Pacolli: Serbia continues aggression against independence of Kosovo (media)
Kosovo’s Foreign Minister Behgjet Pacolli expressed his concern in a press conference today over, as he said, Serbia’s continued aggression against independence of Kosovo. He said Serbia as host of the Western Balkans digital conference tried in an “organized way” to prevent Kosovo officials from speaking by turning their microphones off and passing the floor […]
Read More →Belgrade Media Report 05 April 2019
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Friday 5 April 2019
LOCAL PRESS
• Brnabic: Serbia considering arbitration over Kosovo violation of CEFTA (Beta/Tanjug/RTS)
• Ljajic: Roaming charges agreement great benefit for citizens (Tanjug)
• Opposition leaders try to force their way into city assembly (B92/Tanjug)
• Jeremic: Radicalization of anti-government protests is necessary (N1)
• Rome: Serbs and Italians as victims of NATO bombs (Novosti/Tanjug/B92)
• Laketic meets Italian officials at Conference on Uranium in Rome (Tanjug)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Dnevni avaz interview with Milorad Dodik (Dnevni avaz)
• Borenovic: NATO too far away to be decided upon (FTV)
• NATO HQ Sarajevo: NATO remains committed to B&H (Oslobodjenje)
• SDA announces meeting with DF and signing of principles; DF denies meeting is scheduled (Nezavisne)
• Borenovic: Basis of B&H CoM will be SDA, HDZ B&H and SNSD; We agreed on key issues necessary for progress of B&H, like Election Law (FTV)
• Govedarica: SNSD’s calls for talks is insincere (BN TV)
• Mektic and Avdic harshly react to decision of Prosecutor’s Office of B&H not to launch investigation against Kresic, Djakovic and Bandic (TV1)
• Day of RS Police marked; Comments of RS’ and Serbian officials (BHT1)
• US Embassy to request additional information on formation of police reserve in RS (Oslobodjenje)
Croatia
• Support for law on missing persons, requests for Serbia to provide information (HRT)
Montenegro
• NATO protects the security of Montenegrin territory (RTCG)
• Kolbanovski: Montenegro’s NATO membership is just a temporary occupation (Pobjeda/ eadaily.com)
Republic of North Macedonia
• Polish parliament ratifies North Macedonia’s NATO Accession Protocol (Nezavisen vesnik)
• Hahn’s statement sparks reactions in Skopje (Nezavisen vesnik)
Albania
• Opposition, no signs to make steps back (ADN/DW)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• ‘Kosara Hell’: Parents of Deceased Hero Recall Albanian Border Situation of 1999 (Sputnik)
• Montenegrin president to EU: don’t hand us over to Russia (AP)
• The UK Might Have To Withdraw Troops From A Military Operation In Bosnia In The Event Of A No-Deal Brexit (BuzzFeed)
• Three years of support to reforms in Albania: judiciary, fighting economic crime and anti-discrimination crucial areas (CoE press release)
Serbia Convicts State Security Officers of Journalist’s Murder (Balkan Insight)
A Belgrade court convicted four former Serbian state security officers of the 1999 murder of journalist Slavko Curuvija, an outspoken critic of Slobodan Milosevic’s regime, sentencing them to a total of 100 years in prison. Belgrade Higher Court on Friday convicted four former Serbian state security employees of the murder in 1999 of journalist and […]
Read More →Special Court announces verdict in Curuvija murder case (Serbian media)
The Special Court has found four former members of State Security (DB) guilty for the murder of publisher and journalist Slavko Curuvija, committed in 1999. After reading the verdict, the president of the Trial Chamber announced that the accused Radomir Markovic and Milan Radonjic were sentenced to 30 years in prison. Miroslav Kurak and Ratko […]
Read More →Rome: Serbs and Italians as victims of NATO bombs (Vecernje Novosti, Tanjug, B92)
A gathering has been held in Rome dedicated to the consequences of the use of depleted uranium ammunition. The participants in the event, which was also attended by a Serbian delegation, said that it was time to hear the truth, and that NATO should never again use depleted uranium – as it had done during […]
Read More →Dacic: The former US administration is preventing a compromise solution for Kosovo (Vecernje Novosti, N1, SRNA)
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia Ivica Dacic told Belgrade based daily Vecernje Novosti that the bearers of the former US administration for 20 years prevent the achievement of a compromise and mutually acceptable solution for Kosovo, quote Serbian media. Commenting on the names of the main guests in Pristina at the marking of 20 […]
Read More →LDK and VV: Dialogue to return to point zero and early elections (media)
Most news websites cover today’s round-table organized by the parliamentary groups of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) and Vetevendosje on the constitutionality and institutional responsibilities for dialogue with Serbia. Representatives of both parties argued that dialogue with Serbia must return to point zero, that Kosovo needs to go to early parliamentary elections and that […]
Read More →LDK: Government lacks political moral to resign, no-confidence motion is needed (Zeri)
Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) MP, Haxhi Abdyli, told the paper today that his party is willing to cooperate with Vetevendosje in the Assembly to overthrow the Haradinaj-led government. “Only a no-confidence vote can bring down the current government. Protests are certainly a democratic way of expressing civic revolt and I think there is no […]
Read More →Thousands leave Kosovo, ministry report says (N1, Beta, RFE)
More than 170,000 people left Kosovo between 2013 and 2017, the Internal Affairs Ministry in Pristina said in its latest report, adding that the figure includes both legal and illegal immigrants, Radio Free Europe reported. The ministry report said that most people from Kosovo move to EU member states but added that a percentage go […]
Read More →Mogherini unveiled mural dedicated to Western Balkans people in Brussels (BETA, TV N1)
European Union High Representative Federica Mogherini unveiled a mural by Bosnian artist Rikardo Druskic which he dedicated to the peoples of the Western Balkans, BETA news agency reported. The EU along with the Balkan Trafik Festival and the City of Brussels supported Druskic’s work. It will become a part of the popular Brussels’ Street Art […]
Read More →Kosovo Minister: Import taxes are all we can do, we have nothing else (N1)
Valdrin Lluka, Kosovo’s Minister of Economic Development, told N1 on Thursday he expected a final solution in Belgrade – Pristina dialogue on normalisation of relations to be reached this year and accused Serbia of not implementing deals agreed in Brussels. Speaking at the sidelines of the “Challenges and perspectives of normalisation between Belgrade and Pristina” […]
Read More →Will Kosovo and Serbia face off over the tariff at arbitration? (Radio Free Europe)
The news agency reports that the Serbian Government is considering possible arbitration after Kosovo introduced the 100-percent import tariff on Serbian and Bosnian goods. According to the government in Belgrade, Pristina has violated the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA). The government in Pristina meanwhile said it was ready to defend its position in the […]
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