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00:00:19Good evening, you are watching N1 news, I am Maja Žeželj, this is the news
00:00:23of the day,
00:00:26get away, you fool, what is b'.
00:00:30The mayor of Belgrade is suspected of inflicting
00:00:33grievous bodily harm and violent behavior, the prosecution confirmed
00:00:36for N1, on the eve of the assembly session on
00:00:40Šapić's removal, Belgrade awoke covered
00:00:43in posters.
00:00:46Aleksandar Vučić Joven becomes the political protector of a bully
00:00:49Aleksandar
00:00:50Šapić.
00:00:54And these are the other news topics in
00:00:56the newscast.
00:01:00"bravo
00:01:01children,
00:01:05return of students to the building of Jovina Gymnasium in
00:01:08the shadow of allegations of wiretapping.
00:01:12You recorded, among others, minor students who were
00:01:16present. We live in a police state, in
00:01:19a total dictatorship, in which free speech
00:01:23no longer lives anywhere.
00:01:27The Republic Election Commission rejected as unfounded
00:01:30the objections of the student list of the European
00:01:33Serbia coalition to the decision on the distribution of voters from diaspora
00:01:37cities. So someone here has decided that
00:01:41those people simply won't vote and simply won't let them
00:01:44vote.
00:01:47The European Parliament mission is coming to monitor the elections in
00:01:50Serbia even though their invitation arrived after the deadline
00:01:53expired.
00:01:56This is a message in itself, because if
00:01:59an invitation is sent in this way, it's not very
00:02:03good. The attacker on the
00:02:07N1 team came to court in a T-shirt with Ratko
00:02:11Mladić's cap.
00:02:13I watched it all through the trial and I really
00:02:16felt it as a threat. Sretenović
00:02:19stuck to his earlier statement in which he admitted guilt, but not
00:02:23as defined by
00:02:24the prosecution.
00:02:27And tomorrow cold, sunny in the north.
00:02:30purposes, and that the works on Rain possible in the south and east,
00:02:42in the midst of the election campaign, the Progressive mayor of Belgrade
00:02:46is suspected of two criminal offenses, inflicting
00:02:50serious bodily harm and violent behavior,
00:02:53the prosecution charges him with this after an incident in which a city
00:02:57councilwoman had her nose broken. The Third Basic
00:03:00Public Prosecutor's Office for N1 confirms that a case has been
00:03:03opened and that a pre-investigation procedure is underway against
00:03:06Aleksandar Šapić. The public prosecutor ordered the police to
00:03:10obtain and seize video recordings from all available
00:03:13security surveillance cameras that could have
00:03:16recorded the event. The urgent center was asked to
00:03:20provide medical documentation for all
00:03:22other participants in the event, for the injured party
00:03:25Tatjana Mićić, the public prosecutor again requested the complete
00:03:29medical documentation, statements from the prosecution for
00:03:33N1. Aleksandar Šapić was questioned as
00:03:36a suspect, the injured party Tatjana Mićić
00:03:39was questioned as a witness, the prosecution states and announces
00:03:43that it will undertake all other necessary actions to determine
00:03:47all facts and circumstances relevant to
00:03:50the adoption of a public prosecution
00:03:52decision.
00:03:55In the meantime, a session of the city assembly is scheduled for tomorrow
00:03:59at the request of the opposition, which demands the dismissal
00:04:02of Aleksandar Šapić. On the eve of that session, Belgrade awoke
00:04:06covered in posters with the inscription
00:04:09"United Bullies". They show
00:04:12the holder of the "United Serbia" election list Aleksandar
00:04:15Vučić and the mayor of Belgrade Aleksandar
00:04:18Šapić. Over Vučić's face, the inscription
00:04:22"protector" is displayed, and over the face and name of Šapić stands
00:04:25the word "Bully". Šapić
00:04:27denied the accusations and claims that he did not hit the councilwoman, but rather defended
00:04:31himself, and Vučić assessed that as a public official, Šapić had to
00:04:35step aside and bear responsibility. The "Kreni Promeni"
00:04:38movement, whose councilwoman was injured, insists
00:04:42on accountability, and the Center for Local Self-Government
00:04:46has information that the dismissal of Šapić will not be decided
00:04:49tomorrow because the ruling majority will not provide
00:04:52a quorum.
