Belgrade Media Report 12 July
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Wednesday 12 July 2017
LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic to launch a broad dialogue on Kosovo in September (Novosti)
• Serbia supports OSCE in fight against terrorism (Beta)
• Orizio praises Serbia’s efforts to handle migrant crisis (Beta)
• Cadez: Economy to be central topic of Trieste summit (Tanjug)
• Djuric re-appointed Head of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija (RTS/FoNet)
REGIONAL PRESS
• Zvizdic to attend 2017 Western Balkans Summit (TV1)
• RS government accepts Draft Treaty establishing SEE Transport Community under certain conditions (RTRS)
• Holding of Trieste summit questionable due to arrogance of RS (Dnevni avaz)
• Prosecutor’s Office of B&H terminates investigation against Dodik, Cvijanovic in referendum case (ATV)
• Dodik and Covic meeting: We discussed cooperation at all levels (Klix.ba)
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Croatia
• Slovenian FM: If I were PM, I would not receive Plenkovic (Hina/STA)
Montenegro
• Becic’s policy of “youth and courage” short-lived (CDM)
• “A mystery”: If Serbia finds where Marovic is, he will be arrested (CDM)
fYROM
• FM Dimitrov says he regrets Dacic’s statement (MIA)
• Trilateral meeting Tsipras – Vucic – Borisov in Thessaloniki, Macedonia will be one of the topics (Meta)
• Pence speaks on the phone with Zaev, Tsipras (MIA)
• MEP Vajgl: New Macedonia’s government aware of need for serious approach to reforms (MIA)
• Government dismisses steering and supervisory boards in public sector (MIA)
Albania
• 2017 Western Balkans Summit – stepping up regional cooperation to advance on the European Union path (ATA)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Mogherini: Berlin Process is not a substitute for the EU enlargement (European Western Balkans)
Read More →Merkel and Macron Sweeten EU Path for Volatile Western Balkans (Bloomberg)
The leaders of some of the European Union’s biggest economies, including Germany’s Angela Merkel, will offer the western Balkan countries new incentives to join the world’s largest trading bloc and stabilize the continent’s most volatile region. https://bloom.bg/2tMhF2x
Read More →Serbia Pays Off Kosovo’s Billion Euro Debt (Balkan Insight)
Although Kosovo fought to break away from Serbia in 1999 and proclaimed independence in 2008, Serbia continues to pay off its foreign debt because it considers the former province a part of its own territory. http://bit.ly/2tMAq6i
Read More →Ministry of Interior leads work on drafting new anti-terrorism strategy (RTK)
Kosovo’s Ministry of Interior has begun work on drafting a new strategy against terrorism that will cover the period from 2017 to 2022. The work will be led by Deputy Minister Valdet Hoxha who also exercises the post of National Anti-Terrorism Coordinator. Hoxha thanked all relevant local and international institutions for their contribution in implementation […]
Read More →Hahn: One billion euro for the Western Balkans (DW)
In an interview for Deutsche Welle, the European Union Commissioner for European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn, said the ongoing Trieste summit for the Western Balkans is aimed at providing as many concrete results as possible. He mentioned in this respect a number of projects the EU plans to fund in the field […]
Read More →Hoti: We won’t give way to people that lack progressive ideas (media)
Abdullah Hoti, Prime Minister candidate from the LDK-AKR-Alternativa coalition, said today that Kosovo’s political landscape is full of politicians that have personal problems and forget about the fact that it is the people that have voted them to their positions. In a Facebook post, Hoti said the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) would not give […]
Read More →Haliti: PAN coalition has required votes to form new government (Zeri)
Xhavit Haliti, member of the chairmanship of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), told the daily today that the PDK-AAK-NISMA (PAN) coalition has the required votes to form a new government. “Only the leaders of the two parties can talk in detail about the current situation, but according to the information I have the coalition […]
Read More →Gjetaj: We cannot be proud of our work on missing persons (Koha)
Families of missing persons are not satisfied with the work that has been done so far because the number of missing persons remains very high, the news website reports. Prenk Gjetaj, chairman of the Kosovo government’s committee for missing persons, told reporters in Pristina today that so far only 9 mortal remains have been found […]
Read More →Marko Djuric appointed as acting director of the Office for Kosovo (RTS)
The Government of Serbia has decided to reappoint Marko Djuric as Acting Director of the Government Office for Kosovo, in duration of three months, RTS reported quoting the Official Gazette. At the same session held on 6th July 2017, the Serbian Government also appointed 3 Acting Deputy Directors and 4 acting director’s assistants for the […]
Read More →Kosovo police seized 918 Serbian health cards (KoSSev, RTV Puls)
Kosovo police officers seized 918 new health cards on Monday from the director of the branch of the Republic Health Insurance Fund for the municipality of Gnjilane, Jovica Antić. The cards were seized about 15 hours at the administrative border Bela Zemlja, reported RTV Puls. According to Antić, he was returning from central Serbia with an […]
Read More →“Vucic to launch state dialogue on Kosovo in September” (BETA, Novosti, B92)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will launch in September “a state dialogue on Kosovo,” something he announced at the start of his presidential mandate. Beta is reporting this today, citing an article in the daily Vecernje Novosti. The newspaper said that Vucic will invite all parliamentary parties to these consultations, as well as representatives of the […]
Read More →Coleman: It’s important that people return to their homes (RTK2)
Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Kosovo Christopher Coleman said in Novobërdë/Novo Brdo that UNMIK supports the return but also building trust among communities in Kosovo, and announced further support in this regard. Novobërdë/Novo Brdo is the twentieth municipality in Kosovo visited by Christopher Coleman with his delegation. This time, he received […]
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