Belgrade Media Report 05 September
LOCAL PRESS
• Brnabic: Serbia deeply committed to joining EU (Beta)
• Brnabic: Serbia made it perfectly clear that it is military neutral (RTS)
• Dacic: Serbia committed to resolving all disputes in region (RTS)
• Belgrade will work on strengthening Serbian institutions in Kosovo (Beta)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Brnabic says to Inzko that Serbia wants to continue cooperation with B&H (N1/TV1/Srna)
• Cerar, Pahor, Erjavec call for respect for international law (N1)
• Osmanovic: Minister Grubesa does not have right to interfere with issue of Peljesac Bridge (Klix.ba)
• HNS Presidency holds session; Covic expects changes to Law on Elections to be adopted by end of year (Hayat/BHT1)
• Berton officially takes over duty of Head of OSCE Mission to B&H (Oslobodjenje)
Croatia
• Grabar-Kitarovic: I am worried about processes in B&H (RTL)
fYROM
• VMRO-DPMNE will not support the election of a new Attorney General (Meta)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• German-Turkish Feud Threatens EU Role in Balkans (BIRN)
Read More →Number of Kosovars at wars in Syria and Iraq decreases (RTK)
Blerim Rama, from the Anti-terrorism Department at Kosovo Police, said that the number of Kosovo people who are joining the wars in Syria and Iraq, has decreased significantly during the last months. He made these comments during the presentation of a report on extremism and radicalism in Kosovo, organized by portal Fol Tash (Speak Now). […]
Read More →Until October Washington and Berlin decide on envoys (Danas)
Belgrade based daily Danas writes today, based on unofficial diplomatic sources, that the United States and Germany are considering who will be their envoys in the next phase of the Brussels dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, and that it is expected that the decision on their names would be made and disclosed in a month time. […]
Read More →Mikullovci waits confirmation from PAN before calling Assembly session (Kallxo)
Chairman of the Kosovo Assembly’s constitutive session, Adem Mikullovci, said he was waiting for an official confirmation from PAN that they have secured the necessary votes for electing speaker before announcing the date of the next session. “I cannot call a session simply based on media reports,” Mikullovci said. “The moment they ask for a […]
Read More →Simić: They must respect the Serbian people (KIM radio)
Pristina’s media has been reporting since this morning that the Serbian list lost enthusiasm after Pacolli’s party entered the PAN coalition, and that the Serbs will not support the election of Ramush Haradinaj as prime minister, reports KIM radio today. Igor Simić, however, did not want to comment these allegations, saying that it was good […]
Read More →Lawyer Jovanka Savić sues British KFOR (RTS, TV Most, Kontakt plus radio, KIM radio)
Lawyer Jovanka Savić tries to invoke the responsibility of the British part of KFOR, for not providing security to citizens in the period when NATO entered Kosovo. She also questions the responsibility of UNMIK and EULEX for inertia in investigating crimes against civilians, RTS reports. NATO troops entered Kosovo in June 1999. The international community […]
Read More →Kurti: New Kosovo institutions in Vucic’s hands (media)
Vetevendosje’s candidate for prime minister and MP, Albin Kurti, commented on the recent power sharing agreement between PAN and AKR saying that the forming of new Kosovo institutions is now in the hands of the Serbian President, Aleksandar Vucic, implying that the coalition will still need support from the Serbian List to form the new […]
Read More →Government officials react after being stopped at Jarinje (B92, Tanjug)
Kosovo police have prevented Education Minister Mladen Sarcevic and Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Marko Djuric from entering Kosovo. They were stopped on Monday at Jarinje – an administrative crossing between Kosovo and central Serbia. Tanjug is reporting that Sarcevic and Djuric were on their way to Kosovska Mitorivca, where they were to open […]
Read More →Why Serbia must recognize Kosovo’s independence (The Washington Times)
David L. Phillips, director of the Program on Peace-building and Rights at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights and author of “Liberating Kosovo: Coercive Diplomacy and U.S. Intervention”, writes in an op-ed that the outstanding issues between Kosovo and Serbia can best be solved through joint EU-U.S. diplomatic efforts and while normalization […]
Read More →Kosovo Parties Sign Deal to Form Government, End Political Deadlock (Reuters)
Kosovo’s center-right coalition led by the Democratic Party of Kosovo signed a deal on Monday with the small New Alliance for Kosovo party to form a government, ending nearly three months of political deadlock after an election on June 11. http://reut.rs/2gIwqB2
Read More →Kosovo Coalition Signs Deal To Form Government, Ends Three-Month Deadlock (RFE)
A coalition headed by the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) has agreed to a deal with the junior New Alliance for Kosovo party to form a government, ending three months of political gridlock sparked by inconclusive elections. http://bit.ly/2eY0rJG
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 4 September
• Haradinaj: Kosovo finally on move (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• AKR gets First Deputy Prime Minister, five ministries and seven deputy ministers (KTV)
• New coalition collecting signatures for constitutive Assembly session (Klan Kosova)
• Haziri: AKR committed salto mortale (RTK1)
• Srpska List announces to quit PAN agreement (Lajmi.net)
• Rakic: Srpska List will not block establishment of institutions (Klan Kosova)
• Sveçla: Hoti and Mustafa are late with their initiative (RTK1)
• AKJ complaints against media selection (KTV)
• President hermetically closed to media (KTV)
• Djuric banned from entering Kosovo (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Pavicevic: Serbia strongly stands behind Mitrovic (KTV)
LINKS
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UN News Center
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