“EU is our key goal; as many chapters as soon as possible” (Tanjug, B92)
Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic stressed on Thursday that his country’s “key and overarching goal” is full membership to the EU. Another goal is to open as many EU accession negotiations chapter as possible as soon as possible, Dacic told a meeting of the Ministerial Council of the Adriatic-Ionian Initiative and the Ministerial Meeting of […]
Read More →Belgrade Media Report 24 May 2018
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Daily Media Highlights
Thursday 24 May 2018
LOCAL PRESS
• Chinese President ready to take relations with Serbia to new level (Tanjug)
• Brnabic: Serbia committed to development of friendly relations with Macedonia (Beta/Tanjug)
• Vulin: SPC recommendations will not determine state policy (TV Pink/Tanjug/B92)
• Xhaferi: Relations with Belgrade friendly (N1)
• Serbs hope that they will resolve all their problems with the aid of Russia (spc.rs/Srna)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Venice Commission experts conclude that issue of election legislation can be resolved at level of Federation of B&H Parliament (Klix.ba)
• Sebija Izetbegovic decides not to accept her candidacy for post of Bosniak member of B&H Presidency (BHT1)
• Dodik to attend SPIEF and meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin (Nezavisne)
• B&H CoM unanimously adopts measures and actions that should be taken in order to put migrant crisis in B&H under control (BHT1)
• Cvijanovic: I am very dissatisfied with state institutions’ actions in dealing with influx of migrants (TV1)
• Brammertz meets representatives of Prosecutor’s Office of B&H and B&H institutions (FTV)
• Acquittal of Oric to be revoked, he will be ordered re-trial (EuroBlic)
Croatia
• Coalition partners back PM’s pick for economy minister (HRT)
• Jeff Sessions begins visit to Croatia (HRT)
fYROM
• Dimitrov meets UN Secretary General Guterres in New York (MIA)
• US supports Macedonia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations, Skopje-Athens efforts for name issue settlement (MIA)
• President Ivanov meets US State Department’s Matthew Palmer (MIA)
• Sekerinska in Montenegro: Macedonia deserves to be next NATO member (MIA)
Albania
• Protests, Basha gathers DP Parliamentary Group (ADN)
• Basha: EUR 200.000 offered to witness to deny audio-recording (ADN)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Thaci: Time Needed To Mull Whether Convicted Ethnic Serb Can Join Top Kosovar Court (RFE/RL)
Read More →Management Team met with health institutions’ directors, discussed healthcare improvements (Radio Kosovska Mitrovica)
Read More →Management Team met with health institutions’ directors, discussed healthcare improvements (Radio Kosovska Mitrovica)
Management Team for the establishment of Association/Community of Serb-Majority Municipalities met today with directors of the largest healthcare institutions active in Serb-majority municipalities, who provided a number of useful suggestions regarding the future situation and health needs of communities, Radio Kosovska Mitrovica reported. During the meeting it was noted that a quality health care system […]
Read More →Miroslav Ivanovic: They are lying to us cameras did not work (Kurir)
Serbian daily Kurir reported that Miroslav, brother of murdered Oliver Ivanovic, said surveillance cameras in the party’s premises were working at the time of the assassination of CI SDP leader, despite of information from the Kosovo prosecution claiming the cameras started working only 10 minutes after the murder. “I know that the system of four […]
Read More →Court gives verdict on ‘Medicus’ case (Koha/Kallxo)
The Basic Court in Pristina has announced today its decision in the so-called ‘Medicus’ case and found the owner of the clinic Lutfi Dervishi guilty on charges of human trafficking and organised crime. Dervishi was previously convicted on the same charges for his role in the illegal organ transplants that took place in his clinic […]
Read More →Ivanovic: Percentage of malignant diseases on rise (TV Most, KIM Radio)
Mitrovica North Clinical-Health Centre Director, Milan Ivanovic told TV Most today there are 4 to 5 times more patients at the Oncology Ward in the hospital than before. Ivanovic welcomed the decision of the Serbian Assembly to establish a Commission that would investigate the consequences of the 1999 NATO bombardment of Serbia, adding it is […]
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