Specialist Chambers should learn from past experiences on witness testimonies (Kosovo 2.0)
As of July 5, the Specialist Chambers and the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office have been fully judicially operational and at any moment now we can expect to read about potential indictments and trial dates. There was an initial false-start, in which the Rules of Procedure and Evidence were found to be inconsistent with the Constitution, but […]
Read More →Oliver Ivanovic’s car set on fire (KoSSev portal, B92)
A car owned by Oliver Ivanovic was set on fire in the northern Mitrovica at 04:00 hours CET on Friday morning, Serbian media are reporting. Kossev portal received confirmation of the incident from both Ivanovic and from the deputy regional chief of Kosovo Police, Besim Hoti. It is reported that the car, a VW Passat, […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 27 July
• Hoti: If PAN has 61 MPs, LDK will remain in opposition (RTK)
• Local authorities responsible for failure of projects in north (RTK)
• PDK-VV clashes shifted to employments (KTV)
• Minister Ahmetaj: Kosovo cannot absorb all EU funds (Klan Kosova)
• None of political parties paid fines (TV21)
UNMIK Headlines 28 July
• Kosovo’s Interpol membership difficult, Russia presiding the meeting in China (Koha)
• Hoti: Minority cannot create government in democracy (RTK)
• Apostolova blames local authorities for annulment of projects in the north (Lajmi)
• “Special Court one of the reasons government will not have a long life (Klan)
• Veseli’s election can (not) fail (Koha)
• Serbs condition Haradinaj (Zeri)
• Serbia blocks agreements on Mitrovica (Zeri)
Belgrade Media Report 27 July
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Thursday 27 July 2017
LOCAL PRESS
• Small chances for Kosovo’s membership in UNESCO (Politika)
• Dacic, Stefanovic to discuss Kosovo’s membership in international organizations (Danas)
• Strong US support to development of Western Balkans (RTS/Beta)
• Russian Humanitarian Mission helping Serbian healthcare (Beta)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Zvizdic presents report on work of B&H CoM to B&H parliament (FTV)
• B&H HoR MPs do not give support to Work Report of CoM for 2016 (Hayat)
• Covic: Only through talks we can resolve crises and that is why I feel sorry the meeting got cancelled’ (Vecernji list)
• Izetbegovic says deals and statements of Dodik, Covic and Radoncic represent constant disputing of B&H institutions (Al Jazeera)
• B&H HoR removes Spiric from post of Chairman of Commission (BNTV)
fYROM
• Zaev: The agreement for good neighborly relation with Bulgaria is in accordance with the national interest (Meta)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• The Croatian-Slovenian Spat Has Far-Reaching Implications For EU Unity (Orient Review)
• Change of guard atop ‘disastrous’ Balkan state (Politico)
“Our region, three main challenges and three solutions” conference underway in Gjilan/Gnjilane (Koha)
The conference “Our region, three main challenges and three solutions”, supported by the Office of the UN Special Representative to Kosovo, is underway in Gjilan/Gnjilane. The conference gathers five mayors of municipalities in the east region as well as officials from the Office of the UN Special Representative to Kosovo, OSCE and civil society. Mayor […]
Read More →Hoxhaj: I hope Serbian List will join PAN in forming new government (Zeri)
Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) deputy leader, Enver Hoxhaj, said PAN coalition will have enough votes to form the new government and that he hoped the Serbian List would join it. “We will have sufficient number to elect Assembly Speaker and our preferred choice is Kadri Veseli”, Hoxhaj said. “We are the parliamentary majority and […]
Read More →Selmanaj: LDK will have no communication with PDK (Klan Kosova)
Elected MP from the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Driton Selmanaj, said after his registration at the Kosovo Assembly that Kosovo needs a stable government, which in no version depends from prime ministers or presidents of countries in the region. He also said that LDK would in no way be in a government where PDK […]
Read More →Dacic: Kosovo will not become UNESCO member, but it will join Interpol (Danas, Zeri)
Serbia’s Foreign Minister, Ivica Dacic, said that the situation with Kosovo’s membership at Interpol is more complicated than UNESCO membership. It is clear that Kosovo does not have more than two thirds of votes for UNESCO membership,” he said. He added that he would meet on Friday with Minister of Internal Affairs, Nebojsa Stefanovic, to […]
Read More →Serbian List has not decided how to vote for Assembly President (RTK)
Elected MP from the Serbian List, Sasa Milosavlevic said that his party does not yet have an official position on the new Assembly President or on the Prime Minister of Kosovo that would come from PAN coalition. Milosavlevic said that they expect to discuss with different parties and present their conditions that they would expect […]
Read More →Kosovo recognition would be high price, said German politician (Politika, Tanjug, B92)
If a demand to recognize Kosovo were to be “delivered” as a condition for Serbia’s accession to the EU that would “be a high price to pay.” Tanjug is reporting this quoting philosopher and senior official of Alternative for Germany, Marc Jongen, whose party, according to estimates, will not only enter the German parliament in […]
Read More →AKR’s Sejdiu: We will not vote for PAN coalition (Koha)
New Kosovo Alliance (AKR) deputy leader, Korab Sejdiu, said today upon submitting registration as Assembly member that despite pressure, the party will remain faithful to the position of the coalition it is part of and will not vote for PAN. “I believe the confusion is with some other parties, not AKR”, he said.
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