Belgrade Media Report 11 October 2018
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Thursday 11 October 2018
LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic on the solution for Kosovo: I cannot go against the will of the people (Tanjug/B92/RTS)
• Dacic: Komsic is already provoking (Tanjug)
• Dacic, Scott exchange views on 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly (Beta/RTS)
• Stefanovic: We are most disappointed with EULEX (Beta)
• German opposition group demands a referendum before further EU enlargement (FoNet/DPA)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• B&H CEC updates election results (N1)
• B&H CEC: Number of around 500,000 invalid ballots is not surprise, but trend (N1)
• Komsic: For me, Kosovo is an independent state (Nezavisne/DW)
• Komsic: I’m loyal to B&H, not Croatia (N1)
• Covic has problem with Bosniaks, not with me (Oslobodjenje)
• Ljubic: Komsic’s election is neither legitimate nor constitutional (TV1)
• US Embassy: Election of Zeljko Komsic is in line with Constitution and Law on Elections (Dnevni list)
• Dodik says he will not work with people who are part of SNSD-DNS-SP coalition, who worked against interests of coalition (RTRS)
• Parties that signed agreement have significant election results (Dnevni avaz)
• Radoncic: SBB B&H does not want to cooperate with SDA, but we are willing to support coalition of other parties as opposition (Dnevni avaz)
• Leaders of PDA, A-SDA, ‘Justice and People’ and Independent Bloc sign agreement on joint participation and talks on forming authorities at all levels of government in B&H (TV1)
• Dodik starts preparing his office in building of Administrative Center of RS Government in Istocno Sarajevo (TV1)
• US Embassy to B&H: US has not interfered with election process in B&H (BNTV)
Croatia
• Peljesac bridge will be built despite Komsic’s lawsuit threat (Hina)
Montenegro
• Croatia will not block Montenegro on the EU path (RTCG)
fYROM
• Veljanoski: You don’t have a two-thirds majority to change the Constitution (MIA)
• MEP Valjgl: EU supports Macedonia’s government to proceed with implementation of Prespa Agreement (TV Klan Macedonia)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Name deal puts further strain on coalition (ekathimerini.com)
Read More →President Vucic on Kosovo, borders, solution (Tanjug, B92)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said today in Kraljevo he is always ready to talk about all compromise solutions and to offer it to the Serbian people. However, the solution to the Kosovo and Metohija issue is not on the sight, B92 reports. Asked by journalists, what happened since his last visit to Kraljevo when he […]
Read More →McAllister: Difficult work ahead of Serbian Government for EU membership (RTS, FoNet, Danas)
European Parliament Rapporteur for Serbia David McAllister thinks it is very important that in his report on Serbia, same as in the report on Kosovo by Igor Soltes, there is an identical formulation on correction of borders topic, as part of the solution for Belgrade-Pristina relations, national broadcaster RTS reports. What we have jointly said […]
Read More →Vucic: I am not happy because of Komsic’s statement on Kosovo (Danas, FoNet)
Serbia wishes to have good co-operation with Bosnia and Herzegovina and with all three newly elected members of its presidency, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said today in Kraljevo. Asked to comment on the statement of a Croat member of Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency, Zeljko Komsic who said that for him Kosovo is an independent state […]
Read More →Kosovo Court Demands Changes to Veterans’ List Indictment (Balkan Insight)
Pristina Basic Court sent a controversial indictment charging 12 former members of the government’s commission for verifying former Kosovo guerrillas back to the prosecution for clarification. Pristina Basic Court on Wednesday said it has decided to send the indictment of the 12 former government commission members back to the Kosovo Special Prosecution. The commission members […]
Read More →How to capitalize on the potential of Kosovo diaspora (Prishtina Insight)
Further integrating the Kosovo diaspora into key political bodies would jumpstart reform and development in the country, and not just economically. Kosovo is transforming, and its diaspora is also going through a phase of changes that, whether we like it or not, will have effects and consequences on the way that things in Kosovo and […]
Read More →Kusari-Lila: Extraordinary elections if consensus is not reached (Klan)
Mimoza Kusari – Lila leader of Alternativa, said that building of a consensus on the dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia is necessary. “The process of the dialogue has started since 2011 and since then, we have had three different governments. We consider that if a consensus between the political parties is not reached and nothing […]
Read More →German telcom learns from media Rama’s up in its business (Politika, Tanjug, B92)
Deutsche Telekom, which owns 99.79 pct of Telekom Albania, learned from media about the meddling of Tirana’s top officials in the sale of this German property, Belgrade-based daily Politika reports today. Namely, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said two days ago that while Serbian companies are “welcome to Albania” – this is not true when […]
Read More →Commitment of the 80-year old (RTK)
The 80-year-old man, who has established a center for the missing of all communities that live in Kosovo, has three missing family members: his son from the last war, while his grandfather and grand grandfather from the wars that happened 100 years ago. Despite his old age, he meets the family members of the missing […]
Read More →Russia quietly expands influence in Balkans, exasperating sectarian tension (Christian Science Monitor)
Milorad Dodik won the Serb seat in Bosnia’s three-member presidency last weekend after he appeared in footage alongside President Vladimir Putin. Analysts point to Russia’s rising influence among Bosnian Serbs and efforts to undermine Western policies of Balkan integration. https://bit.ly/2QJv99L
Read More →Kosovo and US discuss security and defence efforts (media)
Deputy Minister of the Kosovo Security Force (KSF) Burim Ramadani and KSF Commander Rrahman Rama met while on a visit to the United States, Iowa Senator Joni Ernst. The meeting focused on joint efforts in the field of security and defence and increasing of Kosovo’s capacities in dealing with regional and global challenges. “Building of […]
Read More →PSD: Ruling coalition’s resolution does not meet minimum criteria (Zeri)
Head of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) parliamentary group Dardan Sejdiu said after the meeting called by Kosovo Assembly Speaker and leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) Kadri Veseli said the draft resolution sponsored by the ruling parties regarding dialogue with Serbia fails to meet minimum criteria. Sejdiu said however that the process […]
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