Belgrade Media Report 07 August 2018
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Tuesday 7 August 2018
LOCAL PRESS
• Brnabic: Serbia is tolerant enough to have a premier with Croat roots (B92/Tanjug)
• Vucic: There is no easy or painless solution for Kosovo and Metohija, but it is necessary as soon as possible (B92/RTS/Tanjug)
• Dacic: Maximalist goals of Pristina an obstacle for compromise (RTS)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Zvizdic meets Minister Mektic and representatives of police agencies in B&H; Migrant crisis in focus of talk (N1)
• USC MoI responds to cantonal PM Rosic, explains that it has no authority to ban arrival of migrants in USC (Nezavisne)
• There is no exact information on number of migrants in B&H (RTRS)
fYROM
• Alliance for Albanians to support name referendum: party official (MIA)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Macedonian opposition set to boycott name referendum (emerging-europe.com)
• Experts: Bulgaria expands Trans-Balkan line in bid for TurkStream’s second line (Daily Sabah/Anadolu Agency)
Djuric and Selakovic to visit Mitrovica North tomorrow (KIM Radio)
Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director, Marko Djuric and Secretary General of the Serbian Presidency, Nikola Selakovic would visit Mitrovica North tomorrow, KIM Radio reports. As it was announced, Djuric and Selakovic would meet representatives of Srpska Lista at 15.00 at the Amphitheatre of the Technical Faculty. The two Belgrade officials come to […]
Read More →Brnabic: Dacic expresses personal stance on Kosovo, not that of government (TV N1)
Read More →Brnabic: Dacic expresses personal stance on Kosovo, not that of government (TV N1)
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic, termed statements of Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic who said Pristina’s maximal requests, including recognition plus Presevo and Bujanovac are the main obstacle to resolve the Kosovo issue, as his personal stance and not the stance of the Serbian Government, TV N1 reported. Expressing personal stances does not bother the government, […]
Read More →Djuric: I do not expect apology, Abbot Janjic responds (Radio Kosovska Mitrovica, Decane Monastery social networks)
Read More →68-year-old Serb indicted for war crimes (media)
Kosovo Special Prosecution has filed war crimes indictment against Serb Milorad Zajic. The latter is alleged to have participated in the Serbian army’s actions against Albanians in the village of Dush, Klina municipality, during June-July 1998. Zajic, 68, was arrested in Kosovo by Kosovo Police in Klina in March of this year. According to the […]
Read More →Djuric: I do not expect apology, Abbot Janjic responds (Radio Kosovska Mitrovica, Decane Monastery social networks)
Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric commented the public posts of the Abbot of Visoki Decani Sava Janjic on social media and said that he does not expect today “a repentance and apology to our people in KiM from those who in someone else’s interest publicly accused their own state of planning […]
Read More →Phillips: No partition (Deutsche Welle)
Several local online media cover an interview that David L. Phillips, Director of the Program on Peace-building and Rights at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic wants talks on the exchange of territories between Kosovo and Serbia, while Kosovo President Hashim Thaci talks about border corrections. Is this […]
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