00:04:55Aleksandar Šapić cannot be the mayor of this city and
00:04:59we demand that he be brought to account. Aleksandar
00:05:02Vučić hereby becomes the political protector of a bully, Aleksandar
00:05:06Šapić, but we want to send a clear message to
00:05:09people who vote for the SPS. If the SPS does not
00:05:13vote for this initiative of the opposition, they show that there is
00:05:16no difference between them and
00:05:20the SNS.
00:05:23The Republic Election Commission rejected as unfounded
00:05:26the objections of the student list of the European Serbia coalition regarding
00:05:30the distribution of voters from cities where polling stations were not
00:05:33opened abroad for the October
00:05:3625 elections. During the discussion, large
00:05:40distances that voters must travel to vote, possible
00:05:44crowds, and cases where members of the same
00:05:47families were assigned to polling stations in different
00:05:51cities were pointed out. A member of the REC on behalf of European Serbia, Milan
00:05:54Vasiljević, assessed that the number of polling stations in the diaspora
00:05:58is shameful compared to the number of registered voters. As
00:06:01an example, he cited Vancouver, from where 1090 registered
00:06:05voters have to travel to Toronto to
00:06:08vote. The student list stated in its objection that
00:06:12the REC did not determine how many voters were assigned to
00:06:15individual polling stations and did not obtain all requested
00:06:19data from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They demand that the
00:06:23decision be reviewed and that additional polling stations be opened
00:06:26in cities where conditions for doing so
00:06:30exist. REC member Ivan Šebek assessed that the
00:06:34commission merely copied the decision of the Ministry of Foreign
00:06:37Affairs, taking into account the number of voters
00:06:41assigned to individual locations, and Sofija Mandić
00:06:44called on the Ministry to provide complete data
00:06:47on registered voters and to review
00:06:51the distribution. Vladimir Dragaš from the Green-Left Front assessed
00:06:54that the possibility of citizens in the diaspora exercising
00:06:57their voting right
00:07:00is being questioned.
00:07:03References to the accessibility of polling stations and claims that
00:07:06only formal inclusion of voters in the polling station area is not
00:07:10sufficient to assess that voting is
00:07:13actually accessible for them, I note that the accessibility of polling
00:07:17stations is defined by Article 7 of the instructions as
00:07:21stipulating that it means that access to the building where
00:07:25there is one or more polling stations and the pedestrian crossing must be clear of
00:07:28obstacles, that there must be a parking space for persons with
00:07:32disabilities, that the entrance to the building must be level with the sidewalk or that
00:07:35there must be an adequate way to overcome obstacles, that the doors
00:07:39to the building must allow unimpeded entry, that is...
00:07:43uh, unimpeded entry, that movement within the building on one
00:07:46level is enabled or that there is a possibility of unimpeded vertical
00:07:49communication, as well as that forms of
00:07:53information and communication with voters are provided. From the above,
00:07:56it follows that the assessment of the accessibility of a polling station does not
00:08:00imply an assessment of the adequacy of the spatial
00:08:04distance of the polling station from the address of residence,
00:08:07i.e., the voter's place of abode. Half of this that my colleague read, I didn't understand
00:08:11anything, I don't know if it's about instructions or about
00:08:14the constitution, I would like him to read it to me again, I believe other
00:08:17colleagues here also have a problem understanding it, but what I understood
00:08:21from this instruction of the Ministry of Foreign
00:08:23Affairs, as my colleague read it, it turns out that
00:08:27in Vancouver there are no pedestrian crossings or parking, and that's why
00:08:31Toronto is a central election unit 3,500 km
00:08:34away, meaning someone here has decided that those people simply
00:08:37won't vote and simply won't let them
00:08:39vote.
00:08:42"After the REC rejected the objections to the decision on determining
00:08:46polling stations abroad, the "Diplomats Don't Keep Quiet" initiative
00:08:49spoke out. They demand that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
00:08:53explain to the public the criteria on the basis of which it
00:08:56proposed the distribution. They particularly point out that only
00:09:00three polling stations were included in the subsequent amendment
00:09:03of the proposal, while numerous other cities with more than
00:09:06100 registered voters remained without polling
00:09:10stations.
