KoSSev: ”Serbs will say Gazivode is poisoned, RTK claims; Office for KiM: Pristina spreads fake news”
Serbs will say Gazivode is poisoned, RTK claims. On the other hand, the Kosovo Office accuses Pristina of spreading ”false news out of despair”. After Kosovo Prime Minister, Ramush Haradinaj accused a group of Serb entrepreneurs from the north of Kosovo last week of ”attempting to stage a humanitarian catastrophe” in coordination with Belgrade, citing […]
Read More →Stefanovic: Pristina’s claims about Interpol inaccurate, it exercises pressure (Tanjug, B92)
Serbian Internal Affairs Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said last night Pristina’s claims that Interpol General Assembly would consider Kosovo request to join this organization are inaccurate, Tanjug news agency reported. He added claims by the Pristina officials represent pressure on members of the Executive Committee and they happen at the moment while the session is still […]
Read More →Petkovic: Serbian people on verge of humanitarian disaster (RTS)
RTS reports this morning there are less and less basic commodities available in the shops in the north of Kosovo. Office for Kosovo and Metohija Deputy Director Petar Petkovic told RTS Serbia is doing its utmost to help its people, although Pristina tries to make the position of Serbia more difficult in any possible way. […]
Read More →Milan Ivanovic: If situation continues it would cause problems in patients’ treatment and nutrition (Radio KIM)
The introduction of 100 percent tariffs on goods from central Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina over the last seven months, as well as shortage of basic commodities in the north of Kosovo over the last couple of days affect the work of the Hospital Centre in Mitrovica North, Director of the Center Milan Ivanovic said, […]
Read More →Drecun: Final phase of Pristina’s tariffs plan (Danas, BETA, TV Pink)
Serbian National Assembly Committee for Kosovo and Metohija Chairman Milovan Drecun said “the final phase of Pristina’s tariffs plan” is currently underway with the aim to provoke conflict with the Serbs and Serbian state, BETA news agency reported. “Pristina works on it to cause conflict,” Drecun told TV Pink. According to him, causing humanitarian disaster, […]
Read More →KFOR for Politika: We deploy troops as part of regular training; no indication of humanitarian crisis (Serbian media)
According to KFOR, there is no danger of a humanitarian crisis in northern Kosovo, and unfortunately such rhetoric does not help normalization of the people’s lives, says KFOR spokesperson Vincenzo Grasso for today’s edition of Belgrade based daily Politika. On Tuesday evening, KFOR helicopters were flying over to Mitrovica, Zvecan and part of the Zubin […]
Read More →KFOR: Warehouse containing toxic substances in Djakovica is closing, citizens’ safety was jeopardized (KoSSev)
KFOR’s mission as part of the monitoring of all facilities storing toxic chemicals estimated it is necessary to remove toxic substances from a warehouse in Djakovica because they pose a life-threatening hazard, KoSSev portal reported. KFOR experts inspected the facility in Djakovica yesterday. Chemicals will be moved to a new, safer warehouse, away from the […]
Read More →Janjic: Kosovo – Serbia talks to focus on resolution on problems, not on partition (media)
Sava Janjic, the Abbot of Decani Monastery, said in an interview to Voice of America on Wednesday that Kosovo and Serbia must resume talks and focus on the resolution of problems and not on partition or the exchange of territories. Janjic argued that a formula for the future cannot be found by dividing people and […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 27 June
• PM Haradinaj in no rush for border demarcation with Montenegro (Koha)
• Early parliamentary elections, most likely in autumn (Zeri)
• Hoxhaj critical of Russia’s return to Council of Europe (media)
• PM Haradinaj to travel to Paris for visa liberalization (Epoka)
• Pacolli: Kosovo will apply again for INTERPOL membership (RTK)
• Kosovo’s Trade Minister warns with tariff for Albania, North Macedonia (media)
• PSD, NISMA say negotiating team in dialogue must not be overlooked (Epoka)
• Demarcation as continuation of the idea for border changes (RFE)
• “Improvised humanitarian crisis in the north, threat to stability” (Epoka)
Belgrade Media Report 26 June 2019
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Wednesday 26 June 2019
LOCAL PRESS
• Djuric: Serbia will find a way to supply Serbs in north Kosovo (Pink TV)
• Three messages that Macron will deliver to Serbia (RTS)
• Vucic: Serbia will stay militarily neutral (RTS)
• The Serbian Parliament formed a parliamentary friendship group with Albania (Vecernje novosti)
• SzS Excludes possibility of stopping boycott of parliament prior to fulfillment of opposition’s requests (Danas)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Dodik: OSA puts several media outlets from B&H and region under surveillance, Bosniak side obstructs formation of B&H CoM insisting on NATO (RTRS)
• Covic: Kristo has revoked her motion to B&H CC regarding process of appointment of delegates in Federation of B&H HoP (BHT1)
• Norwegian FM Soreide pays visit to B&H (Oslobodjenje)
• RS President meets Maryland officials Wobensmith, Jones and US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Cooper (ATV)
• United States has decided to finance modernization of armies in region (Nezavisne)
Croatia
• Grabar-Kitarovic: Croatia was exposed to the Great Serbian aggression (Hina)
• State Department: Croatia faced with rise in religious intolerance (Hina)
Republic of North Macedonia
• Pendarovski: Our Plan B is start of accession negotiations by the year-end (Nezavisen vesnik)
• Stoltenberg: Would be great if ratification of NATO’s protocol could finish by December
• (Nezavisen vesnik)
Albania
• Political crisis in Albania deepens as Electoral College turns down presidential decree (Radio Tirana)
• President Meta comments on the decision of the Electoral College, no elections in June 30 (Radio Tirana)
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
• A new approach to Serbia and Kosovo (Emerging Europe, by Ben Hodges)
Read More →Haradinaj: No deceiving scenario can make us give up the north (RTK)
The Prime Minister of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj informed that Kosovo institutions have undertaken required measures to prevent all illegal activities in the north of Kosovo, along the border with Serbia. “No deceiving scenario or fake news will impact credible and legal institutions of Kosovo to give up from their mission of implementing insurance of the […]
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