Belgrade Media Report 27 April 2015
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Kosovo Assembly session with Serb MPs (RTS/Tanjug)
• Stojanovic: Conditions from coalition agreement still in force (RTS)
• Craiova Group – a foundation of better cooperation (RTS)
• Greater Albania and Smaller Serbia (Politika)
• Steinemier: We need Belgrade and Pristina to normalize relations (Tanjug)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• FB&H government already in crisis: HDZ threatens boycott of sessions (FTV/Oslobodjenje)
• Dodik: Referendum on RS’ status possible in 2018 (Srna)
• Dodik: RS has the right to decide its fate (Glas Srpske)
• OHR on SNSD declaration: Per Dayton Accord, entities have no right to secede (Oslobodjenje)
• SDS: SNSD’s motive not a referendum, but generating political crises in RS and B&H (BN TV)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• EULEX Uncovers Suspected Mass Grave in Kosovo (BIRN)
• Flow of asylum seekers from Kosovo drops sharply in Germany (Deutsche Welle)
• Serbia’s Democrats Test Strength at Rally (BIRN)
• Serbian Guard Officers Head to Moscow for Victory Day Parade (Sputnik)
• ‘Stability in Balkans impossible without partnership between Turkey and Serbia’ (Today’s Zaman)
• Serbia, Abu Dhabi Sign $3-Billion Property Project Accord (Bloomberg)
• IMF likely to revise Serbia growth forecast to zero- finance minister (Reuters)
• Bosnian Party Congresses Set Stage for New Conflicts (BIRN)
• Bosnia’s Serb Republic leader threatens referendum on independence in 2018 (Ukraine Today)
• Montenegro’s Main Union to Stage Mayday Protest (BIRN)
• Macedonia Albanian Leader Urges Peaceful End to Crisis (BIRN)
• Little Dictator Gruevski’s End is Nigh (Balkan Insight)
Burglars broke into the house of returnees in village Drsnik (RTK2)
Unknown persons broke into the house of a Serb returnee family in village Drsnik, Klina/Klllinë Municipality, and took away money, cell phones and personal documents. The president of the provisional body (Serbian administration) Bozidar Sarkovic said to RTK2 that four burglars with hoods broke into the house of Serb couple last night around 21:30 while […]
Read More →Northern municipalities adopted local budgets (KoSSev)
Municipal Assemblies of North Mitrovica, Zvečan/Zveçan, Leposavić/Leposaviç and Zubin Potok on Friday adopted, almost at simultaneously held extraordinary sessions, amended and supplemented local budgets, encompassing and salaries for employees in the health and education sectors in northern Kosovo. From now one the salary lists of workers employed in those two sectors will be complied by […]
Read More →Peace Park, a walking area? (Tanjug, Vecernje Novosti)
Belgrade and Pristina could reach an agreement over the Peace Park in North Mitrovica, and one of possible solutions could be that it is transformed into a walking area. Our side is ready to make a concession and remove the concrete flower pots, however due to security concerns, particularly because of incidents which have been […]
Read More →Gecaj: Serbs won’t have the right to veto (Tanjug, Kontakt Plus Radio)
The Deputy Minister for Local Government Administration in the Kosovo government Bajram Gecaj stated that “Serbs wont’ have the right to veto when it comes to privatization in Kosovo”. He said that Serbs will be asked when it comes to start of privatization of companies located on the territories with Serbs majority. “That doesn’t mean […]
Read More →Thaci: Joint meeting between Kosovo and FYROM governments soon (Kosovapress)
Ali Ahmeti, leader of the Democratic Union for Integration in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, said today in Pristina that it is not the position of the FYROM government that a group of Kosovars are responsible for the recent incident in Gushnica, but that it is rather the position of an individual official. Ahmeti […]
Read More →Mustafa: We will apply pressure in Brussels for the missing (Indeksonline)
Kosovo’s Prime Minister, Isa Mustafa, said today that through dialogue in Brussels, Pristina will put pressure on Belgrade for the issue of missing persons. Mustafa made this statement during the unveiling of a monument in the memory of missing persons in the yard of the Kosovo Assembly in Pristina on the occasion of Kosovo’s National […]
Read More →Serb MPs return to Kosovo Assembly (Kosovapress)
Serbian List MPs rejoined today the Kosovo Assembly session, on the day when the legislators were scheduled to discuss the issue of missing persons.
Read More →What after SAA between EU and Kosovo (Koha Ditore)
Augustin Palokaj, the paper’s Brussels correspondent, writes that as the European Commission prepares to approve the text of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with Kosovo, there are many issues that needs to be explained so that neither Kosovo nor the EU spend too much energy on exaggerating the agreement’s benefits. While Kosovo will be […]
Read More →Deda: EU incapable of dealing with the Western Balkans (Vecernje Novosti)
MP of the Self-determination movement in the Kosovo Assembly, Ilir Deda said that the EU was not capable to deal with the Western Balkans, although it should be the priority. Ilir Deda said to Tanjug that the situation in Kosovo was as in all other parts of the Western Balkans, with great economic and social […]
Read More →Usurped property is Serbian (Vecernje Novosti)
The deadline for the submission of the requests for the legalization of the illegally built facilities in Kosovo has been extended till 11 June, and among dozens of thousands of claimants is a number of Serbs. The main problem they are faced with is that the biggest number of Serb claimants fled from Kosovo in […]
Read More →The risk of contagion in Kosovska Mitrovica increased due to landfill (Vecernje Novosti)
The risk of contagion in Kosovska Mitrovica has been increased due to illegal landfill, which is located on the outskirts of the city, and where is stored complete municipal waste, including medical. Dr Aleksandar Ćorac said that it is difficult to say whether any kind of contagion is threatening to the citizens of Kosovska Mitrovica, […]
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