Belgrade Media Report 16 November
LOCAL PRESS
• Brnabic meets Mogherini, Hahn in Brussels (Beta/B92)
• Vucic: EU requesting binding document for full-fledged membership (Tanjug)
• Stoltenberg: Strong Serbia means more stability in Western Balkans (Tanjug)
• Gojkovic: Elections over amendment of Constitution or pressures on Serbia (Politika)
• Ristic submits initiative for assessment of constitutionality of the government decree (N1/NSPM/Danas)
• Ten opposition parties submit request to parliament for OSCE presence at elections (Tanjug)
• No dialogue in media darkness (NIN)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Sessions of B&H HoR and B&H CoM postponed due to absence of SzP’s representatives and ministers following Izetbegovic’s statements on Kosovo (TV1)
• SzP reaches common stances on Izetbegovic’s interview for DW by guaranteeing B&H cannot recognize Kosovo as independent and condemning warmongering rhetoric (TV1)
• Islamic Community in B&H condemns warmongering rhetoric created in political centers of neighboring countries (TV1)
• Radoncic asks Covic to speak to Izetbegovic about finding new coalition partner to replace SBB B&H (BHT1)
Croatia
• Plenkovic: Position of Croat minority in Serbia priority (Hina)
• President says not criticizing government, we are all responsible for situation in the country (Hina)
• Grabar Kitarovic slams corruption within the judiciary (HRT)
Montenegro
• DF to require Stankovic’s dismissal (MINA)
• Darmanovic: Moscow protects Shishmakov, Popov and Nikic (Radio CG)
• Montenegro deserves to enter the EU as soon as possible (CDM)
fYROM
• The session for the Law for languages will be set by Grubi next Wednesday on the Day of the Albanian alphabet (Meta)
• VMRO-DPMNE accused Zoran Zaev of being an audacious hypocrite about the care for the Macedonian language (Meta)
• UN mediator Nimetz expected to set date for New York meeting (MIA)
Albania
• Mogherini urges for justice reform implementation (ADN)
• Albania, progress in opening of accession negotiations (ADN)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Kommersant: Serbia moves towards NATO to duck “pro-Russia” suspicions (TASS)
• World Bank revises down growth for six Western Balkan states (Reuters)
Kozarev and Melzer on establishing the rule of law in Kosovo (RTK2)
Deputy Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Dusan Kozarev met today Nils Melzer, the Special Rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Council on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, reports RTK2. During the meeting, Melzer was informed about the violations of the human rights of Serbs and other non-Albanians […]
Read More →President Thaci to address international security forum in Canada (Indeksonline)
Kosovo President, Hashim Thaci, has travelled to Canada today where he will attend the International Security Forum in Halifax. Thaci will be the keynote speaker in the event that will assemble over 300 representatives of different countries.
Read More →Serb Policeman Accused of Beating Kosovo Prisoners (Balkan Insight)
At the trial of Zoran Vukotic, a Serb ex-policeman charged with war crimes in 1999, two Kosovo Albanian witnesses testified about the defendant’s alleged brutality against civilian prisoners. http://bit.ly/2zKjWP3
Read More →EULEX judge resigns citing corruption inside the mission (Koha/Klan Kosova)
Koha quotes reports from the French paper Le Monde saying that a British judge working for the EU rule of law mission in Kosovo (EULEX) has resigned his post citing corruption. “In recent weeks I have reported of several cases of corruption inside the mission. In particular, I have raised the issue of my e-mail […]
Read More →EU: An independent judge is looking into allegations against EULEX (Koha)
Maja Kocijancic, spokesperson for the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, said that both EU and EULEX have a zero tolerance policy regarding allegations of misconduct by all the mission’s staff. She said allegations are being investigated at a disciplinary board. “Allegations are being investigated by an independent judge and […]
Read More →EULEX: Investigations on Lumezi, unbiased and professional (Lajmi.net)
Accusations against Kosovo’s Chief Prosecutor, Aleksander Lumezi for allegedly forging the bar examination, turned out to be untrue. The Basic Court in Pristina under monitoring of the EU’s Mission for the Rule of Law, EULEX, concluded investigation which resulted that Lumezi had not forged his exam. The EULEX Office for media told Lajmi.net that they […]
Read More →Igor Simic: Instead of responding, Thaci attacks the Serbian list (KIM radio)
The Serbian List MP Igor Simic says that it is regrettable that Hashim Thaci, instead of trying to respond to basic remarks of the Serb representatives, he and his associates, by attacking the Serbian list, only confirms that someone does not want to solve the problems of the Serbs, KIM radio reports. Igor Simic says, […]
Read More →Serbian MP Ristić submitted initiative to assess constitutionality of regulation on pensions for judicial staff (Danas)
Slavisa Ristic, MP of the Movement for Serbia’s Salvation – New Serbia and a former prominent member of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) submitted yesterday an initiative to assess the constitutionality of the Serbian Government’s Regulation on exercising the right to pensions for employees in the judiciary and the Administration for the Enforcement of […]
Read More →Will Haradinaj meet Brnabic in Brussels? (RTK)
Kosovo Prime Minister, Ramush Haradinaj, will visit Brussels today to attend the meeting of the EU – Kosovo Stabilisation and Association Council. Serbian Prime Minister, Ana Brnabic, is also saying in Brussels and she has met EU High Representative Federica Mogherini. None of the parties have said if Haradinaj and Brnabic will meet. Haradinaj said […]
Read More →Vucic: We can’t join EU without binding document with Pristina (Tanjug, B92)
The EU “will not allow Serbia to become a full member without a legally binding document at the end of the process of normalizing relations with Pristina,” Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told Tanjug. “You need to carry out a normalization of the situation, as they put it,” Vucic said and added that, “whatever the interpretation […]
Read More →Belgrade lessons to Kosovo Serbs (RFE, Blic, N1)
The decision of the Serbian List to freeze relations with Kosovo President Hashim Thaci is absurd, destructive and ordered from Belgrade, according to Thaci’s Cabinet, Radio Free Europe (RFE) reports. The Serbian list has decided to freeze every communication with the president of Kosovo, because it has determined that his policy, as far as the […]
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