00:09:12Suspicion of arbitrary action is raised by the fact that the subsequent amendment to the proposal
00:09:16covered only three polling stations. On the basis of which criteria were
00:09:20exactly these three locations included, while numerous other
00:09:23cities with more than 100 registered voters were left without polling
00:09:26stations? Why were among them not locations where voting was regularly
00:09:29conducted in the 2023 elections?
00:09:32The right to vote is one of the fundamental constitutional rights of citizens and must not
00:09:36depend on arbitrary, non-transparent decisions or criteria
00:09:39inaccessible to the public. That is why we call on the competent authorities
00:09:43in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to respond without delay to these questions and present to the public
00:09:46the criteria on the basis of which they drafted the initial
00:09:50proposal and its subsequent
00:09:51amendment.
00:09:54And at the same session of the Republic Election Commission, commission member Jelena
00:09:57Vranješ stated that upon reviewing the voter lists,
00:10:01she noticed that a large number of voters were registered with
00:10:04house number zero.
00:10:08These are the addresses of citizens' residences,
00:10:11especially in my district where
00:10:14it is clearly, meaning the address is indicated, however,
00:10:17the house number is zero. These are streets that
00:10:20have, I checked of course in those cities,
00:10:24these are... streets that have numbers,
00:10:27however, in the voter list, it is stated that the number is zero.
00:10:31Also in that decision regarding the
00:10:34conclusion of the unified voter list, it actually says that these are
00:10:38for example polling stations that cover
00:10:41the place from, meaning the street and then
00:10:44from zero to 52, for example, the house number, so I want
00:10:48to, through the secretary or
00:10:51deputy secretary who is not here today, submit
00:10:54a remark: uh, to the Ministry of State Administration and Local Self-Government
00:10:58regarding explaining to us what kind of addresses these are. I believe these are not
00:11:01addresses of residence and that these are not accurate data
00:11:05in the voter list. So, please provide us with
00:11:09the reason why that zero is there, and also provide us
00:11:12with data on the extent of this problem. I think that tomorrow,
00:11:16probably when the members of the polling committees themselves
00:11:20see that problem on the ground, it will become
00:11:23much bigger. I now, we have an opportunity perhaps to react and prevent
00:11:27that problem in the future. I think that an address like
00:11:30Vase Stajića Zero is not a place of
00:11:33residence.
00:11:36The delegation of the European Parliament will monitor the upcoming parliamentary
00:11:40elections in Serbia, even though the invitation was received after the deadline
00:11:43expired. This is a message to MEPs in
00:11:46itself.
00:11:50Not at 5 to 12, but rather at 12:05,
00:11:53Serbia sent an invitation to the European Parliament to
00:11:57send an observation mission for the upcoming snap parliamentary elections. The deadline for this
00:12:01expired on the 8th, the invitation from the cabinet of the acting president
00:12:04arrived on October 10th, that's because MEPs said that
00:12:08they were ready to wait for it until the 12th. Is this
00:12:12just an academic delay? This is a message in
00:12:15itself, because if an invitation is sent
00:12:19in this way, it's not very good, but all in all,
00:12:22the invitation has arrived, and the mission, the observation mission
00:12:26of the European Parliament, will come to Serbia.
00:12:29The observation mission of the European Parliament last came to Serbia in December
00:12:322023. To
00:12:35monitor the then also snap parliamentary elections.
00:12:39After those elections, there was a kind of
00:12:42continuous and longer interest of
00:12:45the European Parliament in everything that is happening in Serbia.
