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Belgrade Media Report 07 August

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United Nations Office in Belgrade

Daily Media Highlights

Monday 7 August 2017
LOCAL PRESS

• Serbia marks Storm in Novi Sad (Beta)
• Selakovic: Serbia, RS preparing declaration on joint activities for survival of Serbian people (RTS)
• Brnabic: We do not understand how one can celebrate Storm (RTS/Tanjug)
• Stefanovic, Dacic react to Plenkovic’s statement (Beta/Tanjug/RTS)
• Dodik: Together with Vucic, I am writing plan for protection of all Serbs (Novosti)
• Djuric: We will do everything so that Kosovo is not admitted to Interpol (TV Pink)
• Serbia warns of possible counter-measures against Croatia (B92)

REGIONAL PRESS

Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Covic: I will confront those who might try to create unitary or state of one people in B&H (Glas Srpske)
• Dodik: B&H politicians must clearly say that the return process is over (Srna)
• Veritas: More than seven thousand killed in Croatian Army operations (Srna)
• Ivantsov: Conditioning such as ‘either EU or Russia’ is not fair (Nezavisne)
Croatia
• Grabar Kitarovic: 5 August one of most important dates for Croatia (Hina)
• Plenkovic: Storm prevented a new Srebrenica (Hina)
• Croatian Minister of Agriculture: Measures apply to 168 countries, not only the region (N1)
fYROM
• Government accepted text for the Law for the languages, what follow is a phase of consultations and explanations (Meta)
• Zaev: The law promotes the use of the languages of all communities in Macedonia (Meta)
• VMRO-DPMNE will not support the Law for languages as it is contrary to the Constitution (Meta)
• Xhaferi has called for local elections and has stated that all participants must obey the laws (Meta)

INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• In Balkans speech, Trump’s VP pledges allegiance to the swamp (RT)
• Macedonia’s Albanian Language Law Moves Towards Adoption (BIRN)

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Djuric: Serbia to do everything to prevent Pristina’s Interpol bid (Tanjug, TV Pink, KIM Radio)

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Serbia will do its utmost to prevent Kosovo’s membership in Interpol, said the director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo, Marko Djuric. “Kosovo and Metohija is now represented in Interpol through the organs of Serbia and through UNMIK. If there is a criminal who should be detained from the territory of Kosovo, that issue […]

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Draskovic: Accept and recognize Kosovo reality (Blic)

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Leader of the Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) Vuk Draskovic thinks that Serbia should accept and recognize Kosovo reality and calls for acceptance of the Martti Ahtisaari’s Proposal from 2007, as a base to continue the Brussels dialogue, Blic daily reported. According to him, the reality is that Kosovo independence was recognized “by the vast majority […]

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Outgoing PM Mustafa appoints new ministers (Kosovapress)

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Outgoing Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, announced the names of four new ministers set to replace the ones elected to the Kosovo Assembly. Avdullah Hoti will be replaced by his deputy Agim Krasniqi to the post of Finance Minister; Vlora Dumoshi will replace Kujtim Shala as the new Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports; […]

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Mother Makarija: Serbia, your faithful children feel like drowning men on the turbulent Kosovo sea (Blic)

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  “The initiative of the President of the Republic to launch an internal dialogue on Kosovo is very positive, only in my humble opinion, it is more than ten years late” Mother of Makarija, Abbess of the Sokolica monastery in Kosovo stated to Blic. She wondered how come Kosovo is a southern Serbian province, when […]

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Vetevendosje urges PAN coalition to propose Assembly speaker candidate (Zeri)

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Vetevendosje has once again called on PAN coalition to come up with a candidate for the post of Assembly speaker and “not block institutions”. “Any attempt to block institutions is an unprecedented destructiveness and a completely unjustified action” said Vetevendosje MP, Ismail Kurteshi.

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AAK’s Selmanaj: Not good to call session without parliamentary groups’ consent (Indeksonline)

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The Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) MP, Rasim Selmanaj, said it is not a good thing for the chairman to rush into calling the Assembly’s constitutive session without prior agreement between parliamentary groups. Asked whether AAK MPs would attend the next session, Selmanaj said the party is yet to take a stance on […]

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Kosovo Assembly’s constitutive session to resume Thursday (Klan Kosova)

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The chairman of the Kosovo Assembly’s constitutive session, Adem Mikullovci, has sent a memo to MPs informing them that the session is set to resume Thursday, at 10. The agenda of the session has only one item: election of Assembly speaker.

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Search for missing persons underway in Gllareva village (Kosovapress)

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Excavations are underway in the village of Gllareva, Klina municipality, in an effort to determine the identity of human remains buried at the site. Kosovapress reports that forensic teams have already exhumed one body believed to be a victim of the 1998-1999 conflict in Kosovo. According to Prenk Gjetaj, head of Kosovo government’s commission on […]

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USA admonishes Pristina (Novosti)

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The confusing political situation in Kosovo should be finally clarified this week, Novosti daily reported today. According to the daily, it would be clear whether Pristina will get a new government or new elections are underway. It all depends upon the meeting of the leading political parties, scheduled for the coming Wednesday, following the two […]

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Murder of another journalist uncovered in Kosovo (B92)

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The Journalists’ Association of Serbia (UNS) found that the journalist of RTV Pristina, Krist Gegaj, was killed in Istok in September 1999, three months after the arrival of international forces, but his name has not been found in any records of the victims. Although Gegaj was a well-known personality as a TV journalist, the media […]

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Belgrade Media Report 4 August

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United Nations Office in Belgrade

Daily Media Highlights

Friday 4 August 2017

LOCAL PRESS

• Dacic: It was West that drew our borders, not Moscow (Novosti)
• Drecun: Pristina a base for Albanian mafia (RTS)
• Admitting Kosovo in Interpol a dangerous precedent (Tanjug)
• SRS: Vucic needs to state what is the new path for Serbia (Beta)
• Sheholi: Dialogue leads to progress (Blic)

REGIONAL PRESS

Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Croatia marks Oluja, while Serb(ian)s say operation is disgrace, crime (N1)
• Ivanic, Vucic meet in Belgrade (BHT1/TV1)
• Sarovic calls on EC to react to Croatia’s decision on increase of fees (TV1)
• Covic: We must meet obligations re Transport Community by end of this month and re Questionnaire by end of November (Dnevni avaz)
fYROM
• Taravari: The Law on Languages will pass during the first 100 days of this government (Meta)
• Baily: The Law on Languages should fall within the guidelines of the Ohrid Framework Agreement (Meta)

INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Russia urges US to stop vilifying its policy in Balkans (TASS)

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