Kosovo hosts for the fourth time international inter-faith conference (Koha)
For the fourth year, Kosovo will host a two-day international inter-faith conference scheduled to begin today, 28 May. The conference will gather government and religious leaders from different countries as well as representatives from the civil society and is aimed at promoting inter-faith dialogue. The conference will be attended by around 200 participants and will […]
Read More →UN Security Council waiting for the Kosovo Assembly (RTK)
If the Kosovo Assembly fails to adopt the special court, which is expected to address war crimes allegations, then the United Nations Security Council will do so. Eri Kaneko, the Associate Spokesperson to the United Nations Secretary-General, told Radio Kosova via email that the UN General Assembly or the Security Council have the mandate to […]
Read More →A country that honours criminals as heroes has a grim future (Koha)
In an opinion piece published on the online edition of Koha, columnist Enver Robelli writes that Kosovo buried with high honours a group of “evildoers” killed in a “senseless” clash with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) authorities. “These self-styled liberators left hundreds of residents in Kumanovo homeless and endangered hundreds of others for […]
Read More →PM praises visit to Albania, “prepares response to Thaci” (B92)
Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has said that his visit to Albania, where he met with top officials, was “good for the future of the two peoples and countries.” Differences that were expressed in talks are evident, he said, adding that “the two have bravely initiated a process that could only bring prosperity.” “Many times we […]
Read More →Svilanovic: Historical visit constitutes great opportunity (Tanjug)
TIRANA – Secretary General of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) Goran Svilanovic qualified the visit of Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic to Albania as a historic occasion that constitutes a great opportunity. It is a historic event and this is not said lightly, Svilanovic told Tanjug and added that decades have passed and no visits […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 27 May
• Drenica Group members found guilty (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Plaque for missing Serb journalist placed again (RTK2)
• KAF heads to Assembly, Government ready without votes of Serb ministers (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Speaker Veseli received Albanian representatives from north (Most monitored broadcasters, Klan Kosova)
UNMIK Headlines 28 May
• Government sends Armed Forces amendments to the Assembly (Epoka e Re)
• Veseli: Drenica Group conviction, difficult feeling (Bota Sot)
• CEC ready for elections in two Kosovo municipalities (Bota Sot)
• Mustafa asked to report to Assembly on Kumanovo events (Zeri)
• Evidence on Kumanovo incident and attack on high-security prison (Koha)
• Kosovo Police arrest man suspected of stealing in Serb houses (Zeri)
• Limaj: Thaci is joking with war victims (dailies)
Serbian, Albanian premiers pledge to strengthen ties (Deutsche Welle)
Serbian Prime Minister Vucic has started his landmark visit to Albania, aiming to melt the decades-long chill between the two Balkan countries. Kosovo, mostly populated by Albanians, remains at the heart of the dispute. On a first-ever visit by a Serbian head of government to Tirana, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said he wished to “extend […]
Read More →EU judges jail 11 ex-Kosovo Albanian guerrillas for war crimes (Reuters)
European Union judges in Kosovo sentenced 11 former Kosovo Albanian guerrillas, two of them close to ex-prime minister Hashim Thaci, to prison terms on Wednesday for war crimes committed during Kosovo’s 1998-99 pro-independence uprising. In two parallel trials, judges from the EU police and justice mission said atrocities were committed against Kosovar civilians held in […]
Read More →Belgrade Media Report 27 May 2015
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Serbian government committed to dialogue (RTS/Politika)
• UNSC ambassadors urge Pristina to establish Special Court (RTS)
• Vucic: We see Kosovo as our territory (Tanjug)
• Djuric: Absence of Kosovo Albanians an insult and disrespect (RTS)
• Drecun: Vucic’s visit to Tirana is not symbolic (RTS)
• Fifty-nine years of prison for 11 members of the so-called Drenica group (Tanjug)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Dodik: Current RS government continues to work at full capacity, opposition claims are at preemie levels (Oslobodjenje)
• Head of EU Delegation in B&H: We have no more time for B&H (Nezavisne)
• Interview with Gruevski: Macedonia’s future is in NATO and EU (Kurir)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• UN envoy urges Kosovo to establish war crime court (The Associated Press)
• Thousands of Kosovars mourn Albanian militants killed in Macedonia (Reuters)
• Macedonia Will Only Join Turkish Stream amid Agreement between Russia, EU on it – Gruevski (Novinite)
• ‘Something Needs to Give’: Macedonian Leaders Meet Over Political Crisis (Sputnik)
• Macedonia: A pawn in the Russian geopolitical game? (Deutsche Welle)
• Balkan leaders wary of Macedonia crisis fallout (AP)
Funeral of killed in Kumanovo, KLA uniforms on the streets of Pristina (RTK2)
In the presence of huge number of citizens, relatives and MPs a commemoration was held yesterday in Pristina to Kosovo Albanians killed in the action of Macedonian police in Kumanovo on 9 and 10 May. Commemoration at the sports hall ‘1 October’ in Pristina was organized by the Association of the Kosovo Liberation Army in […]
Read More →Zaev: Seven innocent Albanians are being kept in prison for “Monster” case (Gazeta Express)
Zoran Zaev, leader of the LSDM opposition party in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, said for the German daily Die Zeit, that seven Albanians sentenced for the murder of five Macedonian citizens in Smilkovac, Skopje, are innocent. He said that making public the taping material on this case could induce turmoil of the Albanian […]
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