Belgrade Media Report 14 August 2018
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Tuesday 14 August 2018
LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic: Merkel has already delineated us; no agreement in next two-three months (Beta/Tanjug/B92)
• Dacic promises documents needed for lawsuit against NATO (Beta)
• Odalovic: Belgrade won’t accept current situation with Kosovo (N1)
• Russia willing to open status of RS (Novosti)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Zvizdic meets Chancellor Merkel in Berlin: All Western Balkans countries have European perspective (TV1/BHT1)
• Merkel: Germany advocates for BiH to receive FRONTEX support (Jutarnji list/Slobodna -bosna.ba)
• Opposition RS MPs fail to attend consultations with Dodik on report on Srebrenica (RTRS)
• Dodik: Idea is to have objective and accurate approach to events in Srebrenica during past war and cover suffering of everyone (ATV)
• Citizens of Bihac protest due to migrant crisis in this city (N1)
fYROM
• Zaev: I put aside vanity, friendship with Bulgaria should be nurtured and built on (Meta)
• Government to launch information campaign ahead of upcoming referendum in Macedonia (MIA)
• Mickoski on the referendum: The wrong answer is worse than no answer (Meta)
• SDSM: Mickoski to declare whether he is for NATO and the EU or defends criminal activity (Meta)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Bosnian Politics for Dummies: Pre-Election Campaign (BIRN)
Read More →Hoxhaj: Arrest of Kosovar from diaspora travelling through Serbia marks big setback (media)
Kosovo’s Deputy Prime Minister, Enver Hoxhaj, reacted today against the arrest by Serbian authorities of a Kosovo dentist living in Germany, who was traveling through Serbia. “Serbia’s destructive policies against our people continue. Yesterday, they arrested a member of our diaspora who was traveling through Serbia to get back to his home in Germany. Such […]
Read More →Vucic: “Merkel already did delimitation between us – by separating the whole of Kosovo from Serbia” (Serbian media)
Read More →Vucic: “Merkel already did delimitation between us – by separating the whole of Kosovo from Serbia” (Serbian media)
Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday that “the whole western world, with exceptions, considers Kosovo as a whole, sovereign, and indivisible territory,” Serbian media reports today. This was the Serbian president’s reaction to German Chancellor Angela Merkel saying a day earlier she was “against changing borders in the Balkans.” “She already did delimitation between us – […]
Read More →Kosovo Condemns Serbian Border Arrest as ‘Witch Hunt’ (Balkan Insight)
The Pristina authorities urged the EU and US to intervene after Serbia arrested a German citizen of Kosovo origin on suspected war-related charges while travelling back from his summer holiday in Kosovo. Kosovo’s foreign ministry on Tuesday condemned the arrest of German citizen Ibrahim Matoshi as he crossed the Serbian border and demanded an end […]
Read More →Former Albanian PM hails Merkel’s statement on “no border changes” (media)
Former Prime Minister of Albania, Sali Berisha, welcomed today German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s statement against ideas for border changes in the Balkans. “The position of the Chancellor must be hailed as a real contribution to peace and stability in the region. This is a merited response to efforts by Belgrade and its servants in Pristina […]
Read More →Odalovic: I expect indictments for war crimes against Serbs (RTS, Tanjug)
Chairperson of the Serbian Government Commission for Missing Persons, Veljko Odalovic told Tanjug news agency he expects that the Special Court for KLA war crimes would rise indictments, as per evidences delivered to it, for the crimes committed against Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija. Odalovic said there are numerous crimes against Serbs, including those that […]
Read More →Kosovo Furore Could Hit Vucic and Thaci’s Popularity (Balkan Insight)
By Perparim Isufi, Maja Zivanovic BIRN Pristina, Belgrade Analysts say recent heated rhetoric about the possibility of border changes will affect the popularity of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and his Kosovo counterpart Hashim Thaci – but probably not enough to unseat them. The recent intensive exchange of statements about border ‘corrections’ between Serbia and Kosovo […]
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