Belgrade Media Report 05 March 2019
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Tuesday 5 March 2019
LOCAL PRESS
• Brnabic: By introducing taxes, Pristina violates CEFTA agreement (RTS)
• Dacic: Greater-Albanian policy threatens region (Tanjug)
• Dacic: Of utmost importance that KFOR’s mandate is implemented to the full extent (Tanjug)
• Cadez: CEFTA obsolete, transition to new phase needed (Tanjug)
• Opposition MPs continue boycott of Serbian parliament (N1)
• Ponos: Our party has nothing to do with Democrats (Danas/Beta)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Dodik: EU not setting any conditions for formation of authorities in B&H (Srna)
• EP Rapporteur: Bosnia answering additional EC questions is “just the first step” (N1)
• Center for Russian studies opens in Pale (Srna)
Montenegro
• Serwer: It’s not time for Djukanovic to resign (Pobjeda)
• Montenegro sends soldiers to NATO mission in Iraq (CDM)
Republic of North Macedonia
• Reeker: Western Balkans and North Macedonia belong in EU and NATO (Republika)
• Mickoski discussed the persecution of opposition officials with Reeker (Republika)
• Members of the European Parliament recommend opening of accession talks with Macedonia and Albania (Republika)
• Ethnic issues and foreign policy on the focus of the presidential campaign (Nezavisen vesnik)
Albania
• Rama: Ready to dialogue, but not for governance (ADN)
• Slovenia confirms support for Albania’s EU path (ADN)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Serbian President Hints At Possible Progress Toward Recognizing Kosovo (RFE/RL)
• Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale Travel to the United Kingdom, Ukraine, Serbia, and Kosovo (US Department of State)
Danas: West supports Vucic because of Kosovo (Danas)
Belgrade-based daily Danas writes that West does not trust the opposition in Serbia would conclude the agreement with Kosovo, because of Dveri Movement, which is a member of the Alliance for Serbia (SzS), while other members of the Alliance “have no clear responses and attitudes in relation to the recognition of Kosovo independence.” This is […]
Read More →Kosovo Serbs’ reactions on the “attack on the North” (KoSSev)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic recently sent warning messages about a possible attack on the north, claiming that the unification of Mitrovica will mean the “banishing of our people from the North Mitrovica.” “Folks, just so we’re clear if somebody attacks Serbs in the north of Kosovo, we have to defend that with military force. Let’s […]
Read More →Haradinaj: Tax can be suspended if final settlement is discussed without border changes
Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj told a press conference in Pristina today that the import tariff on Serbian goods can be suspended if a final settlement with Serbia, which doesn’t include border changes, is discussed. Haradinaj said today’s meeting between Assembly President Veseli and U.S. Ambassador Kosnett was a regular meeting. “I met the Assembly […]
Read More →Haradinaj: Assembly could vote on platform on dialogue very soon (Telegrafi)
Kosovo’s Prime Minister, Ramush Haradinaj, said today that members of the Kosovo Assembly could very soon vote on the platform of talks with Serbia. “I might call an extraordinary session on the platform. We will consult the political parties and Assembly President Kadri Veseli,” Haradinaj said at the government meeting today.
Read More →Drecun: We are not setting barriers (RTS, Tanjug)
There is no solution for Kosovo without Serbia, and if someone thinks that eventual unification of Kosovo and Albania and creation of “Great Albania” could resolve this problem, that one is in illusion, Chairperson of the Serbian National Assembly Committee for Kosovo and Metohija Milovan Drecun told RTS. “That would neither be peaceful nor sustainable […]
Read More →More than half of unemployed persons are women (Radio kontakt plus)
Serbian National Employment Bureau Director in Mitrovica North, Verica Ceranic told Radio kontakt plus that more than half of unemployed persons, as per their registrations are women. The Employment Office in addition to Mitrovica North, covers Zvecan, Zubin Potok, Leposavic, Istok, Gorazdevac and Orahovac. According to Ceranic, in these areas there are 4.885 unemployed women […]
Read More →Orahovac: A man attacked his wife and her mother (KoSSev)
KoSSev portal reports that a Serb man was arrested in Orahovac for physically attacking his wife and her mother. A Serb man was under the influence of alcohol, the Kosovo police report stated. The man was sent to the detention center. The victims refused to receive medical assistance.
Read More →Forensic teams recover human remains at suspected mass gravesite (RTK/Koha)
Forensic teams working at a suspected mass gravesite in the village of Zallq, Istog, have recovered human remains believed to be of a boy. Head of the Kosovo Government’s committee for missing persons, Prenk Gjetaj, said experts think the remains are those of a twelve-year-old boy whose body was found wrapped in a blanked. “His […]
Read More →Discrimination against women yet unresolved problem in Kosovo (Telegrafi)
Women in Kosovo continue to face discrimination in all fields of life, be it employment or their right to property where only 12 percent of women inherit family property. Judicial system is considered to be one of the reason behind this situation, said panelists at the conference organised by the Initiative for Justice and Equality […]
Read More →Dacic: How small should Serbia be, not to be great? (Prva TV, B92)
Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic has pointed out that the incident with the burning of Milorad Pupovac’s effigy in Croatia is not an isolated case. “The problem is that an anti-Serb atmosphere is being created and incidents do not happen only in election campaigns (…),” Dacic told Prva TV. “This is reflected in other […]
Read More →Veseli meets with U.S. Ambassador to Kosovo Philip Kosnett (media)
Kosovo’s Assembly President Kadri Veseli met today with the U.S. Ambassador to Kosovo Philip S. Kosnett. However, neither Veseli nor Kosnett made statements for the media. According to RTK, the meeting lasted 40 minutes. Epoka e Re reports based on its sources that they discussed political developments in Kosovo, more concretely, the 100-percent tax imposed […]
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