Belgrade Media Report 09 January 2018
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Tuesday 9 January 2018
LOCAL PRESS
• Dodik decorates Nikolic (N1/B92)
• KFOR: Situation in Kosovo calm, stable (Tanjug)
• Kostic: SANU is not a political party to have a platform on Kosovo (RTS/Tanjug)
• Priests of the Montenegrin-Littoral Metropolitan support Amfilohije (Tanjug)
• Top SNS officials want early parliamentary elections (Novosti)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Marking of RS Day officially starts in Banja Luka (TV1/BHT1)
• Dodik: Bosniaks will not prevent 9 January from being republic day (Srna)
• Lukac: Some 700 police officers will secure RS Day manifestation (ATV/BNTV)
• Vucic and Brnabic not to attend RS’ Day marking (Hayat/N1/RTRS)
• Vucic congratulates RS Day (Srna)
• Coalition ‘Domovina’ files motion for assessment of constitutionality of Law on RS’ Day (FTV)
• SDA slams SDP because its delegate in RS CoP Suljkanovic failed to support filing of motion for assessment of Law on RS Day (Avaz)
• Softic comments on RS Day (TV1)
• OHR: Decisions made by B&H Constitutional Court are final and binding (BHT1)
• Yee resigns (Al Jazeera)
Croatia
• Juncker: “Arbitration judgement must be respected” (Index)
• Covic wants Zagreb to support Electoral Law reform (tportal)
Montenegro
• Amfilohije: No agreement with terrorists regarding Kosovo (In4S)
fYROM
• Kotzias: Compound name for all uses, differentiating from Greek Macedonia (MIA)
• Solution to name issue possible by mid-2018, Zaev tells Greek TV (MIA)
• Tsipras: Window for name solution has been opened (MIA)
Albania
• First 100 days, what promises the government did and did not keep (Top Channel)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• EU sets date for next wave of enlargement (EUobserver)
Read More →EU sets date for next wave of enlargement (EUobserver)
The EU is preparing to pledge a 2025 deadline for the next wave of enlargement, but Balkans disputes could hold things back. “The Western Balkans partners now have a historic window of opportunity. For the first time, their accession perspective has a best-case timeframe,” the commission is to say in a strategy paper to be […]
Read More →Hoyt Brian Yee resigns from position of U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary (Lajmi.net)
Hoyt Brian Yee, has resigned from his position as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Asia. This was confirmed to Al Jazira by the U.S. State Department. The response says that Hoyt Yee has informed his colleagues at the U.S. Foreign Ministry (State Department) about his resignation. Former OSCE chief in Bosnia […]
Read More →Haradinaj does not want to comment Veseli’s statement on Special Court (RTK)
The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, did not want to comment the statement of the leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), Kadri Veseli, on the Special Court. “I have read Veseli’s letter and I do not have any comment. If you ask me, you already know my position. We voted against then, […]
Read More →Police tells reason of death of two Serbs in Babimoc (RTK)
Kosovo Police has informed that based on preliminary investigation, Serb female G.M. was strangled with a rope by her husband B.M., later he is suspected to have committed suicide using a knife, which was found close to him. Based on initial information that the police possess, there is reasonable suspicion that the suspect was suffering […]
Read More →Haradinaj says he has not received response on U.S. visa (RTK)
The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, said after the meeting with Pristina mayor, Shpend Ahmeti, that he is waiting for the response on his visa request in order to travel to the U.S. “My Office has applied for visa. There are several events there that I want to go to. I have not received […]
Read More →Kostic: Serbian Academy of Science and Arts is not party to have platform on Kosovo (Tanjug, RTV Puls)
Serbian Academy of Science and Arts (SANU) is not a party to have a political platform on Kosovo, instead it can only offer opinions of individuals, SANU President, Vladimir Kostic told Serbian media. “Do not expect from SANU to take a joint stance on Kosovo and Metohija by over voting. This is not in the […]
Read More →Rakic, Djuric reactions on protest in Đakovica (Radio Mitrovica, TV Most, RTV Pink, RTS)
“At a time when Orthodox Christians around the world are preparing to celebrate the day of birth of Jesus Christ, Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija are denied the right to rejoice in Christmas, to hold their ceremony/prayers and to bring in the Christmas Log,” Mayor of Mitrovica North, Goran Rakic said in a press statement, […]
Read More →Kosovo is Serbia, says Serbia’s ambassador to Albania (B92)
Serbia will never recognize Kosovo, Serbian Ambassador to Albania, Miroljub Zaric has said. He made the statement during his visit to Skadar (Shkoder) for Orthodox Christmas on Sunday, and said that “Kosovo is Serbia”. “Kosovo is Serbia, to you it is independent, to us it is not. To us Kosovo is a part of the […]
Read More →The risky initiative against the ‘Special Court’ (Prishtina Insight)
By: Aidan Hehir Whatever one thinks of the Court, to disband it would have enormously grave repercussions for Kosovo’s international status. The campaign by an alliance of Kosovo’s MPs to revoke the Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor’s Office for Kosovo has caused widespread alarm both within Kosovo and internationally. While their initial attempt failed, evidence […]
Read More →Two Serbs Found Dead in Kosovo Village (Balkan Insight)
A Kosovo Serb man and woman were found dead on Monday evening in the village of Babimost/Babin Most in the Obiliq/Obilic municipality, but the cause of their deaths is so far unknown. The two Serbs’ bodies were discovered in the village of Babimost/Babin Most in central Kosovo on Monday evening, said Kosovo Police. “The medical team […]
Read More →Metropolitan Amfilohije: I did not hold funeral mass for Vucic (Danas, KIM Radio)
We are attacking no one, neither me nor the Church, we are only expressing concern for the destiny of the most important and the most sacral part of the Serbian state, Metropolitan Amfilohije told IN4S portal, adding he had never held a funeral mass for Aleksandar Vucic, Serbian daily Danas reported. Commenting on the criticism […]
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