Belgrade Media Reports 22 May
LOCAL PRESS
• Pristina drops probe into suspected killers of 14 Serbs (Tanjug/B92)
• Djuric: Message that it is permitted to murder Serbs in our southern province (Tanjug)
• Kuburovic: Decision disgraceful (Tanjug)
• Serbian government offers strong support to Serb List (RTS)
• Dacic: Migrant crisis handled with respect to human rights; No progress in respect for human rights in Kosovo (Beta/Tanjug)
• Vucic receives Slutsky (Tanjug/Beta)
• Blue berets off to mission in Lebanon (Beta)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• US Embassy to B&H: Yee’s statements on Balkans mention issues of importance for peace and security (N1)
• Dodik: In case of increased interventionism, B&H will fall apart (RTRS)
• Yee’s statement causes a number of reactions (ATV/RTRS)
• Can opposition ensure majority for removal of government? (Oslobodjenje)
• Croatia will help us reactivate Herzeg-Bosnia (Nezavisne)
Croatia
• The first round of local elections in Croatia took place on Sunday (HRT)
• Plenkovic says HDZ satisfied with overall results of local polls (Hina)
• Expelled Serbs asked to pay for removal of their destroyed homes (Srna)
Montenegro
• Vujanovic: Russia will accept our membership in NATO (MINA/Pobjeda)
• Hagleitner: EU expects Montenegrin leadership and opposition to find a solution (MINA)
fYROM
• Zaev and Ahmeti have agreed to intensify the number of meetings (Meta)
• Spasovski: The new government should be based on principles and not on imposing conditions (Meta)
Albania
• U.S. Congressman Michael Turner congratulates President-elect Ilir Meta (ATA)
• President sets 25 June as new general elections date (ATA)
• Albanian parliament to convene for extraordinary session on Monday (ATA)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• How Kosovo Poisoned America’s Relationship with Russia (The National Interest)
Read More →Haradinaj: The border is in Cakorr, and it will remain there (Kallxo.com)
During the meeting with people of Prizren, candidate of the PDK-AAK-NISMA pre-election coalition, Ramush Haradinaj, spoke about the demarcation of the border with Montenegro. He said that he would not allow having a weak Kosovo that could be held hostage by Serbia, as it happened in the case of Kosovo’s army. “We do not want […]
Read More →Haziri: We are waiting for CEC to publish the candidates’ lists (Zeri)
Media speculated today publishing several lists with the names of the candidates for MPs from the LDK-AKR-Alternative pre-election coalition. However, deputy leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) Lutfi Haziri, said these lists are not official. In an announcement for the media, Haziri said that only Central Election Commission can make the lists of […]
Read More →Rašić: Authorities not to divide Kosovo Serbs (KIM radio)
President of the Progressive Democratic Party Nenad Rašić says that Belgrade umpteenth time divides Serbs in Kosovo, by supporting a single list. “Serbs should take responsibility for their lives, and representatives of the state should not support one list and further separate the Serbs,” said Rašić. According to him, he never talked to anyone in the […]
Read More →Journalists Stampede to Join Parties in Kosovo
The last few weeks have seen a veritable rush of journalists, analysts and civil society activists joining political parties in Kosovo, a month before the snap elections are due to take place. The latest journalist to make the transfer into politics in the country is renowned journalist and chief of Kosovo’s Radio Free Europe service, […]
Read More →Serbs in six columns: Political pluralism or disunity? (RTK2)
Unlike the last parliamentary elections three years ago, when the political representatives of the Serbs appeared jointly in elections, in the scheduled elections on June 11, will participate six Serbian lists, or five political parties and one coalition. Does this means that the Serbs are no longer united, or their separate functioning is going to […]
Read More →Đurić: Elections of fateful importance for the future of the Serbian people (Danas, N1)
In Kosovo on June 11 are scheduled elections of fateful importance for the Serbian people in Kosovo and only the Serbian list can guarantee that an army of Kosovo will not be formed, this was said at a press conference after a meeting of representatives of the Serbian List and Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić, writes […]
Read More →Pristina drops probe into suspected killers of 14 Serbs (B92)
The Special Prosecution in Pristina has stopped the investigation into all persons suspected of killing 14 Serb farmers in Staro Gracko in July 1999. The Serbs were gunned down from close proximity in this village near the town of Lipljan in Kosovo, while out harvesting their fields. Tanjug reported on Friday that an international prosecutor […]
Read More →How Kosovo Poisoned America’s Relationship with Russia (The National Interest)
Washington, DC perpetuated and deepened its Balkan blunder a few years after the Bosnia intervention when it intervened in Kosovo. Civil strife in Serbia’s restless, predominantly Albanian province, simmered and then flared in the mid-and late-1990s. This time, Washington didn’t even make a gesture of deferring to the leading European states, but took the policy […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 21 May
• Haradinaj and Mustafa clash in distance (KTV)
• Ymeri cancels Kurti’s arrest warrant, judge denies (KTV)
• Serb candidates for MP guarantee non-establishment of Kosovo Army (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Ivanovic: Division of Kosovo Serbs suits enemies (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Expatriates face difficulties registering as voters for 11 June elections (KTV)
• Women discriminated in job vacancies (KTV)
UNMIK Headlines 22 May
Parties don’t heed appeals to ‘clean’ election ballots (Koha Ditore)
PDK and LDK continue to keep their ballots under wraps (Zeri)
Daka: Problems with diaspora voters due to snap elections (Koha Ditore)
Veseli: Elections called because of government’s lack of vision (Zeri)
Kurti presents Vetevendosje’s political programme (dailies)
Haradinaj promises visa liberalisation in three months’ time (Kosova Sot)
Pacolli: With Vetevendosje after elections (Zeri)
“Serbian List would prevent creation of Kosovo’s army” (Lajmi)
Apostolova: Kosovo decides on whether to renegotiate demarcation (RTK)
Thaci travels to Austria to meet President Van der Bellen (RTK)
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