Belgrade Media Report 3 September 2015
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic: We will have to prepare action plan for refugees (Tanjug)
• China doesn’t want Pristina in UNESCO (Novosti)
• Three points of persuasion (Politika)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Novalic: Government of FB&H is not in a crisis (klix.ba)
• Cvijanovic: Agenda aligned with economic policy (Srna)
• U.S. supports reform processes in B&H (Oslobodjenje)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Association of Kosovar Serbs is a necessary compromise in Kosovo (Turkish Weekly Journal)
• Serbia, China both make great sacrifices in World Anti-Fascist War: president (Xinhua)
• Bosnia Entity PMs Pledge to Unite on Reforms (BIRN)
Three counts of assertions (Politika, op. ed. Slobodan Samardzic)
The Association/Community of Serb municipalities has received only what derives from the Constitution of Kosovo based on the Martti Ahtisaari’s plan. Official reactions after signing the agreement on Association/Community of Serbs Municipalities (A/CSM), which is one of four signed agreements in Brussels in late August by Serbian and Kosovo prime ministers, are referring toward three […]
Read More →Serbian and Albanian journalist soon to sign agreement on cooperation (KIM Radio)
Association of Journalists of Kosovo and Metohija that gathers Serb journalists and Association of Professional Journalists of Kosovo that gathers Albanian journalists have agreed to sign a memorandum on cooperation this month, aiming at improving journalists’ status. The chairperson of the Association of Journalists of Kosovo and Metohija Budimir Nicic said that one of the […]
Read More →Deda: Serbia should admit its faults, then we can reconcile (Gazeta Express)
Vetevendosje deputy, Ilir Deda, stated during the “Building Albanian- Serb ties” conference in Mitrovica that Kosovo and Serbia have hostile relations. “Normalization of the relations does not come by stating that we do not recognize Kosovo, or when Serbs oppose to that extent membership at UNESCO. Only reciprocal recognition can bring normalization between the two […]
Read More →Haradinaj: EU is being unsuccessful in the Balkans (Koha)
The leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), Ramush Haradinaj, during a political round table with the theme “Building the Albanian-Serb relations” held in Mitrovica today, said that it is urgent the mutual recognition of Kosovo and Serbia. Any delay in this process, according to him, is creating a vacuum and numerous […]
Read More →Kosovo institutions intensify work on SAA (Indeksonline)
The government of Kosovo in April 2015 issued a decision on the preparation of a National Programme for the Adoption of the Acquis (NPAA), in accordance with the obligations arising from the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) between Kosovo and the European Union.The government has set the NPAA as the main national strategic document for the implementation […]
Read More →Veseli invites Djuric to live in Kosovo (Klan Kosova)
Kosovo Assembly Speaker, Kadri Veseli, said during the “Building Albanian-Serb ties” conference held in Mitrovica that communication between Serbs and Albanians is the only way towards relaxation of the relations. Veseli stated that no major inter-ethnic problem occurred ever since Kosovo declared its independence in 2008, “Let us discuss to establsish communication and possibilities not […]
Read More →Partition of Kosovo and flag’s colours (Koha Ditore)
KTV’s editor-in-chief Adriatik Kelmendi writes that the Association/Community of Serb majority municipalities is not a product of Serbs but of Albanians and the international community because the Albanians, as a majority community in Kosovo, failed in providing convincing arguments for the minority communities to accept the new reality and look to Pristina instead of elsewhere. […]
Read More →Ten experts write statute of the Community/Association of Serbian municipalities (Vecernje Novosti)
Deadline for the text of the statute of the Community/Association of Serbian municipalities (ZSO) is four months, as agreed in Brussels; Vecernje Novosti reported that it should be ready much earlier. Ljubomir Maric, Minister of Local Self-Government in Kosovo’s government and Coordinator of the Management Team for the establishment of the ZSO, confirmed this to […]
Read More →Municipality of Gjakova/Djakovica to build 12 houses for return of displaced persons (Kosovapress)
Municipality of Gjakova/Djakovica, in cooperation with the European Commission and UNHCR, will start construction of 12 houses for displaced persons from the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities. The municipality has already allocated land for construction of a total of 48 houses whereas 12 will be constructed in the project’s first stage. Municipality of Gjakova/Djakovica is […]
Read More →China is against Pristina’s membership in UNESCO (Vecernje Novosti)
Serbia will have a great help of China in the modernization of country and official Beijing will consider more favorable conditions for financing the railway project Belgrade – Budapest. In addition Beijing will support all other Serbian projects – are the results of the visit of President Tomislav Nikolic to the second economy of the […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 2 September
• Government to pay for the failure to privatise PTK (Most monitored broadcaster, KTV)
• PM Mustafa appoints six deputy ministers (RTK2&Klan Kosova)
• Sevdije Morina appointed as Deputy Chief State Prosecutor (Klan Kosova)
• Vetëvendosje: Association federalizes Kosovo (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Vetëvendosje considers Mustafa’s justice as selective(Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)