Belgrade Media Report 23 May 2016
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Nikolic entrusts mandate to Vucic to form new government (RTS/Tanjug)
• Police, military cooperation in Ground Safety Zone (Beta/Tanjug)
• Stojanovic: Serbs negative about new Kosovo army (Beta)
• Court decides Visoki Decani monastery has ownership rights to land (Tanjug)
• Six deputies from Kosovo to be in parliament (Novosti)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Jukic’s decision is forgery and attack on RS’s interests (Srna)
• Dodik: I do not interfere with operations of RTRS (Srna)
• Meeting of HDZ B&H, SDA and SBB held without representative of DF and SDP (Fena/Srna)
• Radivojevic’s candidacy – old trick of Sarajevo’s kitchen (Srna)
• For how many parties the citizens will be able to vote in local elections? (Radio Sarajevo)
• Government of Federation of B&H continues with the promotion of the Reform Agenda (Fena)
• Izetbegovic meets with the Undersecretary of UN Helen Clark (Klix)
• Egyptian national indicted for war crimes against B&H Croats (Hina)
• Ban Ki-moon: Montenegro to be proud of its position in the UN (CDM)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• How Kosovo Was Turned Into Fertile Ground for ISIS (The New York Times)
Read More →Tanja Fajon nominated rapporteur for visas for Kosovo (RTKlive)
Tanja Fajon, who was also Rapporteur for visa liberalization for Western Balkans, was nominated Rapporteur for visa liberalization for Kosovo. She will be preparing the report which will be initially discussed and voted at the Parliamentary Commission then at the plenary session of the European Parliament. Even though Kosovo has a strong support of the […]
Read More →Thaçi: I was not in Montenegro regarding demarcation (Klan Kosova)
The President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi, stated that Kosovo does not have an open issue with Montenegro, when demarcation is concerned. He also informed that he was in Podgorica for Montenegro’s tenth anniversary of independence and not for demarcation agreement. He also informed that there is no intention to send demarcation issue at the Court […]
Read More →Serbian List requests repetition of the election of the director of RTK2 (Kontakt Plus Radio)
One of the candidates for the post of the director of Radio Television Kosovo 2 (RTK2), which broadcasts in Serbian language, Darko Dimitrijević has sent an open letter to the RTK managing board, where he highlighted a range of irregularities in the process of election of the director of RTK2 and requested annulment of the […]
Read More →The long awaited Association / Community of Serb Municipalities (Politika)
According to the Brussels agreement, Pristina was obliged to approve the Statute of the Association / Community of Serb Municipalities (A/CSM) until 25 December last year. However, so far, was not written even single letter of the Statute. From the last meeting between Vučić and Mustafa held in January, Serbs from Kosovo are not closer to […]
Read More →Attacks on Serbia’s sovereignty (Vecernje Novosti)
Serbian People’s Party (SNP) has sand a message on Sunday that Serbia has to resist to all pressures against its sovereignty, including attempts to change the Constitution and dropping of the preamble on Kosovo. The SNP said that Constitution of Serbia is not a toy to be used on a daily basis by domestic and […]
Read More →EULEX stays in Kosovo (Politika)
Regardless of the fact that the agreement between Pristina authorities and the European Union on the extension of EULEX mission was not reached, the mandate of the mission, which will expire on 14 June, will be extended. “The practice from the previous years was that mandate of the mission is extended by the President’s letter. […]
Read More →Cattle stolen in the village of Crkolez, municipality of Istok/Istog (KIM radio)
Unknown persons stole eight cows, property of Belošević family, in a village of Crkolez in the municipality of Istok/Istog, said president of interim authority of this municipality Mališa Djuric. Six members of Belošević family live from the sale of milk and dairy products, reports Srna. Djuric said that the thieves destroyed the outer wall of the […]
Read More →Stojanović: The negotiation process will define Statute of the A/CSM (Večernje Novosti, RTK2)
Branimir Stojanović, Deputy Prime Minister, said that the negotiating process would define Statute of the Association/Community of Serb municipalities in detail, and therefore the jurisdiction of the A/CSM. All that we can hear now in connection to the A/CSM are only wishes and ideas of some sides, Stojanović said. “Attitudes of Belgrade and Pristina are […]
Read More →What are the challenges of the Serbian List MPs? (RTK2)
In June, will be two years since the last parliamentary elections in Kosovo, where Serbs voted for the Serbian list which represents them in the Kosovo Assembly. During this period the Serbian MPS have been faced with many challenges, but these days, the Law on the Army of Kosovo is one of the current challenges, […]
Read More →Serbs do not to vote for “armed forces” (Večernje Novosti)
“The process of forming the Kosovo’s Armed Forces could happen only in case the Constitution of Kosovo will be changed. Serbs should not and would not support such a decision, since that would be a one-way trip for our nation and state. By voting for “Army of Kosovo” we would spit on the graves of […]
Read More →How Kosovo Was Turned Into Fertile Ground for ISIS (NYT)
Every Friday, just yards from a statue of Bill Clinton with arm aloft in a cheery wave, hundreds of young bearded men make a show of kneeling to pray on the sidewalk outside an improvised mosque in a former furniture store. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/22/world/europe/how-the-saudis-turned-kosovo-into-fertile-ground-for-isis.html
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