Belgrade Media Report 04 February 2018
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Monday 4 February 2019
LOCAL PRESS
• Dacic: Four countries against Kosovo debate at UN Security Council (Tanjug/B92)
• Vucic: Abolish taxes and end provocations to resume dialogue (B92/Tanjug)
• Dacic: Pristina’s behavior confirmation that Kosovo needs to be debated in the UN (Tanjug)
• Dacic welcomes new Chinese Ambassador to Serbia (Beta)
• Djuric: Adoption of “Trepca” statute a new blow to dialogue (Tanjug)
• Drecun: Apart from political violence, Pristina conducts also legal violence (RTS)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Berton: Challenging the name of RS and Croat Declaration are not welcome (N1)
• RS President urges the RS-based parties to join together at B&H’s state level (Fena)
• Dodik: The international protectorate to stop, B&H’s impediment to the development of the Entities and the Cantons (Srna)
• SNSD: We’ll put out of force all the imposed laws, abolish OHR, block NATO path (Fena)
• Govedarica should review documents SDS adopted until 2005 (Srna)
Montenegro
• Protest in Podgorica gathered over 1,000 citizens (TMN)
fYROM
• Macedonia to sign NATO Accession Protocol on 6 February (Nezavisen vesnik)
• Xhaferi: I am prepared to be president if there is no census at the elections (Meta)
• Mickoski: Victory in elections, then against the Prespa Agreement (Republika)
• Gruevski breaks silence in a TV interview: One day I will return (Nezavisen vesnik)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• ‘No More Time to Lose:’ EU Calls on Kosovo to Revoke Serbian Duties (Sputnik)
• Trans-European Transport Networks to breathe new life into Balkans (New Europe)
At conference on dialogue “no money” for translation into Serbian (Radio KIM)
Conference on dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, organized by a Group for Political and Legal Studies was held today without the participation of Serb representatives. At the same time, Serbian public was denied details about this event, since translation for the media reporting in the Serbian language has not been provided, Radio KIM reports. Organizers […]
Read More →“4 countries against Kosovo debate at UN Security Council” (Tanjug, B92)
It is still uncertain whether the United Nations Security Council session on February 7 will discuss Kosovo. The US, the UK, Germany, and Poland, have been fiercely opposing the intention to put the regular quarterly report of the UN Secretary-General on Kosovo on the agenda of the session, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on […]
Read More →Dacic: Agreement with Pristina should be reached during Trump’s time (BETA)
Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic said that a lasting solution in Belgrade-Pristina dialogue should be reached as soon as possible, since a change in the international relations might occur, BETA news agency reports. “It is necessary to speed up the dialogue, reach a lasting solution, do not waste time, and for the Serbian interests […]
Read More →Pacolli reportedly makes open death threat against Dacic (Tanjug, Kurir, B92)
Behgjet Pacolli reportedly has made an open death threat directed at Serbian First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic, Tanjug news agency reports citing a report in the Belgrade-based tabloid Kurir, which said the incident happened during an informal EU ministerial meeting in Bucharest, Romania, over the weekend. According to this media report, Pacolli, […]
Read More →Foreign Ministry’s reaction after Dacic’s claim that Pacolli threatened him with his life in Bucharest (Klan)
Kosovo’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs reacted to the claims of Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic that Behgjet Pacolli threatened him with murder in Bucharest. Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Rejhane Vuniqi in a response to Klan Kosova, called such statements “just another lie.” “Like all the other false statements so far, this is yet another […]
Read More →Vucic: Revoke taxes and end provocations to resume dialogue (Serbian Government, B92)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said the current stall in the (Kosovo) dialogue can be overcome only when Pristina abolishes taxes on goods from central Serbia. Speaking on Monday in Belgrade, Vucic added that the dialogue can continue when Pristina ceases with provocations, such as the change in the statute of the Trepca mining complex (in […]
Read More →EU: Time is now for a Pristina-Belgrade agreement (RFE)
European Union officials involved in the facilitation of the Pristina-Belgrade dialogue are carefully following developments in Kosovo and hoping that the pressure on the government to lift import tariff on Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina will soon bear fruit and enable the continuation of dialogue for normalisation of relations, Radio Free Europe in Albanian reports. […]
Read More →Veseli says tax will remain but needs to be suspended (Koha/RFE)
Kosovo Assembly President Kadri Veseli said today that import tariff on Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina was introduced as a way to protect Kosovo’s interests and should not be used against them. Speaking to reporters during a school visit in Ferizaj, Veseli said: “We have introduced the 100-percent tax on Serbian goods because Serbia imposed […]
Read More →Konjufca: Haradinaj cannot face Thaci, leaves things halfway (Klan Kosova)
Head of Vetevendosje parliamentary group, Glauk Konjufca, said Kosovo’s Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj is renouncing competencies for dialogue with Serbia and passing them on to President Hashim Thaci because it is “complicated math” and cannot face Thaci. “Haradinaj cannot face President Thaci, is leaving things halfway,” Konjufca said adding: “The creation of the negotiating team […]
Read More →Serbia and China set on comprehensive strategic partnership (Serbian Government, B92)
Prime Minister Ana Brnabic on Monday welcomed the new Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Serbia, Chen Bo. Brnbic stressed that friendly relations between the two countries are constantly improving, the government announced. Brnabic pointed out the cooperation in large infrastructure projects and Chinese investments, including the investment in Smederevo Zelezara and RTB […]
Read More →Sherifi: Dialogue platform to proceed at the Assembly next week (Klan Kosova)
Bilall Sherifi caucus of Social-Democratic Initiative (NISMA), said the platform for the discussions with Serbia will be proceeded at the Assembly next week. Sherifi assessed that Kosovo does not stand as good and that it is in a defensive position toward the northern neighbor, Serbia. “We have to speak in one voice with regards to […]
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