Belgrade Media Report 21 October
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• What was concluded at the meeting at the Serbian Presidency (Politika/Tanjug/B92)
• Dacic: No decision can erase history (Beta)
• Janjic: Kosovo joining UNESCO would be dangerous for our heritage (B92)
• De jure (Politika)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• What are we going to do a day after referendum? (klix.ba)
• 2,000 policemen to secure Aleksandar Vucic in Sarajevo (Dnevni list)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Montenegro Opposition Denies Russia Behind Protests (BIRN)
• Migrants stranded in Balkans suffer bad weather, bottlenecks (Reuters)
• EU’s Juncker summons leaders over Balkan refugee crisis (Reuters)
• Bosnia’s Entities Borrow to Plug Pension Holes (BIRN)
Students, citizens against Kosovo’s admission to UNESCO (Dailies)
Students from the Pristina University and citizens of Kosovska Mitrovica opposed Kosovo’s possible admission to UNESCO at a protest organized in Kosovska Mitrovica. The people who gathered carried banners saying “Kosovo is Serbia,” “No Kosovo UNESCO,” but also Serbian flags and photographs of burned Serbian churches and monasteries in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) on which they wrote: […]
Read More →With photos of burned churches was sent a message “No Kosovo in UNESCO” (KIM Radio)
More than a hundred people gathered today in front of the monastery Gracanica, which is on the UNESCO list of world cultural heritage, in order to send a message that they do not agree with the request of Kosovo for UNESCO membership. With the photographs of the burned churches and monasteries citizens wrote a message […]
Read More →Serbian journalists are not political workers (KIM Radio)
The Society of Journalist of Kosovo and Metohija (DNKIM) and the Association of Journalits of Serbia (UNS) announced that they were not aware that any of Serbian journalists, editors or owners of private media have signed a letter addressed to the general director of UNESCO Irina Bokova for the admission of Kosovo into this organization. The Journalists […]
Read More →Biggest investment, or plundering of Brezovica? (RTK2)
While waiting for French consortium to submit financial guarantees for the construction of Tourist Center Brezovica, distrust toward this master plan is growing, whereas Serbian Ski Resorts have informed the Prime Minister of Kosovo Isa Mustafa that they would launch a procedure requesting international arbitration with regard to Kosovo government’s decision to expropriate property of […]
Read More →Chapter 35 outrages Serbia! (Koha Ditore)
Publicist and political analyst Halil Matoshi writes that the opposition in Kosovo is completely silent on the issue of opening of EU-Serbia accession talks, in particular Chapter 35, because in many ways this chapter discards “conspiracy theories” that the Association/Community of Serb majority municipalities is a “mini-state”. According to Matoshi, Chapter 35 of EU accession […]
Read More →Battle over Serbian monuments is not lost (RTS)
The Radio Belgrade director and long-time correspondent from Kosovo, Milivoje Mihajlovic, said to RTS that Serbia did not lose the battle for preservation of Serbian monuments. Serious job and diplomatic initiative lies ahead, which has to be finalized in November when UNESCO General Conference is due to take place. Mihjlovic further said that procedure of […]
Read More →Security measures at heritage sites increase on the verge of voting at UNESCO (Koha.net)
The process of Kosovo’s membership at UNESCO, faced during all these weeks a propaganda and lobbying by Serbia’s politicians and institutions against the acceptance of Kosovo in UNESCO. This was the reason to suspect on the possibility of some set up incident at some cultural or religious heritage site in Kosovo. Kosovo Police confirmed to […]
Read More →Tanaskovic: There is no reason for optimism (KIM radio)
Serbian Ambassador to the UNESCO Darko Tanaskovic says that there is no reason for optimism when it comes to the UNESCO session where will be discussed Kosovo membership. “Voting the proposal requires a simple majority of votes. The most realistic is that a debate will be initiated before the voting, which had been announced by […]
Read More →Jablanović to submit criminal charge against Stojanović (Beta, KIM Radio)
Aleksandar Jablanović is not recognizing decision on his deposition from the post of the chairperson of the Civic Initiative Serbian List and stated that he will submit a criminal charge against Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Branimir Stojanović for fake presentation, Beta agency reports. The Serbian List communicated in late September that the post of the […]
Read More →Tahiri: SAA to be signed on 27 October (Koha)
Kosovo’s Minister without portfolio, Edita Tahiri, confirmed that the Political Committee of the EU ambassadors today took a decision to support the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) for Kosovo. “The signing of the SAA is scheduled for 27 October,” Tahiri said. “It is important that the reforms that are required for a country in order to […]
Read More →Deda: There is political crisis, Friday will not be a normal day (Lajmi.net)
Vetevendosje Movement MP Ilir Deda, said today that currently there is political crisis in Kosovo. “There is political crisis, even though this is being denied. This crisis is resolved by first recognizing that it exists. This shows that the politics in Kosovo is immature,” Deda said during a conference today organized by Kosovo Democratic Institute […]
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