Belgrade Media Report 18 August
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Friday 18 August 2017
LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic: Broad consensus needed for constitutional amendments (Tanjug)
• Miscevic: Chapter 35 is not about status (Tanjug)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• B&H Ministry of Defense and B&H Public Attorney Office expected to make next move in case of registration of military property in Han Pijesak (BHT1)
• Dodik: People in RS should decide whether B&H should enter NATO (RTRS)
• Ambassador Ivantsov on registration of military property: HR Inzko is twisting facts (Srna)
• Zvizdic meets US Ambassador Cormack, discusses regional cooperation and EU, NATO integration (Nezavisne)
• Pence’s presence at Adriatic Charter Summit shows US will increase activities aimed at strengthening NATO’s position in the Balkans (Dnevni list)
• US Embassy in B&H deeply disappointed that authorities in Sarajevo named school after anti-Semite who glorified Hitler (Srna)
Croatia
• Hasanbegovic rejects US State Department’s allegations (Vecernji list)
Montenegro
• Sabovic: SDP to go independently (Dan)
fYROM
• Parliament dismisses Marko Zvrlevski (Meta)
• Sweden will help the Macedonian government realize the reform agenda (Meta)
• Dimitrov-Soini: Finland backs Macedonia’s EU integration bid (MIA)
Albania
• Morina case-Croatian court ruling is not final, Morina’s lawyer says (ATA)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Trump Budget Plan Is Bad News for Eastern Europe (Bloomberg)
Read More →Kosovo needs solution, not models (Serbian media)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić said today that although all proposals for resolving the Kosovo issues are welcome, one should bear in mind that a solution is needed and not ideas, such as the “Cyprus model”, which practically would mean maintaining a “frozen conflict”. Commenting on proposals to reduce, and then abolishment of UN mission in […]
Read More →“Athletes from Serbia and Kosovo must stand on same podiums” (B92)
If our athletes and those from the self-proclaimed state of Kosovo meet on a podium, “they will have to stay there,” says Bozidar Maljkovic. The president of the Olympic Committee of Serbia has taken a firm stance on this, and “will not back down from it even at the price of being sacked. “If the […]
Read More →Kosovo Montenegrins welcome Citaku’s speech at Un SC (RTK)
The Association of Montenegrins in Kosovo welcomed through a press release the speech of the Ambassador of Kosovo to the United States, Vlora Citaku, held during the quarterly report at the UN Security Council. “The words of the Ambassador of Kosovo to America, Vlora Citaku, held at the UN Security Council, that Kosovo is an […]
Read More →UN Warns Kosovo That Political Stalemate Is Harming Economy, Social Opportunities
The United Nations says the failure by Kosovo lawmakers to form a government more than two months after elections is causing the country to miss out on “important” economic and social opportunities. The head of the UN mission in Kosovo, Zahir Tanin, said on August 16 that the deadlock sparked by an inconclusive June 11 […]
Read More →“Nobody has the right to deny the Kurds independence: Leader of Kosovo party” (Kurdistan 24)
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – The international community should not try to deny the Kurdish people’s right to live in freedom and peace, an Albanian activist and politician asserted. Visar Ymeri, the leader of the Self-Determination movement in Kosovo, while speaking with Kurdistan 24 during a visit to the US, said that nobody has […]
Read More →Serbian opposition leaders invited to Brussels (Novosti, Tanjug, B92)
Leaders of the opposition DS party and the PSG movement, Dragan Sutanovac and Sasa Jankovic should travel to Brussels on August 24, Vecernje Novosti reported today. The two opposition leaders will go there for a meeting with the European Parliament official and rapporteur for Serbia David McAllister. According to the daily, apart from Jankovic and […]
Read More →Attack on journalist widely condemned (Kosovo 2.0)
Insajderi director beaten outside his apartment. Condemnations have poured in today (Thursday, Aug. 17) after an attack on a prominent Kosovar journalist. Parim Olluri, the executive director of the online newspaper Insajderi, was beaten last night by three people in front of his apartment. Olluri and his fiancé Genta, who was with him at the […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 18 August
Pacolli postpones the ultimatum (Koha Ditore)
Delawie to MPs: Find a solution, do not argue pointlessly (Klan Kosova)
PAN: Next week, crucial for creation of institutions (Epoka e Re)
Abdixhiku: LDK does not accept any ultimatum (Zeri)
Buja: I did not have other solution but to leave PDK (Epoka e Re)
SRSG Zahir Tanin condemns the attack against Parim Olluri (Insajderi)
Kosovo leaders condemn terrorist attack in Barcelona (media)
LINKS
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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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