Belgrade Media Report 18 February 2019
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Monday 18 February 2019
LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic: Kosovo Albanian platform is against dialogue (Tanjug)
• Djuric: This platform for Kosovo dialogue aims to ruin it (Tanjug/B92)
• Dacic: What is Pristina celebrating and what have they done in 11 years? (Tanjug)
• Dacic: Pristina’s taxes divert attention from essential issues in Kosovo and Metohija (RTS)
• TurkStream once again stopped by Bulgaria (Novosti)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Dodik: Only internal agreement can save B&H (Srna/Politika)
• Dodik: Synonym for RS can be only Western Serbia (Srna)
• Cubrilovic: In B&H energy should be spend on what is possible to agree (Srna)
• Zvizdic at Munich Security Conference: B&H must be part of EU and NATO (Fena)
• Stoltenberg: We are ready to accept B&H’s Annual National Programme (N1)
Croatia
• President rejects allegations she changed speeches to appease Vucic (Hina)
• Croatian reintegration model applicable to Ukraine and Georgia, says Plenkovic (Hina)
Montenegro
• Protest in Podgorica gathered several thousand citizens (TMN)
• Government of Montenegro supports Republic North Macedonia NATO path (TMN)
fYROM
• Mogherini and Hahn confirm the arrival of the notification about the new name of Macedonia (Meta)
• Zaev and Tsipras awarded with Ewald von Kleist Award for resolving the name dispute (Nezavisen vesnik)
• Siljanovska wins VMRO-DPMNE’s confidence for presidential candidate (Nezavisen vesnik)
• SDSM convenes an emergency meeting with the coalition (Nezavisen vesnik)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Vučić and Thaçi in Munich: Slim chances for an agreement in the near future (European Western Balkans)
• UN chief hails victory of ‘political will’ in historic Republic of North Macedonia accord (UN News)
No justice 18 years after crime in Livadice (Radio KIM)
An eighteenth anniversary of the attack against Nis-Express bus in the village of Livadice, near Podujevo, killing 12 Serbs and injuring 43 others was marked on Saturday, in Laplje Selo, Radio KIM reports. The requiem was served by the Serbian Orthodox Church priest. Jelena, sister of one of the killed passengers Mirjana Dragovic, said Kosovo […]
Read More →US Congress delegation tells Serbian president to arrest retired policeman (Blic, FoNet, N1)
A bi-partisan US Congress delegation has demanded the arrest of former senior Serbian police officer Goran Radosavljevic aka Guri over the killing of three Kosovo Albanian US citizens in 1999, Belgrade daily Blic said on Monday. The delegation met with President Aleksandar Vucic during last week’s security conference in Munich to demand Radosavljevic’s arrest and […]
Read More →Lekaj: AAK-PDK relations are very good (GazetaBlic)
Despite the contradictions of the two political parties of Kosovo’s governing coalition, the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) on the imposed tariff for Serbian products, AAK deputy leader Pal Lekaj told the news portal that the government decision on tax will remain unchanged. “The Alliance for […]
Read More →Tariff Threatens Kosovo’s Most Important Alliance (Balkan Insight)
The United States, in pushing for a deal between Serbia and Kosovo, is losing patience with one of its closest Balkan allies. What began as a retaliatory strike in the form of a 100 per cent tariff on imported goods from Serbia has snowballed into a genuine threat to Kosovo’s ties with its closest big-power […]
Read More →Milivojevic: It is by no coincidence that they call for abolishment of Resolution 1244 (Tanjug, B92)
Diplomat Zoran Milivojevic commenting on letters/congratulations that the USA President Donald Trump has sent to Belgrade and Pristina, said it points out there is no solution to the Kosovo issue without Serbia, Tanjug news agency reported. He also added, support of Washington to Kosovo independence is indisputable. However, according to Milivojevic, the letter Trump sent […]
Read More →Russian aggression and returning ISIS fighters remain Kosovo’s top challenges, prime minister says (CNBC)
As Kosovo pursues NATO and EU membership, its top challenges stem from Russian aggression and the return of ISIS fighters, its prime minister said during the Munich Security Conference Saturday. Asked by CNBC about which one the country’s government saw as the greater threat, the prime minister replied, “For us it’s both.” “What we call […]
Read More →Europe, please wake up (Project Syndicate)
The first step to defending Europe from its enemies, both internal and external, is to recognize the magnitude of the threat they present. The second is to awaken the sleeping pro-European majority and mobilize it to defend the values on which the EU was founded. See at:https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/political-party-systems-undermining-european-union-by-george-soros-2019-02
Read More →Missing Persons Exhibit Installed in Kosovo Parliament Corridor (Balkan Insight)
An exhibition of photographs about wartime missing persons’ families has been installed in a main corridor of the Kosovo Assembly – an attempt to influence lawmakers to do more to resolve the fate of those who disappeared. Kushtrim Koliqi, a Pristina-based artist and human rights activist, told BIRN that he hopes that the new exhibition […]
Read More →Todic: Bahtiri’s appetite has grown, but he can only dream about his plans (TV Most)
“The latest provocation of Mitrovica South mayor Agim Bahtiri, who during the visit to the Leposavic municipality, more precisely to the village of Saljska Bistrica announced the annexation of these villages from north of Kosovo and Metohija, is causing concerns among the citizens, and I on behalf of the Serbian List and the Serbian people, […]
Read More →New cattle thefts in Partes (RTV Puls, Radio kontakt plus)
Unknown perpetrators have stolen two cows in Partes, near Gnjilane over the weekend, RTV Puls reported. One cow belonging to seven-member family Vasic was stolen in the center of the village, while the other one belonged to four-member Mirkovic family. Both families live on agriculture, and cows are the primary source of incomes to them. […]
Read More →Living in areas rumored to be considered for “territory exchange” (Kosovo 2.0)
Today marks the 11th anniversary of Kosovo’s independence. On February 17, 2008, elected deputies in Kosovo’s Assembly voted unanimously for Kosovo’s Declaration of Independence, vowing to defend the territorial integrity of the newest state in Europe. Just over a decade later, discussions have been taking place about the possibility of this territory changing. During recent […]
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