Simic: Serbs will not accept violent integration of Mitrovica North (TV Pink, Tanjug, Vecernje Novosti)
Serbs from Mitrovica North will not accept the violent integration with Mitrovica South, Srpska Lista Deputy Chair, Igor Simic said, commenting on an initiative to unite the town, Tanjug news agency reported. “Serbs from northern part of Mitrovica will not accept violent integration into any system, since nobody wants to replace something that is good […]
Read More →Kontakt plus radio: Serbs do not believe in a unification of Mitrovica North and South
Serbs in the north of Kosovo believe that the unification of Mitrovica will not take place and asses that such a thing could seriously jeopardize their survival, reports Mitrovica North based Kontakt plus radio. Ruzica Simic from NGO Women’s Right believe that the unification of Mitrovica will not happen. ”I am deeply convinced that this […]
Read More →Vucic: There is nothing of the unification of Mitrovica (Serbian media)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told TV Pink in Davos, on the occasion of the request of Albanian councillors to unite the northern and southern parts of Mitrovica and the support given by Kosovo President Hashim Thaci, that this will not happen. Vucic told Belgrade based TV Pink that he does not understand “neither what Thaci […]
Read More →Now Albanian wants to become mayor of “united” Mitrovica (B92, KoSSev)
Following the resignation of North Mitrovica Mayor Goran Rakic, South Mitrovica Mayor Agim Bahtiri has sent a request to the Kosovo government. According to the northern-Kosovo based KoSSev website, Bahtiri is proposing that he should govern a “united (Kosovska Mitrovica).” “I demand that the Kosovo government take all the necessary legal actions to immediately abolish […]
Read More →Law on women’s property rights advanced, but not implemented (Kontakt plus radio)
Kosovo law on women’s property rights is very advanced, but its non-implementation in the practice is an issue, participants in a debate organized in EU Info Centre in Mitrovica North agreed, Kontakt plus radio reported. Ruzica Simic, Director of NGO “Zensko parvo” said women in accordance with the law, have equal rights to property, however, […]
Read More →AKR and Vetevendosje to announce coalition in Mitrovica today (Gazeta Metro)
Citing an unnamed source, the news website reports that the New Kosovo Alliance (AKR) and the Vetevendosje Movement (VV) will announce their coalition for the municipality of Mitrovica South, today at 11:00. Mitrovica South Mayor Agim Bahtiri earlier gave to Vetevendosje three municipal departments and the post of deputy mayor. The news website recalls that […]
Read More →Headlines 12 December
• Kosovo PM Mustafa meets Montenegrin counterpart Markovic (dailies)
• Rakic: Wall will not be demolished, only shortened (Zeri)
• Parliamentary foreign affairs committee to discuss Mitrovica wall (RTK)
• Opposition calls for interruption of dialogue (Epoka e Re)
• Ahmeti: The wall is a symbol of division not reunification (Kosovapress)
• EU: Kosovo and Serbia implement agreement on justice (Epoka e Re)
• Telephone code for Kosovo* (Koha Ditore)
• FYROM elections: Close battle between Gruevski and Zaev (Telegrafi)
Serbs in Suvi Do/Suhodoll worried about the demarcation (KIM radio)
Demarcation between the northern and southern part of Mitrovica has not been precisely defined because of which worry 70 Serbian households in the village Suvi Do/Suhodoll. Their houses, as they say, could belong to the cadastre of the municipality southern Mitrovica. For the mayor of South Mitrovica Agim Bahtiri question of delimitation of Mitrovica is […]
Read More →Headlines 1 November
• President Thaci promulgates law on Trepca mining complex (media)
• Serbian List will ignore Constitutional Court’s decision on Trepca Law (Lajmi)
• Veseli: We could go to elections with a political agreement (Epoka e Re)
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Do not travel through Serbia (media)
• EU: Mitrovica South and North boundary, according to Kosovo laws (Koha)
• € 1.5 million for potential accused by special court (Zeri)
• Kosovo approves agreement with US on combating terrorism (Kosova Sot)
• Suhareka Municipal Assembly against Serb returns in Mushtisht (media)
• Bahtiri: Mitrovica will be united in January (media)