Trump’s envoy next week in the Balkans (Danas, RFE)
US Senator and Chairman of the State Security Committee, Ron Johnson, will visit Greece, FYROM, Serbia and Kosovo next week, confirms the US Embassy in Belgrade to Radio Free Europe, reports daily Danas. Johnson should be in Belgrade Monday and Tuesday. During his mission in the Balkans, he will meet with regional leaders. Senator Johnson […]
Read More →Belgrade Media Report 05 September 2018
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Daily Media Highlights
Wednesday 5 September 2018
LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic: I see Albanians don’t want to talk about important issues (Tanjug/B92)
• Dacic: Serbia predictable, reliable partner in region (Tanjug)
• Drecun: Vucic will state how the dialogue with Albanians is unfolding and offer a framework solution of the Kosovo issue (RTS/Beta)
• Kremlin yet to decide on Putin’s visit to Serbia (Beta/TASS)
• Deadline of all deadlines – May 2019? (B92)
• RS not exchanging its territory (Srna/Danas)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Pacolli cancels participation in informal meeting in Banja Luka; Comments (TV1/N1/ATV)
• Pacolli: Dodik chooses not to remember he met with me in Banja Luka (Dnevni avaz)
• Dodik: RS and Serbia were being separated in past for no reason (Srna)
• Dodik: OSA needs to be abolished because it works against Serbs and RS; RS can form its own security-intelligence agency (RTRS)
• Dodik and Cvijanovic to meet Putin in Moscow in October (ATV)
Croatia
• Prime Minister certain ruling coalition will not collapse (Hina)
Montenegro
• Migrants are approaching Montenegro (CDM)
fYROM
• Government sets up committee for Macedonia’s integration with NATO (MIA)
• Zaev-Hellbach: It’s important that Macedonia’s EU, NATO integration succeeded (MIA)
• Mickoski-Hellbach: VMRO-DPMNE not supporting name agreement (MIA)
• Measures taken to enable peaceful referendum day, says Spasovski (MIA)
Albania
• DP resolution against ‘border correction’ in Kosovo (ADN)
• Basha urges for radical political action (ADN)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• China’s Belt and Road Initiative unselfishly helps developing countries: Serbian president
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• How to Restart War in the Balkans (Foreign Policy)
Dacic: To seriously consider every option offered for Kosovo (BETA, TV N1)
Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic said the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue is in its crucial phase and that every offered option for Kosovo should be seriously considered, TV N1 reported. Dacic made these remarks at an informal gathering of the foreign affairs ministers within the South-East European Cooperation Process taking place in Banja Luka, adding that […]
Read More →BiH Presidency Member from Republika Srpska Mladen Ivanic: I’m pleased that Pacolli did not come to Banja Luka (Serbian media)
Read More →BiH Presidency Member from Republika Srpska Mladen Ivanic: I’m pleased that Pacolli did not come to Banja Luka (Serbian media)
BiH Presidency Member from Republika Srpska (RS) Mladen Ivanic says today that that he is not dissatisfied at all, as far as he is concerned, that Kosovo Foreign Minister Behgjet Pacolli did not come to Banja Luka to an informal meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the South East European Cooperation Process (SEECP), […]
Read More →Vecernje Novosti: And Paris against delimitation?
France, like Germany, is against the “delimitation” between Belgrade and Pristina, reports today Belgrade based daily Vecernje Novosti. Vecernje Novosti sources point out that the opposition was expressed to any change in borders or administrative lines in the region during a conference of ambassadors held last week, which was attended by French President Emmanuel Macron. […]
Read More →Kosovo Deal Will Challenge States That Denied Recognition (Balkan Insight)
If Serbia and Kosovo manage to solve their decade-long dispute, the five EU countries that did not recognise Kosovo may have to adjust their foreign policies fast. Maja Zivanovic BIRN Belgrade The five EU countries that have not recognised Kosovo might found themselves embarrassed and having to adjust their policies rapidly if Serbia and Kosovo […]
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