00:12:49After that observation mission, there were several resolutions on
00:12:53Serbia that referred to
00:12:55electoral conditions, yet, the international investigation into electoral
00:12:59irregularities that the European Parliament called for in its resolution
00:13:02of February 8, 2024, and in which the opposition placed
00:13:06great hopes, was never carried out. The question
00:13:09therefore arises as to the actual scope of the observation mission from
00:13:13Strasbourg. The Council of Europe and the European Parliament with their
00:13:17observation missions, which are primarily
00:13:20uh this. uh,
00:13:24let's say, uh, political missions,
00:13:27they serve, in a way, to further, uh,
00:13:31this, first of all, uh,
00:13:34this, strengthen and raise the visibility of these
00:13:38expert ODIHR findings in relation to the ODIHR
00:13:41report, giving it additional legitimacy. The mission
00:13:45of the European Parliament, according to the N1 interlocutor, has
00:13:48certain advantages, which was evident precisely during the 2023
00:13:52elections. The resolution was in January or so or
00:13:55early February 2024, which is relatively fast compared to, say,
00:13:59the final ODIHR report, which came much later.
00:14:03Therefore, they have some speed and that is the problem of the Serbian authorities, so
00:14:06the fact that they can react quickly and, I say, they can
00:14:10in their first address have perhaps even
00:14:14harsher assessments than ODIHR itself. Vladimir
00:14:17Prebilić, an MEP from the Greens group, has already stated
00:14:21for N1 that nothing of what the European Parliament and Commissioner
00:14:25Marta Kosa requested, which are functional remits, regulated
00:14:28voter lists, has been fulfilled. We
00:14:32are not happy about that, but what is, is, I can only say
00:14:35that we will carefully and thoroughly
00:14:38monitor everything that is happening now in Serbia and when
00:14:42the report comes, that is, the report that
00:14:45will lay everything on the table, then it will
00:14:49be reflected there. He emphasizes that Brussels is already monitoring the course
00:14:53of the election campaign. Which MEPs will monitor the elections
00:14:57in Serbia is not yet known, but it is certain that there will be
00:15:00seven of them. Tamara Stojanović N1
00:15:03Belgrade.
00:15:06And today, precisely at noon, the printing of
00:15:086,450,523
00:15:12ballots for the upcoming snap parliamentary
00:15:15elections began. This number attracted particular public
00:15:18attention because many wondered how many of us
00:15:21there are in total when there are so many registered voters.
00:15:28The elections have entered the Gutenberg phase,
00:15:31under the watchful eye of the REC, the first ballot was printed in
00:15:35purple. The right choice for this October
00:15:3925th because they say that purple has a calming
00:15:42effect, lowers blood pressure and heart
00:15:45rate. 6 million
00:15:49450,523
00:15:51ballots will be printed, because that is how many voters there are, and that number
00:15:55almost coincides with the total number of inhabitants, which
00:15:58raises suspicion of so-called phantom voters, because
00:16:02it turns out that there are almost no minors in Serbia. We are
00:16:05guided exclusively by the decision
00:16:07of the Ministry of State Administration and Local Self-Government on the conclusion of the voter
00:16:11list, so that is the voter that was delivered to us by
00:16:14the decision of the Ministry, we determined it to be that number
00:16:18and ballots are printed in that number. The opposition, non-governmental organizations,
00:16:22international observers point to numerous irregularities concerning
00:16:25the voter list. Among other things, in several dozen municipalities in
00:16:29Serbia, the number of voters even exceeds the number of
00:16:32inhabitants. However, the fact is that the voter
00:16:35list also includes citizens who live abroad, while
00:16:39the census exclusively registers only people living in Serbia, so
00:16:43which voter number largely corresponds to the current situation on
00:16:46the ground? We estimate that the total number of
00:16:49adult inhabitants living in Serbia who can actually
00:16:53go to the polls is around 5.1 million,
00:16:57it's possible we're a little off, it's possible it's 5.2, it's possible it's a little less, but
00:17:01that's roughly the number, and diaspora voters
00:17:04are making a historical leap, there are almost three times
00:17:08more of them compared to the previous elections,
00:17:11102, some estimates say even 111,000,
00:17:15which reflects this mobilization that is happening in Serbia,
00:17:18the student movement and students have established
00:17:21good connections in the past year with our diaspora
00:17:25and where the desire of citizens who left Serbia
00:17:29to participate in the elections has
00:17:32increased. Students claim that there would be even more
00:17:35voters from abroad if there wasn't, as they say, obstruction
00:17:39and filtering orchestrated by the relevant ministries and
00:17:42the REC, which is why they filed objections that were rejected.
