Gucati: Dozens of new invitations by Special Court expected in April (Express)
Hysni Gucati, head of the KLA war associations, has warned that a new wave of invitations from the Special Court is expected in April. “Dozens of new invitations by the Special Court for the members of the Kosovo Liberation Army are expected in April. I call on all comrades in arms to respond to this […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 27 March
• Punishment of corrupt officials demanded at OSCE conference (All monitored broadcasters, RTK1& KTV)
• Fajon: EU losing credibility, Kosovo citizens losing hope (RTK1)
• Avramopoulos: Kosovars deserve visa liberalisation (KTV)
• Swiss Ambassador: We pay your water supply, you pay fake veterans (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Serbia trying to destabilise Kosovo, according to intelligence report (GazetaExpress)
• More suspected policemen in the case of minor in Gllogoc/Glogovac (KTV)
• Rrahim Hashimi summoned by Specialist Chambers (KTV)
• Kosovo readies for census 2021 (GazetaExpress)
UNMIK Headlines 28 March
• Haradinaj: Opening the issue of borders would destabilize whole region! (media)
• Veseli and Haradinaj don’t meet (Koha)
• EU doesn’t know how to bring back Kosovo and Serbia to dialogue (Zeri)
• Kocijancic: Kosovo must lift the import tariff (media)
• Kosovo’s isolation increases radicalization (Kosova Sot)
• Thaci: We must show no compromise in the fight against corruption (media)
• OSCE requests from Kosovo to fight corruption (Epoka)
• Tahiri: Mogherini has betrayed European principles (Epoka)
• Rrahim Hashimi summoned by Specialist Chambers (media)
• Kosovo prepares for new census in 2021 (media)
EU Commissioner Hahn to visit Serbia on Thursday (Tanjug, B92)
President Aleksandar Vucic will on Thursday in Belgrade meet with Johannes Hahn, EU Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations. Vucic and Hahn will meet in Villa Mir in the Serbian capital at 19:30 hours CET, the president’s press service has announced. Earlier in the day, Vucic will attend the presentation of Hahn as a […]
Read More →Belgrade Media Report 27 March 2019
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Wednesday 27 March 2019
LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic: Bombardment was crime (TV Happy/Tanjug/Beta/RTV/RTS)
• Brnabic: I won’t resign, I don’t accept blackmail (RTS/Tanjug/B92)
• Dacic: Paraguay under big pressure to recognize Kosovo (RTS/Tanjug)
• Improvement of political, economic relations with Guatemala (Tanjug)
• Djuric expecting Czech Republic to support efforts to compromise on Kosovo (Beta)
• Serbian opposition to boycott elections unless conditions change (N1)
• Djilas in US: Democracy in Serbia is jeopardized (N1)
• Possible dates for early elections (Novosti)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Dodik: PDP will decide next week whether it will take part in authorities at B&H level (Srna)
• Dodik: SDS’ response next week (Srna)
• Left-leaning DF ready to negotiate forming government with nationalist parties (N1)
• Zvizdic with Ambassadors of Islamic Countries (Radio Sarajevo)
• RS committed to European integration and reforms (Srna)
• Commissioner Hahn to discuss reforms with B&H’s authorities (N1)
• The relationship between Croatia and B&H remains strained (N1)
Croatia
• European Parliament election in Croatia called for 26 May (Hina)
• US Congress passes the bill supporting European energy security and diversification (Hina)
Montenegro
• Agreement on the Future by “Odupri Se”: Protest unites opposition? (Vijesti/MINA)
• Montenegro and United States: Cooperation with State of Maine (TMN)
Republic of North Macedonia
• TV debate between opposition leader Mickoski and Prime Minister Zaev (Republika)
• Opinion polls in North Macedonia show mixed results (Nezavisen vesnik)
• Xhaferi: If we could wait a year for the language law, we will wait for Ivanov to leave (Nezavisen vesnik)
• Denmark ratifies North Macedonia’s NATO Accession Protocol (Meta)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Blerim Reka – Underdog in North Macedonia’s Presidential Race (BIRN)
Read More →Hoxhaj meets EUROSTAT delegation, discuss census (RTK)
Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister, Enver Hoxhaj, received on today European Statistics (EUROSTAT) Director Eduardo Barredo Capelo to discuss second census in Kosovo set to be held in 2021. Hoxhaj expressed to Capelo appreciation for support and cooperation, noting that the drafting of the Law on Kosovo Population and Housing Census is ongoing. “I met this […]
Read More →Kocijancic; Kosovo should suspend the tax (RTK, Shekulli)
Spokesperson of European Commission Maja Kocijancic said the EU along with US and other countries once again called out the government of Kosovo to abolish the taxes imposed on the goods coming from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina adding that this measure distracts the dialogue and Pristina’s path towards EU. “Status-quo is not an alternative […]
Read More →Dragan Djukanovic: Kosovo issue, disagreement between Germany and US (RTS)
If there would be a unified stance of the international stakeholders, Pristina would by now revoke 100 percent tariffs it imposed on goods from central Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Center for Foreign Policy Director, Dragan Djukanovic told RTS. He also thinks there is a higher probability that due to the Kosovo issue extraordinary parliamentary […]
Read More →Serbia wants to boost ties with Guatemala (Serbian Government, Tanjug, B92)
Serbian First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has continued his tour of Latin America. Dacic is on a two-day visit to the Republic of Guatemala, the Serbian Government announced on Wednesday. In Guatemala City, Dacic met with the country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sandra Erica Jovel Polanco. In a friendly conversation, Dacic and […]
Read More →Vucic: Albanians don’t want agreement according to model of two Germanies (media)
Several news websites report that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic argued today that “Albanians don’t want an agreement based on the model of the two Germanies”. “Albanians don’t even want to hear about this. They believe that Russia would not accept this at the United Nations, even if we say yes,” he said. Vucic He criticized […]
Read More →Djilas met in Washington US officials, discussed situation in Serbia (Danas)
During two-day visit to Washington, one of the founders of opposition Alliance for Serbia (SzS) Dragan Djilan and SzS Secretary Ljuban Panic held number of meetings with US officials and informed them about the situation in Serbia, Danas daily reports. As the Alliance for Serbia said in a press statement, they met with US National […]
Read More →Braathu to heads of institutions: Work more in fighting corruption (Klan Kosova)
The OSCE Head of Mission in Kosovo, Jan Braathu, said today in Pristina that his mission is committed to assist the Kosovo Government in the fight against corruption. During a conference on high-level corruption, Braathu called on heads of Kosovo institutions to put in more work in the fight against corruption because only in this […]
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