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Belgrade Media Report 03 October 2017

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United Nations Office in Belgrade

Daily Media Highlights

Tuesday 3 October 2017
LOCAL PRESS

• Brnabic: Letter to be sent to European Commission regarding issues of Catalonia, Kosovo (Beta/RTS/Tanjug)
• Dacic: Hypocrites, they supported Kosovo because they wanted a weak Serbia (RTS)
• Dacic: Serbia has shown responsibility in acceptance, treatment of migrants (Beta/RTS)
• Government gives guarantees for Ratko Mladic (Tanjug)
• Pavlopolus: Greece not changing stand on Kosovo (RTS)

REGIONAL PRESS

Bosnia & Herzegovina
• RS President again expresses aspiration for territorial unity of B&H and Serbia (N1/Hayat)
• Speakers Kristo and Colak meet US Embassy’s Conway, EUD’s Field to talk about changes to Law on Elections (Dnevni list)
• ITA SB postpones voting on excise duties by Wednesday (ATV)
Croatia
• Croatia protests to Serbia over monument to JNA major (Hina)
• Serbian Minister’s “Civil War” statement causes protests (Vecernji list)
• Slovenian officials at odds over policy towards Croatia (T portal)
• Croatian soldiers to arrive in Poland as part of NATO mission (N1)
Montenegro
• Bugajski: Joint arrangement for Podgorica and Belgrade impossible (Pobjeda)
fYROM
• Suto Orizari mayor Elvis Bajram injured in fight (MIA)
• Dimitrov: The question of identity will play no part in the upcoming negotiations (Meta)
Albania
• President receives Head of CoE Office in Tirana (ATA)

INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Joining the EU is a marathon, says Serbian PM (EurActiv)
• Greece welcomes Balkan countries to Europe, but not their problems: Greek president
• (Xinhua)
• Russia delivers two of six promised MiG-29 fighter jets to Serbia – ministry (TASS)
• Russian-Serbian Joint Aviation Drills Kick Off in Central Russia – MoD (Sputnik)

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Belgrade Media Report 04 October 2017

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United Nations Office in Belgrade

Daily Media Highlights

Wednesday 4 October 2017

LOCAL PRESS

• Vucic: I do not expect EU reaction (TV Prva/Beta/B92)
• Djuric: Are other rules valid for the Serbs in everything? (RTS)
• EU: Kosovo a sui generis case, no double standards (Tanjug)
• Mihajlovic: Nis-Pristina highway currently higher priority than connecting Nis with the Ibar main road (Beta)
• Kosovo flag at session of parliamentary Committee for Kosovo and Metohija (Politika)
• Jeremic: Serbia will have to choose in 2018 between consenting to Kosovo joining the UN and aggravation of relations with the world (RTV)

REGIONAL PRESS

Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Dodik: International community demonstrates double standards on example of referendum in Catalonia (Srna)
• B&H officials react to Dodik’s and Dacic’s statments (N1)
• Radmanovic says RS opposes membership in NATO, claims RS wants independence but not outside of Dayton (Nezavisne)
• Softic says indirect election of B&H Presidency members is acceptable for SDA (TV1)
• Opposition parties in RS to file criminal report against Director of Official Gazette of RS
• Veselinovic for delays in publishing of decision on referendum (EuroBlic)
• International officials in B&H emphasize importance of adoption of excise duties on fuel (TV1)
Montenegro
• DPS proposal on the dialogue coming soon (RTCG)
fYROM
• Chichakovski has called upon the political parties to stop all incidents (Meta)
• MoI: No tolerance of any incident during election campaign (MIA)
• EU: Macedonia institutions to provide conditions for credible local elections (MIA)
• Hoyt Yee: Establishing accountability for wiretaps important for NATO, EU accession (TV Alsat M)
• FM Dimitrov meets OSCE High Commissioner Zannier (MIA)
Albania
• Jean Asselborn: 2018 May be a very good year for negotiations; Any comparison to Crimea, Kosovo and Catalonia is ungrounded (ATA)
• Coalition with Albanians, Rama’s special invitation (ATA)
• Electoral Reform/ DP proposes a new formula (ATA)

INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Balkan leaders back Serbia’s bid to join European Union (Reuters)
• Prime Minister Tudose says Romania, Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia can be EU’s defence wall (Agerpres)
• Rinkēvičs: Alignment with EU foreign policy of utmost importance for candidate states (European Western Balkans)

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Heldt: Serb municipalities Association should establish in a natural manner (RTK)

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The German Ambassador to Kosovo, Christian Heldt, said that Kosovo has to establish the Association of Serb-majority Municipalities, that would enable integration of the Serb community. On the other hand, he added, Serbia should implement the agreements reached with Kosovo during the dialogue mediated by the EU. Creation of the Association of Serb-majority Municipalities is […]

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Vetevendosje’s request to re-vote motion on Rikalo, rejected (Koha)

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The plenary session of the Assembly of Kosovo started today with the request of the Vetevendosje’s MP, Liburn Aliu, to revote LDK’s motion for dismissal of the Minister for Agriculture, Nenad Rikalo. Head of today’s session, Xhavit Haliti, explained that voting of the motion concluded during Tuesday’s session, and told Aliu to make a new […]

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Danielsson reminds Kosovo of two visa liberalization criteria (Koha)

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Christian Danielsson, the European Commission Director General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations, said during his visit to Pristina today in order to get visa liberalization Kosovo must meet the two remaining criteria: the fight against organized crime and corruption and ratifying the border demarcation deal with Montenegro. “These criteria are known and we advise you […]

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Pristina’s bid not on agenda of UNESCO Executive Board (B92, RTS)

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Pristina is yet to officially apply for UNESCO membership, and that is why the topic has not been included in the session of organization’s Executive Board. The session, which started on Wednesday, will determine the agenda for the General Conference that will be held in November, RTS is reporting. Since UNESCO’s plenary meetings will start […]

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Sending a letter to the European Commission is for internal use (Danas)

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The decision of the Government and the president of the state that Serbia sends a letter to the European Commission with a series of questions regarding the position of the Commission that the cases of Catalonia and Kosovo cannot be compared, is irresponsible and serves for internal political use, representatives of the opposition say, write […]

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Kosovo Assembly approves IPA agreement (Koha)

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Members of the Kosovo Assembly approved the agreement on the Instrument of Pre-Accession which enables Kosovo access to over € 70 million assistance from the EU. The agreement received the support of all MPs present at the session.

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“Double standards triple our suffering” – Serbian President (TV Prva, B92)

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Aleksandar Vucic says that the suffering of Serbia has been tripled because of the double standards employed by “those whose part our country wants to become.” The Serbian president spoke late on Tuesday after his meeting with high-ranking representatives of Romania, Bulgaria and Greece in Varna, Bulgaria, and added that these three countries are “very […]

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Simic: Atmosphere of lynch against Rikalo, without arguments (KIM Radio)

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Kosovo MP, Slavko Simic harshly criticized some politicians in the Kosovo Assembly yesterday, saying they create “an atmosphere of lynch” against Minister of Agriculture, Nenad Rikalo, KIM Radio reported. “Such an atmosphere is created through the media, without any arguments. The aim is to divert attention from the everyday issues and political failures. Certain MPs […]

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Belgrade prepares a letter: EU to reconsider decision on Kosovo (Večernje Novosti)

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Belgrade is preparing a letter which will be forwarded to 22 countries of the European Union after the Catalonia case. Belgrade will invite 22 EU member states to reconsider the decision to recognize Kosovo’s unilaterally declared independence, as Catalonia is an obvious example of their mistake, Večernje Novosti writes today. Novosti writes that this will […]

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Ivanovic and Milovic: It is dangerous that Djuric divides Serbs in Kosovo (BETA, Kontakt plus radio)

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Mayoral candidates for Mitrovica North and Zvecan municipalities, Oliver Ivanovic and Dragisa Milovic, criticized yesterday a call of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo Director, Marko Djuric to the Kosovo Serbs to support Srpska Lista in the local elections, scheduled for 22 October, Kontakt plus radio reported. They said that divisions Djuric is talking about […]

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