Belgrade Media Report 14 July 2016
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Dacic: We do not measure contribution to EU foreign policy in percentages (Tanjug/RTS)
• Dacic: Not everybody in the EU are our friends (RTS)
• McAllister: Normalization doesn’t imply official recognition (Tanjug/RTS)
• Time to also examine responsibility for 1999 NATO bombing (B92)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• RS Assembly adopts law on publication of census results (Srna)
• Fatic: Competent institutions should react to adoption of law on publication of census results in RS (Vijesti.ba)
• Wigemark: There is only one population census in B&H (Fena)
• Izetbegovic: SAA adaptation, arrangement with IMF, coordination mechanism can be resolved in upcoming days (TV1)
• Covic receives ambassadors, discuss several important issues, focus on elections in Mostar (Dnevni list)
• Dodik: Referendum planned for 25 September (Srna)
• Carpenter: B&H precious partner of coalition to counter IS (Srna)
• Vujanovic, Nikolic: House of Montenegro to strengthen our friendship (CDM)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Kosovo Probes Suspected Mass Grave at University (BIRN)
• United Nations Assailed in Report by Kosovo Rights Panel (The New York Times)
• Protests persist over Belgrade Waterfront demolitions (bne intellinews)
Mustafa to Krasnqi: You either mixed up borderlines then or you are mixing them now (Koha)
The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, replied on his Facebook page to the accusations of the former Assembly President, Jakup Krasniqi, presented today in an opinion piece published in the media, regarding the Agreement on demarcation of the border with Montenegro. He wonders if Mr. Jakup Krasniqi, as the President of the Assembly of […]
Read More →AAK: Demarcation as condition for the army, a deceit (Koha)
The Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), has reacted through a press release to the statement of the Prime Minister of Kosovo Isa Mustafa, who claimed that establishment of the Kosovo Armed Force (KAF), is conditioned with the ratification of the Agreement for demarcation of the border with Montenegro. The press release requests from […]
Read More →Tomić: Verification of diplomas is priority (KiM radio)
Ivan Tomić, Director of the Office of Community Affairs evaluated verification of diplomas as “number one in the priority of his duties, so that more young people would stay to live and work in these areas.” “All the young people who want to stay here will not be able to apply for the jobs in […]
Read More →Serbia told not to block Kosovo, adopt EU’s Russia position (Dailies)
European Parliament Rapporteur for Serbia David McAllister has said that the EU should become “more visible and vocal in the Western Balkans.” McAllister is seeThe German MEP from the CDU party, who is currently visiting Belgrade where he late on Wednesday met with PM-designate Aleksandar Vucic, further stressed that the task of Serbia was to […]
Read More →Politicians to address citizens’ problems (Kosova Sot)
The paper’s front-page editorial today criticizes politicians in power who usually address only “big” problems such as border-demarcation and Association/Community of Serb-majority municipalities while no one is dealing with citizens’ real problems. “Without denying the great importance of having territorial integrity and sovereignty in Kosovo, our politicians are to be blamed for bypassing numerous of […]
Read More →No human remains found near the Orthodox Church in Pristina university campus (Koha)
Forensic teams carrying out investigations into a possible mass grave site near the building of the Orthodox Church inside the Pristina university campus found no human remains on the site, announced the chairman of the Kosovo government commission for missing persons, Prenk Gjetaj. He said however that the forensic teams have now shifted the excavations […]
Read More →Musmurati: PDK is in favor of ratifying demarcation deal (Telegrafi)
Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) Secretary, Basri Musmurati, has denied reports in some media according to which the PDK is reserved on the border-demarcation deal between Kosovo and Montenegro. Musmurati told the news website that the PDK maintains the same position on the matter. “We have not discussed this issue. But it needs to go […]
Read More →“UNMIK’s total failure” (Klan Kosova)
The news website reports that the United Nations received a rebuke from a human rights panel attached to its peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, which described the panel’s efforts to make the mission accountable for rights violations as “a total failure”. The 49-page report by the Human Rights Advisory Panel, part of the United Nations Interim […]
Read More →Digging in Kosovo on Suspicions of a War-Time Mass Grave (AP/NYT)
Kosovo authorities have started digging in the capital, Pristina, for the graves of people missing since the 1999 war. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/07/13/world/europe/ap-eu-kosovo-mass-grave.html
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 13 July
• Government published Demarcation Commission’s report (KTV)
• Mustafa: Arguments for loss of land must be expressed at the Assembly (RTK1)
• VV not part of meetings between ruling and opposition parties on demarcation (KTV)
• Excavations began at University of Prishtina campus (Klan Kosova)
• Croatian Ambassador visited Radio and Television of Kosovo (RTK1)
UNMIK Headlines 14 July
• Mustafa: Demarcation, condition for establishment of armed forces (RTK)
• Hoxhaj: Border demarcation process is fine (Koha)
• Haradinaj: Association/Community to be revised by autumn (RFE/RTK)
• Initiative for roundtable of political leaders to discuss demarcation (Koha)
• Vetëvendosje calls on PM Mustafa to report to Assembly (Zëri)
• Germany does not give in toward Serbia on Kosovo (Epoka)
• Odalović does not deny the possibility of a mass grave in Pristina (Telegrafi)
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