Belgrade Media Report 11 March 2016
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Nikolic meets Putin (Beta)
• Nationwide state of emergency declared due to severe flooding (Tanjug)
• Stefanovic: No migrants enter Serbia after closure of Balkans route (B92)
• Vucic discussed Brussels agreement with Eichhorst (Beta)
• Djurdjevic: Emergency situation doesn’t interfere with elections (RTS)
• Vukotic arrested after Interpol’s warrant and to be handed over to UNMIK (RTS/RTCG)
• Abandoned house of a Serb killed in Orahovac set on fire (Tanjug)
• DSS-Dveri submit electoral list (RTS/Novosti)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Radoncic still in hospital, plea hearing today (Nezavisne)
• Dodik: Coalition at RS level together in upcoming local elections (Fena/Srna)
• EU Delegation: To finalize population census without further ado (Fena)
• PM: Croatia supports Bosnia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations (Hina)
• Parliamentary dialogue important for Montenegrin future (RTCG)
• European Parliament adopts its resolution on Macedonia (MIA)
• Tense at Tabanovce: Migrants threatening to go on hunger strike if not let to enter Serbia (MIA)
• Mediator Vanhoutte: There are no conditions to resume media talks (MIA)
• United Macedonian Diaspora strongly supports Macedonia’s candidate Kerim for UN Secretary-General (Telegraph.mk)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Putin Promises Serbian Leader Russia Will Back Claim To Kosovo (RFE/RFL/dpa/Interfax/TASS)
• Kosovo Jails ISIS Recruit for Three Years (BIRN)
• Squabbles Over Data Put Bosnian Census at Risk (BIRN)
• Germany, EU have failed us, Macedonian president says (DW)
Vetevendosje claims responsibility for overturning another truck with Serbian products (Koha)
The Vetevendosje Movement claims to have overturned another truck carrying Serbian products along the Pristina-Morine highway. “Serbia’s hegemony is unacceptable, be it political, military or economic,” Vetevendosje said in a statement. The Movement said it will work on a future of peace and equality between countries but added that it is unjust for Serbia to […]
Read More →Thaci says he plans to invite Nikolic to his swearing-in ceremony (Klan Kosova)
Kosovo’s president-elect Hashim Thaci said he plans to invite Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic to his swearing-in ceremony in April. “There will be a ceremony upon taking on the post of the President early April and I look forward to the invitation that I will send to President Nikolic. We will also invite other presidents of the […]
Read More →Mustafa: We have met all visa liberalisation criteria (Telegrafi)
Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, said Kosovo institutions have met all necessary criteria of the visa lbieralisation process. He said he was hopeful that next week when the European Commission experts are due to visit Kosovo and assess it against the visa liberalisation criteria they would decide not to delay issuing a positive recommendation […]
Read More →Sixteen-year struggle to build safe house (KIM radio)
For more than sixteen years, women’s associations in central Kosovo have been fighting to allow the opening of safe houses for women victims of domestic violence. There has been no success so far. Unlike areas where Albanians make up the majority and where there are eight shelters, in Serbian communities there are none. Although the initiative to […]
Read More →Inter-Ministerial Commission for Communities held first meeting (RTK2)
The recently established Inter-Ministerial Commission for Communities that will work on implementation of regulations related to the protection of communities and amendments of laws that insufficiently or inadequately protect rights of communities, held its first meeting yesterday. The main community issues that this Commission will deal with are better representation in institutions, protection of property rights, language use […]
Read More →Jevtic and Stevic on support to soup kitchens (RTK2)
Yesterday the Minister for Communities and Return Dalibor Jevtic met with Svetlana Stevic, the chairperson of the ‘Majka devet Jugovica’ humanitarian organization that operates under the auspices of the Serbian Orthodox Church, and discussed the ways the Ministry could help this organization, which provides food for returnees and the vulnerable through six soup kitchens throughout […]
Read More →Serbian citizen arrested on a warrant issued by Interpol (TV Most, RTCG)
In a special operation of the Montenegrin police in the vicinity of Niksic, a Serbian citizen, Zoran Vukotic was arrested on a warrant from Interpol for the crime of “war crimes against the civilian population,” police confirmed to the Podgorica daily Dnevne Novine. According to unofficial information, the red Interpol warrant, published on the official website […]
Read More →Extremism increasingly present in Kosovo (TV Most)
Kosovo Minister of Local Government Administration and coordinator of the management team for the establishment of the Association / Community of Serb municipalities Ljubomir Maric said that the incidents that began last year (after reaching agreement on the Community in Brussels) are receiving new forms. He added that non-Albanians, Serbs in the first place, and […]
Read More →University of Pristina with the seat in Mitrovica has national significance (Kontakt plus Radio)
Vice President of the Student Parliament of Pristina University, temporary relocated to the Mitrovica North, Jovan Aleksic said that this institution has a national significance which is not sufficiently recognized and exploited. Aleksic said that without the university Mitrovica would be more of an urban enclave in Kosovo, doomed to disappear. “We should be aware […]
Read More →Electoral roll is responsibility of the Ministry of State Administration (TV Most)
After the recently expressed controversy related to the number of citizens in Kosovo with the right to vote in Serbian elections, the President of the Republic Electoral Commission (REC) Dejan Ðurđević said that the electoral roll is the responsibility of the Ministry of State Administration and Local Self-Government. “Electoral roll should list the total number […]
Read More →Vetevendosje: We don’t have a common stance on boycotting the Assembly (Lajmi)
Vetevendosje officials today denied the statements of the AAK leader Ramush Haradinaj who said opposition parties have decided to boycott the Assembly. Adonis Tahiri, spokesperson for Vetevendosje, told the news site that there is no common stance between the three opposition parties for boycotting the Assembly. “We still don’t have a joint decision as united opposition […]
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