Belgrade Media Report 22 November
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Orban in Nis: Hungary refuses dictate from Brussels (Tanjug/Beta/RTS)
• Antic: Hungary’s support in case of gas crisis (Novosti)
• Serbia, Hungary arrange border area railway agreement (Beta)
• Djuric: Pristina to pass decree on establishment of ZSO (Politika/Tanjug/Beta)
• Djuric: No more excuses for delays on ZSO (Tanjug)
• Scott expects no changes in U.S. Kosovo policy (Beta/B92)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Dodik: DPA unpacked by decisions imposed by HR (RTRS)
• Negotiations on the government in final phase: Only details left to agree (Dnevne novine)
• Stoltenberg: Accelerate Montenegro-NATO accession protocol ratification (CDM)
• Parties ready as electoral campaign officially started on Monday (Telegraf.mk)
• EU and US Ambassadors expect fair, credible elections in Macedonia (MIA)
• Ivanov: Migrant crisis is just beginning, over 20 million migrants heading EU borders (MIA)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Serbia, Montenegro pledge support to Albania’s negotiation process with EU (Xinhua)
• Bosnian banks say under pressure after EU risk designation (Reuters)
Ivanović: EULEX tried to repair the reputation among Albanians with my arrest (Kontakt plus radio)
Leader of the Citizens’ Initiative SDP Oliver Ivanović says that he was arrested in order to have some “recognizable” Kosovo Serb charged with war crimes, but also for EULEX to improve its reputation among Albanians. On the eve of today’s hearing on the appeal against the verdict which sentenced Ivanovic to nine years in prison […]
Read More →Scott: US policy towards Kosovo will not change (Kontakt plus radio, N1, Tanjug)
US Ambassador to Serbia Kyle Scott says that he does not believe that there will be major changes in relation to the Balkans due to the arrival of Donald Trump at the White House. He pointed out that the policy towards Kosovo will not change, as some hope in Serbia. Answering the question of how […]
Read More →Four correctional service staff suspended in Dehari’s case (media)
The Ministry of Justice issued a press release saying its inspectorate identified “procedural negligence” on the part of Prizren detention facility staff in dealing with the death of Vetevendosje activist, Astrit Dehari, but did not find any action by the prison staff that could have caused his death. As a result of these findings, the […]
Read More →A new battle for UNESCO (Večernje Novosti)
Whether and how close is Pristina to the UNESCO membership, it could be known in November next year, if they re-submit the proposal to the General Assembly of this organization. Pristina authorities, after last year’s fiasco at the GA UNESCO, have started at the same time a new offensive lobbying for the next General Assembly, […]
Read More →Dehari family refuses international investigation without resignation of two ministers (Koha)
Parents of Astrit Dehari, Vetevendosje activist who died whilst in detention, said in a statement issued today that they refuse an international investigation into their son’s death for as long as Minister of Justice Dhurata Hoxha and Interior Minister Skender Hyseni remain in their posts. Avni and Xhemile Dehari said that the request Minister Hoxha […]
Read More →Djuric: No more excuses for delays on Community of Serb Municipalities (Tanjug)
There are no more excuses for delays on the Community of Serb Municipalities, the head of the Serbian Office for Kosovo-Metohija, Marko Djuric, said at a meeting with Anna-Karin Enestrom, Director-General for Political Affairs at the Swedish Foreign Ministry, with whom he discussed the state of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue. They said the agreement on telecommunications […]
Read More →Media and conflicts: the challenges of Kosovo and of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (Euronews/Klan Kosova)
The role of the media during the Balkans war was a controversial one. As with the case of the 11-week-campaign of NATO airstrikes in Kosovo in 1999, which claimed to stop the ethnic cleansing of the Albanian population from the Serbian government, and the intervention in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) in 2001, when Alliance […]
Read More →€500 million from the diaspora in eight months (media)
Citing data provided by the Central Bank of Kosovo, several news websites report that Kosovo citizens living abroad have sent €500 million to Kosovo in the first eight months of the year. A considerable increase in remittances is apparent compared to the same period from the previous year. Official data show that most remittances from […]
Read More →President Thaci calls for thorough legislative changes (Klan Kosova)
Kosovo President, Hashim Thaci, said today that in line with his promises when he took up office, he has requested and initiated the amendment of the Criminal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code. “I have made this request in order to eliminate legal gaps and to strengthen the laws,” Thaci said at the first meeting […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 21 November
• Conference on cyber-security held (RTK1, RTK2)
• Use of mobile phones reason behind many traffic accidents (RTK2)
• Assembly Committee members clashed over Dehari Case (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Hoxha does not plan to respond to Assembly’s invitation to report on Dehari case (KTV)
• Djuric: We are expecting from Prishtinë/Pristina to establish ASMM (KTV)
• Voices in favour of early elections also heard in LDK (KTV)
– Budget, a reason for breaking the governing coalition (Summary of Klan Kosova – Zone B show)
Read More →Headlines 22 November
• Disagreements between ruling coalition partners on 2017 budget (media)
• Ruling coalition late in appointing Minister for Integration (Koha)
• Mustafa: Kosovo and Montenegro, model of cooperation in the region (media)
• Vetevendosje: No one has been held accountable for Dehari’s death (Koha)
• Protest in Pristina on November 24 demanding justice for Astrit Dehari (Koha)
• Stojanovic: Association is not a project against Albanians (Indeksonline)
• Djuric: We’re waiting for Pristina to establish Association/Community (Koha)
• Hyseni wants Germany’s support for INTERPOL membership (Kosovapress)
• Bajrami: I knew Brezovica would fail, this is Plan B (Koha)
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- Kosovo-Serbia Declaration on Missing Persons Remains Unimplemented - Balkan Insight 26/04/2024Kosovo-Serbia Declaration on Missing Persons Remains Unimplemented Balkan Insight
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