Belgrade Media Report 6 July 2016
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic: Serbia to get new government before UK gets new prime minister (Tanjug)
• Dacic: Decision result of firm position, but also recognition (Beta/Tanjug)
• Nikolic: We expect opening of chapters in coming days (Tanjug)
• Selakovic: Opening of Chapters 23 and 24 brings certain future (RTS)
• Vucic heralds talks on Belgrade-Pristina airline (Beta)
• Mufti: No terrorism-related critical situations reported in Presevo, Bujanovac, Medvedja (Beta)
• UNMIK issues 36 international arrest warrants (Tanjug)
• Rama: Kosovo separates us the most (Novosti)
• Hungary plans to send 17,000 migrants to Serbia (B92)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Vucic: There are no problems between Serbia and B&H (Radio Sarajevo)
• Ivanic, Bosic: We will accept Vucic’s invitation for meeting (BN TV/Euro Blic)
• Ivanic is not obstacle, pressure exerted on Dodik (Euro Blic)
• We will discuss SAA after elections (Oslobodjenje)
• Everything is possible with Dodik (Oslobodjenje)
• RS government completing drafting of law on which the census results for RS will be published (RTRS)
• Unreasonable move worthy of condemnation (Dnevni avaz/Dnevni list)
• Kovac: EU’s position is that Serbian law on war crimes cannot apply to Croatia (Hina)
• Bojovic: I advocated for a change in policy (Pobjeda)
• Kosovo: For seven years about 32,000 people have given up on their citizenship (Telegraf.mk)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Paris Summit Boosts Serbia’s EU Hopes (BIRN)
• Brexit poses challenge to EU expansion (Financial Times)
Çollaku: Delay in ratification of border-demarcation jeopardizes visa liberalization (RFE)
Kosovo’s Minister of European Integration, Bekim Çollaku, told Radio Free Europe that Kosovo Assembly should as soon as possible address “in a responsible manner the border-demarcation agreement, as a matter of national interest.” Çollaku said the issue of demarcation is the responsibility of all institutions of Kosovo and it should be addressed as soon as […]
Read More →EU leaders tell Balkan states accession talks to go on despite Brexit (Reuters)
European Union leaders on Monday sought to reassure Balkan nations that talks on their becoming members of the bloc would continue despite Britain’s vote to leave the union. French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini held a meeting with Balkan leaders in Paris during which they underlined […]
Read More →Veseli promises transparency on demarcation process (Insajderi)
Kosovo Assembly Speaker Kadri Veseli said on Wednesday that there will be full transparency in the border-demarcation process with Montenegro. He further added that any decision taken by the Assembly will be in the interest of all citizens. “We should believe that any decision taken in the Kosovo Assembly will be in the interest of […]
Read More →Rama: The biggest problem between Serbia and Albania is Kosovo (RTS)
The Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama, said that relations between Serbia and Albania are good, however the biggest problem between two states remain their position on the status of Kosovo. “Non-recognition of Kosovo is a sign that there is no readiness for the open facing with the past and the future,” said Rama in […]
Read More →UNS an DNKiM request deposition of responsible officials for illegal election of the RTK2 director (KIM Radio)
Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) and Association of Journalists of Kosovo and Metohija (DNKiM) have requested responsibility of those who violated the law in relation with the election of the director of the Radio Television Kosovo channel in the Serbian language. The Associations have issued a communique saying that they warned the RTK Board […]
Read More →Mitrovica North assembly session interrupted (Kontakt Plus Radio)
Local councilors from the ranks of the Civic Initiative ‘Srpska’ on Monday boycotted the address of the councilor Ksenija Božović, from the ranks of the Civic Initiative SDP, and left the regular session of the local assembly of Mitrovica North. Božović was supposed to present her stance about the one of the topics of a […]
Read More →Mustafa: EU to open doors after Kosovo fulfills all criteria (media)
Kosovo’s Prime Minister, Isa Mustafa, after the central meeting of the Summit of Leaders in Paris on Tuesday said that there will be no integration in the European Union without fulfilling all the criteria set by the EU. “Kosovo MPs, in accordance with the work of the state commission and the clear position of the U.S. […]
Read More →No solution yet for displaced in Gračanica (RTK2)
Container settlement in Gračanica/Graçanicë, which shelters internally displaced persons from Obilić/Obiliq and socially vulnerable families has been cut off the electricity supply for six months now. The remaining four IDP and socially vulnerable families in the container settlement in Gračanica/Graçanicë live without electricity as of 14 December last year, what presents a huge problem, since […]
Read More →Europe amidst wish and reality (Koha Ditore)
The paper’s opinion writer, Enver Robelli, recalls the European Summit held in Porto Carras, Greece in 2003, with the countries of the Western Balkans. He quotes the statement made from the Summit that “The EU stresses that it supports without any reservation the European orientation of the Western Balkans countries. The Future of the Balkans […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 5 July
• Fajon: No visa liberalisation without the ratification of demarcation (All monitored broadcasters, KTV & RTK1)
• Ternava: ICK committed to prevent extremism (TV21)
• Majority of the young people from north want to migrate (KTV)
• Alma Lama appointed as Kosovo’s Ambassador to Italy (Klan Kosova)
UNMIK Headlines 6 July
• EP also conditions visa liberalisation with border demarcation (Koha Ditore)
• Visa liberalisation postponed, demarcation remains a problem (Zëri)
• Montenegro rules out review of border-demarcation agreement (Koha)
• Kosovo PM calls for development aid projects (Epoka e Re)
• Wisner: I’m disappointed with the setbacks in Kosovo (Zëri)
• UNMIK has issued 36 arrest warrants (Kosova Sot)
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