Belgrade Media Report 22 July 2015
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic: New page of our joint future (Tanjug)
• Covic: Past to historians, future to us (Tanjug)
• Izetbegovic condemns all war crimes (Tanjug)
• “Srpska” will not support formation of Kosovo army (Politika)
• Kosovo’s road towards UNESCO, from tweet to reality (RTS)
• Montenegro arresting “by order” (Novosti)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Cvijanovic to Moore: Referendum in accordance with the Constitution of B&H (Srna)
• Covic: I was not even invited to the celebration of the “Storm” (Vijesti.ba/slobodna-bosna.ba)
• Josipovic: Serb leadership in Croatia did not find a motive for joint celebration of Storm (Oslobodjenje)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• The bullies who run Kosovo (politico.eu)
• Bosnia’s Back in the Boiler (Sputnik)
Prime Minister, why don’t you establish Armed Forces? (Gazeta Blic)
The news site’s editor-in-chief, Adrian Collaku, writes that Prime Minister Isa Mustafa should accept the reality together with his coalition partner Hashim Thaci, that they are powerless when it comes to facing the Serbian List in regards to the Kosovo Armed Forces. “Even when the ruling coalition was created, the LDK and PDK stated that […]
Read More →President Jahjaga and Baroness Anelay visit Gjakova (Telegrafi)
Kosovo’s President, Atifete Jahjaga, and the United Kingdom Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Prime Minister’s Special Representative for Sexual Violence in Conflict, Baroness Joyce Anelay, visited the “Medica Gjakova” center in Gjakove/Djakovica today. In a statement made on this occasion, President Jahjaga said, “We have come here to the center […]
Read More →Jevtic: We are not trading with the votes (Danas)
Minister of Communities and Returns in the Kosovo government Dalibor Jevtic denied speculations that MPs of the Serbian List gave “the offer” in order to vote support for the announced establishment of the Kosovo Army. “The Serbian List insists on the fulfilment of the coalition agreement with PDK and LDK, but there is not a […]
Read More →Thaci threatens to resign if PDK MPs don’t vote in favor of special court (Zeri)
The Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) leader and Kosovo’s Foreign Minister, Hashim Thaci, has reportedly secured the support of his MPs to vote in favor of the formation of the special court. The Kosovo Assembly is expected to vote on the constitutional amendments next week. Sources from the meeting of the PDK parliamentary group today […]
Read More →Kosovo government decides to dissolve Civil Protection (Koha)
The Kosovo government has decided today to dissolve the so-called Civil Protection that has operated as a parallel security structure in the northern municipalities. The government’s decision foresees: the integration in Kosovo’s institutions of 483 persons who were members of this structure, and taking over all facilities that were previously used by the Civil Protection. […]
Read More →Kosovo Police Director: Kosovo is targeted by religious extremism (Koha)
Kosovo Police Director, Shpend Maxhuni, said today during a brief to the Kosovo Assembly committee on security, that Kosovo is targeted by religious extremism. “Kosovo is neither a nest nor producer of extremism. It is a target of religious extremism,” Maxhuni said. He said that Kosovo’s authorities will investigate the activities of certain non-governmental organizations […]
Read More →Haliti: We are talking to other MPs to vote in favor of special court (Telegrafi/TV Arta)
Xhavit Haliti, member of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) presidency and Deputy President of the Kosovo Assembly, told TV Arta today that Kosovo should establish the special court before members of the Assembly go on summer leave. “We need to do this in order not to ruin the relations with our international friends,” Haliti […]
Read More →Red Cross warns about “large inflow of migrants” (B92)
Around 1,000 people ask for the help of Serbia’s Red Cross branch in Presevo (southeastern Serbia) every day, Secretary General Vesna Milenovic has said. According to her, “all efforts are put in to supply the center regularly.” “The Red Cross of Serbia intensively provides different kinds of assistance to migrants who cross the Macedonian border […]
Read More →Živković: Maybe about special court, not about army (KIM Radio)
“Amendments of the Kosovo Constitution on transformation of the Kosovo Security Forces into an army will not be on the Kosovo parliament’s agenda this week,” confirmed MP from the Serbian List Jasmina Živković. She explained that this issue was discussed at the Kosovo presidency’s session and that discussion over this topic is postponed upon proposal […]
Read More →Kosovo Army again on agenda of Pristina (Vesti)
The attempt of Pristina to push an amendment on the formation of a new army of Kosovo together with other constitutional amendments causes destabilization of the region, claim the interlocutors of Sputnik. According to Aleksandar Jablanović, president of the Serbian List, the intention of forming new armed forces in the region is especially dangerous because […]
Read More →Selaković: Serbia fulfilled its obligations, Pristina did not (Tanjug, TV Most)
Minister of Justice in the Serbian Government Nikola Selaković stated that Serbia has fulfilled its part of obligations from the Brussels dialogue, but that Pristina did not act in the same manner and that it will have very difficult task to create the special court for the Kosovo Liberation Army war crimes in a due […]
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