Belgrade Media Report 04 October
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Nikolic, Agramunt: Serbia closely watching attempts at including “Kosovo” delegation into PACE (RTS)
• Vucic, Agramunt discuss current international issues (Tanjug)
• Dacic: We will be a constructive neighbor to regional countries (RTS)
• Dacic: Serbia is against fences, but will protect its interests (TVB92)
• Dacic, Szijjarto: Two governments to hold joint session on 20-21 November in Nis (Tanjug/Beta/RTS)
• Drecun: Pristina wants to legalize seizure of Serbian property (RTS/Tanjug)
• Djuric: No one will keep me from visiting Kosovo and Metohija (Tanjug)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Preliminary results for local elections show SDA-SBB B&H coalition won largest number of positions of heads of municipalities in FB&H (TV1)
• Preliminary results show SNSD as absolute winner of local elections in RS (RTRS)
• SNSD, SDA win biggest number of votes in Brcko District (RTRS/Oslobodjenje)
• B&H CEC’s preliminary election results indicate that Durakovic could lose position of Head of Srebrenica Municipality (TV1)
• B&H Presidency adopts amendments to Master Plan for Process of EU Integration of B&H (BNTV)
• Dodik fails to appear for interrogation in premises of B&H Prosecutor’s Office in Sarajevo (TV1)
• Counter-intelligence Serbian agent arrested in Montenegro (CDM)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Migrants March toward Hungary Border to Demand Its Opening (AP)
Read More →Prosecution expands wiretapping case investigation (Lajmi)
Kosovo’s Special Prosecution has decided today to expand investigations on the telephone tapping case, which was earlier initiated against Adem Grabovci, MP and head of the parliamentary group of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK). The investigations have expanded against seven other officials: A.P. former chief of the Unit for Supply at the Department of […]
Read More →Haliti: If demarcation is not passed this year, liberalization of visas will be postponed (RTK)
Kosovo Assembly MP from the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) said that Kosovo is not experiencing its best days when liberalization of visas is concerned. Haliti made these comments during the meeting of the parliamentary committee for Stabilization Association where they spoke about the liberalization of visas and preparations for the second Kosovo-EU meeting which […]
Read More →Vučić and Rama within the Security Forum (RTS)
The sixth Belgrade Security Forum will be held from 12 to 14 October, central event of the conference will be a dialogue on the future of the Albanian-Serbian relations and the stability of Southeast Europe and the Prime ministers Aleksandar Vučić and Edi Rama will speak, the organizers announced. The conference, which is organized under […]
Read More →Parliamentary committee condemns KP director’s arrest as unacceptable and arbitrary (media)
Kosovo Assembly’s foreign affairs committee is expected to come out with a joint statement condemning the arrest of the Kosovo Police director for Mitrovica region, Nehat Thaçi, by Serbian authorities. Committee’s chairman, Elmi Reçica, said Thaçi’s arrest was unacceptable while head of the Alliance for Future of Kosovo (AAK) parliamentary group, Pal Lekaj, said the […]
Read More →Ymeri accuses Kosovo government for yielding to Serbia (Indeksonline)
Vetëvendosje leader, Visar Ymeri, said that the arrest of the Kosovo Police director for Mitrovica region, Nehat Thaçi, by Serbian authorities on terrorism charges shows to what degree the government of Kosovo has yielded to Serbia. “Serbia is not only not being conditioned for what it did during the war but it is also damaging […]
Read More →“We will block the crossings until our loved ones are set free and returned” (KIM radio, Kontakt plus, TV Most)
The Association of Families of Kidnapped and Murdered Serbs from 1998 to 2000 in Kosovo announced blocking of the administrative crossings Merdare, Jarinje and Končulj, until “their loved ones are set free and returned.” “Because the international community has recognized the government of Kosovo, led by the leaders of the terrorist KLA, we are obliged […]
Read More →Orthodox chapel turned into public restroom; Bishop: Lack of basic civilization norms (InSerbia)
Recently renovated and cleaned cemetery chapel in Pristina was turned into a public restroom and garbage dump, and several orthodox graves are overgrown with weeds, said the Dioceses of Raska and Prizren. Such a situation exists despite the fact that municipal community service is allegedly in charge of taking care of the cemetery and that […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 3 October
• Assembly decides to discuss Trepça a month before liquidation deadline (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Vetëvendosje criticizes approach toward Trepça (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Thaçi: Kosovo cannot respond to arrests with arrests (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Djuric: No one can stop me from entering Kosovo (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Serbia challenges state of Kosovo in health, too (KTV)
• Draft law for integration of Kosovo north Serbs initiated (Klan Kosova)
• Veseli: Demarcation should have been a done deal (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Number of Kosovars joining ISIS increased (RTK1)
Headlines 4 October
• President Thaci encourages political debate on demarcation (Koha)
• Veseli: Opposition needs to be part of consensus on demarcation (Koha)
• The Bundestag cautions Kosovo (Zeri)
• Government keeps Trepca draft law secret, opposition is sceptical (Koha)
• Kosovo to send official note to Serbia over Thaci’s arrest (media)
• Kosovo’s Foreign Ministry rebuts Đurić (Telegrafi)
• Haxhiu suggests student martyrs monument on University campus (media)
• Italian Ambassador calls for political consensus on Armed Forces (Epoka)
Kosovo Blocks Serbian Official’s Planned Visit (Balkan Insight)
Kosovo on Monday refused to allow Marko Djuric, head of the Serbian government’s Kosovo office, into the country, having ordered him out in September for breaking the protocol on Serbian official visits. http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/djuric-prohibited-from-entering-in-kosovo-10-03-2016
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