Belgrade Media Report 1 July 2016
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Minister sees “political slowdown” in EU integration (RTS, Tanjug)
• Ambassadors call for opening of Chapters 23, 24 with Serbia as soon as possible (Beta)
• Vucic: I will not allow anyone to step over Serbia (Alo)
• Djuric: Serbia wants reconciliation (Beta)
• DS Asks Vucic to propose new Cabinet as soon as possible (VIP)
• Zivkovic: Vucic is like a sultan (FoNet)
• Djilas scraps DS membership (Danas)
• Kosovo gets asterisk, and footnote, on UN websites (FoNet)
• Croatia removes fence from border crossing with Serbia (Tanjug)
• Serbia now presides over Black Sea Economic Cooperation PA (B92, Tanjug)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Reactions of Federation of B&H officials to published census results (Hayat, N1)
• Dodik: Another proof that bih is an illusory country (Srna)
• Cubrilovic: We won’t recognize the results, they are not credible (Srna)
• Wigemark: It is problem if RS does not recognize census results (Dnevni avaz)
• Croatian-Slovenian border dispute: Croatia says arbitration tribunal’s decision not binding (Hina)
• Big HDZ-SDP coalition neither possible nor necessary, says Plenkovic (Hina)
• Djukanovic: You cannot win for 25 years using tricks (RTCG)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Kosovo vows to halt Serb refugee settlement (BIRN)
• B&H has lost a fifth of its pre-war population, census shows (France-Presse)
Serbs from Drsnik think to sell the property and leave (RTK2)
After returning to village Drsnik, the residents were faced with many problems, looting and burning of property. Those facts forced people from Drsnik to think about selling the property. Returnees Darinka and Miomir Ribać came back to the village in 2005. “People leave. They sold the property, even started to sell the houses in the […]
Read More →Trials Resume as EULEX Restarts Work in Kosovo (Balkan Insight)
The EU’s rule-of-law mission in Kosovo, EULEX, has become officially operative again after the law extending its mandate was published in Kosovo’s official gazette – allowing high-profile trials to resume. The EU’s rule-of-law mission in Kosovo, EULEX, was officially operational again as of Wednesday night, when two laws extending its mandate were published in the […]
Read More →Kosovo Vows to Halt Serb Refugee Settlement (Balkan Insight)
The Serbian government-funded construction of a housing settlement for Serb refugees in northern Kosovo has angered Kosovo officials, who claim it is an attempt to extend Belgrade’s political influence. The recent start of construction on Sunny Valley, the first big returnee settlement that the Serbian government plans to build in the northern Kosovo town of […]
Read More →Vetevendosje: To Mustafa, territory of Kosovo is not important (Lajmi.net)
After Isa Mustafa’s statement on his Facebook page that Vetevendosje could cause incidents with a NATO country, Montenegro, and that Kosovo is losing its chance to travel without visas, Vetevendosje spokesperson, Frashër Krasniqi said that the danger for further tensioning of the relations between Kosovo and Montenegro comes due to the loss of 8000 hectares […]
Read More →Mustafa: “Vetevendosje could cause incidents with a NATO country, Montenegro (Koha.net)
The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, wrote on his Facebook page about demarcation, noting that the process is in order and that this obligation should be fulfilled, because it endangers liberalization of visas. He said that no one appeared to claim that his or her land was lost. Mustafa also mentioned Vetevendosje’s action of […]
Read More →Kosovo Serb attacked in Gnjilane (TV Most)
Last night a group of three young Kosovo Albanians attacked in Gnjilane/Gilan down town a twenty year old Kosovo Serb Nikola Aksić from the village Pasjane in Gnjilane/Gilan Municipality. Aksić was attacked because he was wearing a t-shirt of the Red Star (Belgrade) football club with the logo “Naša linija života” (Our Way of Life), […]
Read More →Kostić and Tanin about problems in the municipality and future cooperation (KiM radio)
Mayor of Gračanica /Graçanica Vladeta Kostić met with the head of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo Zahir Tanin and his team. UNMIK chief showed interest in the current situation in the municipality of Gračanica/ Graçanica, and one of the topics that were discussed was the future cooperation of municipality with the Interim Administration […]
Read More →UN mechanisms contest statehood by using Kosovo* (Koha Ditore)
United Nations agencies, funds and programmes are using a new communications strategy to the detriment of Kosovo. They are proclaiming the non-recognition of [Kosovo’s] statehood everywhere. This is being done by including an asterisk to the names of UN offices and mechanisms in Kosovo. They are also adding the footnote which is not unique in […]
Read More →Another blow to the government from the U.S. Department of State (Kosova Sot)
The paper’s front-page editorial notes that the government of the Republic of Kosovo received another blow on Thursday, this time from the U.S. Department of State’s report on human trafficking. According to the report, the Kosovo government fails to entirely meet the minimal standards for eliminating human trafficking and that corruption in the government creates […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 30 June
• Kosovo responds to Montenegro for the note of protest (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• U.S requests from Kosovo to combat human trafficking (KTV)
• Jablanovic concerned with the potential opening of Ibër Bridge (RTK2)
• IMC presents Regulation on distribution of media service providers (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Women’s representation in government still low (Most monitored broadcasters, Klan Kosova& RTK1)
UNMIK Headlines 1 July
• “Visa liberalisation, this year” (Zëri)
• Nuland coming to Kosovo to discuss border demarcation on 10 July (Epoka)
• Kosovo says Montenegro’s reaction was hasty (Koha)
• Hoxhaj: Two countries on the verge of recognizing Kosovo (Epoka)
• UN mechanisms contest statehood by using Kosovo* (Koha)
• Laws on EULEX’s mandate in power (Epoka)
• Kosovo steps up security measures (Epoka)
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