Belgrade Media Report 20 July
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Thursday 20 July 2017
LOCAL PRESS
• Brnabic: Serbian government neither pro-American nor pro-Russian, but pro-Serbian (Beta/CNN)
• Vucic: Good Serbia-NATO cooperation while respecting our military neutrality (Beta)
• High level of cooperation between Serbia, NATO (RTS/Tanjug)
• Vulin: No military other than KFOR in Kosovo and Metohija (Beta/Politika)
• Scaparrotti: KFOR to remain in Kosovo as long as needed (Tanjug)
• Vulin: No military other than KFOR in Kosovo and Metohija (Beta/Politika)
• Precedent over Italian soldiers within KFOR that have cancer (Danas)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Court of B&H rejects indictment against members of RS Referendum Commission (RTRS)
• B&H HoP adopts changes to Law on Elections of B&H (BHT1)
• Dodik and Ruiz Calavera meet and agree Transport Community Treaty and adoption of Law on Excise Duties ASAP (RTRS)
• Radoncic slams SDA, claims Izetbegovic and Dodik have excellent secret cooperation (EuroBlic)
• Cvijanovic meets Wigemark (Klix.ba)
Croatia
• Croatia to enter Schengen Area next year? (Jutarnji list)
Montenegro
• Tajani: EU ready for Montenegro’s accession (RTCG)
fYROM
• Party officials discuss Declaration of Albanian parties in Macedonia at parliament meeting (MIA)
• Zaharieva: Bulgaria will not negotiate any changes in the content of the Agreement with Macedonia (Meta)
• NATO commends Macedonia’s stabilization, swift progress towards Euro-Atlantic integration (MIA)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• NATO: Balkan Paper Tiger (Eurasia Review)
Read More →Thaci: Historic agreement on reconciliation by “recognizing reality” (Tanjug, B92, Kontakt Plus Radio)
Kosovo President Hashim Thaci in an interview to Tanjug stated he believes a historic agreement on normalization of relations and reconciliation between Kosovo and Serbia would soon happen, and its aim it to “recognize reality.” “This may be popular neither for me, nor for the President Vucic, but it would be good for Kosovo and […]
Read More →Hoti: LAA coalition considering Thaci’s meeting invitation (RTK)
Candidate for prime minister from the LDK-AKR-Alternativa coalition (LAA), Avdullah Hoti, said the coalition representatives agreed on future actions. “Citizens of Kosovo had their saying and I don’t believe there is a need to lose any more time for creating leading institutions and calling [Assembly’s] constitutive session as soon as possible”, Hoti said after the […]
Read More →U.S. General Scaparrotti to visit KSF tomorrow (Kosovapress)
Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO Allied Command Operations, General Curtis M. Scaparrotti, is expected to visit the Kosovo Security Force (KSF) tomorrow and meet Commander Rrahman Rama. Yesterday, the U.S. General met in Belgrade Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and expressed NATO’s concern over the idea of transforming KSF into a Kosovo army without constitutional […]
Read More →LAA coalition meets (RTK)
Leaders and majority of elected MPs from the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), the Alliance for the New Kosovo (AKR) and Alternativa, gathered today, a day after the meeting of PDK, AAK and NISMA coalition known as PAN. The leader of the Alliance for New Kosovo, Behxhet Pacolli, said after the meeting that his party […]
Read More →Roma and Egyptians want Haradinaj for Prime Minister (Klan Kosova)
Representatives of Roma and Egyptian communities at the Assembly of Kosovo stated openly that they would vote Ramush Haradinaj for the Prime Minister of Kosovo. On the other hand, representatives of the Serbian List as well as those of other communities, have not made such announcement. Albert Kinolli from Kosovo’s United Roma Party, said that […]
Read More →Vulin: No other army in Kosovo than KFOR (BETA, B92)
Serbian Defense Minister, Aleksandar Vulin, stated KFOR is the only institution that Serbia holds responsible for securing and preserving peace and security in Kosovo, Serbian media reported. Vulin made these remarks during the meeting with Commander of NATO Operations Command, General Curtis Scaparrotti. “There is no other army in Kosovo and Metohija than KFOR. This […]
Read More →“War of humanitarian statuses”: Government must decide on RSHC (Novosti, B92)
The Serbian government will soon discuss the Russian-Serbian Humanitarian Center (RSHC) and the status of its staff. “It’s really no longer either normal, nor do I understand why they (the US) are opposed to giving immunity to Russian humanitarian workers in the Nis Center,” First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has told […]
Read More →Srpska Lista to attend consultations on Assembly session (Kontakt plus radio)
Chief of Srpska Lista, Media Co-operation Office, Igor Simic, stated yesterday afternoon to Kontakt Plus Radio that the Srpska Lista received invitation, to attend on Monday, consultations on the constitutive session of the Kosovo Assembly. The invitation came from the Kosovo President Hashim Thaci. Simic also said the first interest of the Srpska Lista is […]
Read More →PDK: LDK speculating, we have not offered prime minister’s post (Indeksonline)
Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) rebutted reports that PAN coalition offered to the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) the post of prime minister in exchange for it joining the new government. PDK deputy leader, Memli Krasniqi, said no such offer was made and the new government of Kosovo will be led by PAN’s candidate, Ramush […]
Read More →Simplified procedures to get Kosovo documents (RTS)
Simplified procedures to get Kosovo documents (RTS) Kosovo Deputy Minister of Interior, Milan Radojevic, stated to RTS that an administrative instruction, adopted by the Kosovo authorities, in fact simplifies procedures to get Kosovo documents. Kosovo authorities recently adopted an administrative instruction simplifying procedures to get Kosovo documents, as it was impossible, without documents, to exercise […]
Read More →Haradinaj brings Serbia back to Kosovo (Sputnik)
Participation of Serbs, in the new government, requesting to have all the rights as stipulated in the Kosovo Constitution, Albanian elite considers as return of Belgrade to this area, Sputnik writes. Although Ramush Haradinaj, leader of the coalition PAN and winner of the elections in Kosovo, informed Hashim Thaci a week ago, that he has […]
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