Belgrade Media Report 13 September
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Pristina expects international dialing code as of 1 October (Politika)
• Serbs do not want a double team (Novosti)
• Beyani urges greater security for Kosovo and Metohija returnees (Tanjug)
• Kozarev presents Sunny Valley concept to UN official (Tanjug)
• Dacic: Now they see who they wanted in UNESCO (RTS)
• Maric: ZSO Statute priority (RTS)
• Djordjevic meets Head of UN Office in Belgrade (Radio Belgrade/Tanjug)
• Morocco’s position on Kosovo to remain unchanged (RTS/Tanjug)
• Asylum seekers coming from Serbia have zero chance in EU (Tanjug/B92)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Inzko: We did not react, referendum in RS can be resolved within B&H (Dnevni avaz)
• Moore: Referendum is redundant because the outcome is already known (Glas Srpske)
• Scott: Referendum would destabilize region (Dnevni avaz)
• Doboj-Prnjavor motorway section opened (RTRS)
• Croatia elections 2016: State Electoral Commission releases complete results (Hina)
• President congratulates HDZ and all elected MPs, says Croatia has no time to waste (Hina)
• Plenkovic: HDZ to begin talks with other parties on Tuesday (Hina)
• Milanovic announces withdrawal as SDP chief (Hina)
• Bradshaw: It depends on Montenegro whether NATO will build bases in its territory (RTCG)
• Dimitriev discusses elections, integrations with EU Ambassador Zbogar (MIA)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Roth: Western Balkans countries need to come to terms with their past (European Western Balkans)
• HDZ leader promises stable government for Croatia, but can he deliver? (bne IntelliNews)
• Tensions Grow Over Bulgaria’s UN Candidate (BIRN)
Hoxhaj convinced that Kosovo people will travel soon without visas (Koha)
After meeting the most senior authorities at the EU in Brussels, Kosovo’s Foreign Minister Enver Hoxhaj is visiting today Strasbourg where he met with Euro-deputies of different political parties and powerful parliamentary groups of the European Parliament. Within the margins of Autumn works of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Hoxhaj met separately the S&D shadow […]
Read More →Russian defence minister: U.S. were wrong to intervene in Kosovo (Telegrafi/Sputnik)
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told Sputnik News that the “United States of America and their Western partners are constantly threatening the existing world order”. “Their interventions began with Bosnia and Kosovo and then continued with Iraq and Libya,” Shoigu said. “Ever since the U.S. – NATO operation broke up Yugoslavia, Russia has constantly warned […]
Read More →Mustafa: Kosovo determined to meet final criteria for visa liberalisation (media)
Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, said today that Kosovo is determined to meet the final criteria for visa liberalisation – the border demarcation with Montenegro. After meeting the newly-appointed head of the EU Office in Kosovo, Nataliya Apostolova, Mustafa said that Brussels should pressure Serbia into implementing the agreements reached in the EU-brokered dialogue […]
Read More →Limited operation of Serbian mobile operator in Kosovo from October (Kontakt plus radio,RTK2)
Serbian mobile operator in October will be licensed in Kosovo, but only with limited operations, said on Saturday President of the Board of Directors of the Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Postal communications, Kreshnik Gashi. According to the announcement of Gashi, Kosovo will get, in early October, dialling code +383 while at the same […]
Read More →Hoti: No money for pensions of KLA veterans (RTK)
Kosovo’s Minister of Finance, Avdullah Hoti, said today that his ministry has not managed to secure sufficient funds to provide pensions for the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) veterans. He said the number of veterans is increasing and the total amount of money dedicated for their pensions is not being approved by the International Monetary Fund […]
Read More →Poll finds Government the most corrupt institution in Kosovo (Koha)
In a recent poll carried out by the Kosovo-based research group, Riinvest, the government of Kosovo was identified as the most corrupt institution while the Kosovo Security Force (KSF) as the least corrupt. According to the poll, around 48 percent of the citizens in Kosovo have been involved in corruption by bribing officials in exchange […]
Read More →Simić: Prevent escalation of violence and hatred against Serbs (KIM radio)
President of the Serbian List Slavko Simić strongly condemns the attack on Stevan Radić in Orahovac/Rahovec and calls on the authorities to find and punish an attacker. “We invite all relevant institutions to urgently respond and identify and punish the perpetrators of this shameful misdeed that aims at intimidating the remaining Serbs in Orahovac and […]
Read More →A Serb attacked in Rahovec/Orahovac (KIM radio)
Seventy two year old Stevan Radić was attacked yesterday in his vineyard in Rahovec/Orahovac. The case was reported to the Kosovo Police. Radić was attacked after he sent away two Albanian boys from his farm, who had previously stolen nuts. After that, an unknown person approached him from behind and dealt a blow to the […]
Read More →UN official learns about planned Kosovo settlement for IDPs (B92)
The concept of the Sunny Valley returnee settlement in Kosovo has been presented a UN special rapporteur. Chaloka Beyani, in charge of human rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs) learned about the project from Dusan Kozarev, deputy director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo. Kozarev also told his about “the obstacles to a greater […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 12 September
• Hoxhaj urges EU to put pressure on Serbia for implementation of agreements (Most monitored broadcasters, TV21)
• EU to consider visa removal for Kosovo in October (RTK1, Klan Kosova)
• Technical level meetings between Kosovo and Serbia continue this week (Most monitored broadcasters, TV21)
• Law on State Protocol violated by several municipalities (KTV)
Headlines 13 September
Headlines – 13.09.2016 Dačić: No conditions for return of Serbs to Kosovo (Koha Ditore) Mogherini: Kosovo, Serbia to implement agreements (Zëri) “Visa liberalisation after Kosovo fulfils all criteria” (Zëri) Border demarcation: Mustafa doesn’t want consensus but convincing (Koha) EU to reconsider lifting of visas for Kosovo in October (Klan Kosova) Tahiri insists agreement on license […]
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