Belgrade Media Report 22 August
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Billboard in Kosovo village “inciting ethnic hatred” (B92, Tanjug)
• Dacic: Permanent pressure to recognize Kosovo (Dnevnik)
• Ban Ki-moon: No major progress in Belgrade-Pristina dialogue (Beta)
• Djuric: Belgrade implements its obligations, Pristina doesn’t (Beta)
• Community of Serb Municipalities “cannot be imposed” (B92, Beta)
• Business cannot wait, Cadez says in Kosovo (Tanjug)
• Harsh and insulting messages between Belgrade and Zagreb continue (VIP)
• Kovac claims that “Serbia will never join the EU”, Serbian officials react (Blic, B92)
• Nikolic comments on announced Serb Republic referendum (Tanjug)
• Vucic said “I will not interfere with internal matters of B&H” (Tanjug)
• Dodik: Vucic is not exerting pressure on me (Vecernje novosti)
• Cedomir Jovanovic: Referendum violates B&H Constitution (Vecernje novosti)
• Belgrade demands urgent investigation (Blic)
• Dacic: Karadzic verdict important – no basis for lawsuit against Serbia (Alo)
• President of Serbia today with a chief of UNMIK Tanin (Kurir)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Dodik: Referendum on will stop all humiliations imposed through decisions imposed by HRs (RTRS)
• Izetbegovic: Criminal reports against all those who take part in organizing and implementing of referendum (Hayat)
• Ivanic: All events in recent months were caused by Izetbegovic’s appeal with (TV1)
• Supervisor Berton rejects request to allow holding of referendum in Brcko District (FTV, RTRS)
• PIC to hold session and discuss RSNA’s decision on RS Day referendum (TV1)
• Bajrovic: I do not believe OHR will intervene (Dnevni list)
• Serbian church set on fire in Sarajevo (RTRS, Glas Srpske)
• Details of harmonized text of coordination mechanism (Dnevni avaz)
• Plenkovic: Serbian contentious law has hybrid jurisdiction (Hina)
• Croatian FM: Vucic pursued Great Serbia policy (Hina)
• Mesic: Monument to Miro Barisic sent a bad signal to Montenegro (Pobjeda)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Nikolic: Serbia, Russia have exceptional political relations (Tsargrad TV)
• Borrowed Peace-Broker could persuade Belgrade to Recognize Kosovo’s Independence (Sputnik)
“Serbia and her UNSC friends won’t let Kosovo join UN” (Tanjug, B92)
Kosovo will not join the UN as a member as long as Serbia, and her friends in the UN Security Council, organized as it is now, exist, Tomislav Nikolić has said. “There is great pressure on countries that have not recognized Kosovo to do so,” the Serbian president told reporters in Belgrade on Monday, adding: […]
Read More →Thaçi: The public has realised the importance of ratifying demarcation (media)
Several media report that Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi has called on members of Kosovo’s Assembly to ratify the border demarcation agreement with Montenegro. President Thaçi posted on his Facebook account: “the closer we get to the day when the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo will ratify the border delineation between Kosovo and Montenegro, the […]
Read More →Đurić: We are fulfilling obligations (KIM Radio)
Belgrade is fulfilling its obligations deriving from the Brussels dialogue, even those that are not, from the media perspective, particularly attractive or popular, however this is not the case when it comes to Pristina, said Marko Đurić, director of the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija. “If one takes a look at pile of […]
Read More →Memorial to missing journalists re-inaugurated for the fifth time (KIM Radio, Vecernje Novosti)
Members of the Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) and Association of Journalists of Kosovo and Metohija (UNKiM) re-inaugurated, for the fifth time, a memorial plaque to two missing journalists, Đuro Slavuj and Ranko Perenić. The secretary-general of UNS, Nino Brajović, said that it is not about a perfect murder or kidnapping, instead it is […]
Read More →Milošević’s rehabilitation proves that Serbia is not sincere (Koha Ditore)
Brussels based correspondent of this daily, Augustin Palokaj, writes that at the time when the U.S. Vice-President, Joseph Biden, praised Serbia for its positive role in the region, especially for the efforts to reach reconciliation with its neighbors, they gained the momentum to rehabilitate Slobodan Milošević, the person who is considered to carry the main […]
Read More →Hyseni: Kosovo praised for preventing extremism (Koha)
Kosovo’s Interior Minister, Skender Hyseni, during a visit to the municipality of Gjilan/Gnjilane today, said that within the last year, Kosovo was praised for fighting terrorism and preventing extremism. “It has been eleven months now since someone from Kosovo went to Syria. The decline of this phenomenon should not make us comfortable in this direction and […]
Read More →Dačić to meet Tanin and Schlumberger today (KIM radio)
Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic will meet today, in separate meetings in Belgrade, the Head of the OSCE in Kosovo, Jean-Claude Schlumberger and UNMIK chief Zahir Tanin, said the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Dacic will meet first Schlumberger at 10 am, and then with Tanin at 11 am. These meetings precede the meeting of […]
Read More →Dacic speaks about Kosovo in Constitution, Milosevic, Croatia (B92, Beta)
Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has said that removing the Serbian Constitution’s preable has not been a topic of any of the talks in the EU. The preamble defines Kosovo as an integral part of the Republic of Serbia. The Beta agency reported that Dacic told at a news conference on Sunday that “during the negotiations on […]
Read More →Meetings between officials of Belgrade and Pristina by the established method (Večernje Novosti)
Meeting between delegations of Chamber of Commerce of Serbia and Kosovo with Hashim Taçi and the announcement of the arrival of entrepreneurs and lower-ranking political representatives from Kosovo to Belgrade and Niš, announces a new stage in relations between Belgrade and Pristina. According to Milovan Drecun, the Head of the Parliamentary Committee for Kosovo and […]
Read More →Alleged paedophile priest outstays welcome in Kosovo – arrested for child abuse in UK (AFP)
A British priest accused of child sex offences has been sent back to the UK from Kosovo and arrested at London’s Luton airport, five years after he went on the run, police said. Laurence Soper was detained on Sunday as he arrived back in the country, British police said in a statement. Soper, 72, was […]
Read More →Billboard in Kosovo village “inciting ethnic hatred” (B92)
The Serbian Office for Kosovo is demanding that provisional institutions of self-government in Pristina immediately remove a billboards set up in Musutiste. As stated, the billboard in the most direct way incites nationalist hatred and discourages Serbs who have expressed their willingness to return to the village. “It is the pinnacle of cynicism that there […]
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