Belgrade Media Report 12 January 2016
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Kocijancic: Preparations for new round of dialogue underway (Tanjug)
• If Croatia drops plans to buy weapons, so will Serbia – PM (Tanjug)
• Journalists protest, ask that Defense Minister be sacked (B92)
• Dodik talks about referendum, terrorist threat (TV Pink)
• Kosovo: Home Of Serb returnees broken, Orthodox Church ransacked (Tanjug)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Covic: Vucic sending messages of B&H’s future (Srna, Vijesti)
• Izetbegovic and Radoncic met after the arrest of SBB officials (Srna)
• More arrests on Islamic terrorism charges (Nezavisne)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• ‘Closed’ Serbian news agency with ties to government still publishing (EurActiv)
• Publish 2013 Census Data, EU Urges Bosnia (BIRN)
• Euro MPs Check Implementation of Macedonia Crisis Deal (BIRN)
Kosovo Opposition Builds Resistance to Brussels Agreements (Balkan Insight)
The ruling that parts of the Brussels-brokered agreements with Serbia were unconstitutional swelled the ranks of opposition protesters who caused unrest on the streets of Pristina on Saturday, experts suggested. http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/kosovo-opposition-swell-ranks-against-brussels-agreements-01-12-2016
Read More →Mustafa: Visa liberalization requirements are fulfilled (Zeri)
Kosovo’s Prime Minister, Isa Mustafa, said today the criteria for visa liberalization have been fulfilled and now only the administrative processes are expected to be completed. “All the criteria for visa liberalization have been fulfilled. We also have already proposed names for board members of the Procurement Review Body,” Mustafa said. According to him, the […]
Read More →Vetevendosje: Integration of Civil Protection members, offensive to other communities (Koha)
The Vetevendosje Movement through a press release today said the integration of the so-called Civil Protection members into Kosovo Police, allows the Serbian List to take its share in Kosovo. According to Vetevendosje, Kosovo government is integrating the former members of the Civil Protection without verifying whether they committed crimes in Kosovo. “The dialogue in […]
Read More →Berisha: Agreement on Association will not be renegotiated (Kosova Press)
Besnik Berisha, legal adviser to Prime Minister Isa Mustafa, told the news website there will be no changes or renegotiation of the agreement on Association/Community of Serb-majority municipalities. According to him, the Constitutional Court has found no violation of the Constitution with this agreement. “The Constitutional Court made some remarks that should be taken into […]
Read More →Albanians in the north react: We’re being discriminated by institutions again (Kosovapress)
The representatives of Albanians living in the northern part of Kosovo have reacted to the signing of contracts by members of the so-called Civil Protection with Kosovo’s institutions. These representatives argue that although Albanians make up over 30 percent of the population in the north they are discriminated by the mayors of the northern municipalities […]
Read More →Molotov cocktail thrown at police officer’s house in northern Kosovo (Kosovapress)
Citing unnamed sources, the news site reports that unknown assailants throw a Molotov cocktail at the house of a Kosovo Police officer in Mitrovica North on Monday night. Zeljko Bojic, head of police operations in the north, confirmed the incident. Bojic said the police officer whose house was attacked is a Bosniak and that no […]
Read More →Rescue and savior in the war for Thaci’s seat (Gazeta Blic)
Beqe Cufaj considers today that frustration and conclusion that the current opposition which raises only the issues of the “Association” and “Demarcation” cannot be supported, is understandable. To him, the current opposition is only the other side of the coin, or different faces with the same intention. He regrets for the lack of a third […]
Read More →Kostic: Perpetrators should be found immediately (Tanjug)
The Mayor of Gračanica/Graçanicë Municipality Vladeta Kostic yesterday strongly condemned desecration of the Church of St. Demetrius in village Susica in that municipality, calling on authorities to immediately find the perpetrators of attacks on the Serbian Orthodox Church property. “It is not the first time that the church is burglarized and that perpetrators have not […]
Read More →A house of returnee in Osojane ransacked (KIM Radio, Kontakt Plus radio)
Minister for Communities and Returns in the Kosovo government Dalibor Jevtic said today that in Osojane, Istok/Istog municipality, a returnee family house was ransacked. Jevtic told Kontakt plus radio that the house was ransacked during the Christmas holidays and the family was not in it. Last month, in the same village, was ransacked house of […]
Read More →Church of St. Demetrius in Susica ransacked (KIM radio, Kontakt plus radio, Tanjug)
Unknown perpetrators ransacked the Church of St. Demetrius on Monday, in the village of Susica near Pristina. A member of the church council noticed that a window of the church had been broken and that the box with donations was stolen. The Eparchy of Raska and Prizren reported the incident to the police. The police […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 11 January
• Civil Protection dissolved (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Mustafa: Elections in 2018 (Allmonitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Murat Meha pelted with eggs (Most monitored broadcasters, TV21)
• New round of Kosovo-Serbia talks confirmed for 27 January (RTK2&RTK1)
• Orthodox Church in Gracanica/Graçanicë village burglarized (RTK2)
• Desecration of Christ the Saviour Church condemned (RTK2)
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