Belgrade Media Report 04 October
LOCAL PRESS
• Serbian president orders military to stand down (Beta)
• Ivanic: If Vucic has proof of foreign interference in B&H, he should publish it before the elections (RTV)
• Vucic: Serbia and Germany reach historic level of bilateral relations (Beta)
• Dacic in Moscow: Inter-government committee in Belgrade in November, ahead of Putin’s visit (Beta)
• Serbia’s opposition to collect signatures for Vucic’s ouster (N1 Belgrade)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Plus Media conducts election poll which shows SNSD-DNS-SP coalition convincingly leads in RS (ATV)
• Bildt: NATO and EU should increase military presence in Kosovo and B&H (Nezavisne novine)
• Trump’s campaign manager Lewandowski holds lecture at Faculty of Political Science in Banja Luka (RTRS)
Croatia
• “Croats in areas bordering Serbia should own arms” says HDZ MP (Hina)
Montenegro
• Stoltenberg: Investments in Montenegro doubled thanks to NATO (RTCG)
fYROM
• Ruling SDSM, opposition VMRO-DPMNE define next steps following name referendum (MIA)
• Germany’s CDU/CSU: Opposition must not block Macedonia’s NATO and EU perspective (MIA)
• Balfour: Parliament’s failure to proceed with implementation of name agreement might lead to destabilization of Macedonia, entire region (MIA)
• Stoltenberg: Agreement with Greece – only way for joining NATO, international community (MIA)
• Turkey continues to support Macedonia’s EU and NATO membership bid (MIA)
• Italy expects Parliament to approve constitutional changes after Sunday’s referendum (MIA)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Interview with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic (The Washington Post)
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LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic in Moscow: We got everything we looked for (B92, Tanjug)
• Putin rejects Vucic’s version of Kosovo’s recognition (Beta, Kommersant)
• Vulin: Message to the world – There are powerful countries that want to support Serbia (RTS)
• KFOR: No special units with Thaci at Gazivode, he is free to move around Kosovo (Beta)
• Dacic: North Kosovo could come under blitzkrieg attack (RTV)
• Brnabic: Three major hurdles in dialogue with Pristina (Beta)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Statement of Serbian President Vucic sparks reactions (ATV)
• Inzko: I hope citizens will vote for “normal” B&H (Dnevni avaz)
• UK Ambassador Field: Election campaign in B&H is full of threats and fears (Dnevni list)
• Dodik: Each new kilometer of highway means that the RS is closer to Serbia, final goal is infrastructural connecting with Serbia (RTRS)
Croatia
• Still no solution for Croatia-Slovenia border dispute (Hina)
Montenegro
• Montenegro won’t give up on the EU (CDM)
• PzP won’t support Montenegro’s EU, NATO membership (Pobjeda)
fYROM
• Italy expects Parliament to approve constitutional changes after Sunday’s referendum (MIA)
• Canada: Euro-Atlantic path to ensure democratic future in Macedonia (MIA)
• France expects resumption of Prespa Agreement’s implementation (MIA)
• Germany calls for Macedonia to proceed with Greece accord (MIA)
• MEP Fajon: Any scenario not involving name deal ‘a step backwards’ (MIA)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Serbia says not planning peacekeepers for Ukraine (BIRN)
Read More →Dacic: ‘Maintaining a frozen conflict could lead to an armed attack in N. Kosovo (IBNA)
Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic is in favour of a final solution to the Kosovo issue, considering that if the state of the frozen conflict is maintained, Pristina will intervene to dominate in northern Kosovo, where Serbs are a majority.Speaking to Vojvodina’s public (RTV) television, Dacic reintroduced the issue of demarcation between Albanians and Serbs, a solution […]
Read More →Rape survivors struggling for recognition (Kosovo 2.0)
At the end of August, the State Prosecution in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) asked the country’s State Court to declare Vuk Ratković guilty. Ratković was a former member of the Army of Republika Srpska from Višegrad, and had been accused, among other things, of wartime rape. The prosecution requested that the defendant pay 45,000 convertible […]
Read More →Apostolova: Officials accused for corruption, away from institutions (RTK)
Head of the EU Office to Kosovo Nataliya Apostolova has requested from the officials accused for corruption to leave the institutions. She even appealed for endorsement of a range of laws, including the one for dismissal of the accused officials from the institutions. EU Representative added at the regional conference against corruption that despite all […]
Read More →Arifi: Technical dialogue with Serbia is dead (Lajmi.net, RTK)
Teams for the technical dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia have not met in Brussels since March of this year. According to Lajmi.net, the main reason for this boycott was the Serbian party, which did not manage to implement agreements with Kosovo, such as the agreement for energy. However, their justification was that they will not […]
Read More →O’Connell: British government is observing fulfillment of commitments on war against corruption (Klan)
Ruairi O’Connell, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Kosovo, said the recent occurrences with the veterans’ lists are being followed with great concern. During his speech at the Regional Conference against corruption, O’Connell also said that the British government is seriously engaged in observing fulfillment of the commitments made by Kosovo officials at Balkans Summit. […]
Read More →Dacic to TV Pink: The number of states that have recognized Kosovo will be under 100 (Serbian media)
Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic expects that by the end of the year, the number of countries that have recognized Kosovo’s independence will be below 100 and warns that frozen conflicts in Kosovo may lead to the persecution of Serbs from that region and the slowdown in European integration. Dacic said to Belgrade-based TV Pink this […]
Read More →The Specialized Chambers of Kosovo will not comment on Dacic’s “exclusivity” (Danas)
On the occasion of the statement by Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic that the prison in Scheveningen is about to accept the first indictees for KLA crimes, the Specialized Chambers Kosovo briefly responded to Belgrade’s daily Danas that they cannot comment on operational issues. The daily recall Dacic’s statement that the prison in […]
Read More →Serbian List MP: All indicates to the transformation into the Army of Kosovo (Radio Mitrovica Sever)
Three draft Laws on the Kosovo Security Force were adopted, on the proposal of the Commission for Internal Affairs of the Assembly of Kosovo and forwarded to the Assembly for adoption. Zoran Mojsilovic, MP of the Serbian List, states for the Radio Mitrovica Sever that the Serbian List is against. “This is a classic transformation […]
Read More →Kosovo’s Prime Minister lobbies against Serbia land swap, but his president works for it (Newsweek)
Kosovo’s Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj visited the U.S. to advocate against a proposal put forward by his President. The 50-year-old former leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), an ethnic-Albanian paramilitary group that fought for Kosovo’s independence from Serbia in the 1990s, believes a proposal supported by his fledgling country’s president could return the Balkans […]
Read More →Mustafa fears visa liberalization will be postponed, blames Haradinaj (Express)
Former Kosovo Prime Minister and Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) leader, Isa Mustafa, said today that the government is trying to blame the opposition for delays in the visa liberalization. Mustafa wrote in a Facebook post: “when we called for the ratification of the border demarcation agreement with Montenegro in 2016, as a requirement for […]
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