Belgrade Media Report 23 April 2015
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic: Opening of chapters perhaps in June (RTS)
• Dacic satisfied with extension of EULEX mandate (Tanjug)
• Report on Belgrade-Pristina dialogue adopted (Tanjug)
• Joksimovic: Serbia may open first chapters in June (Radio Serbia)
• Meucci: We are ready to offer assistance to Belgrade and Pristina (RTS)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Zvizdic: Activation of SAA is an important step forward for B&H (Fena)
• Turkey denies it prevented Dodik from reaching Armenia (Tanjug, Ankara correspondent)
• Wigemark: B&H needs leaders for making difficult decisions (Srna)
• You can’t have your ratings and name your victims, too (Srna)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Serbia to Probe Suspected Kosovo War Mass Grave (BIRN)
• Serbia’s Kosovo Cover-Up: Who Hid the Bodies? (BIRN)
• Latvia supports Serbia’s reform process on its course toward integration with EU (Baltic Course)
• Serbian Ombudsman Pressed on Friend’s Suicide (BIRN)
• Turkey denies blocking airspace for Bosnian Serb leader (Public Radio of Armenia)
• New Tapes Reveal Macedonia Govt’s Grip on Media (BIRN)
Dacic and Thaci “chat, shake hands” (Tanjug/B92)
BRDO — Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic today “spoke briefly and shook hands” with Kosovo Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci, ahead of a conference in Slovenia. The encounter occurred regardless of the controversy between Belgrade and Pristina caused by Thaci’s intention to attend an NGO’s conference in Belgrade. Foreign ministers from the region, among them Dacic […]
Read More →Administrative Office in the north stopped working (TV Most)
Administrative Office of the Kosovo government in Mitrovica north does not function any more, stated the Chief of Administration in that municipality, Adrijana Hodzic. Hodzic said that there was no official handing over of the authorities and that workers will continue to work. “If one evaluates the work of four municipalities in the Kosovo north, […]
Read More →Office for KiM publishes progress report in dialogue with Pristina (Vecernje Novosti)
Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija today published on its web page the progress report in dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina in Serbian and English languages. The report that covers six month period was presented at yesterday’s press conference by the director of the Office Marko Đurić, who stressed that Serbia has fulfilled its […]
Read More →Latvian Foreign Minister criticizes Serbia (Koha)
The Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Edgars Rinkevics, during his visit to Kosovo on Thursday said that the recent statements of Belgrade officials barring the visit of Kosovo’s Deputy Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci to Serbia, are against the Pristina – Belgrade dialogue. According to him, such statements do not help the process of normalization of […]
Read More →Thaci: EU delays could hamper Kosovo progress (Koha)
Kosovo’s Foreign Minister, Hashim Thaci, said that the Brdo Summit in Slovenia is a good opportunity to once again discuss with regional counterpart and the EU leaders about Kosovo’s European integration. In his address at the summit, Thaci stressed that Kosovo had made remarkable progress in the years following declaration of independence but that the […]
Read More →President Jahjaga received a group of girls from Kosovo and Serbia (dailies)
The President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga met on Thursday with young girls from Kosovo and Serbia, participating in the Peace Academy for Girls, and answered their questions on the role of women. Jahjaga commended the girls who are part of this platform of building bridges of cooperation and sustainable peace. Jahjaga said that girls and […]
Read More →Mysterious Brussels negotiations (Danas)
Any new agreement between Belgrade and Pristina that would be reached in May could have a positive, but not decisive effect on the decision of EU member states on the opening of the first chapter in the negotiations, said interviewees of Danas close to the government, but also the European institutions. According to them, it […]
Read More →Kosovo agrees halt to disputed privatisations (Balkan Insight)
At the latest Belgrade-Pristina talks in Brussels, Kosovo agreed not to unilaterally privatize companies in the mainly Serbian north without seeking the consent of the community. Aleksandar Vucic and Isa Mustafa, the Serbian and Kosovo Prime Ministers, met on Tuesday in Brussels for another round of EU-mediated talks and agreed to halt fresh privatisations of […]
Read More →Djuric to travel to Kosovo “with or without permission” (B92)
Serbian Government Office for Kosovo Director Marko Djuric has said that he will visit the province despite the fact Pristina did not officially approve it. “I was informed by the provincial government that it is unable to allow me to visit Gracanica, which was to be organized during today and tomorrow,” he said. “My only […]
Read More →The bells of the opposition (Koha Ditore)
KTV editor-in-chief Adriatik Kelmendi writes in his opinion piece that “if the three opposition parties do not carry out thorough reforms in their structures and approach, the potential of those who are not satisfied [with the government] will continue to remain scattered and as such powerless vis-à-vis a government that has great power and arrogance”. […]
Read More →The Serbian list is terminating boycott (Vecernje Novosti)
Serbs from the north of Kosovo should return to the Kosovo institutions since Belgrade received the guarantees at the round of the dialogue in Brussels that the coalition agreement of the Serbian List with Hashim Thaci’s Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and Isa Mustafa’s Democratic League of Kosovo would be respected, Vecernje Novosti reports. After […]
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