Belgrade Media Report 03 April
LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic: Every day without solution to Kosovo issue problematic (Beta/Politika)
• Dacic: Maybe clouded minds plan to cause incidents in North (TV Pink/Tanjug/B92)
• Vulin: Who will criminals judge? (Tanjug)
• Strong support of Greece regarding Kosovo, European integration (Tanjug)
• GRECO: Serbia fails to fulfill a single recommendation (Beta)
• Serbian Justice Ministry: Serbia progresses to fulfill GRECO recommendation (Tanjug)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Parliamentary parties from RS meet and sign statement that 9 January will resume to be celebrated as RS Day (BN TV)
• Hahn: It is necessary to continue process of formation of authorities in B&H (N1)
• PDP to give its answer to SNSD regarding the participation in state authorities on Wednesday (ATV)
• DF is acceptable if it defines itself as part of Bosniak bloc (Vecernji list/Oslobodjenje)
Croatia
• US Embassy congratulates Croatia 10th anniversary of NATO membership (Hina/N1)
Montenegro
• US flag emblazoned with ‘swastika’ spotted on ‘Resist!’ protests (Pobjeda)
Republic of North Macedonia
• Tsipras–Zaev: We need to make up for lost time and build a different story for Balkans (Nezavisen vesnik)
• Tsipras: Greece will protect North Macedonia’s airspace (Nezavisen vesnik)
Albania
• Violence against former MP, Basha threats PM (AND)
• EU Integration, Hahn hopeful that Albania will get recommendation (ADN)
• US: Justice reform won’t be stopped (ADN)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Hahn: Progress was made in the Western Balkans (European Western Balkans)
• How Did NATO’s Campaign in Yugoslavia Change the Alliance? (Sputnik)
Tourist organisation Outdoor In: British Embassy is inflicting irreparable damage to tourism and economic development of northern Kosovo (Radio Mitrovica Sever)
Radio Kosovska Mitrovica has published a press release of the tourist organisation “Outdoor In” in which they have pointed out that the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office has issued an instruction to British tourists traveling to Kosovo to avoid municipalities with Serb majority in the north of Kosovo – Kosovska Mitrovica, Leposavic, Zubin Potok and […]
Read More →Drecun: Washington’s offer will not be on the table for long (Serbian media)
Serbia should use the maneuvering space that Washington opened with the arrival of the Donald Tramp administration, and find a different solution than what the Germans, the British and the Albanians want, says the chairman of the Assembly’s Committee for KiM, Milovan Drecun to Belgrade based TV Pink. -We need to step up our efforts […]
Read More →Marc Weller and Ben Emerson, foreign experts in Kosovo’s negotiating team (RTK)
Kosovo Assembly MP from the Social-Democratic Party Frasher Krasniqi said Kosovo has the best local and international experts in the Negotiating team. “The Negotiating Team has engaged for creation of the state platform some of the best local and international experts for Kosovo, among whom Marc Weller and Ben Emerson,” Krasniqi wrote on his Facebook […]
Read More →The model ‘Two Germanys’ impossible to implement, says Serbian FM Dacic (Serbian media)
Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic rejects the possibility of resolving the Kosovo issue by the “two Germany” model that was recently mentioned, and in 2007 proposed by German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger, reports Serbian media. Dacic says that the plan, which was recently talked about, cannot be applied because the two Germanys were internationally […]
Read More →MP Haradinaj says Albanian FM Cakaj should refrain from talking about Kosovo borders (Telegrafi)
Daut Haradinaj, MP from the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), said in an interview with Tirana-based TV News 24 that the Albanian Foreign Minister Gent Cakaj is not a bad person but that he should refrain from speaking about the territory of Kosovo. “Gent Cakaj should put brakes to his mouth as he […]
Read More →German Schmidt could succeed Mogherini as EU High Representative (Klan Kosova)
Quoting sources, Klan Kosova reported that the successor to Federica Mogherini as the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy could be the German official, Helga Schmidt. Schmidt currently holds a senior post with the EU External Action Service and has visited Kosovo twice in the last eighteen months.
Read More →Haradinaj meets U.S. Ambassador Kosnett (media)
Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj met today with U.S. Ambassador in Kosovo, Philip Kosnett, most news websites report. “We discussed about challenges and our joint efforts to advance the rule of law,” Haradinaj wrote in a Facebook post after the meeting. “Kosovo and the U.S. remain committed to the partnership and friendship between their two […]
Read More →Will Mogherini sit down again between Vucic and Thaci? (Vecernje Novosti)
Although European Commissioner Johannes Hahn yesterday said that he hopes for the soon continuation of the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, analysts from Belgrade do not share his optimism, writes Belgrade based daily Vecernje Novosti. Analysts ask whether the dialogue will be continued at all until the end of the mandate of the current EU […]
Read More →U.S troops needed in Kosovo to prevent external malign threats (Express)
U.S. General Tod Daniel Wolters, the United States Air Force general and commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa, said in his address to the U.S Senate on Tuesday, that U.S. troops are needed in Kosovo to answer to external malign threats. He also said that the U.S. Command would support […]
Read More →Three Serb generals: Why does Pristina want our head (B92, Sputnik)
Of the 11 indictments taken over by Kosovo courts from EULEX, three are against retired generals: Bozidar Delic, Ljubisa Dikovic, and Momir Stojanovic. Kosovo courts have taken over war crimes cases from EULEX, and apart from the crimes committed by the KLA (“Kosovo Liberation Army”) against Serbs, they will also deal with crimes against the […]
Read More →All bets off: Kosovo bans gambling for a decade after casino murders (Euronews)
Kosovo has banned all forms of gambling for a decade after the murder of two casino employees last week. “We will not allow these venues to be arenas of crime that claim people’s lives,” said the country’s prime minister, Ramush Haradinaj. Haradinaj proposed a law to ban gambling after the deaths and MPs passed it […]
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