Todosijevic and Markaryan discussed protection of community rights (Radio Kosovska Mitrovica)
Read More →Todosijevic and Markaryan discussed protection of community rights (Radio Kosovska Mitrovica)
Kosovo Minister for Local Governance and Administration, Ivan Todosijevic and Head of UNMIK’s Office for Community Support, Leonid Markaryan discussed today functioning of local self-governance and municipal structures responsible for the protection of community rights. Appointments of deputy mayors for communities and the role of the local municipal offices for communities in Kosovo were also […]
Read More →Belgrade Media Report 20 February 2018
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Tuesday 20 February 2018
LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic: My stand about Kosovo at the end of April (Tanjug/TV Happy)
• Djuric: Silence is sometimes a source of instability (Tanjug)
• Djuric: There has been intellectual mobilization regarding the issue of resolving the Kosovo problem (RTS/Tanjug)
• If Serbia gives up Kosovo over EU it loses the right to be called a state (RTV)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Inzko: Nobody should expect from OHR to resolve issue of Law on Elections through use of Bonn powers (Vecernji list)
• Genjac: I am not optimistic that process aimed to amend Election Law of B&H will be completed successfully (TV1)
• SDA loses two prime ministers and a government in only a week (N1)
• B&H CoM delegation and Qatar PM discuss improvement of economic cooperation (FTV)
• B&H BP registers 373 migrants attempting to cross state border (Hayat/N1)
Croatia
• Declaration on Rights of Serbs in Croatia published (Hina)
• Croatia refuses to open border issue with B&H (Hina)
Montenegro
• Jovicevic ready to run for the country’s presidency (Pobjeda)
• Milacic might be the opposition’s presidential candidate? (Dan)
fYROM
• President Ivanov pays official visit to Turkey (MIA)
• Zaev-Markus: Slovakia supports Macedonia’s EU, NATO integration (MIA)
Albania
• EC: Rama’s proposal on a joint President for Albania-Kosovo, political interference (ADN)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Milorad Dodik Wants to Carve Up Bosnia. Peacefully, if Possible (New York Times)
• Bulgarian, Hungarian PMs call for infrastructural integration of Balkans into EU (Xinhua)
Internal dialogue on Kosovo: Former foreign ministers on “four don’ts” (Insajder, BETA)
Read More →Internal dialogue on Kosovo: Former foreign ministers on “four don’ts” (Insajder, BETA)
Former Serbian Foreign Minister, Vladislav Jovanovic said yesterday during the roundtable held within the framework of internal dialogue on Kosovo, that forgotten document related to the renewed accession of Serbia to the UN could be crucial in solving the Kosovo issue, Insajder portal reported. Meanwhile, his colleague Zivorad Jovanovic said Serbia should pay attention to […]
Read More →Head of Kosovo delegation in Brussels talks reports to assembly committee (media)
Read More →Head of Kosovo delegation in Brussels talks reports to assembly committee (media)
Avni Arifi, head of the Kosovo delegation in the EU-brokered talks with Belgrade, reported today to the Kosovo Assembly’s Foreign Affairs Committee. Arifi said he will insist on the implementation of all agreements reached so far. AAK MP and committee member, Time Kadrijaj, is quoted as saying in Indeksonline that it is senseless to reach […]
Read More →Jan Kavan: EU cannot use Kosovo as ultimatum (Vecernje Novosti)
Petition against the independence of Kosovo is a reminder of violence against the law, and one must not pressure Serbian side only, former head of Czech diplomacy and UN General Assembly Chairman, Jan Kavan told Vecernje Novosti daily. We have decided to sign a petition on Czech withdrawal of Kosovo recognition to once more point […]
Read More →Albania’s Edi Rama floats joint president idea in Kosovo (Deutsche Welle)
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama suggested a joint president for Albania and Kosovo, the two Albanian-majority states, during a visit to Pristina. Neighboring Serbia still claims Kosovo as its province. Kosovo and Albania currently share embassies and diplomatic missions around the world, and will have a joint foreign policy in the future, Albanian Prime Minister […]
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