Belgrade Media Report 12 July 2016
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Amendola announces new Italian investments (Tanjug/RTS)
• Italy launches preparations for EU-Western Balkan conference (Tanjug)
• Nuland: Serbia a partner, we are not asking it to choose (Tanjug/Politika)
• Vucic: Serbia investing great deal in stability (RTS)
• Stefanovic, Keefe discuss police cooperation, migration (Tanjug)
• Two Guantanamo detainees to be transferred to Serbia (Tanjug)
• DSS: Transfer of prisoners from Guatanamo to Serbia humiliating, immoral and dangerous decision of Vucic’s regime (Tanjug/Blic)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Izetbegovic: Denying of genocide crossed the line (Dnevni avaz)
• Dodik: Jovanovic uses Srebrenica for self-promotion (RTRS)
• Cvijanovic: There should be no problems related to holding of special session of RS Assembly on census (EuroBlic)
• RS Assembly to hold special session on census results publishing on Wednesday (Nezavisne)
• RS will settle all its liabilities (Srna)
• FM, veterans minister talks to veterans about Serbia’s EU entry negotiations (Hina)
• Vujanovic called elections in Montenegro for 16 October (CDM)
• Meta to pro-Serbian opposition: We will have a relationship with Serbia just like with Montenegro (CDM)
• Macedonian leaders to meet in effort to resolve political crisis (Independent.mk)
• Jolevski-Carpenter: Macedonia strongly committed to EuroAtlantic integration (Independent.mk)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• US transfers two Guantánamo Bay inmates to Serbia (Reuters)
• New Migrant Crisis in the Making in the Balkans (AP)
Kadaj-Bujupi: Demarcation deal in the Assembly this week (Kallxo)
Vetëvendosje MP Donika Kadaj-Bujupi said today in Pristina that the demarcation deal with Montenegro will be submitted to the Kosovo Assembly this week. “We are receiving official information that it will be submitted for ratification this week,” Kadaj-Bujupi told reporters in Pristina today. She added that the Vetëvendosje Movement will use all means to stop the […]
Read More →Hoxhaj: We will leave no stone unturned to boost Kosovo sovereignty (Telegrafi)
Kosovo’s Foreign Minister, Enver Hoxhaj, said in a meeting with the British Ambassador, Ruairí O’Connell that he will make outmost efforts to secure more recognitions for Kosovo to enable it to gain membership in international organisations. “We will leave no stone unturned to boost sovereignty of Kosovo to exercise it”, Hoxhaj is quoted to have said. […]
Read More →The delayed departure (Kosova Sot)
The paper’s front-page editorial today criticizes the newly appointed Justice Minister Dhurata Hoxha for her statements that she will follow the path of previous Justice Minister Hajredin Kuci. “During the years while the justice sector was led by Minister Kuci, the crisis only has deepened in the rule of law. Minister Kuci’s biggest failure was […]
Read More →Verification of sexual violence victims, hostage of government commission (Koha Ditore)
Kosovo government’s commission for verification of victims of sexual violence during the war has not yet been established, while the verification of the victims cannot be done without this commission, the paper reports. Sokol Havolli, advisor to Prime Minister Isa Mustafa, told the paper that it is very important to receive the applications initially. According […]
Read More →Lekaj to MPs: Demarcation deal will be a crime (media)
Most news websites cover Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) MP Pal Lekaj’s call to other MPs not to ratify the current version of the border demarcation deal with Montenegro. “If you think by ratifying an agreement that is damaging for the country will help you stay in power for longer, perhaps in the […]
Read More →KDI: Demarcation uncertainties to be clarified before deal is sent to Assembly (Koha)
The Pristina-based Kosovo Democratic Institute (KDI) issued a media communique today saying that uncertainties surrounding the border demarcation between Kosovo and Montenegro should be clarified, before the Kosovo government sends the demarcation deal for ratification to the Assembly. The communique notes: “Nearly one year after the signing of the agreement on the border between Kosovo […]
Read More →The debate on relations between Belgrade and Pristina: Chapter 35 is “the condition of all the conditions” (Blic)
The process of normalization of relations between Serbs and Kosovo Albanians, which is the essence of Chapter 35 in the process of Serbia’s accession to the European Union, is “in the haze”, because representatives of civil society are excluded from the dialogue, was concluded after the debate organized by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the […]
Read More →Mystery Surrounds Serbian Terrorist Vet Case in Kosovo (Balkan Insight)
One of the highest-profile trials of recent years in Kosovo has ended on June 29 in a 13-year jail term for Slobodan Gavric, a Serbian veterinarian found guilty of planning a terrorist act in Kosovo. The process, which started with Gavric’s arrest on December 25, 2014, in Pristina’s Arberia neighbourhood, has left several unanswered questions, […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 11 July
• PIK marked the tenth anniversary of its establishment (Most monitored broadcasters, RTV21)
• Government to submit demarcation deal to Assembly this week (RTK1)
• Government of Kosovo to take Nuland’s messages on demarcation seriously (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Stojanovic: Authorities to probe alleged mass grave around Orthodox Church (Klan Kosova)
• Simic: Serbs should not negotiate establishment of KAF (RTK2)
• Opposition MPs consider RTK as a television of the ruling parties (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
UNMIK Headlines 12 July
• Opposition doesn’t change its mind on demarcation (media)
• Abdullahu: Kosovo Assembly to ratify demarcation agreement (Zëri)
• “Demarcation with Montenegro, bad precedent for that with Serbia” (Koha)
• AAK and NISMA to return to Assembly (Klan Kosova)
• Lajçi: Demarcation requires national consensus (Epoka e Re)
• Veseli era starts in Prizren, he will dismiss all municipal directors (RTK)
• Russell: Government to address citizens’ real problems (Zëri)
• Albin Kurti attends Srebrenica massacre commemoration (media)
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