Belgrade Media Report 14 December
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Chapters 5, 25 opened (Beta)
• Sarcevic: Serbia has done everything to open Chapter 26 (Tanjug)
• Serbia ends BSEC presidency (Beta)
• Procedure for allocating dialing code for Kosovo begins (Politika)
• Serbian judges and prosecutors in the Kosovo system as of 10 January 2017 (Politika)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Inzko: Principle of ethnic representation in appointments to posts in judicial bodies is exception from appointments based solely on credits (FTV)
• Serbs support Dodik’s suggestion on forming of international commission to establish truth on Srebrenica (EuroBlic)
• Plenkovic says has talked with Biden in general on Serbia’s EU negotiations (Hina)
• Invitation to opposition remains valid (RTCG)
• SEC confirms VMRO-DPMNE is winner of the elections (Republika)
• Zaev expects change in MP seats’ distribution (MIA)
• BESA Movement, SDSM file complaints to SEC (MIA)
• VMRO-DPMNE: SDSM leader cannot decide who will form government; Victory of VMRO-DPMNE-led coalition was verified by all international institutions (Republika)
• Home of Kumanovo police chief appointed by the SDSM, raided after election fraud suspicions (MIA)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Serbia Furious at Croatian Block on EU Negotiations (BIRN)
• Croatia Unveils Military Monument at Prison Camp Site (BIRN)
• Macedonia Faces Uncertainty over New Government (BIRN)
• Macedonia’s elections: how the EU continues to fail the Western Balkans (Open Democracy)
• Defence Urges UN Court to Acquit Ratko Mladic (BIRN)
Ekaterina Trendafilova appointed the first President of the Specialist Chambers (Klan Kosova)
On 14 December 2016 Dr Ekaterina Trendafilova was appointed the first President of the Specialist Chambers. A press release informs that after the independent Selection Panel submitted its recommendation, the Appointing Authority, Ms. Alexandra Papadopoulou, Head of the EULEX Mission in Kosovo, formally appointed the President. President Trendafilova (1953) is a distinguished judge, lawyer and academic […]
Read More →Mustafa with Albanians from the Preševo Valley: Worried about the “discrimination” and “difficulties” (KoSSev)
Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa met yesterday in Gnjilane/Gjilan with representatives of Preševo, Bujanovac and Medveđa and MP in the Serbian Parliament Fatmir Hasani, reads the statement from the office of Prime Minister. It is pointed out that Mustafa “expressed concern about discrimination and the difficulties faced by Albanians in the Preševo Valley”, and which […]
Read More →“A better quality of legal protection for the citizens of Kosovo” (KIM radio)
The Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia Veljko Odalović says that the issue of integration of judges, prosecutors and administrative staff into the justice system of Kosovo was one of the topics and serious question of “the first package of the Brussels dialogue.” The presence of Serbs in Kosovo’s judicial institutions […]
Read More →“Thaçi is forced to play the peacemaker” (KIM radio)
The Association of Families of Kidnapped and Murdered Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija say that Hashim Thaçi was forced to play the peacemaker in order to save himself from responsibility for kidnapping, murder and trafficking in organs. The announcement came as a reaction to a visit of the President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi to Velika […]
Read More →Mitrovica urgent meeting cut short after opposition walkout (media)
Kosovapress reported that officials from opposition parties in the municipal assembly of Mitrovica – the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) – walked out of the urgent meeting called to discuss the construction of the wall by Serbian leadership in Mitrovica North. The meeting was expected to result in […]
Read More →Jevtić: I do not comment on statements of people without legitimacy (KIM radio)
Minister for Communities and Return Dalibor Jevtić did not want to answer the accusations of Slobodan Vujičić, the President of the Union of Montenegrins. Slobodan Vujičić urged Deputy Prime Minister, two Serbian ministers and deputy minister of Interior to resign immediately. Jevtić did not want to react to the statements given by “people who present […]
Read More →Haradinaj addresses people of Kosovo with mobilising message (Indeksonline)
Ramush Haradinaj, leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), through a video message broadcast today, has called on the people of Kosovo to gather at the 1 Tetori Hall in Pristina on December 17. “Kosovo is in a grave institutional, political and economic position. We cannot keep silent and we should not […]
Read More →Apostolova: EU builds bridges, not walls (Indeksonline)
The European Union Special Representative to Kosovo, Nataliya Apostolova, today during the meeting of the Committee on European Integration said that the EU has never built walls and will never do it. She said that the EU builds bridges and since it is not their project, the EU cannot control it. “The EU builds bridges, […]
Read More →Albanians from the north accuse Mustafa, Tahiri and Bahtiri (media)
Several news websites report that representatives of the five Albanian-inhabited neighborhoods in Mitrovica North, have raised their concerns about the situation in the north. In a media statement, they make strong accusations against Prime Minister Isa Mustafa, Minister for Dialogue Edita Tahiri and Mitrovica South Mayor Agim Bahtiri, about the political, economic, and social and […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 13 December
• EU urges Prishtinë/Pristina to cooperate with Special Court (RTK)
• Mustafa: KSF ready to be transformed into Army (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Assembly to discuss Dehari’s case next week (KTV & TV21)
• AKJ to address to Constitutional Court about the constant closure of court sessions (KTV)
• Vujacic requests Stojanovic’s resignation (TV21)
• Albanians in Leposavic/Leposaviq feel discriminated (Klan Kosova)
• Tahiri: No Association without dissolution of parallel structures (Summary of Klan Kosova – Zone B show)
Headlines 14 December
• Mustafa: The wall, a dirty act of Belgrade and Serb parallel structures (RTK)
• Tahiri: Wall in Mitrovica coordinated by Serbia (Klan Kosova)
• Albanians from the north accuse Mustafa, Tahiri and Bahtiri (media)
• “PM Mustafa should be transparent about his meeting with Markovic” (RTK)
• Albanian PM scolds EU over visa liberalisation for Kosovo (RTK)
• EU calls on Pristina to cooperate with the Special Court (RTK)
• Clash between legal and illegal structures in the north (Koha Ditore)
• First telephone call with 383 in February (Koha Ditore)
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- Slovenia President Backs Predecessor as New Kosovo-Serbia Envoy - Prishtina Insight 29/04/2024Slovenia President Backs Predecessor as New Kosovo-Serbia Envoy Prishtina Insight
- Serb majority in N.Kosovo shuns vote on ethnic Albanian mayors - San Francisco Examiner 29/04/2024
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