Belgrade Media Report 27 September
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Wednesday 27 September 2017
LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic: Serb-Albanian relations must be resolved once and for all (RTS)
• Vucic: UK should be more understanding of our position on Kosovo (Tanjug)
• Interior Minister thanks countries which helped in preventing Kosovo from joining Interpol (Blic)
• Vulin meets with Italian Security Agency delegation on migrants (Beta)
• SNS official criticizes verdict against Vasiljkovic (RTS)
• Joksimovic: More certain European future of Serbia (Tanjug)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Directors of Croatian and B&H Security-Intelligence Agencies met and agreed there was no wiretapping between B&H and Croatia (BHT1)
• Covic, Novalic meet and agree priorities of Federation of B&H in upcoming period of time will be excise duties, budget and Questionnaire (TV1)
• International conference on new security challenges takes place in Sarajevo (TV1)
• RS President Dodik says RSNA will adopt resolution on military neutrality of RS soon (TV1)
• Macron: If EU is reformed, Western Balkans countries may join Union by 2024 (Dnevni avaz)
Croatia
• Grabar-Kitarovic u in a letter to Kavazovic: My words weren’t directed against Muslims, Bosnjaks and B&H (Hina, HRT)
• Serbs and Croats “will have to be allies in future” (Vecerni list)
fYROM
Government to provide conditions for fair and democratic elections, Zaev tells Glover (MIA)
FM Dimitrov meets EU Commissioner Hahn (MIA)
SPO wants to confiscate 2.2 million euros in assets and property from Gruevski, Protoger and Dimovski (Meta)
Albania
• PM of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj to visit Tirana on Wednesday (ATA)
• Albania to support Kosovo’s NATO membership, says Xhacka (ATA)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• I would rather kill myself than steal a vote, Vucic says (IBNA)
Read More →“UK should show more understanding for our position on Kosovo” (Tanjug, B92)
President of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic received today in Belgrade a delegation of the British House of Lords, Serbian media reported. According to a statement issued by the Presidency, Vucic and his guests spoke about “regional issues and the European path of Serbia.” Vucic “thanked the representatives of the House of Lords for […]
Read More →DSS: Serbian president to explain statement on Kosovo membership to UN (Beta, Blic)
Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) requested today Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic to say openly, what is Serbia’s stance on the issue of Kosovo, Serbian media reported. “An important step would be made if the President of Serbia precisely explains his statement that “Kosovo would not enter UN unless we are satisfied with something, and we […]
Read More →Kosovo not ready for border demarcation with Montenegro (The Washington Post)
TIRANA, Albania — Kosovo’s new prime minister said Wednesday his government has no set deadline for resolving the impasse over the ratification of a border demarcation deal with Montenegro. Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, speaking in Albania on his first trip abroad since taking the post earlier this month, said his Cabinet was working on the […]
Read More →Lekaj, Bechtel Enka: Arben Xhaferi highway ends in 2018 (Koha)
Kosovo’s Minister for Infrastructure, Pal Lekaj, signed a contract with the Bechtel Enka company to finish the construction of the Arben Xhaferri highway by the end of 2018. Lekaj said: “We pledged to respect the contract and meet our obligations as the Government of Kosovo and at the same time we received promises from Riyadh […]
Read More →Apostolova disappointed with Kosovo Assembly (Klan Kosova)
Head of the EU Office in Kosovo and Special Representative, Nataliya Apostolova, said she was disappointed with the slowness of Kosovo Assembly’s work being that it held no other session following its constitutive one. In a roundtable organised by the Group for Political and Legal Studies on the implementation of Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA), […]
Read More →Edi Rama speaks about Kosovo’s border demarcation with Montenegro (media)
After the meeting with the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, in Tirana, Albania’s Prime Minister, Edi Rama, spoke at the joint press conference about the demarcation of the border between Kosovo and Montenegro. He said that Kosovo is interested to resolve this problem which has become an obstacle on the road towards the EU. […]
Read More →Hoxhaj: Demarcation with Montenegro expected to ratify by March (dialogplus)
Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo, Enver Hoxhaj, told Wiener Zeitung that demarcation of the border with Montenegro is not a transnational matter but an internal political matter of Kosovo. He added that Kosovo has excellent relations with Montenegro. He said that Kosovo Assembly will discuss demarcation of the border with Montenegro in January or February. […]
Read More →Committee on KiM of the Serbian Parliament on health system in Kosovo (KoSSev)
The Committee on Kosovo and Metohija of the Serbian Parliament today to discuss, as announced, the “functioning of the health system of the Republic of Serbia in AP Kosovo and Metohija”, reports KoSSev. However, it was not specified what the MPs will discuss when it comes to the health system. The KiM Office announced earlier […]
Read More →Haradinaj, Rama discuss Kosovo’s UNESCO bid (media)
Kosovo Prime Minister, Ramush Haradinaj, and Albanian Prime Minister, Edi Rama, met in Tirana today and among other topics discussed Kosovo’s UNESCO membership bid. Haradinaj said Kosovo would be a valuable member state of the UNESCO. Rama said Serbia’s opposition to Kosovo’s bid is absurd. “I told Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic that I don’t understand […]
Read More →Interpol has two new members: Palestine and Solomon Islands (B92, Tanjug, AFP)
Interpol has accepted the application of the Palestinian authorities to join the international police organization. This happened despite Israel’s fierce opposition, AFP reported on Wednesday. Solomon Islands also joined the organization, Interpol – that now has 192 members – announced on Twitter, Tanjug is reporting. Despite Belgrade’s opposition, Pristina had intended to submit its membership […]
Read More →Albanized and untranslatable expressions instead of Serbian language (KIM radio)
Each year, on 26 September, the European Day of Languages is celebrated on the initiative of the Council of Europe. The law on bilingualism in Kosovo is not respected consistently, and the websites of official institutions are often full of nonsense, reports KIM radio. “Language is an integral part of the communities in Kosovo, an […]
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