Belgrade Media Report 29 June 2016
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Kosovo: Serbs attacked with Molotov cocktail, stones (RTS)
• Stojanovic: waiting for Pristina to unblock formation of community of Serb municipalities (RTS)
• “Pristina’s new liaison in Belgrade is former KLA member” (Beta)
• President talks about Croatia’s blockade, Brexit, Srebrenica (Beta)
• Vucic confirms new Government won’t be formed before 3 July (VIP)
• Croatia adds new preconditions to Serbia for opening Chapters 23, 24 (Vecernje Novosti)
• Two parliamentary groups in Serbia file Srebrenica genocide resolution (Tanjug)
• Putin wants Serbia to call referendum on accession to EU, NATO (Blic)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Covic: Deadlock in passing decisions that would bring positive response to EU membership application (Hayat)
• People to decide on joining NATO only by referendum (Srna)
• Covic: It would be completely irresponsible not to hold the elections in Mostar (TV1)
• Members of the B&H Presidency to pay official visit to Germany and meet with Angela Merkel (TV1)
• Plenkovic says HDZ must prepare for parliamentary polls in time (Hina)
• Brexit is message that EU needs change, Croatian PM says (Hina)
• New party representing Serb minority holds inaugural session (Hina)
• MIA removed the table with Kosovo’s sigil and flag of Albania from Montenegro’s territory (CDM)
• White House has started a process of ratifying Montenegro’s Protocol for NATO (CDM)
• Macedonia: No progress marked in Work Group negotiations on Media, Electoral Roll (Telegraf.mk)
• US, EU officials Nuland and Haindl to arrange Election date with political leaders in July (Telegraf.mk)
• VMRO-DPMNE leader to hold talks with top EU Officials in Brussels (MIA)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Delays in forming Govt leave Serbia perplexed (BIRN)
• Political feuds leave Bosnia without UN Candidate (BIRN)
Vulin: “Some Albanians hijack history, because of lack of their own” (Tanjug, B92)
“Some among the Albanian people wish to hijack Serbian history,” Labor, Social and Veteran Affairs Minister Aleksandar Vulin has said, while in northern Kosovo. He added that this was being done “because they feel a lack of their own history”. This was Vulin’s reaction to Alliance for the Future of Kosovo leader Ramush Haradinaj’s initiative […]
Read More →Djurić met today with acting head of EULEX (TV Most)
Director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djurić met today with the Acting Head of EULEX Bernd Tran and congratulated him the appointment. Tran introduced Djurić with the EULEX goals in the new two-year term. Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija said that for the Serbia and the Serbian […]
Read More →Kosovo leaders condemn attack at Istanbul Airport (media)
The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, condemned terrorist attacks at the Istanbul Airport stressing that Kosovo is shocked by the news. He expressed his condolences to the Turkish population and Government. The President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, wrote on his consoling letter that terrorist attacks at the Istanbul Airport are unacceptable and strongly condemned. […]
Read More →Basic Court sentences Slobodan Gavrić with 13 years of prison (Zëri)
The suspect of terrorism, Slobodan Gavrić, who had entered Kosovo with around 13 kilos of explosive, and who according to the prosecution intended to commit a terrorist attack, was found guilty and sentenced by the Basic Court in Pristina with 13 years of prison. Gavric had entered Kosovo in December 2014, and had stayed at […]
Read More →Drecun is again leading the Committee for Kosovo and Metohija (Večernje Novosti)
In the Serbian Assembly were constituted two more Committees: for Kosovo and Metohija and for Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management. Chairman of the Committee for Kosovo and Metohija of the Serbian Assembly is the previous holder of that duty Milovan Drecun, from the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS). For the position of the Deputy Chairman was […]
Read More →President Thaçi seeks to deepen cooperation with the Latin American Parliament (Telegrafi)
The President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi, met on Monday in Panama the Secretary General of the Latin American Parliament, based in Panama, Elias Castillo. President Thaçi expressed his interest in establishing a Friendship Group in the Panamanian National Assembly and also the possibility of Kosovo’s membership as an observer in the Latin American Parliament, known […]
Read More →Two decades in search for the missing (Koha Ditore)
Kathryne Bomberger, general director of the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) in an exclusive piece for the paper writes that even with all the work done, around 1665 people still remain missing from the conflict in Kosovo – and this is why the efforts to find them must be a priority. After the conflict, Bomberger writes, […]
Read More →Elected person is a deputy officer (Večernje Novosti)
Pristina media yesterday published inaccurate news that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo appointed former KLA member, Xhelal Shaqiri for the position of liaison officer in Serbia. As we learned, Shaqiri is appointed to the position of assistant liaison officer and the EU promptly notified the government of Serbia and the Office for Kosovo […]
Read More →Commemoration marking 17 years of murder of 17 Serbs (RTK2)
Commemoration marking 17 years since the murder of 17 Kosovo Serbs in the village Dojnice near Prizren took place yesterday in Gračanica/Graçanicë. Dissatisfied families of the victims of unresolved crimes reiterated that there won’t be real reconciliation unless the truth is revealed. “On that tragic 27 June in 1999 there were only elderly people left […]
Read More →OSCE Mission in Kosovo violates the right of Serbs on informing (KiM radio)
The Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) with its branch Association of Journalists of Kosovo and Metohija (DNKiM) sent a protest letter to the OSCE mission, because it didn’t provide translation for the Serbian journalists, during the conference organized in Pristina on prevention of violent extremism and radicalism. UNS and DNKiM point out that this […]
Read More →Vulin: ZSO cannot stay “the dead letter on a paper” (TV Most)
Outgoing Serbian Minister for Labor, Social and Veteran Affairs, Aleksandar Vulin, said last night in the village Sočanica in northern Kosovo that Association/Community of Serb-majority Municipalities (A/CSM) cannot stay “the dead letter on the paper” because it is about the key part of the Brussels Agreement. Vulin further said that without the A/CSM the Brussels […]
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