Belgrade Media Report 21 June 2018
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Thursday 21 June 2018
LOCAL PRESS
• Brnabic: Frozen conflict “no solution for Kosovo” (B92)
• MPs in the Parliament comment statement by the PM regarding KiM (RTS)
• Vucic: There’s no stick that can make me listen to rubbish (B92)
• Djuric: We are going to Brussels to fight for Serbia (RTS)
• Djuric: Kosovo isn’t Thaci’s to give away (Tanjug)
• Liberia annuls letter of recognition of Kosovo (B92)
• Dacic: Thaci wants to set borders because they do not exist (Beta, Tanjug)
• Objections to Serbia in the EU Progress Report (RTS)
• Dacic: We have not congratulated Macedonia because there is nothing to congratulate (Beta)
• Vucic with Croatian envoy: Missing persons most important humanitarian issue (B92, Beta)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Federation of B&H HoR adopts amendments to Law on Constituencies and Number of Mandates in Federation of B&H Parliament (N1)
• Izetbegovic: Opportunity for temporary solution missed because of HDZ B&H’s rejection (Dnevni list)
• RTRS claims to have documents of foreign intelligence agencies which prove that foreigners meddle in internal politics in B&H (RTRS)
• Ivantsov: Opinions about Russian influence in B&H are just malicious (RTRS)
• EC submits more than 600 follow-up questions to B&H (TV1)
Croatia
• US and Croatia discuss global security and Europe’s energy diversification (Hina)
Montenegro
• Hahn welcomed Becic and Abazovic (CDM)
• Becic and Abazovic want radical reform of the election law (Pobjeda)
fYROM
• Parliament sends name deal to Ivanov (MIA)
• Dimitrov: President is obliged to sign bill after second Parliament vote (MIA)
• Ivanov: I stick to my position on name agreement, initiate impeachment procedure (MIA)
• Macedonia’s invitation to be officially discussed at the NATO Summit in Brussels (MIA)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• EU Ministers approve Albania’s accession negotiations (Top Channel)
Read More →Office for KiM: Falsified statistics cannot be concealed (RTS, Tanjug)
International organizations whose job is to enable the return of internally displaced persons from Kosovo and Metohija to their places of origin, failed in every sense, and there is no falsified statistics and methodology that can conceal this fact, Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija said in a written statement. “We urge both Pristina […]
Read More →Pacolli: Liberia has not withdrawn recognition (media)
Kosovo’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Behgjet Pacolli, has rebutted the news coming from Serbian officials that Liberia has withdrawn recognition of Kosovo. Pacolli said he has had a telephone conversation with Libera’s senior officials who according to him, confirmed that this state has not changed its position toward Kosovo. “Therefore, it is to regret that […]
Read More →UNHCR refutes Jevtic’s statement about 200,000 IDPs from Kosovo (Koha)
The paper reports on page two that Kosovo’s Deputy Prime Minister Dalibor Jevtic has joined statements by Belgrade officials saying that there are 200,000 Serb IDPs that cannot return to Kosovo. The Kosovo government did not comment on Jevtic’s remarks, but they were refuted by the UNHCR Office in Kosovo. The latter told the paper […]
Read More →U.S. Ambassador Delawie meets Vetevendosje leader Kurti (media)
The United States Ambassador in Pristina, Greg Delawie, met on Wednesday with Vetevendosje leader Albin Kurti in a tete-a-tete meeting, which according to Koha Ditore is the first of its kind. A press release issued by Vetevendosje after the meeting quoted Kurti as saying that they discussed the functioning of Kosovo’s institutions in line with […]
Read More →Delawie: 2018, a year of success in dialogue with Serbia (RTK)
The U.S. Ambassador to Kosovo, Greg Delawie expressed optimism with regard to the results of Pristina – Belgrade dialogue, mediated by the European Union. “The EU High Representative Federica Mogherini, Presidents Aleksandar Vucic and Hashim Thaci, will continue their work on comprehensive normalisation phase of Belgrade – Pristina dialogue, take stock of existing agreements, inform […]
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