Blic: Kosovo Government has no majority without Serbs (Kontakt plus Radio)
It is increasingly certain that Kosovo will finally get a government and the Serbian list undoubtedly will be a part of it. The List will support the election of the Speaker of the Parliament Kadri Veseli from the big war coalition PAN and thus the new government, today’s edition of daily Blic learns. Blic reports […]
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Daily Media Highlights
Tuesday 22 August 2017
LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic: Dialogue on Kosovo is already well on its way (RTV)
• Dacic: This was our message to Skopje “ we know everything you do” (TV Pink, Tanjug)
• Jeremic, DS criticize decision to withdraw the entire staff of the Serbian embassy in Macedonia (VIP)
• Serbian president grateful to Russia for “political support” (Tanjug)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• HNS to send another proposal on changes to Law on Elections of B&H in parliamentary procedure (FTV)
• SDS Glamocak: We will follow Serbian stance re NATO, everything is political populism (RTRS)
fYROM
• Without making hasty conclusions, the Governement welcomed Belgrade’s announcements of friendly relations (Meta)
• Deputy PM Osmani: Macedonia committed to fostering good neighborly ties (MIA)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Republika Srpska Doesn’t Want to ‘Lose Russia, Other Friends’ to NATO (Sputnik)
Read More →Ditman to Vucic: Internal dialogue, a right move (media)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with German Ambassador to Serbia, Alex Ditman. They discussed many issues and the most important one was that of Kosovo. German Ambassador Alex Ditman stressed that internal dialogue for Kosovo is a serious and right move, Serbian media reported. Vucic said that the internal dialogue as well as resuming of […]
Read More →Dacic: This was our message to Skopje – we know everything you do (B92, TV Pink)
Serbia’s decision to withdraw its embassy staff from Macedonia is in fact “a message to Skopje.” The message is that Serbia “knows what they laid their heads together for, and what they agreed on,” First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Tuesday. “That’s something not done among friends,” Dacic said referring to […]
Read More →Arban Abrashi, LDK’s nominee for Pristina mayor (KTV)
Koha.net’s sources within the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) informed that this party has nominated former Minister of Labor and Social Welfare, Arban Abrashi, to compete for mayor of Pristina, in local elections to be held in October of this year. LDK also nominated Hatim Baxhaku for the mayor of Prizren. The portal reports that […]
Read More →Vujicic criticizes Edita Tahiri for suspicion on Vucic’s sincerity (Koha)
Head of the Association of Kosovo Montenegrins, Slobodan Vujicic, reacted to the statement of Kosovo’s outgoing Minister for Dialogue, Edita Tahiri, where she expressed suspicion on sincerity of Aleksandar Vucic’s initiative for internal debate on Kosovo. We consider that Kosovo officials should not publicly bring negative conclusions about the flow of the dialogue in Serbia, […]
Read More →Kozarev: Tahiri shows nervousness about the beginning of internal dialogue (TV Most, Blic)
Deputy Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Dušan Kozarev today assesses in a press release that Pristina’s main negotiator Edita Tahiri has done everything in the current course of dialogue with Belgrade that conversations take place in a toxic atmosphere of insults and constant provocations instead they lead towards the reconciliation, TV Most […]
Read More →Balkans less and less important (Blic)
Political analyst and head of the Republic of Serbia Representative Office in Washington Obrad Kesić says, in an interview with today’s Blic, that the Balkans are not only the subject of a political fight between the West and Russia, but are also currently the subject of internal struggle about the control over the US foreign policy. […]
Read More →Odalović: Withdrawal of staff is a clear diplomatic message (RTS)
State Secretary in the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Veljko Odalović told RTS that Serbia expects at least neutrality from its neighbours, regarding the vote on Kosovo’s entry into UNESCO. Veljko Odalović, visiting the RTS program, said that FYROM, for no reason, in recent months has been changing its relationship and policy towards Serbia. “Serbia […]
Read More →Serbian List: To find and punish the responsible ones (KIM Radio)
The Serbian List said, on the occasion of the nineteenth anniversary of the disappearance of two journalists from Radio Pristina, that the families of missing journalists and all citizens in Kosovo expect the responsible ones are found and to punish them. “Today we recall the abducted journalists, Đuro Slavuj and Ranko Perenić, who were kidnapped […]
Read More →B92: Macedonian intel services followed Serbian diplomats – daily
It has been established that Macedonia’s intelligence services followed and illegally “processed” Serbian diplomats, writes the daily Blic. The newspaper further states that “foreign powers” were also involved in intelligence activities undertaken against Serbia. “Serbian diplomats were followed without any reason, and even the method of intimidation was used. Some of the pressure that was […]
Read More →“Bring W. Balkans into EU to keep Turkey and Russia at bay” (B92)
Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz has called on the EU “to bring the Balkans into its orbit.” In an interview for Germany’s Handelsblatt, quoted by Tanjug, Kurz “warned of the growing influence of Turkey and Saudi Arabia.” “In Sarajevo and Pristina, for example, women are paid to wear the full veil in public. We cannot […]
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