Belgrade Media Report 17 September 2015
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Kerry: Vucic knows there is more work in transition between Serbia and Kosovo (Tanjug/Politika)
• Stefanovic: EU has to say whether it will admit refugees (Tanjug)
• Albanians smuggling as Syrians (Blic)
• Bujanovac municipality session blocked (Novosti)
• Davenport: Albanian initiative for forming community of Albanian municipalities is their right (RTV)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• B&H will not be threatened by influx of refugees (Fena)
• Cvijanovic: Everyone in B&H must be included in resolving migrant crisis (Oslobodjenje)
• The Opposition: Dodik will soon withdraw the referendum decision as well (Novo vrijeme)
• Dodik: Referendum will not be abandoned (Srna)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Kosovo, Serbia Begin Diplomatic Battle over UNESCO (Balkan Insight)
• European Union rebukes Hungary as refugee crisis tensions escalates (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Bahtiri: Serbia’s trade with Albanin properties should stop (Kosovapres)
Mitrovica mayor, Agim Bahtiri, has requested from the most senior institutions of Kosovo to undertake immediate measures which would prevent Serbia’s buying of Albanian properties in northern Kosovo. “Serbia is not stopping with its ethnic cleansing in the neighborhoods of Mitrovica North. This is not happening any more with violent expelling of the population from […]
Read More →Hamiti interrupts Assembly session (all media)
Several news sites carry a copy of Prime Minister Isa Mustafa’s request to the Assembly Speaker to postpone the debate on the last four agreements with Belgrade in Brussels. Mustafa wrote in his request that several government ministers, who were involved in the process of talks with Belgrade, were not going to be present at […]
Read More →Dispute over Gazivode is of economic nature (RTS)
Dispute with Pristina over the hydro power plant ‘Gazivode’ is of pure economic nature, because all money that comes from selling electricity goes to Pristina, whereas Zubin Potok municipality is not receiving any money, said director of the power plant Srđan Vulović. Vulović expects that creation of the Association/Community of Serb municipalities (A/CSM) in Kosovo […]
Read More →Kosovo and Serbia Offer Havens for Jail-Dodgers (Balkan Insight)
Convicted criminals from Kosovo and Serbia only have to cross each other’s borders in order to escape serving jail sentences for the crimes that they committed. Lemja Xhema got a hero’s welcome when she arrived in the town of Fushe Kosove near Pristina earlier this month, campaigning for votes in a municipal election. In some […]
Read More →Kerry commends Serbia’s efforts in addressing refugee crisis (Blic, Tanjug, Vecernje Novosti)
Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has met in Washington with US Secretary of State John Kerry, who commended Serbia’s tremendous efforts in addressing the migrant crisis. Ahead of the meeting with Vucic, Kerry also applauded the transition that has been taking place under the 2013 agreement with Europe with respect to Serbia and Kosovo. There’s […]
Read More →Why Irinej refers to Ahtisaari (Politika)
Serbian Orthodox Church has referred to Annex 5 of the Ahitsaari’s plan, with regard to protection of Christian heritage in the southern province, what caused opposed comments in the general public since Serbia never accepted that document, which implies recognition of the self-declared independence of Kosovo. Some argue that the Church is using wrong argumentation, […]
Read More →Djuric sends a letter to the British newspaper Independent (Vesti, NMagazin, Tanjug)
Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric has sent a letter to the editor of the British “Independent” regarding the article on Kosovo. Djuric pointed out that more than 200,000 displaced Serbs cannot return to their homes, which is why, when writing about harmony in Kosovo, was hypocritical at least. Djuric said […]
Read More →UN chief condemns treatment of refugees at Hungarian border (FoNet, B92, Tanjug, TV Most)
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday he was shocked to see how refugees were treated at Hungary’s border with Serbia. Ban “underscored it is not acceptable,” according to Tanjug. He said that refugees and migrants in Europe should be treated with dignity and their human rights respected. On Wednesday, Hungarian police fired tear gas […]
Read More →Is VAN being serious? (Kosova Sot)
The paper in its front-page editorial today writes that the new opposition front established by the Vetevendosje Movement, Alliance for the Future of Kosovo and Initiative for Kosovo (VAN) to oppose the government and its decisions is very encouraging. “This is the right step, but the opposition should explain their strategy and actions, and they […]
Read More →Mustafa meets head of UNHCR in Kosovo (KosovaPress)
Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa met yesterday the UNHCR Kosovo’s Chief of Mission, N. L. Narasimha Rao, with whom he discussed the progress in Kosovo as well as the commitment of the government to establish conditions for full reintegration of returnees. Rao spoke of the importance of a legal framework for returnees, considering the […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 16 September
• Opposition calls on PM Mustafa to annul Brussels agreements and resign (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Veseli: Government not obliged to bring Brussels agreements for ratification (TV21)
• Shala: VLAN broke down because US did not want Vetëvendosje in power (KTV)
• Government approves strategy against radicalisation and violent extremism (Most monitored broadcasters, TV21)
• Draft law on the Assembly discussed (Most monitored broadcasters, TV21)
• Citizens have lost their trust on justice (Klan Kosova, TV21)
• Three persons arrested for stabbing a Klokot/Kllokot Serb (RTK2)
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