Belgrade Media Report 05 July
LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic: Balkans to act united when Europe doesn’t act that way (RTS/Tanjug)
• Vucic: Kosovo most significant topic in all discussions (RTS/Tanjug)
• Djuric: Albanians can’t do anything without talks with Serbia (TV Pink/Tanjug)
• Serb stabbed in northern Kosovo (Radio Kontakt Plus/B92)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• SDA’s Kapetanovic calls statements on alleged spying in B&H paranoia; Other comments (N1)
• Turkey’s Defense Minister Canikli pays official visit to B&H (TV1)
• RS government allowed the RS CPA to participate in NATO’s exercise in Serbia, although the RS Assembly adopted the resolution on military neutrality (BNTV)
• Because of third entity in B&H, Covic targeted by the US (EuroBlic)
Croatia
• Bosnia demands return of its property in Croatia (Hina)
fYROM
• Parliament endorses law ratifying name agreement in second vote (MIA)
• Zaev urges President Ivanov to sign law ratifying name agreement (MIA)
• Zaev meets British Foreign Office delegation (MIA)
• Zaev: It’s an honor to serve your country as NATO member (MIA)
• Angjusev and Mancevski attend Western Balkans Summit in Vienna (MIA)
• No confirmation for Zaev-Tsipras meeting in London (MIA)
• Macedonian-Bulgarian joint multidisciplinary commission holds first session (MIA)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Macedonian government rated most transparent in the Western Balkans (bne IntelliNews)
Read More →Djuric condemned the attack on a young man in Priluzje village (RTK2)
Director of the Office for KiM Marko Djuric strongly condemns the attack on Serb young man in the village of Priluzje near Vucitrn and seek from the competent authorities and the international community to find perpetrators and “prevent further escalation of violence against Serbs in Kosovo”. “After the recent wounding of Aleksandar Jeftic in Suvi […]
Read More →The Status of the ZSO at the end, the European Union silent (Vecernje Novosti)
According to the deadline set by the European Union, the Draft Statute should be presented in Brussels on 4 August, but a new meeting of technical teams at the EU headquarters has not yet been scheduled, or the continuation of dialogue at the highest political level, Vecernje Novosti writes today. Vecernje Novosti reports that in […]
Read More →Vllasi doesn’t see Kosovo-Serbia dialogue ending soon (media)
Azem Vllasi, Pristina-based lawyer and advisor to Kosovo President Hashim Thaci, said in an interview to TV Prva that he does not see dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia ending soon. He said it is unreasonable to talk about Kosovo’s status because it was settled in 2008. “Kosovo is an independent state and no one should […]
Read More →Kosovo premier complains of Serb pressure on security forces (Washington Post)
By Associated PressJuly 5 at 6:10 AM PRISTINA, Kosovo — Kosovo’s prime minister is complaining that Serbia is using “pressure and blackmail” to persuade ethnic Serbs to resign from the security forces. https://wapo.st/2lTPuM7
Read More →Haradinaj: Serb KSF members facing direct pressure from Belgrade (Klan Kosova)
Prime Minister of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, called an extraordinary meeting of the National Security Council today to discuss security situation in face of, as he said, Belgrade’s pressure on Serb members of the Kosovo Security Force. Haradinaj said after the meeting that the government has been aware for a while now of cases of intimidation […]
Read More →Trepca workers protest in front of Assembly building (media)
Several online media report that hundreds of workers of the Trepca mining complex are protesting in front of the Kosovo Assembly building in Pristina demanding their rights. Protesters are asking to meet with Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj and Assembly President Kadri Veseli. Among their demands are: pensions of 70 percent of their salaries, the law […]
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