Belgrade Media Report 24 February
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic repeats that Serbia is a militarily neutral country (Tanjug/Beta)
• Dacic: Serbia doesn’t have much maneuvering space (Tanjug)
• UNHCR concerned over growing refugees along borders (Beta)
• Drecun wonders whether Serbs will benefit from Thaqi as president (B92)
• Working Group for KLA crimes might include Mrkic (Novosti)
• SNS presents election list name (Tanjug)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Gruevski says elections on 5 June will go ahead with or without SDSM (Republika)
• Zvizdic on agreements on EBRD Summit (Faktor)
• Mektic: Bosnia has 65 warrants for fighters on foreign soil (Fena/Srna)
• Will Radoncic be deprived of license for access to classified information? (Klix)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Balkans Struggling on Human Rights: Amnesty Report (BIRN)
• Austria Wants a Full Stop to Migrant Influx Along Balkans (AP)
• Montenegro Parliament Set to Oust Speaker (BIRN)
Ymeri: Opposition will not participate in today’s session (Koha)
Vetevendosje leader Visar Ymeri said today that the opposition MPs have decided not to take part in the Kosovo Assembly session today. “We decided not to participate in today’s session and prepare for the next session. But, if the Assembly decides today on the election of the president, the purpose of our protest will change,” Ymeri […]
Read More →Caushi: Vetevendosje did not burn the cars, attacks are not unexpected (Telegrafi)
Vetevendosje Deputy Leader, Driton Caushi, told RTV Dukagjini today that an increasing number of people are joining the protest organized by the joint opposition in downtown Pristina. Asked to comment on the attacks against the vehicles of two government ministers, Caushi said the Vetevendosje Movement has nothing to do with the attacks. “However, such attacks […]
Read More →Abrashi: I believe the president will be elected this week (Tribuna Channel)
Minister of Labor and Social Welfare and spokesperson for the Kosovo government, Arban Abrashi, told Pristina-based Tribuna Channel he believes the president of Kosovo will be elected this week. “The ruling-coalition has the necessary numbers for the election of president and I don’t foresee any problems in this regard,”Abrashi said.
Read More →Collaku: No reason for EU to delay visa liberalization process (Indeksonline)
Kosovo European Integration Minister, Bekim Collaku, said today that the European Commission was very clear when they said the report on Kosovo published in December 2015 will be the last one. “We don’t expect any other reports but we are waiting for the European Commission to acknowledge the progress in fulfilling the visa liberalization requirements,” […]
Read More →Serbs won’t present their own candidate for president of Kosovo (Politika)
Serbs, most probably, won’t present their own candidate for the president of Kosovo since it is not likely that they would be able to gather a minimum of thirty signatures before the beginning of the provincial parliament session, which should take place by Friday at the latest, learned the paper. MPs from the Serbian List in the Kosovo parliament, […]
Read More →Mitić: Serbian List not invited to sign petition on election of the president (Blic)
MP from the Serbian List in the Kosovo parliament Bojan Mitić said last night that MPs from this list were not invited to sign a petition for calling an extraordinary session of the Kosovo parliament during which the president of Kosovo is to be elected, and added that the Serbian List will not present a candidate for this […]
Read More →The Serbian List still without a candidate (KIM radio)
The Serbian List has still not decided on a candidate for the presidential elections in Kosovo, says MP Nenad Rasic. Nenad Rasic said to KIM radio that “for now there are no indications of who that might be.” Rasic believes that MPs of the opposition will not block the assembly session during which the president of Kosovo […]
Read More →Ymeri: To ban the Serbian list; Stojanovic: It is hatred towards Serbs (Blic)
Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Branimir Stojanovic says that the request of the President of the Self-Determination movement to declare the Serbian List as illegal only shows that the Serbs are always the target of bullies. Stojanovic also says that Ymeri made this statement backed by anger and not by arguments. The leader of the Self-Determination movement […]
Read More →Zemaj: Early elections to be announced on 7 March (Telegrafi.com)
Kosovo Assembly MP from the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), who is also member of the Assembly Committee for Legislation, Mandate and Immunities, Armend Zemaj, said that he would not vote Hashim Thaci for the president of Kosovo. He also stated during today’s meeting of the Committee, that Kosovo will announce early elections on 7 March. […]
Read More →Graffiti “let us live our lives and not protest” (Koha)
Koha.net editorial room received an anonymous package with pictures of graffiti against the three opposition leaders. “This action intends to show the true egos of the three opposition leaders who are destroying everything, including our daily lives, they are blocking holidays and squares only because someone like Hashim Thaci is a candidate for president. It does not […]
Read More →Trajkovic: Serbs from Kosovo are people without state (KiM radio)
Director of the European Movement of Serbs, Rada Trajkovic, warned that Serbia has withdrawn from Kosovo and that the Serbian people will remain without a state. Trajkovic believes that the interests of Serbs from Kosovo in the Brussels dialogue have disappeared because Belgrade and Pristina reach agreements without asking them about their needs. “Kosovo Serbs are […]
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