Belgrade Media Report 08 January
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Djuric: Pristina will get nothing until it honors the agreement (RTS)
• Haradinaj: “Cannot accept the Community of Serb Municipalities” (Tanjug)
• Opposition to hold another protest in Pristina on Saturday (Tanjug)
• Vucic offers Mustafa help after flooding in Kosovo (Tanjug)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Serbian President: Republika Srpska should celebrate its National Day (Srna)
• Dodik: Republika Srpska is “a state” (Glas Srpske)
• Dodik: RS celebrates as evidence of strengthening and commitment of its existence (Oslobodjenje)
• B&H Court confirms indictment against B&H General (Bosna danas)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Serbian Opposition Urges United Front in Polls (BIRN)
• Serbian PM: Relations With Kosovo Must Be Normalized (RFE/RL)
Belgrade Media Report 06 January
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Pristina “won’t get dial code until it meets obligations” (Tanjug)
• Albanians block the street leading to the Orthodox Church in Djakovica (RTS, Novosti)
• SNS, SPS discuss steps for Serbia’s future (Tanjug)
• With NATO-members around it, can Serbia remain neutral? (B92, Danas)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Vucic confirms he will attend RS Day ceremony (Bosna danas)
• Ivanic-Vucic: To continue with the excellent relations between the RS and Serbia (Klix)
• George Soros plans to topple Milorad Dodik this year (Bosna danas)
• State police raid Pavlovic Bank looking for evidence against Dodik (Bosna danas)
• Boniak woman given 3-year sentence in US for supporting terrorists (Bosna danas)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Croatia’s Serbs Nervously Await New Govt’s Plans (BIRN)
• Serbia: Independent media increasingly targeted as spies (indexoncensorship.org)
Serbia prepares to deploy customs officers on the boundary lines with Kosovo (KoSSev)
Serbia is preparing to deploy its customs officers at the boundary line with Kosovo and already at the beginning of March this year. This will be done due to the smuggling in the North. A Serbian confidential source told Tesheshi.com that the Government of Serbia made the decision after facing a lot of non-compliance with […]
Read More →“Unsolved crimes cast a shadow over joy of Christmas in Kosovo” (B92)
Serbian Labor Minister Aleksandar Vulin wished a happy Christmas to all Orthodox believers from Pec/Peja in Kosovo. He noted that “unsolved crimes cast a dark shadow over the holiday joy in Kosovo and Metohija,” reported Tanjug. Vulin attended a Christmas liturgy at the Pec Patriarchate and called on the international community to ensure conditions for […]
Read More →Djuric: We have support of the international community for the formation of the ZSO (Blic)
Director of the Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric says that he expects Pristina to meet its obligations on the formation of the Association of Serbian Municipalities (ZSO) and that Belgrade has the support of the international community for such the position. Commenting the police cordon in Djakovica/Gjakova, that had to protect the […]
Read More →Opposition leaders: Protest will be massive (Telegrafi/Koha)
Leaders of opposition parties – Visar Ymeri from Vetevendosje, Ramush Haradinaj from the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), Fatmir Limaj from the Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA) – said today in a press conference in front of the National Theatre that they expect massive turnout in tomorrow’s protest. Haradinaj said the protest will begin […]
Read More →Kosovo farmers to join opposition protest (Koha)
Kosovo farmers’ trade union in a statement to the media said it is joining tomorrow’s opposition protest in Pristina. The statement said Kosovo farmers have many reasons to protest because that Isa Mustafa-led government has left agriculture in a miserable condition. “A large part of the budget allocated to agriculture has been stolen, another part […]
Read More →Djuric: Dialogue to solve the problems, not blackmail (RTS)
Pristina should not expect Belgrade to fulfill its obligations from the agreement on telecommunications until it delivers its part, Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric told RTS. Djuric explains that the agreement on telecommunications, of August 25, enables Telekom Serbia to operate in the entire territory of Kosovo, re-launch a mobile […]
Read More →Kosovo with no emergency relief fund (Zeri)
The government of Kosovo does not yet have an emergency relief fund which would be used in cases of natural disasters such as the recent flooding in several municipalities. Hajriz Sejdiu from the Emergency Management Agency that functions under the Ministry of Interior said the government is obliged to set up an emergency relief fund. […]
Read More →Flash Floods Hit Kosovo as Snow Melts (Balkan Insight)
Several towns and key highways in the country are partly under water after heavy showers melted the snow, causing floods. – See more at: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/kosovo-stricken-by-flash-floods-as-snow-melts-01-06-2016#sthash.rf83lwPd.dpuf
Read More →Kosovo Vows to Inform Subjects of Surveillance (Balkan Insight)
The State Prosecutor has ordered institutions to enforce an existing law and notify people if they have been placed under police or prosecution surveillance. – See more at: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/kosovo-notifies-suspects-that-were-under-surveillance-01-07-2016#sthash.y26k85Gb.dpuf
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 8 January
• Vucic and Mustafa discuss agreements on the phone (Epoka e Re)
• Opposition bloc confident the government will fall on Saturday (Koha)
• Haradinaj: Thaci not fit to become Kosovo president (Zeri)
• Deda: Opposition to talk to the government about election date (Zeri)
• Civil society calls on EU to help depoliticize boards of POEs (Koha)
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