Belgrade Media Report 13 March 2018
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Tuesday 13 March 2018
LOCAL PRESS
• Drecun: The region does not need to be on the line of fire between the US and Russia (RTS)
• Djuric: Internal dialogue on Kosovo and Metohija woke up Serbia (Tanjug)
• Miscevic: We will be ready to open five chapters by end of March (Tanjug)
• Serbia in particular concerns US Europe commander (B92)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• HNS Main Council discusses amending of Election Law of B&H (N1)
• Kristo: OHR is cause of problems with Law on Elections (RTRS)
• Izetbegovic: I expect from OHR and IC to help in amending of Election Law of B&H (TV1)
• Cvijanovic: We fell for OHR’s enormous deceit (Nezavisne)
• Dodik: We are interested in amendments to B&H Election Law, but imposing of solutions by OHR would surely lead to dissolution of B&H (TV1)
• Parliamentary majority at level of B&H does not exist (EuroBlic)
Croatia
• Plenkovic denies he will run for European Commission President; talks about the Istanbul Convention (Hina)
fYROM
• Zaev: Mitchell’s visit – a support for Macedonia’s NATO and EU accession bid (MIA)
• Ivanov, Zvizdic Macedonian, B&H nationals to cross border only with identity card (MIA)
• Dimitrov: Macedonia wants to solve name dispute, but it’s not only up to us (MIA)
• Czaputowicz: Poland supports Macedonia’s aspiration to join EU, NATO (MIA)
Albania
• Suspicious electoral campaign funding, Basha answers to SP accuses (ADN)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Suspects Evade Justice as Prosecutors Ignore UN War Files (BIRN)
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The Western Balkans “clearly see much more in us than we ourselves see in our Union,” says European Commission (EC) President Jean Claude Juncker. In his address to the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday, Juncker stressed that “each of the Western Balkan partners must continue their reform path, especially when […]
Read More →Kosovo leaders meet Slovenian FM (media)
Kosovo Assembly President Kadri Veseli and Kosovo’s Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, met today with Slovenia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Karl Erjevec. They both talked about the good spirit of cooperation between Kosovo and Slovenia and stressed that Slovenia is one of the greatest investors in Kosovo. PM Haradinaj requested continuance of […]
Read More →Classes in primary school in Gracanica in dining room, hallway, and teachers’ room (KIM radio)
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The building of the elementary school in Gracanica, Kralj Milutin (King Milutin), beside the pupils of that school, is a place and for pupils of two secondary schools as well as the pupils of elementary music school, reports KIM radio. The director of this school, Vladimir Milkic, told KIM Radio that this situation lasts since […]
Read More →Sheholli: Arrests for Ivanovic murder soon (KIM Radio)
Information from relevant Kosovo institutions say it is a matter of weeks or days when those suspected of killing Oliver Ivanovic would be arrested, an analyst Fatmir Sheholli, from the Institute for Affirmation of Interethnic Relations said today, KIM Radio reported. Sheholli made these remarks in Caglavica while presenting the report “Uncovering the Enemy Within […]
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