Belgrade Media Report 27 May 2019
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Monday 27 May 2019
LOCAL PRESS
• Dacic: Government never discussed delineation (TV Prva/Beta)
• Seven conclusions – what did Vucic and Kosovo Serbs agree (Tanjug/RTS)
• Petkovic: Session on Kosovo and Metohija an opportunity to hear out the truth (RTS)
• Djilas presents declaration of reconciliation between Serbs and Albanians (Beta)
• Jeremic: Vucic’s statement that Albanians will gain independence is a fatal blow to Serbia’s position (Beta)
• Serbian opposition confirms MPs won’t attend parliament session on Kosovo (FoNet)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Wigemark: All political actors should stop to condition formation of authorities (RTRS)
• SDS could open negotiations on formation of B&H CoM (ATV)
• SNSD will not allow for any kind of institution to reach any kind of decisions until B&H CoM is formed (ATV)
• Dodik is becoming a problem for Vucic (Face TV)
• Dodik: I am glad Haradinaj is perceiving RS as state even if he is maliciously personalizing it by calling it ‘Dodik state’ (RTRS)
Croatia
• European Elections Results: Plenkovic not satisfied (Hina)
Montenegro
• Presidents of the WB chambers of commerce urged politicians to solve problems ASAP (CDM)
• The 2019 Enlargement Package to be presented on 29 May (Pobjeda)
Republic of North Macedonia
• DUI upset – Pendarovski doesn’t even want to hear out its wishes (Nezavisen vesnik)
• Zaev and Haradinaj hold a get together in Skopje (Republika)
Albania
• Opposition rally ends without incidents, Basha speaks about ‘political solution’ (ADN)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• North Macedonia pushes ‘compelling case’ for EU accession talks (Financial Times)
Read More →Danas: Group of Serbian Orthodox Church Bishops distances themselves from SOC Synod statement (Danas, TV N1)
A group of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) Bishops have distanced themselves from the SOC statement following the Holy Synod session and a meeting with the President Aleksandar Vucic, Belgrade-based Danas daily writes on Monday. According to Danas the group of bishops headed by Montenegro-Littoral Metropolitan Amfilohije in a letter sent to the Serbian Orthodox […]
Read More →Mustafa: We will not become part of the dialogue, we request extraordinary elections (RTK)
The leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) Isa Mustafa informed the French Ambassador Didier Chabert about his party’s position on the key issues and political developments in Kosovo. “The position of the LDK on the dialogue with Serbia is clear. The borders of the Republic of Kosovo as proclaimed with the independence of […]
Read More →EP Rapporteur for Kosovo Tanja Fajon, wins another five-year mandate (RTK)
The Rapporteur for Kosovo at the European Parliament Tanja Fajon was re-elected as Euro-MP. Fajon managed to gain another five-year mandate at the European Parliament by running in Slovenia as candidate of the Social-Democratic Party. The latter managed to double the number of votes compare to five years ago. Fajon gained 53.472 votes. Kosovo will […]
Read More →Vasfije Krasniqi: I chose to speak out, so we do not suffer in silence anymore (RTK)
Vasfije Krasniqi Goodman continues telling her story to different media. The survivor of sexual abuse during the conflict in Kosovo Vasfije Krasniqi Goodman, chose this time Twitter to tell her story of horror that she experienced from Serbian forces. Commenting one of her appearances on TV, Goodman wrote on her Twitter account “I chose to […]
Read More →Assembly Speaker Veseli meets UN ASG Jenca in Pristina (media)
Kosovo Assembly Speaker Kadri Veseli met today the UN Assistant Secretary-General for Europe, Central Asia and the Americas, Miroslav Jenca and discussed political developments in Kosovo, Kosovo’s progress and aspirations for the future, a press release issued by the Assembly of Kosovo states. Veseli said that with its policy of good neighbourhood, Kosovo contributes to […]
Read More →Protest in Gorazdevac over disposal of hazardous industrial waste (Radio KIM)
Several villages, including the Serb-majority village of Gorazdevac in Pec municipality, would protest today in front of a former Leather and Footwear Factory, now owned by Shala family company over disposal of hazardous industrial waste, Radio KIM reports. According to KIM Radio a hazardous chemical waste was transported and stationed there on Friday, under the […]
Read More →Anti-establishment parties scored big in EU elections since bloc became ‘problem & not solution’ (RT)
Nationalist parties sailed to victory in the European Union elections as the bloc increasingly became out-of-touch with ordinary people, analysts and politicians told RT, saying that the EU has now turned into “a problem.” See at: https://www.rt.com/news/460340-eu-elections-nationalists-success/
Read More →Serbian President Urged to Help Reveal War Grave Sites (Balkan Insight)
The family of three Albanian-American brothers killed in Serbia urged President Aleksandar Vucic to pressure a former Serbian police official convicted of Kosovo war crimes, Vlastimir Djordjevic, to disclose locations of mass graves. In their letter to Aleksandar Vucic on Monday, the family of the Albanian-American Bytyqi brothers said that they are confident that Vlastimir […]
Read More →Blakaj: Flora Brovina should have resigned (Slobodno srpski, Radio kontakt plus)
Kosovo Humanitarian Law Centre (HLC) Director Bekim Blakaj said in “Slobodno srpski” broadcast that Flora Brovina, member of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) should have resigned after publicly displaying a photo for which she claimed represents a raping of an Albanian woman by the Serbian army, which later turned out to be a hoax […]
Read More →Thaci: To live together in a single state and without borders (Telegrafi)
Kosovo President Hashim Thaci said today that “Kosovo has a certain future in NATO and the European Union, but new circumstances are also being created in which the best solution would be for both parliaments, in Kosovo and Albania, to issue the necessary declarations for the will of the peoples of Kosovo and Albania to […]
Read More →“Accusations against Veseli are false and politically-motivated” (RTK)
Adri Nurellari, advisor to Kosovo Assembly President Kadri Veseli, told RTK today that references and accusations against Veseli in a recent organized crime case, are unfounded and politically-motivated. Nurellari said Veseli has called on judicial authorities to resolve the case as soon as possible. He added that it was very clear that someone was intentionally […]
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