Belgrade Media Report 23 May 2018
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Wednesday 23 May 2018
LOCAL PRESS
• Brnabic: Belgrade ready for dialogue with Pristina (Beta)
• Belgrade receives new message from Berlin (Beta/B92)
• Djuric briefs Sarrazin on problems faced by Kosovo Serbs (Tanjug/Beta)
• EU membership common goal of Serbia, Macedonia (Tanjug)
• Military cooperation in Balkans a must (FoNet)
• Laketic: First location Vranje municipality, and then Kosovo (RTS)
• Fajon: Anchoring W. Balkans no substitute for EU accession (Tanjug)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Experts from Venice Commission discuss changes to Election Law with parties in Sarajevo (FTV/TV1)
• OHR submitted its opinion on election of FB&H delegates to B&H CC (Dnevni avaz)
• Dodik announces he will meet Putin on Friday (EuroBlic)
• Mektic announces he will talk to FRONTEX reps about helping B&H deal with migrant crisis (Dnevni list)
• Brammertz starts official visit to B&H as part of preparation of his report to UN SCF (FTV/BHT1)
fYROM
• Gruevski sentenced to two years in prison (N1)
• Merkel voices support for finding mutually acceptable solution to name issue (MIA)
• Greek government junior partner says solution to name dispute unlikely (MIA)
• Zaev submits list of nominees for new government members to parliament (MIA)
• Parliament adopts draft law on amending the Electoral Code (MIA)
• Serbia, Macedonia agree to reactivate intergovernmental mixed commission for minority rights protection (MIA)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Serbia, Turkey, and Russia – alarm bells for Europe (TransConflict)
• A Pro-Chinese Pivot Is The Last Chance To Save Serbia (eurasiafuture.com)
Open Society Fund: The exchange Presevo for the North of Kosovo is one of the scenarios of normalization of relations? (Kossev)
Read More →Open Society Fund: The exchange Presevo for the North of Kosovo is one of the scenarios of normalization of relations? (Kossev)
“Sustainable and operable solution, both in political and economic terms, which would not initiate new displacement, forced migration and the opening of new hotbeds of national and political conflicts, is the one in which national homogeneous territories would be exchanged, that is, territories with the dominant participation of the Albanian population on the side of […]
Read More →Belgrade will continue to balance between the West and Russia (Danas)
Diplomatic sources of Danas and international relations experts do not exclude completely the possibility of Serbia changing the foreign policy course, but they assess that Belgrade will endeavour in maintaining the current position of balancing between the West and Russia. According to interlocutors of Danas, any changes in foreign policy will depend largely on the […]
Read More →Kosovo Serb wanted by Serbian police and Interpol becomes judge in Pristina (N1, Insajder, Kossev, Vesti)
Read More →Kosovo Serb wanted by Serbian police and Interpol becomes judge in Pristina (N1, Insajder, Kossev, Vesti)
A Kosovo Serb, wanted by Belgrade and the Interpol was appointed a judge at the Constitutional Court in Pristina, the independent production Insajder has reported. Radomir Laban, convicted of taking a bribe and sentenced to six years in jail by a Belgrade court disappeared from the grid before he was due to go to prison […]
Read More →Kosovo Organ-Trafficking Defendants Deny Breaking Law (Balkan Insight)
In closing statements at the high-profile trial in Kosovo, the defence insisted that the kidney transplants at the Medicus clinic had no connection to people-trafficking as the indictment claims. In its closing statements on Tuesday, the defence told Pristina Basic Court that the prosecution could not prove that the Medicus clinic owner, Lutfi Dervishi, was involved […]
Read More →“Ivanovic was followed; cameras were off during his murder” (B92, Slobodno Srpski)
Read More →“Ivanovic was followed; cameras were off during his murder” (B92, Slobodno Srpski)
The first associate of Oliver Ivanovic, Ksenija Bozovic, says the GI SDP leader, who was shot and killed on January 16, was being followed. Bozovic also told Budimir Nikic during the Slobodno Srpski program that the entire investigation process is being “watered down.” The website KoSSev is reporting that Bozovic stressed she had given her […]
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From Google News- ALDE-PACE votes for Kosovo's CoE membership - ALDE Party 23/04/2024ALDE-PACE votes for Kosovo's CoE membership ALDE Party
- Top EU diplomats put Serbia against the wall with Kosovo - Euronews 23/04/2024Top EU diplomats put Serbia against the wall with Kosovo Euronews
- European Parliament adopts exemption of visa requirement for Serbian citizens residing in Kosovo - European Western Balkans 23/04/2024European Parliament adopts exemption of visa requirement for Serbian citizens residing in Kosovo European Western Balkans
- ALDE-PACE votes for Kosovo's CoE membership - ALDE Party 23/04/2024
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