Belgrade Media Report 12 November 2015
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
Ban Ki-moon: Community of Municipalities cornerstone of Brussels agreement (Tanjug)
Serbia admitted to UNESCO Executive Council (Novosti)
Nincic: Belgrade remains committed to the dialogue with Pristina (Tanjug)
Drecun: Pointless to discuss normalization process without ZSO (Tanjug)
Popov: EU on the move following suspension of Brussels agreement (Beta)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Vucic: Serbia donates 5 million EUR for Srebrenica (Klix.ba/Nezavisne)
• B&H insists on right to access to international waters (Oslobodjenje/Hina)
• Croatia protests against Slovenia’s fence on its territory (Hina)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Kosovo Says US Firm Will Build Power Plant (BIRN)
• Serbia will be able to raise pension, wages in 2016, PM says (Reuters)
• Serb Central Bank Holds Benchmark Rate With Focus on Fed, ECB (Bloomberg)
• Macedonia Approves Government That Includes Opposition (RFE/RL/AFP/AP)
Thaci believed to be responsible for Kosovo’s failure to join UNESCO! (Gazeta Blic)
Unnamed international sources told the news site today that Kosovo’s Foreign Minister and First Deputy Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci, is believed to be responsible for Kosovo’s failure to join the UNESCO. According to these sources, without receiving prior signals from Kosovo’s friends, Thaci tried to force his way to the post of Kosovo President by […]
Read More →Gjini: Assembly will be blocked, opposition has strategic plans for protests! (Gazeta Blic)
Ardian Gjini, deputy leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), in an interview for the news site, said the opposition bloc is determined not to allow the normal functioning of the Kosovo Assembly until the Government withdraws its signatures from the agreement on the Association/Community of Serb-majority municipalities and the border demarcation […]
Read More →Ban: ZSO is foundation of the Brussels Agreement (RTS)
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s latest report on Kosovo stressed the importance of establishing the Community / Association of Serb Municipalities (ZSO). Ban welcomed the “continued progress” in Brussels dialogue and agreements that Belgrade and Pristina reached on 25 August, and in particular, he said, the agreement on the establishment of ZSO which, in his […]
Read More →Brussels process must continue, but there is a need to define its foundation (S’bunker)
Kosovo Deputy Foreign Minister, Petrit Selimi, in an opinion piece today writes that from the moment that Kosovo applied to join UNESCO, Kosovo government agreed with its allies that Kosovo’s message should be positive, focusing on concrete benefits for Kosovo people who would have better access to development programs for education, science and culture. According […]
Read More →Insufficient budget allocations for Serbian community (RTK2)
In late October, the Kosovo Government approved a draft budget for next year, which amounts to approximately one billion euros. The draft budget which was approved caused dissatisfaction of the opposition and representatives of Serbs in the Kosovo Government. “We didn’t participate in the census and that is a huge problem, because the numbers according […]
Read More →Serbia admitted into UNESCO Executive Board (Tanjug)
Serbia was granted four-year membership in the UNESCO Executive Board on Wednesday, Serbian Ambassador in UNESCO Darko Tanaskovic said to Tanjug. A total of 186 countries took part in the voting, of whom 161 voted in favor of Serbia’s membership, which can be considered an excellent result after the major divisions at the General Conference […]
Read More →If there is no A/CSM there is no Brussels Agreement either (TV Most)
Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister and senior official of the Serbian List, Branimir Stojanovic, yesterday stated in Novo Brdo that decision of the Kosovo Constitutional Court on suspension of the agreement on Association/Community of Serb municipalities is nothing but reaction on the rejection of the UNESCO General Conference to admit Kosovo to that organization. He further […]
Read More →Serbian team to continue the job on creation of the A/CSM (TV Most)
“Decision of the Kosovo Constitution Court to temporarily suspend all activities on the creation of Community of Serb municipalities does not oblige Serbia. People in the team in charge for developing the draft statute of the Community of Serb municipalities should continue their work and accomplish it until 25 December this year,” said chairperson of […]
Read More →Chambers of commerce of Kosovo and Serbia today in Pristina (KoSSev)
Chamber of Commerce of Serbia (CCS) and Chamber of Commerce of Kosovo (CCK) are organizing today and tomorrow in Pristina meetings between the representatives of companies from the construction sector, and a workshop dubbed ‘Current situation and perspectives in the construction sector’, communicated press office of the CCS. This meeting has been arranged following recent […]
Read More →A setback for Kosovo amid bitter rows over its ancient churches (The Economist)
THERE is something supremely changeless about the daily rites of an Orthodox Christian monastery, such as the 700-year-old community of Visoki Decani on the western fringe of Kosovo, which occupies one of the most aesthetically graceful, and gloriously decorated, religious monuments in Europe. But in recent days the abbot, Sava Janjic, has been combining his […]
Read More →Belgrade asked the EU to press Pristina; Possible collapse of the dialogue (Vecernje Novosti)
Belgrade asked the European Union to press Pristina in order to immediately form the Association / Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO). Otherwise, the continuation of the dialogue will be jeopardized. Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has repeated that Serbia is ready for the dialogue, but he admitted that he is tired from the negative events happening […]
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