Belgrade Media Report 17 March 2016
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Djuric: No progress in atmosphere of hatred and distrust (Politika)
• Twelve years since the March pogrom in Kosovo and Metohija (RTS)
• Selakovic: Hague acts more as political than court of law (TV Pink/B92/Beta)
• Chambers of Commerce request EU to react due to overturned trucks (Beta)
• Brazil not to change stance on Kosovo (Beta)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Team formed to investigate population census (Srna)
• Cvijanovic not informed on the investigation into the activities related to population census (Srna)
• Determine if there were abuses (Srna)
• Highest level meeting on the Coordination mechanism held in Sarajevo (Srpska)
• Dodik: RS part of international anti-terrorism coalition (Srna)
• Radoncic’s defense requests termination of custody (Fena)
• Mostar 1995-2016: From whole to divided (Patria)
• EU: The accusations of Medojevic against the EU bear no particular weight (Dnevne Novine)
• Montenegro will continue the reforms of its defence system (CDM)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• War Crimes Court Excuses Serbian Seselj From Attending Verdict (RFE/RL/Reuters/AFP)
• Bosnia Serbs Accused of Skewing Demography (BIRN)
Political background of the March pogrom is still unknown (Blic)
Minister of Returns in the Kosovo government, Dalibor Jevtic says that even 12 years after the March pogrom the political background is unknown and that they demand from the international community and the Kosovo institutions to sanction those responsible. He recalled that, in addition to attacks on Serb property and the SPC, over 4,000 people left their […]
Read More →The Law on Use of Languages in Kosovo is not fully implemented (Kontakt plus radio)
The Language Commissioner in the office of Kosovo’s Prime Minister, Slavisa Mladenovic warns that the law on the Use of Languages and services in Kosovo is not being fully implemented and that there is only one Serbian translator in the Kosovo institutions. Mladenovic’s main job is to oversee the implementation of the Law on the […]
Read More →Chambers of Commerce to EU: Prevent overturning of trucks (KoSSev)
Chairpersons of the Chambers of Commerce of Serbia and Kosovo, Marko Cadez and Safet Gerxhaliu, respectively, have sent a joint letter to the EU high officials and ambassadors of the Quint states in Serbia and Kosovo, in which they condemn recent incidents of Serbian trucks, transporting Serbian commodities to Kosovo, that were overturned by activists of the ‘Self-Determination’ […]
Read More →School classes begin with a story about pogrom of Serbs in Kosovo (B92)
School classes throughout Serbia this morning started with a story about the pogrom of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija on 17 March 2004. Following the screening of a movie about the pogrom in the ‘Banovic Strahinja’ primary school in Belgrade pupils asked questions such as: ‘Was anyone held accountable for what happened?”, “How many Serbs […]
Read More →MPs visits to Serb-majority municipalities welcomed by mayors (RTK2)
Following the announcement of the MPs from the Serbian List about visits to Serb-majority municipalities and the Gorani community from 20 to 22 March, the head of the Serbian List caucus group Slavko Simic said to RTK2 that this idea emerged at the end of last year and that conditions are now ripe for assessing problems faced by residents. […]
Read More →Kosovo Opposition Scorn Review of Montenegro Deal (Balkan Insight)
After the Kosovo President set up a team of international experts to assess the hotly disputed of Kosovo-Montenegro border deal, opposition parties said it would make no difference. http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/kosovo-opposition-rejects-plan-to-review-border-deal-with-montenegro-03-16-2016
Read More →PDK: Setting vehicles on fire, an attempt to destabilize the country (Gazeta Express)
The Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) issued a press release regarding the setting on fire of official vehicles in Gjilan, Ferizaj and Mitrovice. This party assessed the attacks as an attempt to destabilize Kosovo and cause insecurity among the people of Kosovo. PDK has requested the respective institutions to investigate all the cases and make the perpetrators […]
Read More →Vetevendosje: Abazi’s deportation, a political scandal (Zeri)
Former Vetevendosje leader and MP Albin Kurti said in a press conference today that the forcible deportation of the party’s official Boiken Abazi, an Albanian national, back to his home country represents a political scandal that requires the intervention of Tirana’s top leadership. Kurti said Abazi did not violate any Kosovo laws because if this […]
Read More →Vetevendosje activist Alket Zeqiri arrested for setting a vehicle on fire (Gazeta Express)
Based on the order of the Pristina Basic Court, the Kosovo Police raided a house today in “Fazli Grajqevci” street in Fushe Kosove/Kosovo Polje, and arrested Alket Zeqiri, under suspicion of setting an official vehicle on fire. “A.Z., male, 26, is a citizen of the Republic of Kosovo, and suspect in a case which took place on 24.02.2016 […]
Read More →CI SDP: Even 12 years later the terror against Serbs continues (KiM radio)
The twelfth anniversary of the March pogrom is a time when Serbs are reminded of painful scenes of cultural repression of Serbian existence in Kosovo, stated the Citizens Initiative SDP. In the statement SDP strongly condemns the fact that the organizers and perpetrators of the pogroms in 2004 have not been faced with justice over twelve years later. “Even after 12 […]
Read More →Rasic: 17 and 18 March 2004 are the most terrible days in the history of the Serbs (Kontakt Plus radio)
MP of the Serbian List in the Kosovo Assembly and Chairman of the Progressive Democratic Party Nenad Rasic says the 17 and 18 March 2004 were the most terrible days for the Serbs in Kosovo. “With 4,000 Serbs expelled, over 800 houses demolished, 45 religious buildings burned, including the Church of Bogorodica Ljeviska in Prizren, and […]
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