Belgrade Media Report 16 August 2018
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Thursday 16 August 2018
LOCAL PRESS
• Brnabic: Time for unity, responsibility and solution for the future (Tanjug/RTS/B92)
• Vucic, Orizio discuss judicial reform, media strategy (Tanjug)
• Dacic: Those who recognized Kosovo’s independence do not have right to talk about not changing borders (N1)
• Djuric: Arifi’s statement is confirmation that Pristina doesn’t wish to form ZSO (Tanjug/RTS)
• Joksimovic: Kosovo talks direction clear in September (Beta)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Cvijanovic: RS government will act in line with RS parliament’s conclusions (Srna)
• Dodik: RS parliament representatives did more for Serbs at session on Tuesday than judicial institutions all together (Srna)
• Cubrilovic: We do not deny crimes, we want truth on Srebrenica (EuroBlic)
• Srebrenica report sparks reactions in Srebrenica and Bratunac (ATV)
• Bosniak Caucus in RS CoP to launch mechanism for protection of vital interest (Nezavisne)
• US State Department: RS parliament decisions step in wrong direction (Avaz)
• Berton: RS parliament conclusions are cynical attempt to spread fear and deepen divisions for purpose of obtaining votes in elections (BHT1)
• Zvizdic promised that up to 250 additional police officers will be deployed along country’s borders to help deal with migrant issue (Glas Spske)
fYROM
• Zaev calls on Macedonian expats to vote in name referendum (MIA)
• Sekerinska: Not only do we expect to join NATO but also have much to offer (MIA)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s newly appointed Special Representative on South East Europe concludes visit to Albania and Montenegro (Press release)
Read More →Lumezi: 19 thousand individuals illegally granted status of veteran (RFE, Koha)
According to the Chief Prosecutor of Kosovo Aleksander Lumezi, there are 19 thousand individuals were granted the status of war veteran illegally and they receive benefits from the state. Lumezi told Radio Free Europe that prosecutor Elez Blakaj resigned after drafting an accusation against some individuals involved in this case, which he had submitted to […]
Read More →Djuric: Arifi’s statement confirmation Pristina does not intend to establish ZSO (Radio kontakt plus)
Read More →Djuric: Arifi’s statement confirmation Pristina does not intend to establish ZSO (Radio kontakt plus)
“Arifi’s today’s statement is just confirmation of what we have claimed all the time, that Pristina has no intention, nor it ever had it, to establish the Association/Community of Serb-majority municipalities, Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director, Marko Djuric said, Radio kontakt plus reported. Djuric added only four months ago, Pristina claimed they would certainly […]
Read More →Fatherland: Migration of Serbs with President’s direction (KoSSev)
“Following announcement of ethnic delineation with Albanians, in Serb areas south of the Ibar River a despair prevails (…). Authorities are provoking silent but efficient “Storm” for the Serbs, since no Serb wants to live in “Greater Albania,”” Fatherland Movement warned today, KoSSev portal reported. Recalling that in 1999, more than 700 settlements remained without […]
Read More →Gorazdevac: New cattle theft – six cows and calf stolen (KoSSev)
According to the Kosovo Ministry for Communities and Returns, last night six cows and a calf, belonging to Jugoslav Stevanovic from the village of Gorazdevac, were stolen, KoSSev portal reports. Outgoing Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Communities and Returns, Dalibor Jevtic said in a statement, that “last night theft in Gorazdevac is nothing […]
Read More →Djuric’s letter to Bishop Teodosije: Serbs in Kosovo have one mother – Serbia (Kossev)
Read More →Djuric’s letter to Bishop Teodosije: Serbs in Kosovo have one mother – Serbia (Kossev)
The third open letter on the same day, reports portal Kossev, this time from Belgrade to Kosovo, and one apology: “The reverend Bishop, I apologize for speaking to you publicly about a political matter,” today the Director of the KiM Office, Marko Djuric talks to Bishop Teodosije through a letter sent to the Serbian media. […]
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