Pacolli: We won’t give up on membership bids for INTERPOL, UNESCO
Kosovo’s Foreign Minister, Behxhet Pacolli, said that the final agreement between Pristina and Belgrade will be reached in 2018 and that this will help Kosovo’s bids to join the UNESCO and INTERPOL. “Kosovo has not given up on the bids to join these two organizations,” he said. Pacolli added that Kosovo will apply for membership […]
Read More →Odalovic: Internal dialogue on Kosovo is not a farce (RTS)
Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Veljko Odalovic visiting the RTS News said that the internal dialogue on Kosovo should be opened as widely as possible and include as many of the most referent institutions and special organizations as possible – both civil society and the non-governmental sector. The internal dialogue on Kosovo […]
Read More →Dacic: May to those that recognized Kosovo happen same (Tanjug, B92)
Chief of the Serbian diplomacy, Ivica Dacic said that Kosovo and Catalonia are linked with the fact it is about unilateral secession without a dialogue with the state they are seceding from, Serbian media reported. Dacic, who was a guest speaker on the RTS programme “Oko” said that Catalonia does not follow the example of […]
Read More →Vucic told by US “not to encroach on Kosovo’s integrity” (B92, TV Pink)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told Pink TV late on Monday that his recent conversation in Belgrade with a US State Department official was “not easy”. According to Vucic, the US officials came here “to fulfill their interests, not ours.” In a wide-ranging interview, that touched on the upcoming local elections in Belgrade, the Catalan crisis, […]
Read More →Kosovo led to Catalonia. But West won’t admit it (RT)
By: Nebojsa Malic The same countries that cheered when Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union broke up and insisted on ‘independent Kosovo’ now say Catalonia’s declaration of independence is unacceptable. But they wrote the rules the Catalans are now following. On Friday, the Catalan parliament declared independence from Spain. Madrid has refused to recognize the declaration. […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 31 October
• Pacolli: Montenegro considers border demarcation a closed issue (dailies)
• Opposition planning no-confidence motion against government (Zeri)
• Government to address Assembly with report on dialogue (Koha)
• Apostolova: Progress difficult without two-thirds of votes (RTK)
• Vucic says Hoyt Yee told him Kosovo’s territorial integrity is untouched (media)
Djuric: Dialogue on Kosovo through broad social debate (Kontakt plus radio)
Task of the Working Group to support the internal dialogue on Kosovo is to listen to and collect opinions and stances from the broadest social spectrum on the most important topics for us, in the next couple of months, Chair of the Working Group, Marko Djuric said today at the first session of the working […]
Read More →“Farce, Djuric would prefer to talk to numismatics” (BETA, B92)
Leader of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) Milos Jovanovic said DSS would not take part in a farce called internal dialogue on Kosovo, Serbian media reported. Jovanovic said that the Chair of the Working Group to support dialogue, Marko Djuric, would prefer more to talk to numismatics about this for Serbia and Serbian people […]
Read More →Belgrade Media Report 30 October 2017
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Monday 30 October 2017
LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic: Without Serbia’s support for formation of Kosovo army (RTV/Tanjug/Beta/RTS)
• Djuric: Dialogue on Kosovo through broadest social debate (Tanjug)
• Dacic thanks Mayor for respecting international law (Tanjug)
• Ljajic: Pristina violates CEFTA agreement (Beta)
• Crnadak: RS is nobody’s property (Politika)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• International community express concern with conclusions adopted by HJPC (TV1)
• Dodik: Judiciary in B&H is only instrument for modeling of political system (RTRS)
• SDA: Conclusions of HJPC are scandalous (TV1)
• RS submits report to UN Security Council (RTRS)
Croatia
• Croatian President, B&H Presidency member Izetbegovic confirm readiness to address open issues in spirit of good-neighborly relations (HRT)
• Ministry says Catalonia developments Spain’s internal issue (Hina)
Montenegro
• Danilovic wants the opposition to meet (CDM)
• Joint accession to EU has no Hungarian support (Pobjeda)
fYROM
• SEC: SDSM claims victory in 17 municipalities (MIA)
• Zaev calls on Gruevski to recognize the elections and to work in the interest of the citizens (Meta)
• Gruevski: Мass bribery, systematic threats and blackmail in the second round (Meta)
• DUI’s assessment is that the elections were democratic and that the citizens have freely expressed their will (Meta)
Albania
• Opposition leader warns new facts of governance-drugs connections (ADN)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• The Economy and Infrastructure of Serbia (Euromonitor)
• Catalan Situation ‘Not a Vanity-Type of Secession, Self-Determination’ (Sputnik)
Thaci on victims of crime: Institutions must provide dignified treatment (Lajmi)
Kosovo President, Hashim Thaci, called today for a continuous commitment to respecting human rights and especially the rights of victims of crime. During a conference on the Victims’ Rights Week, Thaci said that as part of recommendations for a dignified treatment of victims of crime, local institutions must focus on creating the proper conditions for […]
Read More →CEC to announce final local election results in the coming days (RTK)
Central Election Commission (CEC) expects to announce final local election results during this week, said spokesperson Valmir Elezi. He explained that the counting of conditional ballots will be concluded by Wednesday. “Once the final elections are announced, political entities and candidates can file their complaints with relevant institutions,” Elezi said. However, head of Election Complaints […]
Read More →Igor Soltes, new European Parliament rapporteur on Kosovo (Indeksonline)
The Pristina-based news website reports that Igor Soltes, Slovenian politician and lawyer, will serve as the new European Parliament’s Rapporteur on Kosovo. Soltes is accompanying current rapporteur, Ulrike Lunacek, in her farewell meetings with heads of Kosovo’s institutions.
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