Belgrade Media Report 28 August
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Monday 28 August 2017
LOCAL PRESS
• Macedonia remains abstained on issue of Kosovo’s accession to UNESCO (Tanjug)
• Vucic announces launch of internal dialogue on Kosovo for September (Blic)
• Serbia, Macedonia should remain friendly countries (Beta)
• Dacic criticizes politicization of UNESCO (Beta)
• Vucic, Thaqi in Brussels on 31 August (RTS)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Ivanic claims that Dodik is personally responsible for decision to activate MAP and involvement of courts in issue of military property (TV1/Hayat/BNTV)
• Dodik rejects Ivanic’s accusations (RTRS)
• B&H Ministry of Defense has appealed Doboj District Court’s decision to reject request for registration of prospective military property in Doboj as property of B&H (Glas Srpske)
• Of 69 prospective military locations, 27 registered as property of B&H (Dnevni avaz)
fYROM
• Zaev expects new proposals from Nimetz for the name issue by the end of the year (Meta)
Albania
• Edi Rama names new Albanian government (ADN)
• ‘Serb-Albanian ties better than any time’ (ADN)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Prerequisite to join EU: Western Balkans leaders adopt plan to deepen economic ties in Albania (AP)
• Western Balkans PMs voice support for regional cooperation (Xinhua)
Đurić: The politics of ethnic cleansing continues with the arrests (RTS)
The arrest of people on the basis of some secret lists is just an excuse for continuing the policy of ethnic cleansing of the Serb people from Kosovo, says Marko Đurić, Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, reacting on today’s arrest of IDP near Suharekë/Suva Reka. “Today, police in Mušutište, near Suva Reka, […]
Read More →Mustafa: LDK-Vetevendosje have not discussed major issues (EkonomiaOnline)
The outgoing Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, said the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), does not want to be part of a broad based government. According to him, his party entered elections in order to govern Kosovo during a complete mandate. Mustafa however admitted that they are holding intensive meetings with Vetevendosje movement. “We […]
Read More →Serb-Albanian ties “better than ever” – says Serbian PM (Albanian Daily News)
“I think that the relations between Serbia and Albania are doing better than any time. This is a very positive sign. Certainly, it is really, first and foremost, thanks to Prime Minister Edi Rama and President Aleksandar Vucic,” the Prime Minister of Serbia, Ana Brnabic, has said. In an exclusive interview with Albanian Daily News […]
Read More →Mogherini to meet Thaci and Vucic this week (Lajmi.net)
High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy will be meeting the President of Kosovo Hashim Thaci and that of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, by the end of this week. “This week, I will meet again with President Vucic and President Thaci in order to move forward with the dialogue between Belgrade […]
Read More →Haradinaj: Assembly session either in the end of this week, or beginning of the other (RTK)
The nominee for the Prime Minister of the PDK-AAK-NISMA coalition, Ramush Haradinaj, said that they are making efforts to hold the constitutive session of the Assembly and elect the Assembly President and his deputies by the end of this week, or during the week to come. Haradinaj made these comments while presenting four candidates of […]
Read More →Vucic and Thaci in Brussels this Thursday (KosSev Portal)
Serbian President, Aleksandar Vucic and his colleague from Kosovo, Hashim Thaci would meet in Brussels on 31 August, 2017, said a press statement from the Office EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini. “They would exchange opinions on the continuation of a dialogue for normalization of relations between Kosovo and Serbia, […]
Read More →Mušutište: A man from a group of displaced Serbs arrested (Kontakt plus radio)
Bogdan Mitrović (74) from Sopina was arrested in Suharekë / Suva Reka by being taken out of a group of displaced Serbs who visited their houses and the Holy Virgin’s Church in Mušutište, reports Kontakt plus radio. Special forces of the Kosovo police searched the bus that brought them, and arrested Mitrović. Mitrović was charged […]
Read More →Russell: To find way to work together on preservation of cultural heritage (RTV Puls)
UN Development Coordinator and UNDP Representative in Pristina, Andrew Russell said that membership of Kosovo to UNESCO is a part of the political process, with what Kosovo and Serbian authorities, should deal first. “If we would deal with Kosovo heritage, then it would not be difficult. There must be a way to work together in […]
Read More →Ivanović: The deal with Pristina possible only when we enter the EU (N1, Kontakt plus radio)
Leader of the CI SDP Oliver Ivanović assesses for the regional TV N1 the internal dialogue on Kosovo as the most important issue for the Serbs. Ivanović reminds that in 2006 he proposed the Cypriot model for Kosovo, not as a model of status, but as a model for resolving the conflict. He says that […]
Read More →Trifunovic: Politicians’ promises pouring salt to wounds (RTV Puls, KIM Radio)
Politicians’ promises that the destiny of the missing persons during the war in Kosovo would be resolved and this issue would become a topic of the Brussels dialogue, is just pouring salt to the wounds, said Coordinator of Missing Persons Association in Kosovo, Milorad Trifunovic, RTV Puls reported. Commenting on the statement of the Kosovo […]
Read More →Makolli: AKR is not in discussions with PAN (Zeri)
Vesel Makolli, general secretary of the New Kosovo Alliance (AKR), told the paper that his party supports eventual agreement between the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) and the Vetevendosje movement. “We are not in discussions with PAN. We are in discussions with our coalition. We had a meeting between Isa Mustafa and Albin Kurti and […]
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