Belgrade Media Report 29 August 2016
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic: Against instability with policy of maximum restraint (RTS/Tanjug)
• Dacic to Ban: Community of Municipalities key to dialogue (Beta)
• Dacic: Major differences remain between Belgrade, Pristina (Tanjug)
• Odalovic: Community of Serb Municipalities will be founded if Pristina gets Biden’s message (RTS)
• Clashes between Kosovo Albanians, police in Musutiste (Tanjug)
• Djuric: Heated security situation (Politika/Tanjug)
• Djuric: Establish fate of disappeared people (Tanjug)
• UNSC to vote again, Jeremic hopes to make it to “Final Four” (Tanjug)
• Currently 4,000 migrants in Serbia, 2,000 more during winter (RTS)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• Suspending of investigation against Merdic in Vucic case triggers reactions (RTRS)
• RS Commission for Implementation of Referendum on RS Day to hold session on Monday, PIC to discuss referendum issue on Tuesday (TV1)
• Izetbegovic: Referendum in RS needs to be stopped before those who are playing with fire become incapable of preventing consequences (Dnevni avaz)
• Ahmetovic calls on HR Inzko to use his competences and annul RSNA’s decision to call referendum on RS Day regardless of what PIC decides (TV1)
• Milanovic: If they fail to prevent referendum on secession of RS, Croats in B&H maybe end up isolated (N1)
• Vujanovic: I am not expecting incidents on Kosovo border (CDM)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Hand grenade thrown at Kosovo state TV chief’s home – police (Reuters)
• World View: Increasing Anger in Turkey Threatens the EU-Turkey Migrant Deal (breitbart.com)
Belgrade Media Report 26 August 2016
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Tanin: Brussels dialogue cornerstone of reconciliation (Tanjug, Beta)
• Security Council members call on Belgrade, Pristina to continue political dialogue (B92)
• Sebs have been ethnically cleansed in Kosovo – Dacic at UNSC (B92)
• Two protests against Jeremic’s UN bid to be held in Pristina (Danas)
• Serbian President reacts, tells Croatia: “Stop this” (B92)
• Stefanovic: I would like to hear the reaction of EU on Milanovic’s statements (VIP)
• Serbia Gets Ministry for European Integrations, headed by Joksimovic (Blic)
• Survey: Vucic most popular, Jeremic almost at tie with Dacic (Danas)
• Military maneuvers of Serbia, Russia, and Belarus in November (Vecernje Novosti)
• Referendum on RS Day causes further divisions among political leaders in B&H (RTS)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• B&H CEC fails to discuss Referendum Commission’s request; Petric: Dodik threatens CEC members with criminal reports (Hayat, TV1)
• Dodik: B&H CEC obstructing holding of referendum on RS Day (RTRS)
• Zvizdic condemns Milanovic’s statement on B&H; other reactions in B&H (TV1, FTV)
• B&H FM: Milanovic has really stepped out of line this time (Fena)
• Grabar-Kitarovic welcomes veterans’ call for defusing tensions in Croatia-Serbia relations (Hina)
• Croatian Serb official condemns SDP leader’s rhetoric (Hina)
• The nonpartisan ministers staying in the government, but they will consider it again in 15 days! (CDM)
• Milic to present plan on coalition with Lekic? (Pobjeda)
• Vladimir Bozinovski: Elections are expected, but with SDSM we never know (Telegraf.mk)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Hungary offers Serbia help in guarding borders against migrants (Reuters)
• Kosovo’s Thaci seeks new ‘Peacemaker’ image (BIRN)
Đurić: Establish the fate of disappeared (Tanjug)
The Director of the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Đurić says on the occasion of August 30, the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, that he expects that Belgrade and Pristina will make more resolute progress towards Serbian-Albanian reconciliation by establishing the fate of all victims of enforced disappearances. In […]
Read More →Office for Kosovo and Metohija concerned over escalation of violence (Tanjug)
The Serbian government Office for Kosovo and Metohija condemned Monday in the strongest of terms a bomb attack on the home of Radio Television of Kosovo (RTK) Director Mentor Salja, expressing concern over an escalation of violence and extremism in Serbia’s southern province. http://tanjug.rs/full-view_en.aspx?izb=267355
Read More →By truth against Kosovo in UNESCO (Večernje Novosti)
As part of the efforts to prevent Kosovo’s entry into UNESCO, will be and an exhibition on historic, cultural and spiritual heritage of Kosovo, which will be held in Paris, learns Novosti. The exhibition was created by the Office for Kosovo and Metohija and the municipality of Zvečan/Zveçan. – The exhibition is organized in light […]
Read More →Protests in Pristina – a compliment for Jeremić (Vesti)
For the third time, members of the UN Security Council on Monday will give its opinion on candidates for the future UN Secretary General. The candidate of Serbia Vuk Jeremić came in second place after the previous round of voting in the East River, right behind Antonio Guterres, the Portuguese. According to Nikola Jovanović, one […]
Read More →Officials of the Socialist Party and those of Vetevendosje to protest today in front of the Kosovo Embassy in Tirana (Indeksonline)
Supporters and members of the Vetëvendosje movement together with officials of the Socialist Party in Albania, announced for today at 12:00 hours a protest against demarcation of the border between Kosovo and Montenegro, in front of the Embassy of Kosovo in Tirana. The participants will be addressed by a delegation from Peja with representatives from Rugova […]
Read More →Kosovo warns against Serbia’s candidate for UN Secretary General (EurActiv)
Kosovo, a former Serbian province that declared independence in 2008, but is still unrecognised by Belgrade, has warned against the candidacy of Vuk Jeremić, a former Serbian foreign minister, for UN Secretary General. Protestors in Kosovo’s capital Pristina on Saturday (27 August) called Jeremić “the biggest anti-Albanian politician” and said that their country’s candidacy for […]
Read More →Brahimaj: Coalition does not have the votes, the session will be postponed (Indeksonline)
Kosovo Assembly MP from the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK,) Lahi Brahimaj, said that the 1 September Assembly session on the Agreement for the borderline between Kosovo and Montenegro, will be postponed for another date because the coalition government does not have sufficient number of votes. He said that many MPs from the coalition government […]
Read More →Hand grenade thrown at Kosovo state TV chief’s home (Reuters)
A hand grenade was thrown at the home of the head of Kosovo’s state broadcaster RTK, police said on Monday, the second incident in a week to target the TV channel or its executives. Police said in a statement that no injuries were reported and no perpetrator found following the incident in a suburb of […]
Read More →“Rugovasit” take over responsibility for the attack at Mentor Shala’s house (Indeksonline)
The so-called “Rugovasit” group has taken over responsibility for the hand grenade attack which occurred last night at 22:00 at the house of the Director of Kosovo’s Radio Television, Mentor Shala. They informed through a press release that the last night’s attack was only a warning and accused Shala for taking only the government’s side. […]
Read More →AAK and NISMA positively respond to MP Kelmendi’s call for a meeting on demarcation (Koha)
The Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) and Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA) through a press statement declared that they will attend a meeting called by the Kosovo Assembly member, Ramiz Kelmendi, to discuss the border demarcation deal with Montenegro. “We see this meeting as yet another opportunity for the representatives of state institutions to admit […]
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