Belgrade Media Report 19 February 2016
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Balkan chiefs of police agree on ways of controlling refugees (Tanjug/Beta)
• Rebic: Zagreb agreement will make job easier for Serbian Interior (Tanjug)
• Nikolic will sign law on agreement with NATO (Danas)
• Davenport: EU will insist on formation of ZSO (RTV)
• Teachers in Presevo protest again over Kosovo textbooks (Tanjug)
• SRS requests local elections in Kosovo (Tanjug)
• Krkobabic sought one third of mandates from SPS (Politika)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Dodik welcomes filing of B&H’s application for the EU membership (Srna)
• Inzko hails signals on leaving aside referendum in RS (Fena)
• Izetbegovic: Nikolic expected to visit B&H next month (N1)
• The Hague rejected request for appeal of Naser Oric (Klix)
• The Hague: Released date of the judgment of Radovan Karadzic (Radio Sarajevo)
• Izetbegovic: There was no agreement regarding me or SDA supporting Radoncic (Faktor)
• Lawyer of Fahrudin Radoncic, at the hearing (Dnevni avaz)
• PACE urges full implementation of Przino Agreement for fair and democratic elections (MIA)
• President Ivanov: Macedonia cannot be EU’s external border (MIA)
• Media talks continued: Peter Vanhoutte urges parties to be constructive (MIA)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
Serbia’s central bank to keep relaxing policy with inflation low (Reuters)
Abu Hamza May Sue Bosnia Over Years in Detention (BIRN)
122 houses built for returnees in 2015 (KiM radio)
Last year, 122 houses for returnees were built over a period of 170 days – a statement made today at a meeting of the Steering Committee that took place at the Kosovo Ministry for Returns. Minister Dalibor Jevtic, representatives of the EU Office, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UNHCR participated in the meeting. The annual report on the […]
Read More →UNS: Why were RTK job advertisements deleted (KIM Radio )
Yesterday RTK deleted the vacancy which was earlier published for the post of Director of RTK2 and Head of the Joint Services Desk. The branch of the Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) in Kosovo has requested an explanation as to why the vacancies were cancelled. Yesterday RTK informed that the RTK Board decided to cancel vacancies […]
Read More →Ivanović goes a month without written judgment (TV Most)
The President of the Municipal Assembly of North Mitrovica and deputy leader of the SDP Oliver Ivanovic Civic Initiative, Ksenija Bozovic, stated that the written judgment has not been received by Oliver Ivanovic’s defense lawyers even a month after he was sentenced by the Basic Court of Mitrovica, making it possible for them to appeal the […]
Read More →SRS requests call for local elections in Kosovo and Metohija (KoSSev)
At a press conference held yesterday in Belgrade, the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) requested the Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic to call for elections throughout the territory of Serbia, including Kosovo and Metohija. SRS leader Vojislav Seselj stressed that this is a ‘constitutional and legal obligation of the Speaker of the National Assembly”. “For the […]
Read More →Opposition MPs escorted outside Assembly building (media)
All media report that several opposition MPs were escorted by security outside the Kosovo Assembly building. Media quote Assembly President Kadri Veseli saying that 18 opposition MPs were suspended from Friday’s session after incidents involving teargas canisters. Vetevendosje leader Visar Ymeri later told reporters that MPs were forcefully escorted outside the building without a document […]
Read More →Haradinaj: Early elections are the solution (Koha)
Ramush Haradinaj, leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), made another public call today for early parliamentary elections as a solution to the current crisis. “The government cannot pretend as if nothing happened and continue to improvise and to defend its positions, because this is no longer possible. There is only one […]
Read More →Another protest in Presevo because of textbooks from Kosovo (TV Most)
Albanian primary school teachers in Presevo protested again today demanding the delivery of textbooks sent by the Kosovo Ministry of Education. They organized a peaceful “I love books in Albanian” protest in front of the customs terminal in Presevo. Pupils, the mayors of Presevo and Bujanovac, Ragmi Mustafa and Nagip Arifi, as well the President of the […]
Read More →President will sign agreement with NATO into law (Dailies)
Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic will sign into law an agreement with NATO related to logistics that was recently confirmed in the National Assembly. This is according to Belgrade-based daily Danas. “The president sees nothing new or controversial in the law that would stand out in comparison with anything in the past related to cooperation between Serbia and […]
Read More →Can NATO protect Serbs in Kosovo? (Vesti, Sputnik)
The dust that rose in Serbia’s parliament about the adoption of the agreement with NATO has not yet settled. In light of the pre-election quarrels, the question of all questions, “can and will NATO protect the Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija?”, remains unanswered, writes Sputnik. Orhan Dragas, the Director of the International Center for Security, told […]
Read More →Kosovo remains alone outside European integration (Koha Ditore)
The paper’s Brussels-based columnist Augustin Palokaj writes in an opinion piece that Bosnia-Herzegovina’s application for membership in the EU means that Kosovo is now the only isolated country in the region. According to Palokaj, Kosovo will remain isolated for a long time because chances of being recognized by all EU member states at present are not realistic. “With […]
Read More →Limaj: Government wants to deepen the crisis (Koha)
The leader of the Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA), Fatmir Limaj, said the coalition government wants to exacerbate the political crisis by calling sessions at the Assembly. “The Constitutional Court showed that the government has violated the laws with agreements on Association and demarcation. We have continuously announced that parliamentary sessions should not be called as they […]
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