Belgrade Media Report 05 August
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Office for Kosovo and Metohija: Ivanovic should be released (Tanjug)
• Vukcevic: Recognition of Serbia’s efforts (Danas/Politika)
• Stefanovic: We will submit all documents (Novosti)
• UNESCO didn’t receive formal application from Kosovo (Novosti)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Dodik: Eighty percent would vote in referendum (Euroblic/Srna)
• Novalic: FB&H PA House of Peoples chose employment and progress (Fena)
• SSS B&H: We seek investigation of constitutionality of labor law adoption (Oslobodjenje)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• EU Kosovo mission accused of trying to silence whistleblower (The Guardian)
• Serbian Exports to Russia Fall Steeply (BIRN)
• Macedonia NGOs Oppose Govt Plan for Quick Census (BIRN)
Schwendiman: Specialist Court to be functional asap (Tanjug)
Lead Prosecutor of the European Union Special Investigative Task Force (SITF) David Schwendiman welcomed the Kosovo assembly’s adoption of constitutional amendments and the law paving the way for the setting up of the specialist court, as a step towards addressing the claims of war crimes committed by the KLA, and called for the establishment of […]
Read More →FOL: Mustafa government met only one objective, out of 160 planned (Koha)
The FOL Movement published a study report which says that the government of Kosovo headed by Prime Minister Isa Mustafa, has only met one objective in six months, out of 160 planned. FOL also relased a report on non-transparent Ministries, which puts the Foreign Ministry as the most non-transparent. While according to FOL, the most […]
Read More →Kosovo didn’t submit request for UNESCO membership (Vecernje Novosti)
The official request of Kosovo for the UNESCO membership still didn’t arrive in this organization was stated from the Public Relation Service of this UN organization. Though Thaci wrote on 16 July on his Facebook profile that Pristina applied for membership, the first step towards the formal membership still has not been submitted. So far, […]
Read More →Appointment of 9 Serbian prosecutors (Kossev)
Kosovo Prosecutorial Council at yesterday’s meeting decided to propose the Kosovo President, Atifete Jahjaga, instead of fifteen, nine Serbian candidates for prosecutors, because nine of them fulfilled the criteria, announced the Council. The public after more than two months is aware of the results of the contest, to which prosecutors of the Republic of Serbia […]
Read More →Ivanovic should be released from custody (TV Most)
Office for Kosovo and Metohija requested that leader of the Citizens’ Initiative SDP, Oliver Ivanovic, who spent more than year and a half in custody without any legal logic and international legal standards, should be immediately released. The Office recalls that dozens of witnesses stated that he is innocent, which shows to which extent the […]
Read More →Asselborn: Opening of first chapters by December (Vecernje Novosti)
Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn has said that his country will do everything in its power to ensure that Serbia opens the first negotiation chapters along the path toward full membership in the bloc during its EU presidency. Our presidency will encourage the opening of negotiation chapters with Serbia as soon as requirements are met, […]
Read More →Good witness protection program is important (KIM Radio)
After adoption of the decision on the establishment of the Special Court for KLA war crimes in Kosovo, the most important is that there is a good witness protection program, assesses Vienna daily “Standard”. Months-long straining about the establishment of the Court shows that leader of the largest party PDK, Hashim Thaci, doesn’t have control […]
Read More →EU reveals phases of special court formation (Lajmi)
The formation of the special court and its departments is underway, while the European Union has yet to decide about the seats of the specialist chambers and the office of the specialist prosecution. EU officials in Pristina told the news site that they are finalizing agreements with the country host where the special court will […]
Read More →Indemnity to be paid to teachers from Kosovo (Vecernje Novosti)
Serbian Minister for Education Srdjan Verbić and representatives of four representative unions have negotiated about lay-offs in the education sector. Around 700 teachers who used to work in Kosovo will most probably be offered indemnity payments. These teachers are not working at all for years and their salaries are around RSD 8.000, while state is […]
Read More →“We expect justice to be satisfied” (RTK2)
Kosovo parliament MPs have paved the way for creation of the special court for the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) crimes. Representative of the Association of Kidnapped and Missing Serbs Silvana Marinković says that she is not expecting too much, however she voiced hope that justice will be satisfied. “We don’t know who is going to […]
Read More →Gashi: Special court will not try Haradinaj or Limaj (Telegrafi)
In an interview for the news site, Pristina-based attorney Tome Gashi said the statute of the special court does not allow for it to try Ramush Haradinaj, leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), or Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA) leader Fatmir Limaj, because both men were acquitted by the International Criminal Tribunal […]
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