Belgrade Media Report 21 November
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Serbia and Hungary committed to mutual cooperation (RTS)
• Nikolic: Dialogue should end if Kosovo becomes member of UNESCO (Politika)
• Agreement on implementation of agreement on telecommunications confirmed (Tanjug)
• Djuric: Telekom signal for all Kosovo Serbs (Politika)
• Vucic: No major breakthrough; Djuric is spreading optimism (Politika)
• Dacic: Telecommunications agreement important for Serbian interests (RTS/Beta)
• Odalovic: I believe in a different U.S. stand on Kosovo’s admission to UNESCO (RTS)
• Kozarev receives Papadopulo (Tanjug)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• RS is getting ready to mark anniversary of signing of Dayton Agreement (Glas Srpske)
• Usurped competences to be brought in line with Dayton Agreement (Srna)
• Foreign Embassies to B&H do not want to comment Inzko’s statement (EuroBlic)
• Inzko says negative trend from RS threaten B&H (Hina)
• Croatian President says she’ll be the first person to welcome Serbia into NATO which she believes will happen (Hina)
• Boskovic candidate for foreign minister? (Dan)
• Russian citizens officially under the investigation (Pobjeda)
• Code for fair and democratic election signed by parties and coalitions (MIA)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Kosovo Stalls on Serbian Municipal Association (BIRN)
• MEP Eduard Kukan: An Update on European Integration of the Western Balkans EUBulletin)
• Starting Gun Fires For Macedonia Election (BIRN)
Minister of Justice expected to dismiss managerial staff of the Prizren Detention Center (Klan Kosova)
The minister of Justice, Dhurata Hoxha is expected to dismiss the managerial staff of the Detention Center in Prizren. Sources of Klan Kosova said that this is expected to happen soon. The decision will be based on the findings of the Inspectorate of the Ministry of Justice who drafted a report on Astrit Dehari’s death […]
Read More →Opposition warns: If demarcation returns, we will stop it again (Lajmi)
The news website reports that according to Kosovo government officials, the agreement on the border demarcation with Montenegro will be sent back to Parliament next month. Prime Minister Isa Mustafa said recently that the opposition and the Serbian List are responsible for blocking the border demarcation with Montenegro and visa liberalisation for Kosovo. The Vetevendosje […]
Read More →Gecaj: December is crucial for visa liberalisation (Telegrafi)
Kosovo’s Deputy Minister for Local Government, Bajram Gecaj, said in an interview for the news website that December is the final time for ratifying the border demarcation agreement between Kosovo and Montenegro. “In 2017, many EU member states will go to elections and the attention on Kosovo could be lost. This is why December is […]
Read More →Mustafa to the Serbian List: There is no decree on Association (Klan Kosova)
The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, told the Serbian List that there is no decree on the Association of the Serb-majority Municipalities. This was Mustafa’s response to the requests of the Serb ministers, Ljubomir Marić and Dalobor Jevtić, who have sent a message to the government of Kosovo that they should endorse the decree […]
Read More →Mustafa invites the civil society to be involved in the Brussels dialogue (media)
The Prime Minister of Kosovo Isa Mustafa, said that the role of the civil society in Kosovo is very important, and proposed for them to be more involved in the Brussels dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade as well as on the implementation of the Stabilization Association Agreement signed between Kosovo and the European Union. Mustafa […]
Read More →UNDP donates search and rescue tools to emergency units (Koha)
Continuing with the assistance for the flood affected areas, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), through its Disaster Risk Reduction project, provided search and rescue tools for Gllogoc/Glogovac and Malishevë/Mališevo municipalities. The activity is part of the recovery efforts for the flooding that severely affected these two municipalities in January 2016, and again this fall. Upon […]
Read More →University diplomas verified for 131 students from Mitrovica north (Koha)
Kosovo’s Minister of Education, Science and Technology, Arsim Bajrami, presented the students of Mitrovica University 131 diplomas verified by his ministry enabling them to be equal competitors in the Kosovo labour market and abroad. The verification process was carried out by a commission appointed by the government of Kosovo and co-funded by the European Union […]
Read More →Demarcation, an invented and unjust condition for Kosovo (Koha Ditore)
The paper’s Brussels-based correspondent, Augustin Palokaj, in an opinion piece today writes that the European Commission “looks ridiculous” when trying to justify why they have put the ratification of border demarcation agreement with Montenegro as a condition to Kosovo obtaining visa liberalisation. “In the European Commission’s documents, we can find many evidence that Kosovo is […]
Read More →Mitić: Recently adopted laws endanger safety and survival of Serbs (KIM radio)
Deputy of the Serbian List Bojan Mitić says the last adopted laws in Kosovo are endangering the safety of Serbs in Kosovo. Serbian deputy Bojan Mitić said this on a meeting with the Ambassador of Great Britain in Kosovo Ruairí O’Connell and representatives of the British “Westminster Foundation”. According to the statement of the Serbian […]
Read More →Kosovo Stalls on Serbian Municipal Association (Balkan Insight)
Kosovo officials are dampening down expectations that the agreement on setting up an autonomous Association of Serbian municipalities will happen this year. http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/association-of-serb-community-municipalities-impossible-on-2016-11-18-2016
Read More →Odalović: I expect different U.S. stance on Pristina’s UNESCO bid (Blic, RTS, B92)
A Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs state secretary says he expects the new U.S. administration to have “a different stance” on Kosovo’s admission to UNESCO. “I believe that with the new (U.S.) administration the situation will be different, that there will no longer be such aggressive pressure, as was probably on the agenda of the […]
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