Stefanovic: Membership of Kosovo in Interpol would be precedent (RTS)
Serbian Minister of Internal Affairs, Nebojsa Stefanovic told RTS there are legal, police and political arguments pointing that the membership of so-called Kosovo in Interpol would constitute a precedent. Stefanovic made these remarks, speaking for the RTS Saturday news edition, adding that for a year now, Serbia is intensively stressing to all the states in […]
Read More →“Two countries support visa liberalization with Kosovo” (Tanjug, B92)
A group of EU member states have expressed “great skepticism” regarding the approval of visa liberalization for Kosovo. Only two countries supported the entry of Kosovo into the Schengen area, B92 reports. This is written in a report by the Kosovo Foreign Ministry which daily Koha Ditore said it had seen. This report was made […]
Read More →Five countries sided with Serbia (KIM radio, Tanjug)
Five Interpol members have sided with Serbia and demanded the vote on Kosovo’s membership be removed from the agenda of the General Assembly, reports KIM radio, quoting Belgrade based agency Tanjug. These are China, Spain, Cyprus, Argentina and Suriname, Tanjug learns. The vote on the Pristina’s request for membership in Interpol, according to the program, […]
Read More →The Kosovo quandary is a win for Russia (Al Jazeera)
For nearly two decades, President Vladimir Putin has been on a mission to make Russia great again – to borrow a phrase from his American counterpart – and to right what he sees as the greatest “wrong” in the country’s recent history: the collapse of the USSR and the loss of its superpower status. In […]
Read More →Assembly to hold extraordinary session on foreign policy on Thursday (media)
Most news websites report that the Kosovo Assembly Presidency decided today that the Assembly will hold an extraordinary session on Kosovo’s foreign policy on Thursday. The Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) had withdrawn its request for an extraordinary session last Friday due to the absence of MPs and Foreign Minister Behgjet Pacolli.
Read More →Ex-army chief Dikovic: My conscience is clear, this is NATO’s finale (B92, TV Prva)
The first on the list, according to many of them, is General Ljubisa Dikovic, who until recently served as chief of the Serbian Army’s General Staff. Speaking for Prva TV’s morning program on Monday, Dikovic said that his conscience is clear on this matter. He also said that according to his knowledge, the indictment against […]
Read More →Haradinaj calls for visa liberalization to be included in EU agenda (media)
Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj said in a meeting with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in Vienna today that visa liberalization for Kosovo should be included in the agenda of the EU Council of Ministers, as Kosovo has met all the requirements in the process. Haradinaj said that in addition to the right to freedom of […]
Read More →Kosovo police arrested Serb at Jarinje crossing point (RTS, Tanjug, Radio kontakt plus)
Serbian public broadcaster RTS reported late on Sunday that Kosovo police arrested a Serb at crossing point Jarinje for failing to pay a vehicle tax. Milisav Dasic, who lives with his family in Osojane village, Istok municipality, was taken out of a bus at the Jarinje crossing point. “They took him from the bus and […]
Read More →Concern over increasingly complex situation in Kosovo (Serbian Government, B92)
Prime Minister Ana Brnabic met on 16 November with the Head of the EU Delegation to Serbia Sem Fabrizi and ambassadors of the EU, B92 reports. According to the government, during the meeting Brnabic expressed her concern over the increasingly complex situation in Kosovo and Metohija, bearing in mind that the interim institutions in Pristina […]
Read More →US ambassador says he had “excellent” meeting with Vucic, Kosovo among topics discussed (Tanjug, B92)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met on Friday in Belgrade with US Ambassador Kyle Scott. They discussed bilateral relations, economic cooperation and the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, Tanjug said, citing a press release from the president’s office. Vucic informed Scott that, by introducing taxes on goods from Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, Pristina had violated the Central European Free Trade […]
Read More →Media: Vucic receives blackmail, Belgrade won’t accept it (Vecernje Novosti, Tanjug, B92)
Brussels has sent Vucic via diplomatic channels “an indecent proposal,” i.e., blackmail: continue the dialogue with Pristina in exchange for new chapters, however Belgrade will not accept it, Belgrade-based media report. As the Belgrade media further reported, Brussels diplomatic channels put pressure on Belgrade in order to make it play “by the rules dictated by […]
Read More →Belgrade Media Report 16 November 2018
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Daily Media Highlights
Friday 16 November 2018
LOCAL PRESS
• Brnabic thanks Bulgaria for its vote in Energy Community (Tanjug)
• Brnabic hands over to Tsipras letter intended for heads of government (Tanjug/Novosti)
• Stefanovic: Kosovo Interpol membership would give terrorists access to databases (Tanjug)
• Stefanovic: All security services have their tasks (B92/TV Prva)
• Detailed plan of work for all security services agreed (RTS)
• Scott: Higher duties danger to Balkan stability (N1)
• Russia on Kosovo: International law, and it must suit Serbs (B92/Beta/Tanjug)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Zvizdic reacts to Serbian PM Brnabic’s denial of Srebrenica genocide (TV1)
• Lukac calls on Minister Mektic to vote against Kosovo’s membership in Interpol (ATV)
• B&H CEC fails to pass decision on manner of distribution of mandates in Federation of B&H HoP (TV1)
• Dunovic: Applying 2013 population census could lead to annulment of multi-ethnicity of B&H (FTV)
• Cvijanovic hands over her duty to Deputy RS PM Golic ahead of inauguration as RS President on Tuesday (ATV)
• Leader of SDS Govedarica expels Jerinic from party (ATV)
fYROM
• The cousins are the only untouchables left (Nezavisen vesnik)
• Public Prosecutor’s Office launches pre-trial investigation over Gruevski’s escape (Meta)
• US: Gruevski should serve his jail term in Macedonia (Meta)
Albania
• Gruevski traveled from Albania to flee to Hungary (ADN)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Gruevski’s Escape Casts Dark Shadow Over Macedonia’s Govt (BIRN)
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