Belgrade Media Report 28 October 2014
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Djuric: More than 30 attacks on Serbs in Kosovo over the past two weeks (RTS)
• Drecun: Displaying Kosovo symbols in Brussels is an insult for Serbs (Radio Serbia)
• Ashton: Owing to Nikolic, Balkans is a better place (Politika)
• Dacic and Chepurin discuss cooperation (Novosti)
• Turmoil in the SDS (Politika)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Covic: “Federalization of B&H is a necessity” (BHRT)
• Remains of three victims exhumed from the mass graves in the Srebrenica area (Oslobodjenje)
• Weapons from FB&H in the hands of Islamic state members (Glas Srpske)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Increasing tension in Serbia’s Novi Pazar, Sandzak (Journal of Turkish Weekly News Analysis)
• IMF praises Serbia’s spending cuts, plans loan talks for November (Reuters)
• Nationalists win Bosnia vote, face tough talks on power-sharing (Reuters)
• Bosnia Declares 2014 ‘Year of Missing Persons’ (BIRN)
Djuric: More than 30 incidents against Serbs in two weeks (Tanjug)
The Director of the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric, said today in Belgrade, at a session of the Serbian Parliament’s Committee for Kosovo and Metohija, that 30 incidents against Serbs and their property have been registered in the last two weeks in Kosovo, but that no one has been held responsible. […]
Read More →No more meetings at Jahjaga’s or Assembly session (Koha)
President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, will not call another meeting with political leaders just as the Assembly chairperson, Flora Brovina, will not call a session of the Assembly for as long as heads of parliamentary parties don’t sit together in an effort to find a solution to the institutional crisis. “The reported meeting will take […]
Read More →Alarm. The state is going bankrupt! (Zeri)
The paper’s deputy editor-in-chief, Lavdim Hamidi, warns that Kosovo was never as close to going bankrupt as it is today and this is because of enormous expenses and decline of budgetary revenues. Six months ago, recalls Hamidi, Prime Minister Hashim Thaci decided to increase salaries of civil servants by 25 percent and also announced an […]
Read More →Daka: Central Election Commission is not preparing for elections (Lajm)
Valdete Daka, chairperson of the Central Election Commission (CEC), denied media reports that this institution is already preparing for early parliamentary elections as a solution to the political deadlock. “We are not making any preparations. On the contrary, we are in the post-election phase of June 8 elections and we are drafting post-election procedures,” Daka […]
Read More →This is the last week of “blocs” (Lajmi)
The President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, will try this week to bring leaders of parliamentary parties at the same table with the aim of finding a solution to the political deadlock. Sources told Lajmi that this will be Jahjaga’s final effort before she announces her final decision next week, which could include new parliamentary elections. […]
Read More →Thaci: The people spoke on 8 June (Koha)
Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hashim Thaci posted on his Facebook account today that the verdict of the people on 8 June elections gave him and his party the right to form the new institutions. “The new government will be formed with respect to the outcome of the 8 June elections and with respect to the decisions […]
Read More →“Absolute unity” in cabinet, says spokesman (B92)
BELGRADE — Milivoje Mihajlović says there is “absolute unity in the government” while “the PM will not have a tough job when he looks at his ministers’ biannual reports.” The comments of the head of the Government Media Office came after media reports that a cabinet reshuffle was in the works. Speaking about the reports […]
Read More →Journalist’s Stabbing Causes Outrage in Kosovo (Balkan Insight)
28 Oct 14 Kosovo’s main journalists’ union has called a protest rally in Pristina following an incident in which a member of the public stabbed a Klan Kosova journalist inside the TV studio. Nektar Zogjani BIRN Pristina Journalists in Kosovo are to hold a protest rally in Pristina following an alarming incident in which a […]
Read More →Jevtic: Relevant authorities should say who is responsible for the attacks (Kim Radio)
“The attacks on returnee families seriously jeopardize the return process. Those are not only attacks on Serbs who live in Kosovo, but also attacks on Serbs who want to return,” said Dalibor Jevtic, Minister for Communities and Returns in Kosovo Government. According to him, the latest incident that occurred in Kosovo Polje/Fushe Kosove, when on […]
Read More →Rexhepi: You invent incidents and when they do not exist (RTK2)
On the occasion of the incidents that took place in the Serbian communities in Kosovo, as a result of disrupted match Serbia-Albania in Belgrade, Kosovo Interior Minister Bajram Rexhepi in an informal conversation with RTK2 journalist on the question of whether someone was held responsible and whether any of these cases are solved, Rexhepi said: […]
Read More →Serbian Journalists condemn attack on a colleague in Pristina (KiM radio)
Association of Journalists of Kosovo and Metohija strongly condemn attack on a journalist of TV Klan Kosova, Milot Hasimja and call on authorities to protect the profession. Serbian journalists, members of this society, appealed to the international community and security structures to stand for the journalistic profession in Kosovo. Association of Journalists of Kosovo and Metohija, […]
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