Spanish veto for Kosovo at the summit in Sofia (Serbian media)
Spain has vetoed the draft text of a joint declaration planned for publication during the summit in Sofia, writes Spanish El Pais, Serbian media reports. As stated, the reason is “not an EU foreign policy”, rather the aim is that “the name and signature of Mariano Rajoy not to be found in the same document, […]
Read More →Belgrade Media Report 23 April 2018
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Monday 23 April 2018
LOCAL PRESS
• Brnabic: Serbia should not look for shortcuts (RTS/Tanjug)
• Vucic: Reciprocal response to Croatia (Beta/RTS)
• Dacic: Incident with the flag in Jasenovac without precedent (Tanjug)
• Mihajlovic: No economy or development without stability of the region (RTS)
• Belgrade expects EU to present stand on Pristina’s platform (RTS/Novosti)
• Security strategy drafts: Kosovo, neutrality, dialogue (Tanjug/Blic)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Urgent session of B&H HoR initiated at request of SNSD due to ‘warmongering rhetoric’ of SDA leader cancelled due to lack of quorum (TV1)
• US Embassy to B&H and OHR concerned over growing number of statements of political leader calling for divisions in B&H lately (TV1)
• US Congress marks Dodik and Covic as main culprits for situation in B&H (Hayat)
• Zvizdic welcomes statements in US Congress, US is true friend of B&H (FTV)
• B&H politicians: B&H needs US help (FTV)
• US State Department’s report on human rights practices in B&H warns of problems of corruption, freedom of press and Election Law (BHT1)
• Dodik: I do not mind MAP activation, but RS is military neutral and we do not want alliance with either NATO or Russians (Oslobodjenje)
• Public opinion’s research: Citizens support Zvizdic, Komsic, Dodik in race for members of B&H Presidency (Hayat)
Croatia
• Why are there separate Jasenovac memorial events? (T portal)
• Croatia officially says Serbia’s Defence Minister not welcomed (Hina)
• Croatia trying to calm tensions with Serbia (Hina)
Montenegro
• Erdogan ready to visit Montenegro (CDM)
fYROM
• Zaev: Macedonia, Greece focused on name solution (MIA)
• European Council President Tusk to visit Macedonia on 27 April (MIA)
Albania
• One ton of drugs seized in Italy, Albanian from Fier arrested (ADN)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Serbia’s National Dialogue on Kosovo: Scant Consensus, Much Skepticism (BIRN)
• EU Seeks to Turn Balkans Into ‘Parking Lot for Migrants’ – Serbian MP (Sputnik)
• Djukanovic: Montenegro to improve relations with Russia (RIA Novosti)
Radojevic: Police officers under investigation over Djuric’s arrest (Radio kontakt plus, KIM Radio)
Read More →Radojevic: Police officers under investigation over Djuric’s arrest (Radio kontakt plus, KIM Radio)
Kosovo Police Inspectorate has launched an official investigation in order to determine criminal responsibility of police officers who took part in arrest of Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director, Marko Djuric, Serbian media reported. Outgoing Kosovo Deputy Interior Minister told Radio kontakt plus he has forwarded a request through official channel to the Police Inspectorate. […]
Read More →Prime Minister Haradinaj awards “Kosovo Golden Map” to Natasa Kandic (media)
Kosovo Prime Minister, Ramush Haradinaj, has awarded the Kosovo Golden Map to Natasa Kandic, director of the Belgrade-based Human Rights Fund. Haradinaj praised Kandic’s work saying that her organization has so far published the most accurate data about those killed during the Kosovo conflict. “Working in an unsafe environment and not differentiating victims based on […]
Read More →Norwegian Ambassador: Grasping Presevo is same as laying hold of Kosovo (TV N1, Blic)
Read More →Norwegian Ambassador: Grasping Presevo is same as laying hold of Kosovo (TV N1, Blic)
Arne Sannes Bjørnstad, the Norwegian Ambassador to Belgrade, said that calling Presevo and Bujanovac “the eastern Kosovo” was the same as calling Kosovo Serbia, adding such statements were not helpful, TV N1 reported. He commented on the Kosovo PM Ramush Haradinaj’s remark about the two southern regions in Serbia with predominantly ethnic Albanian population describing […]
Read More →Gracanica: Decision to ban transformation of agricultural land into the building land (KIM radio)
Read More →Gracanica: Decision to ban transformation of agricultural land into the building land (KIM radio)
Municipal Assembly of Gracanica, on the proposal of the Mayor Srdjan Popovic, issued a decision banning the change of land use from an agricultural into the building land outside permitted the construction zone, reports KIM radio. This point of the agenda was explained by the Director of the Department for Urban Planning, Planning and Environmental […]
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