Belgrade Media Report 22 January
LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic: Serbs want to survive in Kosovo and Metohija without revenge (Novosti)
• Djuric: Serbia uniting to help people in Kosovo and Metohija (Tanjug)
• Odalovic: Vucic’s visit calmed down Kosovo Serbs (Tanjug)
• Drecun: Vucic sending message to Serbs that Serbia is with them (Radio Belgrade)
• Stefanovic: No exchange of data with Pristina (TV Pink)
• Chepurin: Russia requests participation of Serbian organs in investigation into Ivanovic’s murder (RTS)
• French Ambassador: Friends tell the truth (FoNet/RTS)
• Vulin to Mondoloni: Lectures for Pristina, Belgrade keeping promises (RTS)
• DJB, Dveri to run together in Belgrade elections (Tanjug)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Federation of B&H Statistics Institute warns B&H will submit two different results of population census as part of answers to EC Questionnaire (Hayat)
• Zvizdic’s high treason; He recognizes results of RS’ census! (Dnevni avaz)
• Izetbegovic says work on SDA’s proposal of changes to Law on Elections of B&H continues with help of EU and US (TV1)
• Another political bloc will be established in the RS several months before the general elections (TV1)
• Parties considering scenario of indirect election of members of Presidency of B&H in B&H parliament (Dnevni list)
• SzP will offer joint candidates for RS President and Serb member of B&H Presidency (TV1)
• Dodik: SNSD will have candidates for posts of RS President and Serb member of B&H Presidency (ATV)
• Unitarianists in B&H force Serbs to secession, and Croats to third entity (Vecernji list)
• Inzko again on RS Day (EuroBlic)
Montenegro
• Presidential elections scheduled, candidates still unknown (CDM)
• Montenegro will continue contributing to the alliance (CDM)
• Montenegro and Kosovo examples of successful cross-border cooperation (CDM)
fYROM
• There is room for improvement of language bill – French Ambassador Thimonier (MIA)
• UN mediator Nimetz says his name proposal guards state’s identity (Sitel)
• Hoyt Yee: Macedonia and Greece have real opportunity to solve the name issue (MIA)
• Sela: The Alliance of the Albanians is still open to negotiations for its return in the government (Meta)
• MFA condemns the burning of the Macedonian flag in Thessaloniki (Meta)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Presentation of the Enlargement strategy, February 6 in Strasbourg (European Western Balkans)
• Portentous Assassination Rocks the Balkans (Strategic Culture Foundation)
• Massive Thessaloniki protest on FYROM name concerns government (To Vima)
Prosecution from Mitrovica announced cooperation with Belgrade (RTS)
The Department of Serious Crimes of the Basic Prosecutor’s Office in Mitrovica expressed readiness to provide information to the Belgrade Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime regarding the murder of Oliver Ivanovic, reports Radio Television of Serbia (RTS). The Kosovo Ministry of Justice’s reply to the Ministry of Justice of Serbia states that the prosecution will […]
Read More →Dalibor Jevtic invited to the Prayer Breakfast (KIM radio)
Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Kosovo and Minister of Communities and Return Dalibor Jevtic received an invitation to attend, together with his wife, this year’s National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, reports KIM radio. As reported, Jevtic will have a number of meetings during the stay in the United States with State Department officials, […]
Read More →Brussels planning to add SIX more nations to EU empire: Juncker plots Balkans expansion (express.co.uk)
BRUSSELS is pressing ahead with plans to expand its EU empire by setting a date for absorbing several Balkan nations. Eurocrats are poised to agree a 2025 deadline for starting the process that will see Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo join the bloc. https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/907685/EU-Brussels-empire-Balkan-nations-Serbia-Montenegro-Macedonia-Albania-Bosnia-Herzegovina
Read More →All MP visits abroad suspended (Insajderi)
The Assembly Presidency decided today to suspend all the visits of the Kosovo Assembly MPs abroad. The decision will be in power until the 20 February. The Assembly Presidency held its first meeting today after the holidays. This gave the first opportunity to the Presidency to discuss the specialist chambers, as there was no quorum […]
Read More →Rada Trajkovic: I respect Vucic’s statement (Danas, FoNet)
Serbian leader from Kosovo and professor of the Medical Faculty in northern Mitrovica, Dr. Rada Trajkovic, told FoNet news agency that she “highly respects” the statement of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic about the extent of support she has in Kosovo among Serbs, noting that such statements were given and about the support Oliver Ivanovic had, […]
Read More →Kosovo Politicians Advance Bid to Scrap Special Court (Balkan Insight)
The presidency of the Kosovo Assembly has sent a draft law to the government, pushing forward a controversial attempt to prevent a new Hague-based Kosovo war crimes court from operating. http://bit.ly/2F1gAZk
Read More →Veseli: We have sent the initiative for the Special Court to the government (RTK)
The President of the Assembly of Kosovo, Kadri Veseli, said after the meeting of Assembly Presidency that he does not know when the agreement for demarcation of the border with Montenegro will reach the Assembly session for ratification, since the commission has not mentioned any date. Speaking about the initiative for abrogating law on specialist […]
Read More →NATO and EU both responsible for anarchy in the north of Kosovo (Koha Ditore)
Columnist Augustin Palokaj writes in an opinion piece for the paper that the north of Kosovo is perhaps the most anarchic region in Europe. He says that their NATO, nor EULEX or UNMIK managed to “rule” in the north and that this was done by Serbia’s parallel structures and even when the situation there is […]
Read More →Hoti: Abrogation of the Special Court returns 1244 (Insajderi, Lajm)
Head of the parliamentary group of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Avdullah Hoti, said that sending the initiative for the abrogation of the Special Court to the government, happened without the presence of the representatives of his political party at the Assembly presidency meeting. According to him, such decision was made with the help […]
Read More →The movement ”Fatherland”: Vucic’s visit to Kosovo did not bring anything new (NMagazin, Beta)
The People’s Movement of Serbs from Kosovo ”Fatherland” issued a press statement on Sunday evening, stating that the visit of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic to Kosovo didn’t bring anything new, and that he said ”lots of futile promises and messages” that ”cannot encourage Serbs at all”, reports NMagazin. They added that the president’s visit showed […]
Read More →Riza Smaka: Political murder of Oliver Ivanovic with different interests in the background (KIM radio, Slobodno Srpski)
In the latest TV Show “Slobodno Srpski” (Free Serbian), a member of the Presidency of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo and professor for constitutional law prof. Dr. Riza Smaka, in an interview with Budimir Nicic, says that there was no doubt that the murder of Oliver Ivanovic was a political murder from different interests at a […]
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