Belgrade Media Report 25 March 2019
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Monday 25 March 2019
LOCAL PRESS
• Day of remembrance for victims in NATO aggression marked (Politika/Novosti/Tanjug/RTS)
• SPS: NATO intervention fails to resolve Kosovo issue (Beta/Tanjug/Novosti)
• NATO states: The day when diplomacy failed (Beta/Danas)
• Dacic: Serbia fosters good relations with Latin American countries (RTS/Tanjug)
• Tadic returning to DS (Beta/Novosti)
• Nearly 80 percent of Serbians oppose NATO membership; 64 percent wouldn’t accept NATO’s apology – poll (Beta/B92)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• OHR: B&H must adopt a law against the denial of genocide (N1)
• Dodik plans to reject adoption of laws that would sanction those who deny genocide (Radio Sarajevo)
• B&H will ask Croatia not to dispose nuclear waste at border (Srna)
• Dodik convinced Croatia will give up on disposal of nuclear waste at border with B&H (Srna)
Croatia
• Chief of Croatian Intelligence Agency hopes accusations of espionage to be clarified with B&H (Hina)
• Croatian President says Croats are the oldest constituent people in B&H (Hina)
• Croatia marks 10 years of NATO membership (Hina)
Montenegro
• Twenty years after NATO bombing: MNE has become a NATO member state (Pobjeda)
• Protest continues: “Odupri se” movement biggest in Montenegrin history (TMN)
• Protests are legitimate, election results must be accepted (Pobjeda)
Republic of North Macedonia
• Greek President demands full new name implementation, threatens with EU veto if we fail to do so (Republika)
Albania
• Meta and Bushati: Grateful to the US, NATO for intervention in Kosovo (ADN)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• West failed to learn lessons of Yugoslavia tragedy, Russia’s NATO mission says (TASS)
• NATO’s operation in Yugoslavia launched under fake pretext – Russia’s EU envoy (TASS)
• 20 Years of Illegal Warfare (The American Conservative)
• Washington likely culprit behind Kosovo independence ultimatum, says Lavrov (TASS)
• Twenty years after the bombing – where does the Serbia and NATO stand today? (European Western Balkans)
Klacar: Early elections in Serbia “unlikely during spring” (Prva TV, B92)
There’s more chance of early elections in Serbia being held after the summer than during the spring, Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CeSID) Executive Director Bojan Klacar told Prva TV. Explaining the reasons for this, Klacar said there was no visible progress on Kosovo that could speed up the dynamics around elections, while the […]
Read More →Rakic: Vucic’s message is our greatest protection (Beta, Politika, N1)
President of the Serbian List, Goran Rakic says that the biggest support to the Kosovo Serbs was “a clear message” of the President of Serbia President Aleksandar Vucic who said he would not allow the expulsion of Serbs (from Kosovo). Goran Rakic told the Belgrade based daily Politika that with help from Serbia, Kosovo would […]
Read More →Moscow: NATO aggression on Yugoslavia “black stain” (Serbian media)
Serbian media reported on a statement of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs saying that “aggression of NATO member states on Yugoslavia in 1999 represents a black stain that shall always remain on the reputation of North-Atlantic Alliance.” The statement of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry can be seen at: http://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/-/asset_publisher/cKNonkJE02Bw/content/id/3583602
Read More →Kocijancic: EU makes repeated calls for suspension of import tariff (Zeri)
Maja Kocijancic, spokeswoman for EU High Representative Federica Mogherini, told the paper that the EU still believes that Pristina must suspend the import tariff on Serbian and Bosnian goods. “The EU, together with the U.S. and other countries, make repeated calls to the Kosovo Government to immediately suspend the tariff in order to make way […]
Read More →Thaci: A peace agreement can be successful (media)
Several media cover an interview that Kosovo President Hashim Thaci gave to German daily newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung. Thaci said his relationship with Serbian counterpart, Aleksandar Vucic, “is difficult but we need to have an open channel of communication”. “Because it is precisely this dialogue that has prevented many ugly things from happening between our two […]
Read More →If Trump wants to disarm Russia, he should un-recognize Kosovo (RT)
Here is one simple trick US President Donald Trump could pull right now to bolster the rules-based world order, decisively derail Russian criticism of US foreign policy, and stick it to his domestic critics in the process. All Trump has to do is withdraw the US recognition of ‘Kosovo’, the fake state established as a […]
Read More →PDK’s Musliu calls for dismissal of Serb Deputy Minister of Justice (Lajmi)
The news website reports on an ongoing polemics between Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) MP Ganimete Musliu and Vesna Mikic, the Deputy Minister of Justice in the Haradinaj-led government. Musliu namely called for Mikic to be dismissed after she posted on Facebook saying that the NATO air raids were a genocide on Serbia. Musliu wrote: […]
Read More →Haradinaj: We will never stop seeking justice for the victims (Klan Kosova)
Kosovo Prime Minister, Ramush Haradinaj, remembered today the victims of the massacres in the villages of Celine, Fortese and Brestoc in March 1999. “When we remember the women, men, elderly and children of the massacres in the villages of Celine, Fortese and Brestoc, in March 1999, we feel the weight of our precious freedom. As […]
Read More →Kosovo’s Thaci Playing Politics with Election Body – Analysts (Balkan Insight)
osovo’s president is ignoring a court ruling over who gets to sit on the country’s Central Election Commission, just as the ruling coalition slides towards a snap election. A snap election might look like the most likely solution to growing tensions between Kosovo’s ruling parties but a row that has blocked the work of the […]
Read More →Mourning Rinas, Child Casualty of the Kosovo War (Balkan Insight)
n the night of March 24, 1999, Lumnije Musaj put her five-year-old son Rinas to bed for the last time at their home in the village of Mojstir, near the western Kosovo town of Istog/Istok. The NATO air strikes on Yugoslavia had begun that evening and Musaj and her husband did not sleep all night. […]
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