Belgrade Media Report 21 April 2016
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Djuric: Talks on IDs to continue (RTS)
• Kocijancic: Talks on IDs to resume with EU facilitation (Tanjug/RTS/Beta)
• Bojovic acquitted of war crimes charges (Tanjug)
• Serbian Foreign Ministry delivers protest note to Croatia (B92)
• Elections to be monitored by 1,687 domestic and 196 foreign observers (Tanjug)
• Number of polling stations reduced in Kosovo and Metohija over safety (RTS/Tanjug)
• Patriotic bloc of Kosovo and Metohija: Government preparing large electoral fraud in Kosovo and Metohija (New Serbian Political Thought)
• Seselj: SNS to form coalition with DS, LDP-SDS-LSV (Tanjug)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Bosniak political leaders do not have will to punish someone for the attempted lynch of Vucic (Srna)
• Dodik: Arrangement with IMF in July (Srna)
• Djukanovic: Montenegro is not entering NATO to prepare for war (Radio CG)
• Trajko Veljanoski: No Constitutional possibility to reconvene parliament (Telegraf.mk)
• Macedonia: SDSM leader will not attend the Vienna meeting if his conditions are not met (Telegraf.mk)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
Spotlight: Thousands of migrants stranded along Balkan route (Xinhua)
Read More →Tahiri: Majority of Serbs possess Kosovo IDs (Lajmi.net)
Kosovo’s Minister for Dialogue, Edita Tahiri, stated that majority of Serbs already possess ID of Kosovo, as result of the Brussels dialogue. She said that the reach of the agreement on free movement in 2011 made “majority of Serbs to take the IDs of Kosovo state.” “This is a positive development that has changed the […]
Read More →Veseli: Dialogue with neighbors and others, important for Kosovo’s future (Indeksonline)
Kosovo Assembly President Kadri Veseli during a debate organized today by civil society on the implementation of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA), said Kosovo needs the dialogue with others in order to achieve important agreements. “Kosovo needs a parallel dialogue with neighbors and others in order to achieve important agreements. The European agenda is […]
Read More →Zbogar SAA important for Kosovo (Gazeta Express)
Head of the European Union Office in Kosovo, Samuel Zbogar, said that the Stabilization Association Agreement is both politically and economically important and it shows clearly the European perspective of Kosovo. Zbogar made these comments during a round table for the SAA. “We want functioning of the rule of law a functional assembly without compromise […]
Read More →Sobriety (Koha Ditore)
KTV’s editor-in-chief Adriatik Kelmendi writes that the events of the last months in Kosovo could serve as indispensable lessons of political emancipation and sobriety with the first being that the time when two major political forces had to reach a coalition deal in order to achieve major political objectives is over. This, according to Kelmendi, was evident in […]
Read More →Mustafa: SAA paves way for fundamental reform process in Kosovo (Koha)
Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa said on Wednesday that the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) with the European Union paves the way for a fundamental reform process in Kosovo. While speaking at a round-table on SAA”s implementation, Mustafa said the ratification of this agreement confirmed the will of the citizens of Kosovo for European integration. […]
Read More →Lumezi: Action for freeing usurped properties to begin in the coming weeks (media)
All media cover today’s press conference by Kosovo’s Chief State Prosecutor Aleksander Lumezi, highlighting his statement that in the coming weeks the prosecution in cooperation with the police will launch a joint action of freeing up several usurped properties. During a presentation about the work of the State Prosecution for 2015, Lumezi said he was not satisfied […]
Read More →Ex-Serb General Expelled From Kosovo After Illegal Entering (AP/ABC News)
A Kosovo court has decided that a former Serb general, who had illegally crossed the border, should be expelled. Earlier this month Milovan Bojovic was arrested and sentenced to one month in jail for illegally crossing the border. Kosovo’s Council for the Defense of Human Rights and Freedoms considered him a suspect of war crimes against ethnic […]
Read More →Miletic: Community of Serb-majority municipalities is not needed (RTK2)
Former MP and vice-president of the Kosovo Parliament from the ranks of Serbian community, Petar Miletic, has criticized the dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade in Brussels. At a conference organized by BIRN on the occasion of publication of a report dubbed ‘Big Deal’, Miletic said that Kosovo doesn’t need Association/Community of Serb-majority Municipalities because Serbs […]
Read More →Kosovo Serbs with divided opinions about elections (VOA)
Kosovo Serbs are divided about participation in the upcoming Serbian parliamentary elections. Some say that by turning out on elections Serbs would give legitimacy to Belgrade’s betrayal of Kosovo, whereas others argue that it is very important that future Serbian government enjoys support of Kosovo Serbs. Serbian National Forum has called Kosovo Serbs to stay […]
Read More →Reduced number of locations for polling stations in Kosovo due to security concerns (TV Most)
Republic Electoral Commission (REC) of Serbia has decided to reduce the number of locations for the polling stations in Kosovo and Metohija from 25 to 21, due to security concerns. The chairperson of REC Dejan Đurđević said that security situation in Kosovo is such that the risk for voters is high at polling stations, thus […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 21 April
• EU: Pristina-Belgrade talks on ID cards to continue (dailies)
• Tahiri: Djuric apologized (Zeri)
• Opposition calls for annulment of agreement on illegal documents (Koha)
• Haradinaj: Coalition with NISMA will strengthen the opposition (Epoka e Re)
• Grabovci: Parliamentary elections, in 2018 (Zeri)
• No visa liberalization for Kosovo yet (Koha)
• Mustafa: We expect recommendation for visa liberalization (RTK)
• Collaku: Kosovo fulfilled all remaining criteria for visa liberalization (Zeri)
• Government approves draft law against terror funding (Bota Sot)
• The return of Serbs, a sign of normality (Koha)
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