00:17:46All of this is in the process of being resolved before the Republic Election
00:17:50Commission, the public can follow this, of course, I wouldn't want to
00:17:54comment now on potential
00:17:57uh uh consequences of accepting or rejecting such proposals, given
00:18:00that it is about protecting the right to vote, which is guaranteed
00:18:04by law. The student list announced that due to the poor organization of voting
00:18:08abroad, it will file an appeal with the Administrative Court. Nenad
00:18:12Nešić, N1,
00:18:13Belgrade.
00:18:16The law does not prevent the acting President
00:18:19of the Republic, Ana Brnabić, from publishing the names
00:18:21of pardoned individuals. This was announced by the informal association
00:18:25"Odbrana Struke" (Defense of the Profession), reacting to her statement that at
00:18:28a party conference she cannot discuss state issues due to
00:18:32the Law on Prevention of Corruption. The association states
00:18:35that the public has the right to know who received a pardon, for which criminal offenses, and
00:18:39by what procedure. Article 14 of the Law on
00:18:42Free Access to Information of Public Importance
00:18:46explicitly provides for the possibility of access to information that
00:18:49relates to events of public interest, even when
00:18:53they contain personal data, states the "Odbrana
00:18:57Struke". They call on Ana Brnabić to state the specific
00:19:00legal provision that prevents her from publishing
00:19:03such information. Let's remember that Aleksandar
00:19:07Vučić, before resigning as president of Serbia, announced that he had
00:19:10pardoned 49 people, but their
00:19:13names are still not known to the
00:19:16public.
00:19:25After more than a year of work on the dome of the
00:19:28Jovan Jovanović Zmaj High School in Novi Sad, students have returned to
00:19:32the school building. However, this festive moment
00:19:36remained in the shadow of a new scandal. Namely, students
00:19:39who were in the plenum of Jovina High School claim that they were wiretapped
00:19:43and that transcripts of their conversations were published
00:19:47yesterday in pro-government media. Parents of students
00:19:50announce that they will demand criminal responsibility from all
00:19:54who participated
00:19:55in it.
00:20:01Our ancestors'
00:20:04Gymnasium Starano.
00:20:10Hear the grateful children's
00:20:13voice,
00:20:17whoever read the online edition of the Novi Sad newspaper Dnevnik yesterday knew
00:20:21what the return of students to Jovina Gymnasium would look like after more
00:20:24than a year. The local newspaper published, namely, that after
00:20:28singing the school anthem, the cutting of the ceremonial
00:20:31ribbon would follow, here it is. Bravo
00:20:34children! Bravo!
00:20:38And the daily newspaper Dnevnik knew that before the students entered
00:20:42the school, a board would be put up with the names of the fired and
00:20:45suspended professors of that gymnasium, for which they
00:20:48hold the director, Radivoj P. Stojković, responsible, and
00:20:52there are 52 of them, and these are their names. The Novi Sad
00:20:56daily newspaper learned that a statement would be read at the gathering,
00:21:00it just didn't know that the statement would say
00:21:03this: We were wiretapped.
