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 7 August
• Gjini: Forget about the broad-based government and elections (Koha)
• Haziri: Together with the Vetevendosje Movement (Lajm)
• Serbian List does not back down on its conditions (Lajm)
• Jacobson: Kosovo needs a law against terrorism (dailies)
• Dialogue to be conditioned with implementation of Brussels agreement (Koha)
• Rexhepi doesn’t believe Geci has left Kosovo (Epoka e Re)
• Electricity prices to go up by 5 percent (Koha)
• Serbs threaten Sosic (Zëri)
Belgrade Media Monitoring 6 August 2014
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Criticism over Kosovo and Ukraine (Novosti)
• Miscevic: Objective screening report of Chapter 23 (Novosti)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Dodik: Dayton, or no B&H at all (Oslobodjenje)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Kosovo Victims’ Families Boycott Serbian Officers’ Trial (BIRN)
• Serbian Govt Falls Short on Reform Pledges (BIRN)