Belgrade Media Report 19 December
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic, Voutsis: Tsipras’ visit new impetus to cooperation (Tanjug)
• Djuric: Serb representatives should not collude with Albanians (RTS)
• Stojanovic: Serb list to investigate the matter (RTS)
• Office for Kosovo and Metohija condemns attack on two Serbs (RTS/Tanjug)
• Suspects for attack on Serbs in Kosovo arrested (Novosti)
• Parliament confirms agreement between Serbia, China on non-visa regime (RTS)
• Dacic visits Tianjin to discuss cooperation (Beta)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Leaders of HDZ B&H, SNSD discuss reform of judiciary; announce their version of law on CC B&H in 15 days (RTRS)
• Reactions to Covic-Dodik meeting (Hayat/TV1)
• Wigemark: Foreign judges will remain part of B&H CC and they will not leave any time soon (TV1)
• Plenkovic says Serbia needs to meet its obligations to Croat minority (Hina)
• Djukanovic resigned, six new DPS deputies (RTCG)
• DF wants co-ministerial interim government even if it includes DPS (Pobjeda)
• SEC accepts one election complaint filed by BESA Movement (MIA)
• Gruevski says VMRO-DPMNE will not accept repeated voting (Republika)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Macedonia’s Gruevski Issues Threats (BIRN)
• Pioneering Macedonian MPs Shake off Ethnic Label (BIRN)
Kosovo Assembly to hold extraordinary session for Astrit Dehari on Tuesday (media)
The presidency of the Kosovo Assembly decided today that an extraordinary assembly session will be held on Tuesday for Vetevendosje activist Astrit Dehari who was found dead in his cell at Prizren Detention Centre. Kosovo Assembly Vice President and Vetevendosje MP, Aida Derguti, said the decision goes against the regulation of the Assembly. “This is […]
Read More →Slobodan Petrović at a meeting of Kosovo Assembly Presidency (KoSSev)
Vice-President of the Assembly of Kosovo and member of the Serbian list, Slobodan Petrović, participated in today’s meeting of the Presidium of the Assembly of Kosovo. This is the first participation of a Serbian representative, after two months since they have frozen their work in the Assembly after the adoption of the Trepča.
Read More →13,535 people killed or missing in Kosovo during 1998-2000 (Klan Kosova/Koha)
RECOM – regional commission for the establishment of facts about war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia – presented today in Pristina findings of a research into human losses suffered in conflicts throughout the territory of former Yugoslavia. RECOM said that over 130,000 people lost their lives in conflicts that began in 1991 and out […]
Read More →Tahiri denies Rakić’s statement: The wall will be removed (Indeksonline)
After the statement of the mayor of Mitrovica North, Goran Rakić, that the concrete wall between north and south Mitrovica will not be demolished but only redesigned with stairs which would be connected to the roundabout that will be built in the northern part, Kosovo’s Minister for Dialogue, Edita Tahiri, told Indeksonline that the wall […]
Read More →Đurić: Jevtić to reject position of the minister (Večernje Novosti)
Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija urges political representatives of the Serbs to revoke the decision, who on behalf of the Serbian nation have participated together with Thaçi and Mustafa in dismissal of the legitimate Serbian representative because of very little authority and at a time when the Serbian ministers and officials froze […]
Read More →To identify all the uncertainties around sacking of the Serb minister in Kosovo (Danas)
Minister of Administration and Local Self-Government in Kosovo Ljubomir Marić was dismissed by the decision of Isa Mustafa, on a proposal from representatives of the Serbian List, say sources close to the Pristina authorities, reports portal KomentarPress.net. On the other hand, the authorities in Belgrade say Ljubomir Marić was dismissed against the wishes of Serbian […]
Read More →“Wall won’t be demolished, but redesigned in line with Brussels’ requirements” (media)
Most local news websites covered an interview that Mitrovica North Mayor Goran Rakic gave to Belgrade-based Politika daily newspaper, highlighting his quote that the wall in Mitrovica North will not be demolished. Rakic said the base of the wall will be redesigned with stairs that will be connected to a roundabout that is being built […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 18 December
• Lladrovci wins Gllogovc/Glogovac mayoral elections (All monitored broadcasters, RTK1, KTV)
• Goran Rakic block delimitation of administrative borders (KTV)
• Vetëvendosje accuses system of justice (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Three young Serbs physically attacked (RTK2)
• Stankovic appointed as deputy minister of Labour and Social Welfare (RTK2)
Headlines 19 December
• PDK’s Lladrovci wins run-off mayor elections in Drenas/Glogovac (media)
• Delawie praises flow of elections in Drenas/Glogovac (Epoka)
• Lumezi: No legal violations in Drenas/Glogovac elections (Zeri)
• Monitors report a number of irregularities during elections (Zeri)
• Government not concerned with Serbian List’s “threats” (Koha)
• Haradinaj: The political scene has become dirty (Epoka)
• Russian oil company accused of usurping petrol stations in the north (Zeri)