Belgrade Media Report 23 February
LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic: Relations between Serbia and B&H set back 25 years (RTS/Danas/Politika)
• Ivanic: RS leadership in daily communication with Belgrade (RTS)
• Dodik: Review act of hatred towards Serbs (RTS)
• Dacic: Revision of lawsuit against Serbia is return to past (RTS/Hina)
• Joksimovic: 284 million Euros from IPA for cross-border cooperation (Tanjug/RTS)
• Serbs in Bujanovac demand urgent census (Novosti)
• Danielsson: Serbia to open two more chapters on Monday (RTS)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Ivanic: Izetbegovic’s behavior – climax of acting outside institutions (Srna)
• Reactions of officials to meeting of Nikolic, Vucic, Ivanic and Dodik (FTV)
• DF: Izetbegovic needed a guarantee for triggering a political crisis (Oslobodjenje)
• HDZ 1990’s Zelenika: Why are Croat politicians silent about ruling revision (Oslobodjenje)
• Izetbegovic: Ivanic’s letter is in direct collision to decision of B&H Presidency (FTV)
• Dodik: Indictment will be issued against Ivanic and me in ten days (BHT1)
Croatia
• Montenegrin police extradites Miodrag Jovic to Croatia (Hina)
• Amnesty International warns of nationalist rhetoric and hate speech in Croatia (Hina)
Montenegro
• Montenegro’s claims unfounded (RTCG)
• Montenegro replies to Zakharova (CDM)
• Parties to solve crises by themselves (Dnevne novine)
• Serbia rejected the request for extradition of Ristic (MINA)
fYROM
• Zaev: New government led by SDSM in 10-15 days (META)
• DUI accepts SDSM Albanian language law proposal, other issues to be raised on Friday (Republika)
• Gruevski vows VMRO-DPMNE to keep on defending state and national interests (MIA)
Albania
• Albanian opposition to boycott parliament, defying EU appeal (ADN)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Vucic-Nikolic ‘Pact’ Hides Serbian Leaders’ Bitter Rivalry (BIRN)
• Bosnian Genocide Case Revision: Chances Minimal, Political Matter (European Western Balkans)
Macedonia Opposition Looks Closer to Forming Govt (Balkan Insight)
Macedonia’s Social Democrats look closer to forming a government after the key ethnic Albanian party hinted that it would reveal its decision on whether to support it by Friday. After a meeting on Wednesday night, the Democratic Union for Integration, DUI, confirmed that one key obstacle to backing a new opposition Social Democrat-led government – […]
Read More →Assembly to discuss demarcation on 9 March (Lajmi.net)
Based on reliable sources, Lajmi.net reports that the Assembly session for ratification of the Agreement for border demarcation with Montenegro, will be held on 9 March. “The European Union and the United States of America are requesting urgent ratification of the demarcation, because Kosovo has stagnated on the Euro-integration processes, concretely on visa liberalization,” the […]
Read More →“Russia’s arming Serbia – Bulgaria has rearmament problems” (B92)
Former head of the Bulgarian national intelligence service, Kircho Kirov, thinks that Serbia is becoming “a regional military factor.” Beta agency reported this on Thursday, citing Kirov as saying that his country, as a NATO member, “has problems with its rearmament, while Serbia is receiving modern Russian combat equipment for free.” The tension between NATO […]
Read More →Thaci: Montenegrins will be recognized by Constitution (Koha)
The President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi, hosted today a meeting with a delegation of the representatives of the Montenegrin community in Kosovo. Thaci stressed that Kosovo is home to all members of the communities who live there. “The Montenegrin community will be recognized also by the Constitution and it will have a seat at the […]
Read More →Tanasković: Turkey lobbies the most for Kosovo in UNESCO (KIM radio)
Serbian Ambassador to UNESCO Darko Tanasković says that Turkey is among the most agile countries that are lobbying for membership of Kosovo in UNESCO, adding that it is a part of their Neo-Ottomanism strategy. Tanasković says that this did not accidentally, because Serbia last few years is the most stable country in the region, i.e. […]
Read More →Thaci: Assembly to decide between free movement and isolation (Zeri)
President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, said told German papers, Frankfurter Rundschau and Badische Zeitung, said that the decision on visa liberalisation is in the hands of Kosovo Assembly MPs and that to achieve this, they need to ratify the border demarcation agreement with Montenegro. “This is the only condition that has not yet been met,” […]
Read More →Veseli: Border demarcation agreement to be ratified as soon as possible (Telegrafi)
President of the Kosovo Assembly, Kadri Veseli, told reporters that the border demarcation agreement with Montenegro needs to be passed as soon as possible. “The moment the government resubmits agreement for ratification of demarcation, we will immediately forward it to the Assembly,” Veseli said after the meeting of the Assembly presidency. Veseli announced that the […]
Read More →Montenegro’s Djukanovic Says Russia Trying To Destabilize Balkans (RFE)
Montenegro’s former prime minister accused Russia of seeking to destabilize the Balkans following a thwarted attempt to overthrow Podgorica’s pro-Western government. http://www.rferl.org/a/28324004.html
Read More →Parish house in the village Bostane robbed (KIM radio)
Unknown perpetrators robbed last night around 7.30 pm the parish house in Bostane, municipality of Novo Brdo/ Novobërdë and stolen close to 700 euros. Kosovo police conducted an investigation and the investigation is on-going.
Read More →Stojanović: The formation of ZSO a condition for the return of Serbs into the institutions (KIM radio)
Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Branimir Stojanović said that a legitimate reason for the return of Serbs to Kosovo institutions would be a clear will to begin with the formation of the Association/Community of Serb municipalities (ZSO), as agreed in Brussels. – So when we see a concrete and clear willingness to initiate the process of […]
Read More →Hoxha: Nine Serbs passed the Kosovo bar exam (RTK2)
The Brussels agreement on the judiciary was supposed to start on January 10, but this is still pending. The Parliamentary Commission on Legislation organized a public debate to inform the public about the reasons for non-implementation of this Agreement. The Commission invited the Minister for dialogue Edita Tahiri and Minister of Justice Dhurata Hoxha to […]
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