Belgrade Media Report 21 February
LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic: I am not optimistic about reaching a deal, although I am ready to talk to Pristina as soon as taxes are abolished (TV Prva/B92/Beta/Tanjug/RTS)
• Dacic: US interested in compromise more than others (RTS)
• Burundi will not change its stance on Kosovo and Metohija (Tanjug/Novosti)
• Venezuela’s official seeks Serbia’s support for international law (Beta)
• Obradovic: Is delineation Serbia’s official policy (Beta)
• Zakharova: Moscow didn’t change position on Kosovo (Beta)
• Juncker: Without membership prospect, Western Balkans risks returning to 1990s (FoNet)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Dodik: Izetbegovic to abide by official B&H policy on Kosovo (Srna)
• Dodik: Military neutrality remains RS’ position regardless of pressures (Srna)
• B&H fully committed to European integration, Zvizdic says (N1)
• Cubrilovic: RS is ahead of others, but is being slowed down by formation of other authorities in B&H (Srna)
• New convocation of House of Peoples constituted (Srna)
• Izetbegovic and Radoncic held a meeting to discuss government formation (Fena)
• Ivantsov and Dodik lay wreath to Churkin memorial (Srna)
Croatia
• Croatia and Serbia far from agreement on border (Hina)
Montenegro
• Montenegro advocates for further enlargement of NATO (Pobjeda)
Republic of North Macedonia
• Trump: Prespa Agreement is the most historic achievement in the Balkans since the Dayton Accords (Nezavisen vesnik)
• Sela cancelled the meeting with Zaev where they were supposed to talk about a joint presidential candidate (Meta)
• Authorities arrest former speaker Veljanovski and two former ministers (Nezavisen vesnik)
Albania
• OSCE: We are against any attempt to subvert democracy through violence (ADN)
• Opposition MPs resigned in Group (ADN)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Russia claims US is ‘dragging’ European countries into NATO, even as neighbors move to join Alliance (Newsweek)
• How the Balkans solved a Balkan problem (Al Jazeera)
Burundi will not change its stance on Kosovo (B92)
First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic assessed on Friday that Burundi, with its decision, of last year, to withdraw recognition of Kosovo, has contributed to a change in the balance of powers in the international arena and the position of Serbia in the negotiation process, the Serbian government announced. Speaking […]
Read More →“Special Court – the only place to prove guilt and crime” (RTK2, Radio kontakt plus)
Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo have different views on and expectations of the Special Court. Serbs doubt the final justice would be served and are not content with the fact that not all the crimes against the Serbs have become part of the court’s mandate, while Albanians think the court is unjust as it would […]
Read More →NGO Link research: Almost half of young people want to leave Kosovo (Radio kontakt plus)
Results of a research conducted by Mitrovica-based non-governmental organization Local Initiative-LINK indicate that young people on the both sides of the Ibar River are not content with the quality of life, transparency in the work of the local self-governance and almost half of the respondents expressed a wish to leave Kosovo, Radio kontakt plus reported. […]
Read More →Hoxha urges EU to adopt a proactive approach towards Western Balkans (Koha)
Kosovo’s Minister of European Integration, Dhurata Hoxha, took part in a ministerial conference on European affairs in Vienna, hosted by Austrian Minister Gernot Blumel. According to a press release issued by Kosovo’s Ministry of European Integration, Hoxha spoke in her remarks about the importance of political and economic cooperation between the EU and the region. […]
Read More →Japan to open embassy in Kosovo in 2020 (media)
State Minister of Japan’s Foreign Ministry, Toshiko Abe, met separately in Pristina today Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj and President Hashim Thaci and announced that Japan plans to open an embassy in Kosovo next year to mark the tenth anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations, several media outlets report. “Kosovo is thankful to Japan for the […]
Read More →Vucic: There would be peace, unless somebody starts killing Serbs (Prva TV, B92)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic speaking for the Prva TV morning program said he has the political courage to resolve the Kosovo issue and “there would be peace unless somebody physically attacks the Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija,” B92 reported. “There would be peace unless somebody physically attacks Serbs and starts to kill them, that I […]
Read More →Dacic: US more than others interested in compromise (RTS)
Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic told RTS he is not surprised that Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz used the meeting with US President Donald Trump to discuss about Kosovo and Metohija. Speaking for RTS morning news edition Dacic noted that the US more than other partners is interested in finding the lasting solution to the […]
Read More →Popovic: The whole Kosovo is Serbia, not a meter less (RTS, Tanjug)
Minister Nenad Popovic responded to yesterday’s statement by Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic, stating that the idea of a “delineation of Kosovo” cannot be an official policy because it is contrary to the Constitution. “I’m glad that Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic, in just 24 hours, changed his mind on the idea of ‘delineation’, and he no […]
Read More →Kosovo Ex-Guerrilla Quizzed by Hague Prosecutors as ‘Suspect’ (Balkan Insight)
Former Kosovo Liberation Army fighter Isuf Gashi said he was interviewed as a war crime suspect by the Hague-based Specialist Prosecutor’s Office, but insisted the guerrilla force committed no crimes. Former KLA fighter Isuf Gashi said that he was questioned as a suspect for about eight hours on Wednesday by the Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor’s Office, […]
Read More →Juncker: EU membership for the Balkans, war or peace (Koha)
European Commission President, Jean Claude Juncker, said in Brussels today that countries of the Western Balkans need a clear perspective for membership into the European Union, otherwise the whole region risks going back to the 1990s. Juncker made these remarks at a meeting with Slovenian President Borut Pahor about the perspective of EU membership for […]
Read More →Foreign Minister Dacic corrects his statement on delineation with Kosovo, comments on Interpol bid (BETA, TV N1)
Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic said on Wednesday that delineation with Kosovo was not an official proposal but an idea among some of the state leaders, thus correcting the statement he made one day earlier saying that delineation with Kosovo is Serbia’s official proposal to resolve the Kosovo issue, BETA news agency reported. Dacic […]
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