00:21:06The sentences written in the texts of the so-called media were
00:21:09quoted, identically written as the students
00:21:12spoke them. Which indicates only one thing:
00:21:16you recorded, you recorded, among others, minor students
00:21:20who were present, and they were present in the premises of the Local
00:21:24Community in Liman 3 where the graduates of Jovina held
00:21:27a plenum where they discussed the details of today's return to
00:21:31school, but the journalist who writes the text also makes
00:21:34a cardinal mistake, so in the text whose title is "Students,
00:21:38Blockers of Jovina Gymnasium Announce Performance on the occasion
00:21:42of Return to School Benches", in the first paragraph, the careless
00:21:45author adds that with the performance, the students want to make their return to
00:21:48the gymnasium a victory, even though, he
00:21:52states, they are aware that putting the facility back into operation
00:21:56is a move by the current authorities as part of their election
00:22:00campaign. They were
00:22:02wrong,
00:22:04uh, they shouldn't have published that, but here, we, let's say,
00:22:08caught it, noticed it, screenshot it, we have it
00:22:11as evidence on the basis of which we, as
00:22:15parents, will probably react, because we, based
00:22:18on that sentence, directly or that someone wiretapped
00:22:21our, even minor children, there were
00:22:25many minor children among them. Their suspicion
00:22:29is further confirmed by the express deletion of the original news from the Dnevnik
00:22:32portal and the publication of a new one, which no longer contained
00:22:36the sentence that Jovina Gymnasium is opening as part of the election campaign
00:22:39of the current authorities, and the students were no longer
00:22:43"blockers." We live in a police state, in
00:22:46a total dictatorship in which free
00:22:50speech no longer lives anywhere, neither privately nor publicly,
00:22:53because if they can wiretap minors and
00:22:56deliver to pro-government media, then
00:22:59they can do it to each of us in our homes, and they will absolutely
00:23:03be held accountable one day for what
00:23:07they are doing and for violating basic human
00:23:10rights. That is why both the dismissed professors and the parents of students at
00:23:13Jovina Gymnasium have no, they say, slightest doubt that the children
00:23:17were exploited for political
00:23:20the dome, because of which the students were evacuated from the school, could have been
00:23:24finished earlier, but, they say, the timing
00:23:27of the election campaign was chosen. I had the honor of addressing
00:23:31the first-grade students of this gymnasium
00:23:34just now and I saw in their faces how happy they were to be
00:23:38back in their own space, in their own building. And
00:23:42we enabled that together with the director, with
00:23:45the provincial government, and I repeat, this building is now
00:23:49absolutely safe and the students,
00:23:52to my great satisfaction, can return to school again on Monday.
00:23:56It is clear that Jovina Gymnasium got
00:23:59a building, but it hasn't found its soul yet. We
00:24:02are sure that in the light of today's
00:24:05victory, other things will happen and that our colleagues will
00:24:09return to school and finally create a symbiosis with their
00:24:13students and give the gymnasium the life it once had and that it
00:24:15deserves. Maja Nikolić, N1, Belgrade.
00:24:23The trial of Vladan Sretenović for the attack on
00:24:27the N1 television crew in front of the Serbian Parliament in November last year continued.
00:24:30Given that the judge was changed, the statements were
00:24:33read from the beginning. Sretenović did not answer
00:24:37questions, but stuck to the statement he gave to the prosecutor in February this year.
00:24:41He admitted guilt, but not as defined by
00:24:45the prosecution. Sretenović entered the courtroom wearing
00:24:48a shirt with a picture of... Ratko
00:24:51Mladić's cap.
00:24:54Did the judge react to the way he was dressed? No,
00:24:58it's shocking to me that there was no reaction even though it was perfectly clear
00:25:01that it was a demonstration. On the front of that T-shirt,
00:25:05next to the cap of Ratko
00:25:08Mladić, a convicted war criminal, we must always
00:25:11emphasize that, there was a message: "From your struggle
00:25:14our freedom was born."
00:25:17On the back of that T-shirt - next to the
00:25:21image of Ratko Mladić stood, also stood the image of Patriarch
00:25:24Pavle and his alleged quote "A man is
00:25:28stronger dead than an inhuman
00:25:31alive." I watched it all throughout
00:25:34the trial and I really felt it as a threat that was
00:25:38directed at everyone who was in this case
00:25:41representing independent journalism, professional
00:25:44journalism, reporting, because the prosecutor uh uh
00:25:48defined this attack not only as... destruction of equipment,
00:25:51cameras, but as an attack on free journalism, free
00:25:55reporting. The president of the European Federation of Journalists
00:25:58Maja Sever compared the events on the nova.rs portal to...
00:26:02the situation in Hungary when people
00:26:05close to Viktor Orban took over the media, after which
00:26:08dozens of journalists left the newsrooms.
00:26:11She assessed that the journalists of Nova who opposed the imposition of a new
00:26:15editorial board showed courage and professionalism.
00:26:19The events in the newsroom were discussed by journalist and
00:26:22Nova television host Radovan Seratlić. He warned about
00:26:26the consequences, the message that those who do not like the changes
00:26:30do not have to work. at that
00:26:33house,
00:26:36colleagues from Nova. RS
00:26:39reacted again in accordance with their measure, right?
