Belgrade Media Report 15 July
STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS
• Dacic: UNMIK, KFOR and EULEX guarantee survival of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija (RTS)
• Dacic presents priorities of Serbian OSCE chairmanship (Tanjug)
• Serbs closer to Haradinaj? (Novosti)
• Joksimovic: We will adapt to the EU foreign policy (Tanjug)
• French Friends (Politika)
STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS
• New negotiations after elections (Fena)
• Dodik: Hill is a pathological liar (Srna)
• Raguz: Time for people who can introduce new political dimension in B&H (Nezavisne novine)
• Nuland: U.S. will strongly support name dispute resolution process in the UN (Republika)
RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Kosovo Opposition Fails to Create United Front (BIRN)
• Deutsche Welle: Turkish PM to protect Bosnians with 100 mln Turks (Focus News Agency)
• Bosnian Serb Leader Backs Israel’s Gaza Operation (Israel News)
• Montenegro’s Capital Stuck in Political Limbo (BIRN)
• EU Facilitated Dialogue Model Won’t Resolve Macedonia, Bosnia Logjams (BIRN)
• Is Macedonia on the Brink of Another Ethnic Conflict? (The VICE)
Exclusive: This is how Arsim Bajrami is preparing Flora Brovina for Thursday’s session (GazetaBlic)
The Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), is already preparing the scenario for the constitutive session of the Assembly of Kosovo on Thursday. Sources of this portal within PDK, reportedly said that PDK jurists chaired by Arsim Bajrami are preparing the scenario on the flow of the session. According to this source, this group is preparing […]
Read More →Milk producers spill milk in front of government building (Koha)
Hundreds of milk producers and their associations have protested today in Pristina demanding better conditions and greater support for local farmers. Protesters spilled several hundred liters of milk in front of the government building. “We have gathered here to express our outrage and disappointment because of the negligence of Kosovo institutions to resolve problems that […]
Read More →Haradinaj: No agreement with Vetevendosje yet (Gazeta Express/Koha)
Ramush Haradinaj, leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), told reporters in Pristina that an agreement between the opposition coalition and the Vetevendosje Movement has not been reached yet. Haradinaj said this after the opposition bloc met with representatives of non-Serb minorities. Haradinaj, the opposition’s candidate for the post of prime minister, […]
Read More →“Forgotten” economy (Kosova Sot)
The paper observes in its front-page editorial that despite the increase of salaries in the public sector, there are no visible signs of Kosovo’s economic revival. The private sector has been neglected and without its revival, there can be no survival of the economy, the paper claims. While this hopeless situation in economy persists, politicians […]
Read More →Tomislav Nikolic: EU membership – joint goal of Serbia and Albania (Tanjug)
The President of Serbia Tomislav Nikolic conferred in Dubrovnik, where annual meeting of the heads of states of South-East Europe (SEE) is taking place, with the President of Albania Bujar Nishani and congratulated him on receiving the candidate status for the EU membership. Nikolic, carried the cabinet of the Serbian President, highlighted that Serbia pledges […]
Read More →Merkel: Germany maintains its promise (Blic)
Dubrovnik-German Chancellor Angela Merkel emphasized today in Dubrovnik that Germany maintains its promise that it will support European integration of all countries of the Western Balkan, and when speaking about some countries, she specially praised the Belgrade – Pristina dialogue. During the opening of the meeting between region state heads within the Brdo-Brioni process, Merkel […]
Read More →Kosovo is not the spitting spot for Ibrahim Rugova’s children (Koha Ditore)
Columnist Enver Robelli writes today that there is an insincere tendency on the part of the late Kosovo president Ibrahim Rugova’s family to describe his son and former MP, Uke Rugova, as a victim of a conspiracy that led to him being detained on a number of charges. A while ago, his sister and the […]
Read More →Kosovo Petitions UN to Investigate Wartime Rapes (Balkan Insight)
The Kosovo authorities and rights campaigners launched a national petition urging the United Nations to produce a report about rapes committed during the late 1990s conflict. The authorities set up tents on Monday in towns across Kosovo, excluding Serb-majority areas, where people could sign the petition calling on the UN to finally establish the facts […]
Read More →Serbian houses in Zociste burglarized (B92)
Around fifty Serbs, displaced all over Serbia, yesterday visited their burglarized houses in village Zociste near Orahovac/Rahovec. The representative of displaced Serbs Damjan Blagojevic said to Beta agency that they were escorted by the police and that the trip was facilitated by the Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo, aimed at visiting their houses on the […]
Read More →Dacic: EULEX guarantor of Serbs’ survival in Kosovo-Metohija (Politika,Blic,Tanjug)
BELGRADE – Ivica Dacic, Serbia’s first deputy prime minister and foreign minister, said on Monday in a meeting with Head of EULEX Mission in Kosovo-Metohija Bernd Borchardt that the presence of that and other international actors in Kosovo, such as UNMIK and KFOR, is a guarantor of Serbs’ survival in Kosovo-Metohija. Dacic told Borchardt that […]
Read More →“Serbia will join EU when Kosovo joins UN” (B92)
BELGRADE — German MPs visiting Belgrade last week told the country’s officials that Serbia will not start talks to join the EU until it implements the Brussels agreement. Another message they relayed was that Serbia will not join the EU “until Kosovo becomes a full-fledged member of the UN.” This is according to Konrad Adenauer […]
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