Belgrade Media Report 15 August
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Tuesday 15 August 2017
LOCAL PRESS
• Dacic on Kosovo: We should do what we can do while we can, there is no time (RTS)
• Rama: I feel Vucic’s pain and resoluteness to resolve the Kosovo problem (Blic)
• What does the Athos model imply for temples (Novosti)
• Stankovic: No parallels with Serbia’s south (Novosti)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Covic: Vucic and Kitarovic to visit B&H in August or September (N1/Vecernji list)
• Covic: Dodik has understanding for position of Croats (Nezavisne)
• Prosecutor’s Office of B&H forms the case regarding revision of B&H’s genocide lawsuit against Serbia (BHT1)
• SBB B&H leader Radoncic announces vote for dismissal of Zvizdic and lawsuit against Izetbegovic (Dnevni avaz)
• Disagreements over construction of Peljesac bridge continue (TV1)
• Film about Alija Izetbegovic means forging his biography (Srna)
Croatia
• Plenkovic: Peljesac Bridge Project will continue (Vecernji list)
fYROM
• Today the session for Zvrlevski’s dismissal continues, there is little chance of a solution (Meta)
• “The king of prostitution” Dilaver Bojku – Leku murdered on a beach in Struga (Meta)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Macedonia Urged to End Parliamentary Paralysis (BIRN)
Read More →OHCHR: The missing in Kosovo receive renewed attention
It has been nearly 18 years since Natasa Scepanovic has seen her parents. The couple were living in Istok, a town in Kosovo*. After the war that ripped the area apart, Scepanovic’s parents, ethnic Serbians, remained in the town they had lived in, believing that the conflict was over and they were safe. They knew […]
Read More →International media exaggerated and simplified Kosovo’s radicalization problem, report claims (Prishtina Insight)
Report published by the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs criticizes media coverage of radicalization in Kosovo, claiming it both exaggerated the issue and simplified motives. While international coverage of Kosovar foreign fighters in Syria managed to bring the issue of radicalization to international attention, quite often media reports were simplistic and lacked nuance, a new […]
Read More →Djuric: Pristina is trying to strengthen independence through memberships (media)
The Director for Kosovo at the Serbian Government, Marko Djuric, told Serbian media that official Pristina does not want membership at UNESCO or INTERPOL for cultural heritage or war against crime, but due to the fact that they are part of the process of strengthening their independence. He said that INTERPOL General Committee has received […]
Read More →Djuric: Blockade of dialogue leads toward frozen conflict (Sputnik, Jedinstvo)
Director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo, Marko Djuric said that a blockade, of a positive social processes, goes in favour of those whose interest is to keep Kosovo as a long-term hostage in a frozen conflict, Sputnik reported today. Marko Djuric made this remark in an interview given to Jedinstvo weekly, asked if […]
Read More →British Embassy does not comment Mustafa’s statement, requests fighting of corruption (E.O.)
The outgoing Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, took to Facebook to write that “it became obvious that even internationals, who continuously speak about the war against crime and corruption, are in fact more interested for stability, be it even managed by crime, than for a governance that would fight crime in an independent manner.” […]
Read More →Continuation of the battle for the UN presence in Kosovo (Politika)
At the meeting of the United Nations Security Council tomorrow is expected a diplomatic struggle to keep the Kosovo issue on the agenda of the world organization that corresponds to Belgrade, writes daily Politika today. Belgrade, with the help of its allies, primarily Russia and China, continues to fight that the debate on the situation […]
Read More →Kosovo has not applied for UNESCO membership (RTK)
Kosovo has not applied for membership at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). According to the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs, Emanuel Demaj, the reasons for this were internal, respectively, lack of the approval of two laws, the one for religious freedoms and the law for cultural heritage. Demaj rejected claims that […]
Read More →Dacic: My plan removes causes of war between Serbs and Albanians (B92, RTS)
Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic says his proposal about “delineation” in Kosovo will eliminate “the causes of war” between Serbs and Albanians. He reiterated that Serbia will “never recognize the unilateral independence of Kosovo.” “I am trying to propose a lasting solution because it is based on a compromise between historical and ethnic rights, that implies […]
Read More →Wildfire in Osojane Valley (KIM Radio)
Since Saturday, wildfire has affected the Osojane Valley (first organized return site in Kosovo). Wildfire that the firefighters and Serb returnees are fighting for the three days come from several directions. Firefighters together with returnees managed to extinguish the wildfire that came from the direction of a deserted village Poljane, spread along Tucep-Osojane villages’ line, […]
Read More →Oliver Ivanovic’s trial to continue tomorrow (Kontakt plus radio)
Trial to the Leader of the Civic Initiative Freedom, Democracy, Justice (GI SDP), Oliver Ivanovic would continue tomorrow at the Basic Court in Mitrovica, Kontakt plus radio reported. In a statement given to the radio, Ivanovic said he expects this trial to be much faster than the previous one, not that painful, adding, he expects […]
Read More →EU Urges Kosovo to End Political Deadlock (Balkan Insight)
The European Union said Kosovo MPs should end the political deadlock preventing the formation of a new government because the country has “no time to lose” to press ahead with vital reforms. “Kosovo has no time to lose,” the EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy office told BIRN as Kosovo remained without a government two […]
Read More →LINKS
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Peacekeeping
UN News Center
From Google News- Foreign remittances to Kosovo up 5% y/y in Q1 - SeeNews 26/04/2024Foreign remittances to Kosovo up 5% y/y in Q1 SeeNews
- The Meeting of the chief Negotiators of Kosovo and Serbia ended without concrete Results - Sarajevo Times 26/04/2024The Meeting of the chief Negotiators of Kosovo and Serbia ended without concrete Results Sarajevo Times
- War in Kosovo and sexual violence, a painful legacy - Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso 26/04/2024War in Kosovo and sexual violence, a painful legacy Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso
- Foreign remittances to Kosovo up 5% y/y in Q1 - SeeNews 26/04/2024
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