Belgrade Media Report 12 October
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• UN representative informed about Pristina’s illegal act (Tanjug/RTS)
• Nikolic: Belgrade-Pristina relations at lowest level (Tanjug/Beta/B92/RTS)
• Letters to UNSC and EU member states (Novosti)
• Office for Kosovo and Metohija: Pristina wants to also seize the property of the church (Novosti)
• Committee for Kosovo and Metohija session to be open for public on 17 October (RTS)
• Reactions to government decision (RTS/B92)
• Brussels postpones EC report, no new chapters (Danas)
• Court confirms ruling against NGO in favor of Dikovic (RTS)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• CEC publishes preliminary and incomplete results of local elections in Srebrenica: Grujicic has 2,000 votes more than Durakovic (N1)
• Covic: State institutions have to establish all facts related to Stolac (TV1)
• Ivanic: B&H Council of Ministers not to be reshuffled (N1)
• RS Assembly adopts report on results of referendum on RS Day (BHT1)
• B&H Constitutional Court requested to assess constitutionality of 1 March (Srna)
• Nearly 200,000 registered that should not have been registered (Srna)
• DF claims to have evidence that DPS is to commit electoral fraud (CDM)
• New elections – old tradition: Residents of Tuzi provoking DPS with Albanian flags? (CDM)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• OSCE PA vice-president to monitor election in Montenegro (Trend)
• Montenegro election becomes referendum on Russia vs Nato (bne IntelliNews)
• Montenegro’s Risky Assession into NATO (The National Interest)
Opposition demands urgent session of the committee for Kosovo (B92)
MPs of opposition parties urged the President of the parliamentary Committee for Kosovo and Metohija Milovan Drecun to convene a session as soon as possible. They are also requesting the Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Đurić to be present. Drecun said earlier that he expected that the session would be held […]
Read More →The Serbian List: We did not receive an invitation from the government (KIM radio)
Media in Pristina today are reporting on a statement of advisor of Prime Minister of Kosovo Bajram Gecaj, who claims that government has invited to talks the parliamentary group of the Serbian List. From the Serbian List, deny that they received an invitation. A few days after the Serbian List decided to boycott the institutions, […]
Read More →Ymeri requests from Rama not to go to Begrade (media)
The leader of the Vetëvendosje movement, Visar Ymeri, has requested through a status on his Facebook profile from the Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama, not to go to Belgrade where the future of the Albanian-Serbian relations will be discussed. “The PM of Albania, Edi Rama, is expected to participate tomorrow at a panel with […]
Read More →Kosovo Assembly approves resolution on Thaci’s release (media)
Kosovo Assembly today approved a six-point Resolution through which it called for the immediate release of the Kosovo Police regional director, Nehat Thaci, who was arrested several days ago by Serbian authorities. The Resolution also stresses that any communication of the Kosovo government for the arrest of Mr. Thaci should be made through the Office […]
Read More →Government of Kosovo invites Serbian List to dialogue (Indeksonline)
Days after the Serbian List announced it was suspending its participation in Kosovo institutions, the government of Kosovo has decided to invite the party to join the discussion table and express their concerns. Advisor to PM Isa Mustafa, Bajram Gecaj, told the news website that the government has sent invitation to the Serbian List to […]
Read More →Kosovo-Serbia Agreements Were Doomed From the Start (BalkanInsight)
It is no surprise that none of the four agreements signed last year have got anywhere when both governments have been insincere about the normalisation process from the beginning. From the start, the Brussels negotiation process met with serious criticism from civil society and public. The lack of transparency in the process and the exclusion […]
Read More →“Enforcement of the law on strategic investments our municipalities will not allow” (Kontakt plus radio)
The law on strategic investments will not be enforceable in the territory of the municipalities in northern Kosovo; it was concluded yesterday at a meeting of mayors from northern Kosovo. ”At the moment when the whole region aspires to European values, the adoption of such a law which centralize decision-making, and thereby completely excludes the […]
Read More →The Serbian List: Pristina passed harmful law (Blic)
The head of the parliamentary group of the Serbian List Slavko Simić points that the Kosovo Assembly adopted another law, that is detrimental to the interests of the Serbian nation and Serbian property in Kosovo. Simić told Tanjug that a law on strategic investments was adopted, which, he explained, fully enables the Kosovo Government to […]
Read More →“Kosovo-Macedonia relations may suffer due to mistreatment of Kumanovo inmates” (media)
Kosovo’s Foreign Minister, Enver Hoxhaj, said in an interview for TV Art that Kosovo has good relations with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia but that communication between the two countries may suffer as a result of the mistreatment of Albanians arrested in the Kumanovo case. “The Kumanovo incident has been overcome but what often […]
Read More →Blakaj: Lists of missing persons exist (Kallxo)
Organisations that monitor war crimes cases and the families of missing persons in Kosovo said they were surprised by a recent statement by Kosovo’s Minister for Dialogue, Edita Tahiri. The latter told members of a parliamentary committee on Monday that the issue of missing persons is not being discussed in Brussels because the European Union […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 11 October
• Assembly postpones voting of Resolution on Nehat Thaçi (KTV)
• Law on Strategic Investments passed (KTV)
• Srpska List to send Law on Strategic Investments to Constitutional Court (Klan Kosova)
• Zogaj: Law on Trepça will not be applicable (Klan Kosova – Zona B show)
• RTK considers Vetëvendosje’s video slanderous (KTV, RTK1)
• Special Prosecution investigates attack against RTK (RTK)
• Investigation against Hashim Thaçi requested (KTV)
• No prosecutors to shed light on crimes requested by President Thaçi (KTV)
• Berisha: Serb MPs an obstacle to Kosovo Army establishment (KTV – Rubikon show)
• Lists of missing persons have existed (KTV)
• CRDP urges greater commitment regarding radicalism and violent extremism (RTK1)
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