Belgrade Media Report 18 March 2019
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Monday 18 March 2019
LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic: NATO committed grave crime against small country (Tanjug/B92)
• Vucic: Serbia will protect its people in Kosovo and Metohija (Tanjug/RTS/Beta/Novosti)
• Brnabic: Protests haven’t upset Serbian authorities (TV Prva/Beta)
• Protest at Serbian presidency, central police station (N1)
• Grenada supports solving Kosovo issue through dialogue (Tanjug/Politika/Beta/B92)
• Serbia supports peaceful resolution of crisis in Venezuela (Tanjug/Novosti)
• Djuric: We will not allow a repetition of Serb expulsion (Beta)
• Dacic: Some countries are telling Haradinaj – don’t do it yet (Tanjug/B92)
• Stefanovic: Belgrade not behind Ivanovic’s murder (Beta)
• Chepurin: No overnight solution for Kosovo issue (Sputnik/Beta)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Prosecutors question Security Minister on alleged Croatian secret service affair (N1)
• Crnadak assesses Ambassador Hajric’s words as dangerous and irresponsible (N1)
• Dodik condemns terrifying terrorist attack in New Zealand (Srna)
• Dodik: CoM Chairman-designate may be appointed within two or three days (Srna)
• Grujicic: Chemical and nuclear war waged against Serbia and Republika Srpska (Srna)
Croatia
• Croatian President doesn’t want to see Serbia’s destabilization (Hina)
Republic of North Macedonia
• Judge Kacarska orders 200 years in prison for the group charged over the April 2017 parliament incident (Republika)
• Zaev personally announced the process against Mitko Cavkov (Republika)
• AA: Alimi should’ve been rewarded, not punished with 7 years in prison (Republika)
• Mickoski: What Zaev ordered on 28 April, 2017, his servants delivered today (Republika)
• Xhaferi will publish some of the laws rejected by Ivanov, will return most of them to parliament (Republika)
• Nominations for the presidential elections should be submitted to SEC by 21 March (Republika)
Albania
• Opposition’s protest, Basha Reacts on Police Action to Prosecute 33 People (ADN)
• DP leader’s message for internationals (ADN)
• Kryemadhi warns escalation of protests until PM’s removal (ADN)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Russia expects Serbian authorities will settle situation around rallies (TASS)
• Protests in Serbia, Albania and Montenegro continue, demonstrators take more radical steps (European Western Balkans)
• Terror has no connection with history of Balkans: envoy (Anadolu Agency)
Mustafa: President should unblock CEC (RTK)
Isa Mustafa, leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) has reacted to the lack of nomination of the members of the Central Election Commission by the President Hashim Thaci. He wrote on his Facebook page that the nomination of the members should be in accordance with the Constitution, Law and Decision of the Constitutional […]
Read More →O’Connell: Political employments more noticeable this year (RTK)
The British Ambassador to Kosovo Ruairi O’Connell said today at the conference of the British Embassy on recruiting of senior leading positions in civil service and independent institutions, that corruption and nepotism are the two most serious problems that Kosovo is facing. “The success of this project is success of Kosovo, but its failure also […]
Read More →NATO committed grave crime against small country – Vucic (Tanjug, B92)
NATO aggression was a grave crime against a small sovereign country, but 20 years on, the Serb people remain unbowed, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said. He stated this at the opening of the 4th Belgrade Strategic Dialogue. “Serbia and the Serb people are still unbowed today, but today we are in the process of a […]
Read More →#Trashtag challenge in Mitrovica North: Dare and clean your city (KoSSev)
The latest virtual #trashtag challenge spreading on the social media has inspired people across the world to go to the locations covered with waste and collect it, and following the work done post “before” and “after” photos on the social networks. A group of young people from Mitrovica North also joined the challenge since they […]
Read More →Stoltenberg: NATO does not plan to reduce presence in Kosovo (RTV Puls, Prva TV)
NATO has plans to neither reduce presence of its forces nor KFOR Mission in Kosovo, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told Serbian Prva TV, adding the reason of NATO presence in Kosovo is to protect all the people and the Serbian community. Asked why the pogrom against the Serbs in Kosovo happened in March 2004, […]
Read More →Haradinaj thanks U.S. for support to Kosovo’s security mechanisms (media)
Prime Minister of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj met today in Pristina the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, Kirsten Madison, and thanked her for the U.S. continuous support to rule of law and security mechanisms in Kosovo. In a Facebook post, Haradinaj wrote: “With the unreserved support of strategic partners […]
Read More →Vetevendosje: PDK has suffocated justice system (Koha)
Vetevendosje officials said in a press conference today that there is no serious commitment on the part of Kosovo institutions to fight corruption. Political interference, particularly from the ruling Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), was cited by Vetevendosje as being responsible for the “suffocation” of the justice system in Kosovo. MP Albulena Haxhiu said corruption […]
Read More →No democratic country can allow violence, Serbia’s Vucic tells Europeans (N1, FoNet)
Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic told the European Council on Foreign Relations on Monday his country was a democratic state and that he was satisfied when people could protest peacefully, but that country could not allow violence, the FoNet news agency reported. A statement from Vucic’s office said he was happy that people were free to […]
Read More →Marked anniversary of the March pogrom – 15 years of no justice (Kontakt plus radio)
Memorial service in Mitrovica North for Serbs killed on this day in 2004, was served in front of the “Monument to the truth”, by laying flowers and lighting candles at a memorial plaque of Jana Tucev and Borivoje Spasojevic, has marked the 15th anniversary of the March pogrom, reported Kontakt plus radio. Fifteen years ago, […]
Read More →Dacic to Politika daily: They never asked us what we want with Kosovo
There was never a talk with representatives of the international community about what Serbia would like as an outcome in the negotiations with Pristina, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said in an interview for Sunday’s edition of the Belgrade based daily Politika, answering the question of whether in the past the issue of the Serbian […]
Read More →Lost in translation – version for Serbian farmers in Kosovo (Voice of America, Radio kontakt plus)
Around 50 interesting publications in the Serbian language have been published recently with the support of the Kosovo Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development, Voice of America reports. These publications contain numerous advises to the farmers, and one of the publications is titled “Obesity of the calves for breeding.” According to the Voice of […]
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