Belgrade Media Report 12 December
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
•EU commends Belgrade, Pristina for judiciary agreement implementation (Beta)
•Lavrov begins visit to Belgrade (Tanjug)
•Chapters 5, 25 certain to be opened, decision on Chapter 26 due Tuesday (Tanjug)
•Parliament passes 2017 national budget (Beta)
•Kosovo, Montenegro premiers meet in Albania (B92)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
•B&H receives EC Questionnaire (TV1)
•Hahn: Issue of change of Constitution is in B&H’s hands (Dnevni list)
•EU demands reforms in judiciary (Dnevni avaz)
•B&H Croat military police officer gets 10 years in jail for war crimes in Orasje (Hina)
•SEC publishes near-final election results (MIA)
•Gruevski declares VMRO-DPMNE win, says coalition building period begins now (MIA)
•Both VMRO-DPMNE and SDSM declared victory at the early general elections (MIA)
•Ahmeti says DUI won in the elections, but that overall, Albanians lost (Republika)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
•McAllister: Progress in the Belgrade – Pristina negotiations are decisive (European Western Balkans)
Lavrov: NATO trying to drag Montenegro into alliance before Obama leaves office (TASS)
Read More →NISMA expected to address Constitutional Court on President Thaci’s involvement in Drenas municipal elections? (Indeksonline)
The news website reports that the Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA) is planning to seek an opinion from the Constitutional Court of Kosovo on President Hashim Thaci’s involvement in the municipal elections in Drenas/Glogovac. NISMA officials however have neither denied nor confirmed the information. Citing unnamed sources, Indeksonline reports that NISMA is planning to hire an […]
Read More →Jevtić: Frequent incidents are the cause of an unsuccessful return (KIM radio)
Latest incidents in Kosovo reflect the current state of society, and the relationship towards return, said Minister for Communities and Return Dalibor Jevtić. Jevtić as a response to the theft of livestock of Kata Grujić from Petrič, robbery of Boban and Danilo Stepić’s homes in the village of Drenovac, and burning of the house of […]
Read More →Thaçi honors Serbs killed in Hoçë e Madhe/Velika Hoča (Klan Kosova)
The President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi, honored today 84 Kosovo Serbs of Hoçë e Madhe/Velika Hoča, Rahovec municipality, who lost their lives during 1998-2000. “We have just placed flowers at this commemorative plaque of 84 Kosovo Serb citizens. We are here today to remember and pray for the victims during and after the war, regardless […]
Read More →A house of returnee set on fire near Klokot (Kontakt plus radio)
House of Stanislav Vukić was set on fire in a hamlet Podgorce near Klokot. Fire-fighters and villagers have prevented the flame to engulf the whole house, RTS correspondent reports. Vukić is a returnee, at the time of the outbreak of a fire nobody was in the house. The villagers suspect that it was deliberately set […]
Read More →Robbery of two households in the village of Drenovac near Klina/Klinë (KIM radio)
Unknown perpetrators last night have robbed households of Danilo and Boban Stepić, Serb returnees in the village of Drenovac near Klina/Klinë, confirms for the Beta news agency resident of this village. Poultry and a wheelbarrow were stolen and material damage has been made to both households. According to the villagers, the police conducted an investigation […]
Read More →Office for KiM: Systematic harassment of an elderly Serb woman in a village near Klina/Klinë (Blic)
Office for Kosovo and Metohija has condemned, according to them, a systematic harassment of 75-year-old Kata Grujić from the village of Donji Petrič, the municipality of Klina/Klinë. In two years she has been robbed six times, and now 25 chickens have been stolen from her. – Police so far has failed to do anything that […]
Read More →MPs not aware of entire Ibar Bridge revitalization project (Koha)
The Kosovo Assembly Foreign Affairs Committee discussed today the recently-built wall near the main bridge over the Iber River. The head of the committee, Elmi Recica, said the entire project for the revitalization of the bridge was not made public. According to him, the MPs did not have knowledge of the entire project. Zafir Berisha […]
Read More →Kosovo Montenegrins welcome Mustafa-Markovic meeting (Klan Kosova)
Kosovo Montenegrins have welcomed Sunday’s meeting between Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa and his Montenegrin counterpart, Dusko Markovic, who discussed the border demarcation between the two countries. Slobodan Vujicic, leader of the Association of Montenegrins of Kosovo, issued a media statement saying that the meeting confirms not only the friendly relations between the two nations […]
Read More →Kosovo Faces Up to War Veterans Pension Cost (Balkan Insight)
Kosovo is considering how to reform its pension scheme for war veterans to address the spiralling cost after being urged by the International Monetary Fund to tackle the problem, officials in Pristina told BIRN. http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/kosovo-amending-the-law-on-war-veterans-12-09-2016
Read More →Kosovo, Montenegro premiers meet in neighboring Albania (AP)
Officials say the prime ministers of Kosovo and Montenegro have met for talks on bilateral and regional issues. A statement said Kosovo Premier Isa Mustafa and recently-elected Montenegrin counterpart Dusko Markovic met Sunday in Shkoder, 120 kilometers (80 miles) north of Albania’s capital, Tirana, and close to the Montenegrin border. They talked about “intensifying especially […]
Read More →Police container burnt in Mitrovica North (Kosovapress)
The news website reports that a Kosovo Police container that served as a checkpoint in the Kroi i Vitakut neighborhood in Mitrovica North was burnt on Sunday evening. Citing unnamed sources, Kosovapress reports that there were no human casualties during the incident. Besim Hoti, Kosovo Police Deputy Director for the north, told Kallxo that the police had […]
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