Belgrade Media Report 18 December 2018
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Tuesday 18 December 2018
LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic at UN Security Council session (RTS)
• Vucic with Guterres on Pristina’s unilateral moves (RTS)
• Dacic: Important to hear condemnation of Pristina’s moves from large number of countries (RTS)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• First round of consultations on formation of new convocation of B&H CoM held (TV1)
• Covic: New composition of B&H CoM will be known by end of January (Hayat)
• Viskovic proposed a new cabinet (Srna/RTRS)
• US Deputy Secretary of State Sullivan meets B&H Presidency members (RTRS)
Croatia
• Border dispute obstructing Croatia-Slovenia relations (Hina)
• Marovic hasn’t been brought to justice yet; authorities of Serbia should answer why (Kat/Vijesti)
Montenegro
• Marovic hasn’t been brought to justice yet; authorities of Serbia should answer why (Kat/Vijesti)
• Montenegro working more intensively to meet EU Agenda in 2019 (TMN)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Kosovo’s Tough-Guy Tactics Won’t Get it Far (BIRN)
Read More →Protest in north continues, Serbs request sanctions to Pristina (RTS)
Serbs protesting against Pristina’s measures requested today in Mitrovica North that Brussels without further delay introduces political and economic sanctions against Pristina authorities, until they stop violating the CEFTA agreement, RTS reports. The protestors put forward five requests addressed to the international community. In addition to political and economic sanctions against Prisitna, Serbs requested firm […]
Read More →Hoti: Only legitimised government should lead the dialogue (RTK)
Avdullah Hoti, caucus of the parliamentary group of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), said only a government which has civic legitimacy can lead the dialogue with Serbia. “Only the government of the Republic of Kosovo with legitimacy of the citizens can lead Kosovo in the dialogue with Serbia. This process cannot be led by […]
Read More →Chepurin: “Vucic represented Serbia, Thaci represented Thaci” (B92, Sputnik)
Russian Ambassador to Serbia Aleksandr Chepurin has commented on Twitter one detail of the UN Security Council meeting dedicated to Kosovo army. “We noticed that Aleksandar Vucic spoke next to the sign (reading) ‘Serbia’, as did representatives of members of the UN Security Council, Russia, China, US, etc. (next to the names of their countries). Whereas […]
Read More →Haradinaj: Tax to remain in force regardless of who is prime minister (media)
Prime Minister of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj said at a press conference today following the meeting of the government that he expects visa liberalisation to happen in the near future and that this process is not linked to the import tax on Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. “EU has not said no, this is clear. We […]
Read More →Could tensions about Kosovo prepare citizens for reaching solution? (Danas)
Serbian citizens would hardly change their red lines in relation to Kosovo, that suggest Kosovo should remain part of Serbia, Belgrade-based daily Danas writes. Following Pristina’s decision to impose 100 percent tariffs on goods from central Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, tensions in the Serbian public have been running high for days and according to […]
Read More →Kurti: At UN SC, Thaci neither mentioned territorial integrity nor rejected land swap (Telegrafi)
Vetevendosje leader Albin Kurti wrote on Facebook that in his address at the UN Security Council session yesterday President of Kosovo Hashim Thaci showed he “is out of the long winter loneliness”. Kurti said Thaci was going back to the language he employed in the summer of 2018 when he spoke of the need for […]
Read More →LDK accuses Thaci of bias over election commission appointments (media)
In a statement regarding appointment of new Central Election Commission’s members, the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) said President of Kosovo Hashim Thaci has delayed the process even though the legal timeframe for appointing new members is no later than 60 days after certification of election results which was done on 8 July 2018. “In […]
Read More →Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue the only path for Kosovo to join NATO (EWB)
Interview with James Appathurai, NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy and NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia. See at:https://bit.ly/2QzW0JE
Read More →Kosovo government comments on EU letter on dialogue (Gazeta Express)
The news website reports that EU Foreign Policy chief Federica Mogherini has “engaged in a war with Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj”. In a letter she sent to Haradinaj, Mogherini made it clear that she finds the role of President Hashim Thaci as the only real framework in the process of dialogue. Asked to comment on […]
Read More →EU’s ‘toothless’ response to creation of Kosovo army risks worsening the crisis – Moscow (RT)
The creation of Kosovo’s own 5,000-strong army is a threat to peace and security in a turbulent region and may lead to a new escalation, Russia’s UN envoy has warned, calling the EU’s lackluster response irresponsible. Speaking at the UN Security Council emergency meeting on Kosovo, Russia’s ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzya said that […]
Read More →Dacic to TV Prva: “President Vucic” and “Mr. Thaci” – Dacic on UNSC session (B92)
Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic repeated and to Belgrade based TV Prva that the result of the Monday’s UN Security Session was that the positions of all members of the Council to be heard. That was the result of this session because, he points out in a statement to Prva TV, “Pristina hardly will withdraw […]
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