Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte visiting Serbia (RTS, B92, TV N1)
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte pays one-day visit to Serbia. He has been received by President Aleksandar Vucic and Prime Minister Ana Brnabic. For the first time since taking office, Conte is traveling to the Western Balkans, and the visit to Serbia is his first bilateral visit to a European country since the beginning of […]
Read More →New OSCE-led survey reveals violence against women in South-Eastern and Eastern Europe (OSCE)
The OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger launched today in Brussels a report that gives a detailed picture of the physical, sexual and psychological violence many women and girls have had to endure in South-Eastern and Eastern Europe in the last decades. The report is based on a survey undertaken in 2018 in seven OSCE participating […]
Read More →Belgrade Media Report 06 March 2019
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Wednesday 6 March 2019
LOCAL PRESS
• Vasiljevic: ANSA incorrectly translated Vucic’s statement (Beta/Raskrinkavanje)
• Scott: Mutual recognition needs to be in the heart of the agreement on normalization (Kurir)
• Danielsson: Re-establishing Belgrade-Pristina dialogue critical for Serbia (Beta)
• SzS: Vucic confirms he is a step away from delineation (Beta)
• Opposition MP groups write to Kocijancic (Beta)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Dodik after talks with Izetbegovic and Covic (N1)
• Dodik: Not interested in surrogate B&H which cannot work (Srna)
• Dodik: SNSD will not sacrifice military neutrality for power; SNSD will not enter any coalition with the SDA (Srna)
Montenegro
• Djukanovic to receive European King David Award (CDM)
• Parliamentary session without opposition (MINA)
• Worker’s Party left the DF (RTCG)
Croatia
Republic of North Macedonia
• Iseni: Although I’ve been member of SDSM for long time, I will support the Albanian candidate in these elections (INA)
• Biden to Zaev: Prespa Agreement is major positive development for EU integration (Republika)
Albania
• Opposition warns biggest rally on 16 March (ADN)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Serbia, North Macedonia eye stake in Bulgaria’s Belene NPP (bne IntelliNews)
Read More →PM Brnabic comments on Haradinaj’s statement on visit to Pristina (Tanjug, B92)
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic commented on Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj’s statement on her visit to Pristina, saying it serves to “throw the dust into the eyes of EU and USA,” Tanjug news agency reported. She added Haradinaj is doing everything to prevent continuation of dialogue. Brnabic also noted she received no invitation for […]
Read More →Kosnett objects Shala’s appointment (RTK)
The U.S. Ambassador to Kosovo Philip S. Kosnett, reacted to Naser Shala’s appointment as Head of the Secretariat of the Kosovo Property Comparison and Verification Agency (KPCVA). “Agree with UK in Kosovo. Deeply disappointed in Kosovo Assembly’s refusal to appoint professional leadership to the Kosovo Property Comparison & Verification Agency. MPs demonstrated they value cronyism […]
Read More →Djukanovic: A positive epilogue should be found in the dialogue (RTK)
The President of Montenegro Milo Djukanovic met on Wednesday in Brussels with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. After the meeting Djukanovic said to the media that the experience of finding the solution between Greece and Northern Macedonia, can be valuable for resolution of other problems in the region. ‘I am talking about the relations between […]
Read More →ICMP promises support on shedding light on the fate of the missing (RTK)
Kosovo has accredited today through an agreement the International Commission on Missing Persons to shed light on the missing persons. This was announced on the occasion of signing an agreement between this organization and the government of Kosovo. Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj said the agreement obliges both parties to engage on shedding light on the […]
Read More →A relative of the late Oliver Ivanovic missing for three days (B92, Kontakt plus radio, N1, )
A taxi driver from northern Mitrovica, who went missing three days ago and is suspected to have been killed, is a relative of Oliver Ivanovic. Ksenija Bozovic, now the leader of Ivanovic’s party, CI SDP, confirmed for the Kosova Press agency that the missing taxi driver is a relative of Ivanovic. “We are extremely worried. […]
Read More →Survey: Germans and French want neither Serbia nor Kosovo in EU (Tanjug, B92, Blic)
International research and data analysis company “YouGov” published a survey on EU countries’ affiliation towards the accession of Serbia and Kosovo to EU, Tanjug news agency reported. The survey was conducted from 17 to 27 December last year, and included 8.535 respondents from seven countries Great Britain, Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway, the […]
Read More →Protest in North Mitrovica will take place tomorrow (TV Most, Radio Mitrovica Sever)
Zvecan based TV Most reports that tomorrow, March 7, a protest of Serbs against the “anti-civilizational tariffs, political persecution, staged/framed warrants, attempts to plunder Trepca and suppression of the rights of Serbs in Kosovo”. The protest will be held in Sumadija square, starting at noon.
Read More →Apostolova: Delays in education sector progress, crime towards the Kosovo youth (Zeri/Klan Kosova)
Head of EU Office in Kosovo, Nataliya Apostolova, said that the education sector in Kosovo continues to face many challenges including non-implementation of the curriculum, lack of adequate text books and politisation of education institutions. Apostolova said at an education conference in Pristina that any delay in addressing these challenges is a crime towards the […]
Read More →Woman in Gracanica harassed (RTV Gracanica)
According to unofficial information of the Radio Television of Gracanica, in Kralja Milutina Street in Gracanica, allegedly unknown persons were provoking A.M. from the car around 5 pm. RTV Gracanica, quoting the words of the family members, reports that NN persons tried to drag her into the car. The case was not reported to the Kosovo […]
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