Belgrade Media Report 15 November
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Djuric: Telekom precedent to be used in discussions on energy (Tanjug/Beta)
• Ljajic: If Pristina violates the agreement, we will withdraw consent for dialing code (RTV)
• Stefanovic: Highways, border crossings will not be blocked (Tanjug)
• Britain to assist Serbia in migrant crisis (Beta)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• SzP terminates cooperation and communication with Dodik (N1/BHT 1)
• Dodik answers SzP: SDS is closer to Izetbegovic than to SNSD (Nezavisne novine)
• Covic: Issue of implementation of “Sejdic-Finci”ruling could be solved by end of January next year (TV1)
• Brammertz: Office of ICTY Prosecutor will continue to monitor and support judicial institutions in B&H that prosecute war crimes (FTV)
• Ambassador Ivantsov: Time of High Representatives is long gone (TV1)
• B&H Parliament unable to form Parliamentary Committee for SAA (Oslobodjenje)
• Stone: FBI launches proceedings against Hillary for receiving money from Serbian government (Vijesti)
• State Election Commission rejects SDPM candidate lists (Telegraf.mk)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Schwendiman: New Kosovo War Court ‘Not Anti-Albanian’ (BIRN)
Read More →Wednesday and Thursday about the implementation of the agreements with Pristina (Tanjug)
The implementation of the agreements reached on the Community/Association of Serb municipalities, the judiciary, telecommunications, freedom of movement and integrated management of administrative crossings, are the topics of this week’s talks between Belgrade and Pristina. Belgrade’s delegation will be led by the Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Đurić in the continuation […]
Read More →Preliminary autopsy report for Astrit Dehari by end of this week (Kallxo)
Syle Hoxha, chief prosecutor at the Basic Prosecution in Prizren, told the news website that the preliminary autopsy report for Vetevendosje activist Astrit Dehari, who was recently found dead in yet-unresolved circumstances in jail, will be available by the end of the week. “We are waiting for the autopsy results and the expertise from the […]
Read More →The Serb convicts were transferred to Podujevo/Podujevë under the international pressure (Politika)
The transfer of the four Serb convicts, who on Saturday by the decision of the Minister of Justice Dhurata Hoxha, from the prison in Mitrovica were transferred to the high security prison near by Podujevo/Podujevë, was made “under pressure from the international community,” says Nusret Hoxha for Politika, a Deputy Minister of Justice in the […]
Read More →Tahiri: Deadline for implementation of reciprocity agreement on license plates, is due today (media)
Edita Tahiri, Kosovo’s Minister without portfolio engaged in the dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade in Brussels, told Radio Free Europe today that due to the administrative delays, Kosovo authorities did not manage to start with the implementation of the agreement for full reciprocity on the license plates between Kosovo and Serbia and remove the so-called […]
Read More →Lekaj resembles an administered and not governed state (lajmi.net)
Head of the Parliamentary Group of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, Pal Lekaj, said that Kosovo has returned to a situation that resembles an administered and not governed state. He added that Kosovo has returned to the time of the provisional self-governing institutions. “Kosovo institutions are behaving as if nothing is in their […]
Read More →Vetevendosje requests special Assembly session for its activist Astrit Dehari (Koha)
Vetevendosje Movement collected signatures from MPs for a special session of the Assembly to discuss the death of its activist, Astrit Dehari, at the Prizren detention facility. However, the request failed as, according to Vetevendosje, one of the MPs was pressured into removing his signature. In sign of protest, Vetevendosje and the other opposition parties, […]
Read More →Vetevendosje: Five activists arrested for seeking justice for Astrit Dehari (Koha)
Vetevendosje Movement through a press release today announced that Kosovo Police has arrested five Vetevendosje activists in Podujeve/Podujevo. The activists were escorted to the police station after writing graffiti seeking justice for Vetevendosje activist Astrit Dehari who died at the Prizren Detention Center on 5 November. According to the press release, the arrest of these […]
Read More →The agreement on telecommunications significant and useful for citizens (RTV Puls)
The two Serbian ministers in the Kosovo government, Dalibor Jevtić and Ljubomir Marić assess that the agreement on the implementation of the agreement on telecommunications is very important and useful for the citizens. “What is essential is that the principled position of the Government of the Republic of Serbia on the property has succeeded and […]
Read More →In BIRN interview, Schwendiman claims special court is not anti-Albanian (media)
In his first interview since appointed chief prosecutor of the new Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor’s Office, David Schwendiman, told BIRN that suspected criminals are the target of his work, not the Kosovo Liberation Army. “I am not after organisations, I am not after ethnicities, I am looking at individual responsibility for what was done,” David Schwendiman […]
Read More →Djuric: Telekom precedent to be used in discussions on energy (Tanjug)
The precedent of Telekom Srbija and protecting the company’s property in Kosovo-Metohija can be used as an argument in the discussions on the energy sector and Lake Gazivode, the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija, Marko Djuric, said on Monday. “Those discussions will definitely not be easy,” Djuric said at a press conference […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 14 November
• OSCE Mission supports policies for inclusion of vulnerable communities in Kosovo (Insajderi.com)
• Ruling and opposition parties divided over the agreement on dial code (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Kosovo legalizes the Serb operator in exchange of the dial code (KTV)
• Kosovo awaits Montenegro’s assistance on visa liberalization (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Thaçi calls upon prosecutorial institutions to cooperate with Anti-Corruption (TV21)
• PDK MP Deliu –Kodra refuses the post of European Integration Minister (KTV)
• Serb prisoners continue their hunger strike (Klan Kosova)
• Protestors demand justice for Astrit Dehari (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Former UP rector, Ibrahim Gashi joins PDK (Most monitored broadcasters, RTK1)
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