Belgrade Media Report 26 April
LOCAL PRESS
• Nikolic: EU membership only if there is no requirement for recognition of Kosovo (Tanjug/Novosti)
• Dacic, Mikser: Statements about Albanian unification worrying (Tanjug)
• Turkey behind provocative statements (Novosti)
• Joksimovic: I don’t expect Serbia’s EU accession to be conditioned with recognition of Kosovo (Beta)
• Musliu: Rama is my president, not Vucic (TV Prva)
• Telenor and VIP to stop broadcasting signals as of 1 May (Beta/FoNet/RTS)
• Pristina University to remain in Serbian education system (Politika)
• Students join protesters in Savamala district (Danas)
• Conference on Serbia-NATO cooperation organized at Hotel Moskva (N1)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• RS CC’s Vital Interest Protection Council rules that RSNA’s decision on referendum results does not violate Bosniak people’s VNI (TV1)
• Sepic expelled from SDA, three “renegade” MPs leave SDA Caucus (TV1)
• Chaos in SDA deepens crisis in state-level authorities (Glas Srpske)
• Daily slams OHR for failure to react to Croats’ announcements on annulment of Washington and Dayton Agreements and Bosniaks’ rattling weapons (EuroBlic)
Montenegro
• Legislative committee on NATO on Thursday (RTCG)
• Milic: Parliament sitting on Friday to be like the one held on 12 July 1941 (Pobjeda)
fYROM
• Parliament continues filibustered debate on the Tirana platform (MIA)
• Gruevski: VMRO-DPMNE calls for early elections to remove the post-electoral fraud (MIA)
• SDSM: There will be new government, no fresh elections (MIA)
• Instead of new elections, a new government should be formed, says Plomp, Staffansson and Jazbec (Meta)
• Hoyt Yee will arrive in Skopje to meet with political leaders (Meta)
Albania
• Rama and Meta meet EP envoys Mc Allister and Fleckenstein (ATA)
• Basha prior to meeting with MEPs McAllister and Fleckenstein: I will only represent citizens’ interest (ATA)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Thousands protest against Serb government and flagship project (Reuters)
• Russia Is Trying, But It Can’t Stop NATO Entry, Montenegro Says (Bloomberg)
Opposition to object demarcation “by force” (RFE)
Representatives of the opposition political parties have threatened that they would use “all means” to prevent ratification of the agreement for the border demarcation with Montenegro. These statements came after the meeting between the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa with the European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos, who appealed to […]
Read More →Balkan States Suffer Decline in Media Freedom (Balkan Insight)
Reporters Without Borders’ latest World Press Freedom Index says media freedoms are diminishing in several Balkan countries, with Croatia and Serbia registering the worst declines over the past year. Reporters Without Borders, which campaigns for media freedom and journalists’ rights, said in its 2017 World Press Freedom Index, published on Wednesday, that there have been […]
Read More →Thaci: Serbia’s Russian MIGs are threat for EU, not my statements (Lajmi.net)
The President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, responded today to the criticism of the EU officials who consider Thaci’s statement on national unification, a threat for the EU. He said that Serbian nationalism is a threat to the EU and not his statements. “Serbian nationalism is a threat to the EU. It is Belgrade that is […]
Read More →Decan/Decane historians to block the road at Monastery (Klan Kosova)
The Association of Kosovo Historians “Ali Hadri” Decan/Decane branch, has informed that they will peacefully block the road to the Decani Monastery on Friday, 28 April 2017, from 11:00 to 12:00 hours. According to them, this blockade of the road represents objection to the decisions of Kosovo justice institutions, which are trying to recognize in […]
Read More →Ahtisaari: Continue dialogue with Serbia (Gazeta Metro)
The UN Special Envoy during the Vienna dialogue, Marti Ahtisaari, has stressed the importance of the continuance of the dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia. On a video transmission during a seminar organized by the Embassy of Finland to Kosovo, on the occasion of the 100 anniversary of the Finish state, Ahtisaari said that dialogue is […]
Read More →Haradinaj cannot be extradited to Albania (RTS, KIM radio)
The fact that Ramush Haradinaj has received citizenship of Albania is not essential to the process in Colmar, said Ministry of Justice to RTS, explaining that Haradinaj cannot be sent to Albania only because he acquired the citizenship of that country, because it is not a basis for seeking his extradition. The Court of Appeal […]
Read More →Three cars burned in North Mitrovica (KoSSev)
Three cars have burned early this morning in northern Mitrovica in the vicinity of the student dormitory, reported KoSSev. Head of Operations of the Kosovo Police for the North Željko Bojić confirmed that North police station received a report on the fire this morning, and that preliminary findings, according to the investigation, show that it […]
Read More →“Turkey is behind ‘Greater Albania’ ideas in Balkans” (B92, Vecernje Novosti)
There is suspicion that Turkish intelligence is behind the statements about the redrawing borders in the Balkans and “the spread of the Greater Albania idea.” The Belgrade-based newspaper Vecernje Novosti is reporting this, adding that the treats against Serbia that have been arriving from Tirana, Pristina and Presevo in a synchronized manner, have been prepared […]
Read More →Kosovo Ruling Party Officials Hint at Snap Polls (Balkan Insight)
Politicians from Kosovo’s ruling coalition predicted that the ruling alliance of parties could split soon and that there could be snap elections in the country. http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/kosovo-ruling-officials-hint-possible-snap-polls-04-25-2017
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 25 April
• Mustafa’s proposal fails in Brussels, Demarcation required for visas (All monitored broadcasters, TV21)
• Thaçi: Serbia’s re-actualisation of Greater Albania aimed at destabilizing Kosovo (RTK)
• Lunacek: Nationalist rhetoric does not solve any problems (TV21)
• Serbian mobile operators interrupt their signals in Kosovo (KTV)
• MPs criticize RTK management (KTV)
• Finances, obstacle for implementation of Law on transmission digitalisation (TV21)
• Haradinaj: Serbia’s extradition request a direct invitation to war (Summary of KTV Rubicon show)
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 26 April
• EU rejects request of suspension of the demarcation criteria (Epoka e Re)
• Thaci: EU should not be manipulated so easily by Serbia (Kosovapress)
• “UN chief not pleased with Kosovo-Serbia dialogue” (Presheva Jone)
• KSF transformation bill to be submitted to Assembly (Zeri)
• Holding two elections, within a year, challenging for CEC (Epoka)
• Gecaj: There is no indication about breakup of PDK-LDK coalition (Koha)
• Gashi: If coalition breaks up, we will request Thaci’s resignation (Koha)
• Lekaj: Haradinaj extradition means destabilization of Kosovo, Balkans (Epoka)
• Daut Haradinaj to be sued for “ethnically clean Kosovo” statement (Kosova Sot)
• Kosovo and Serbia MPs meet in north of Kosovo (Klan Kosova)
• Border police commander’s vehicle set on fire near Leposavic (Kosovapress)
• Special Court to deliver judgment on rules of procedure and evidence (media)
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