00:26:42And said what they had to say. After that, we had some
00:26:46reactions that whoever doesn't like it, you know, doesn't have to
00:26:50work. Yes, that's true and that's the essence of it all, and then I ask myself why
00:26:53simply someone who has power says now
00:26:5730 of you don't work here, we're bringing our
00:27:0030. That's dangerous and risky because... no one would watch such a thing,
00:27:04such a thing. There's one thing called
00:27:07trust, so you can
00:27:09replace
00:27:12whoever you want, people uh who are
00:27:15used to watching, accustomed to watching someone they trust, that that
00:27:19person has never or very rarely betrayed their trust, so
00:27:23those things are a bit difficult to change, I think that's the answer to the question
00:27:26why some things go faster, but still that unpacking
00:27:30takes a little longer, so...
00:27:34The Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague will announce
00:27:37on November 17 the first-instance verdict for Hashim
00:27:41Thaçi and four former KLA members in
00:27:44the case of obstruction of justice and attempted influence on
00:27:48witnesses. In addition to Thaçi, Baškim Smakaj,
00:27:52Isni Kiljaj, Fadilj Fazljiu and Hajredin Kuçi are also accused. All
00:27:55five of them are obliged to attend the pronouncement of the
00:27:58verdict. The Specialist Prosecutor's Office requested six
00:28:02years in prison for Thaçi, not including time spent in
00:28:06detention. For Smakaj, Kiljaj and Fazljiu, three
00:28:10years in prison each are requested, and for Kuçi, nine months. According to
00:28:13the indictment, Thaçi during visits to detention in
00:28:162023, conveyed confidential
00:28:19information about witnesses to the four accused
00:28:22in a separate proceeding for war crimes and gave them
00:28:25instructions on how to influence witnesses. Thaçi was
00:28:29sentenced in September to 25 years in prison for war
00:28:33crimes committed during '98 and '99.
00:28:36year. And the organization of war veterans, former
00:28:40KLA, announced massive protests in front of European Union institutions in
00:28:44Kosovo if the implementation of amendments to the law on specialized
00:28:47chambers does not begin. Veterans reacted to the statement of the European
00:28:50Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos. They accuse her
00:28:53of neglecting, as they claim, human rights violations
00:28:57in proceedings against former KLA leaders in The Hague. They stated
00:29:00that the Assembly of Kosovo is a sovereign institution, and that pressure on its work
00:29:04is unacceptable. Amendments to the law foresee
00:29:08limiting the jurisdiction of specialized chambers that
00:29:11try former KLA members for war crimes
00:29:14and other criminal acts.
00:29:17dela.
00:29:21Montenegro at the intergovernmental conference with
00:29:24the European Union held in Luxembourg, temporarily
00:29:26closed three more negotiation chapters. With this,
00:29:30Montenegro temporarily closed 20.
00:29:32one out of a total of 33 chapters in negotiations on
00:29:36membership in the European Union. Montenegrin Prime Minister Milojko
00:29:39Spajić stated that by closing the new chapters, a framework for
00:29:43economic and monetary stability has been created. European
00:29:46Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos called on the government and opposition to
00:29:49cooperate, to make compromises and take
00:29:52responsibility for decisions that need to be made urgently,
00:29:56but she warns them that otherwise the European future of
00:29:59the country could be jeopardized. Montenegro insists that by the end of
00:30:032026, all negotiation chapters will be closed,
00:30:06and the government's goal is for the country to become a member of the European
00:30:10Union by 2028.
00:30:12year.
00:30:15European Union foreign ministers adopted nearly 1,600
00:30:19new sanctions aimed at the Russian military-industrial complex,
00:30:23announced on platform X the High Representative of the European Union
00:30:26Kaja Kalaas. She says that more than half of that package is related to
00:30:30the production chain
00:30:33of missiles. Kalas had earlier welcomed the announcement of an energy
00:30:36truce between Russia and Ukraine, but also emphasized
00:30:40that she would like a truce that also includes
00:30:43an end to the killing of people.
00:30:56Russia will stick to.