Serbia Press Review - January 18, 2012

BLIC

Top U.S. State Department official Phillip Reeker, who spent the last two days in Pristina speaking with officials there about the need for dialogue with Belgrade, will end his tour of the region with meetings with Serbia officials. He intends to talk to them about how to solve the problem of regional presentation of Kosovo, but also about Serbian President Boris Tadic’s four-point plan for Kosovo.

DANAS

The city council meeting of the City of Nis, at which the State Audit Institution was expected to report on expenditures in the 2010 city budget, was not held on Tuesday. City council members from the ruling party did not show up for the meeting. The opposition, which had requested the session, put headless mannequins from shop windows in the ruling party seats.

VECERNJE NOVOSTI

Serbian Princess Jelisaveta Karadjordjevic met Tuesday with the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Irinej. He allowed the mortal remains of her father, Prince Pavle, mother Olga and brother Nikola to be transferred to and buried in the family tomb at Oplenac in central Serbia.

Balkan Insight has not verified the facts in the original press reports and cannot vouch for their accuracy.