Kosovo granted provisional Olympic recognition by IOC (Reuters)
By Karolos Grohmann BERLIN Wed Oct 22, 2014 5:25pm EDT (Reuters) – Kosovo is on track to take part in its first ever Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 after the region in the Balkans was granted provisional recognition by the International Olympic Committee on Wednesday. It could now achieve full membership as […]
Read More →Only one winner from this six-month commotion: Kadri Veseli (Gazeta Blic)
Editor-in-chief of the Gazeta Blic news website, Adrian Collaku, writes that the end of the six-month institutional crisis in Kosovo produced winners and losers. The main losers, according to Collaku, are citizens of Kosovo not only because during the last six months, their living conditions deteriorated even further, but also because the governance remained unchanged. […]
Read More →Vucic: No one is asking Serbia to recognize Kosovo (Blic)
Prime Minister of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, referred today to media writing about 11 conditions set to Serbia by Germany in relation with the opening of the accession negotiations with the EU and stressed that no one asks Serbia to recognize Kosovo. “Serbia is seeking the most rational solutions for all issues, in order not to […]
Read More →Dacic: We are not giving up on EU or on Kosovo (RTS, Tanjug)
BELGRADE – Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said that Serbia is not giving up either the EU accession or the position that Kosovo is a part of Serbia. “At this point, nobody is setting such questions before us to which we would need to reply,” Dacic told Radio and Television of Serbia on Monday evening. […]
Read More →OSCE: Still no solution for return of displaced to Kosovo (Politika, Tanjug)
PRISTINA – As many as 15 years after the Kosovo conflict, there are still no lasting solutions for the return or integration of around 220,000 people displaced outside Kosovo and the 17,000 internally displaced living in Kosovo, shows the latest report of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). According to the report, […]
Read More →Kosovo granted full IOC membership (Tanjug)
MONACO – Kosovo has been granted full International Olympic Committee (IOC) membership, the IOC decided in its session held Tuesday in Monaco. This paves the way for Kosovo to participate in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the IOC said The IOC started reviewing Kosovo’s bid for IOC membership five years ago, a […]
Read More →Kosovo to compete at Rio 2016 Olympics after recognition from IOC (The Guardian)
The International Olympic Committee has granted full recognition to Kosovo, meaning the Balkan country can send an independent team to the 2016 Games in Rio. The IOC made the decision Tuesday, formally ratifying the provisional recognition granted in October by the executive board. Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008. Serbia has refused to accept […]
Read More →Mayor of Zubin Potok ordered one month house arrest (Tanjug)
Mayor of Zubin Potok Stevan Vulovic has been ordered 30 days of house arrest, carried Pristina-based media quoting EULEX spokesperson Dragana Nikolic-Solomon. Vulovic was questioned yesterday for several hours at the Basic Court in Norh Mitrovica, due to suspicions for organizing an escape of Slobodan Sovrlic from the police station in Zubin Potok in March […]
Read More →Cameras in the north for security and survival of Serbs (RTK2)
Civil Protection (CP) for northern Kosovo confirmed that security cameras have been placed in that region, and added that cameras are of utmost importance for the security and survival of Serbs. In a communiqué forwarded to TV Most CP said that cameras are operational and that monitoring is carried out through an Observation Center. “We […]
Read More →DS MP: Pristina no longer has excuse to hold off dialogue (Tanjug)
BELGRADE – Borislav Stefanovic, head of the MP group of the opposition Democratic Party (DS) in the Serbian parliament, said Monday that appointments of three Serbian ministers in the Kosovo government would be good news, observing that after forming its government, Pristina no longer had any excuse for blocking the process of negotiations with Belgrade. […]
Read More →Janjić: Serbia is paying for its big expectations from the South Stream (IRS)
Serbia is paying a high economic and political price for its big expectations from the South Stream project, political analyst Dušan Janjić tells our radio. Russia’s renouncing the construction of the South Stream gas line and announcing the building of a gas line through Turkey is news that has been met in Serbia with fear […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 8 December
• Kadri Veseli elected as Assembly Speaker (All monitored broadcasters, TV21, RTK1)
• Voting of new Government on Tuesday (All monitored broadcasters, RTK1 23:00)
• Srpska List boycotted afternoon session of the Assembly (All monitored broadcasters, RTK1)
• Petrovic dissatisfied with the nominee for Deputy Assembly Speaker (All monitored broadcasters, RTK2)
• Head of Journalists’ Association attacked by newspaper owner (TV21, KTV)
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