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Belgrade Media Report 19 September 2017

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Daily Media Highlights

Tuesday 19 September 2017

LOCAL PRESS

• Constitution referendum “won’t coincide with Belgrade vote” (Danas)
• Brnabic announced the establishment of a Working Group to support the dialogue on Kosovo (RTV)
• Government dissolves Municipal Assembly of Presevo (FoNet)
• Dacic meets with Guterres, Trump, Johnson (Beta)
• Dacic in series of bilateral meeting on UNGA sidelines (B92)
• Fabrizi: Enlargement in Western Balkans among EU’S priorities (Beta)
• UN continues to assist Serbia’s reforms – government (B92)

REGIONAL PRESS

Bosnia & Herzegovina
• B&H joins Transport Community (TV1)
• The opposition will return to the RS National Assembly (RTRS)
• Dodik: RS belongs to Serbia just like Serbia belongs to RS – reactions (RTRS, Hayat)
• Covic supports reform of United Nations (Oslobodjenje)
• US Embassy hosts Regional Chiefs of Mission Workshop for US Ambassadors in Sarajevo (Oslobodjenje)
• Extent of Serbia’s cooperation with NATO (Nezavisne)

Croatia
• Prime Minister Plenkovic attends UN General Assembly in New York (Index.hr)

Montenegro
• DPS: Decision to end boycott reasonable and responsible (CDM)
• First deal on snap elections, then SDP and DCG will return to parliament (CDM)
• Knezevic and Mandic have different positions on declaration for preservation of Serbs (Pobjeda)

fYROM
• PM Zaev meets US President Trump (MIA)
• Ristoska: By freezing the assets and property of VMRO-DPMNE, the leadership will be protected (Meta)
• Macedonia, Montenegro to cooperate in advancing EU-integration processes (MIA)
• There is an open window for talks about the name dispute, said Kotzias after the meeting with Guterres (Meta)

Albania
• Meta meets with Knut Fleckenstein: Judicial reform implementation, important to integration process (ATA)
• DP’s three conditions on judicial reform (ATA)
• Rama responds to Basha: Electoral reform, part of May 18 package, no conditional reform (ATA)

INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Moscow Regrets Albania, Montenegro Backing EU Anti-Russian Sanctions (Sputnik)

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EULEX commemorates fallen colleague Senavicius of Lithuania (Klan Kosova)

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EULEX paid tribute today to Audrius Senavicius, a customs officer from Lithuania, who was killed in the line of duty in the northern part of Kosovo on 19 September 2013. Head of mission, Alexandra Papadopoulou, laid a wreath at the site where Senavicious was shot four years ago.  “Today we pay our respects to his […]

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Minister Lluka and Mayor Bahtiri discuss Trepca mine problems (Koha)

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Minister of Economic Development, Valdrin Lluka, said in a meeting with Mitrovica Mayor, Agim Bahtiri, that his goal is to turn the Trepca mining complex into Kosovo’s engine of economic development and employment. “We will get down to work right away and will establish a board for the [Trepca] enterprise to pave way for sustainable […]

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Vetevendosje’s Kurti calls for Minister Rikalo’s dismissal (media)

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Vetevendosje MP Albin Kurti said that the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development, Nenad Rikalo, should be dismissed after his former neighbours in Pristina accused him of personal involvement in the mistreatment of a couple of Albanian students during the 1998-99 conflict. In a Facebook post, Kurti said the statement of Prime Minister Ramush […]

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Women underrepresented in Kosovo public enterprises (Kosovapress)

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A study carried out by the Kosovo-based Institute for Advanced Studies (GAP) found that women are underrepresented in leading posts of public enterprises, with only 15 percent of them being members of boards. “In 31 public enterprises we looked into, of 159 members of boards only 24 are women. Only five boards are chaired by […]

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Suspected Kosovo War Victim Exhumed in Albania (Balkan Insight)

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The Pristina authorities exhumed the body of an unidentified person in an Albanian village near the border with Kosovo, believed to have been buried there during the war 1999. Kosovo’s Institute of Forensic Medicine together with the EU rule-of-law mission EULEX, under the supervision of Kosovo’s war crimes prosecutor Drita Hajdari, exhumed an unidentified person’s […]

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Step closer to truth: How much NATO’s bombing poisoned Serbia (Novosti, B92)

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The proposal of the Initiative set up to discover the truth about the consequences of the NATO bombing of Serbia has been supported by the president. The Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti writes that it learned this, and adds that according to the plan of the Initiative, a national laboratory should be set up to examine […]

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Investigation launched against Bogdan Mitrović (KIM radio)

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The investigation against Bogdan Mitrović began yesterday and will end on September 22, after which Pristina prosecution will decide whether his custody will be extended, lawyer Dejan A. Vasić said yesterday, reports KiM radio. Lawyer Dejan Vasić told Beta news agency that the investigation in the Special Prosecutor’s Office in Pristina began with the hearing […]

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Brnabić: Working Group on Internal Dialogue on Kosovo (Vecernje Novosti, RTV)

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Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić said today that a Working Group will be formed to logistically support Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and all citizens who want to participate in the internal dialogue on Kosovo. Brnabić told Radio Television Vojvodina (RTV) that she had spoken with Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić about the dialogue and underlined that […]

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Bishop Irinej response to Zorana Mihajlovic: What did Patriarch say wrongly? (Sputnik)

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Reaction of the Serbian Deputy Prime Minister, Zorana Mihajlovic on the statement of the Patriarch Irinej given to Novosti daily and related to the internal dialogue on Kosovo, apart from being confused due to its illogic, causes doubts on the essence and possibility of a dialogue, the way it was described on several occasions by […]

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Trump “reacts positively” to Serbian front pages about him (Tanjug, B92)

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Serbian Foreign Minister, Ivica Dacic has revealed the content of his brief conversation on Monday with the US president, during a gathering at the UN HQ in New York City. Just before the meeting started, Ivica Dacic approached Donald Trump and spoke to him, and also showed him some papers. Many then wondered what these […]

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Serb Government Rebuffs Top Cleric for Comments on Kosovo Pivot (Bloomberg)

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Serbia’s government told the country’s dominant Christian Orthodox Church not to pressure President Aleksandar Vucic on the future of Kosovo as he readies the Balkan country for a debate on future ties. https://bloom.bg/2xubtAs

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