Belgrade Media Report 06 June
LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic: I will ask assistance from the US for abolishment of taxes (TV Prva)
• Moscow launches investigation into beating of Krasnoshchekov, expects Serbia to do the same (Tanjug/RTV)
• Kosovo Serb delegation meets Hellbach in Berlin (Beta)
• SzS: Experts’ recommendations are platform for talks with government (Beta)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Dodik: Meeting with Lavrov will be opportunity to discuss cooperation between the RS, B&H and Russia, as well as regional and global issues (ATV)
• Izetbegovic holds telephone meeting with Erdogan (Dnevni avaz)
• Radmanovic discusses authority formation with Wigemark (Dnevni avaz)
• Crnadak: I discussed cooperation and importance of authority formation with Palmer (Dnevni avaz)
• Dodik: Bosniak political elite cannot stand that RS exists and that there is Serb political will (TV1)
• Dzaferovic: Croatia should respond to B&H’s protest note regarding ‘Salafi’ affair (BHT1)
Montenegro
• Montenegro has allies always willing to help (CDM)
Republic of North Macedonia
• Zaev: Germans fear my friend Edi Rama could initiate unification with Kosovo, I do not believe in those things (Republika)
• Zaev: Government may collapse if there is no date for accession talks with the EU this summer (Nezavisen vesnik)
• The name change was not a condition for enlargement, but only for NATO membership (Republika)
Albania
• Basha: Despite the crisis in the country, everything will be done to open the European path of Albania (Radio Tirana)
• Balla meetings with the Bundestag MPs on Albania’s negotiations opening with EU (Radio Tirana)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Freedom House Report on Serbia
Read More →Stefanovic with Vice-President of Interpol about the Pristina’s request (KIM radio)
Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic spoke in Belgrade with Alexander Prokopchuk, vice-president of Interpol and head of the Russian National Central Bureau – Moscow, the Serbian MIA announced. Stefanovic met Prokopchuk to discuss reasons of Serbia’s opposing the Kosovo’s accession to Interpol, bearing in mind that representatives of Pristina institutions have again applied for entry […]
Read More →Haradinaj in Berlin indicates ‘the great decision’ on Kosovo (Express)
The news website reports that after meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin today, Kosovo’s Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj talked about the possibility of an agreement with Serbia, referring to it as “the great decision” that will include the U.S., Germany and France. “There are two possibilities. One is the possibility of a great decision. […]
Read More →The new online Serbian-Albanian and Albanian-Serbian dictionary from this summer (Radio Mitrovica Sever)
The creation of a dictionary is the creation of a kind of linguistic monument, and in that sense the creation of online and off-line Serbian-Albanian and Albanian-Serbian dictionaries is of paramount importance, assessed the participants of the forum devoted to this topic held on Wednesday, June 5, organized by Private Cultural Center Akvarijus and International […]
Read More →Veseli: Serbia will recognize Kosovo, it will answer for genocide (Lajmi)
Kosovo Assembly President and Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) leader, Kadri Veseli, said today in Mitrovica that Serbia will recognize the independence of Kosovo and that it will answer for the genocide against Albanians during the war in Kosovo. “We will never threaten anyone and we will never allow anyone to threaten our freedom, land […]
Read More →Haradinaj: Final topic in dialogue with Serbia is mutual recognition (RTK/Lajmi)
Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj told reporters after meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin today that, the final topic in the dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia will be mutual recognition in the current borders. Haradinaj said he discussed several issues with Merkel. “Kosovo is a serious party and we are interested in dialogue,” he […]
Read More →The Orthodox Church in Novo Brdo converted into Catholic? (KIM radio, Sputnik, B92)
Radio KiM reports that the remains of the Orthodox Church of St Nicholas in Novo Brdo is being converted by Pristina authorities into a three-necked basilica, which is a great forgery, warned Marko Popovic, co-author of the monograph dedicated to the church. Popovic claims that a part of the conservation works has already been done, […]
Read More →Haradinaj thanks Merkel for protecting Kosovo’s territory (Koha)
Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj met in Berlin today with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Haradinaj wrote in a Facebook post after the meeting: “Honored by the invitation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Berlin to discuss the latest developments in our region and the high-level bilateral relations between Kosovo and Germany. As per dialogue with […]
Read More →Thaci: Tariff won’t be lifted; visa discrimination must end (media)
Most news websites cover Kosovo President Hashim Thaci’s press conference before his departure to Bratislava, Slovakia, where he will attend the GlobSec Forum 2019. RTK quotes President Thaci as saying that a final settlement between Kosovo and Serbia will bring peace to the region. Lajmi quotes Thaci as saying that the import tariff on Serbian […]
Read More →Patriotic Highway: A Tale of Justice and Corruption in Kosovo (AlJazeera)
A Swedish judge in Kosovo takes on EULEX’s largest corruption case and fights to keep politics out of her courtroom. “Every case has a unique meaning for the future,” says Marie Tuma, a Swedish criminal judge. She is working with EULEX in Kosovo, an EU-operated mission which aims to get the state’s justice system on […]
Read More →Pristina MPs visiting south Serbia seeking the “Presevo Valley” to join Kosovo (RTS)
Serbian state broadcaster RTS reports that members of the Kosovo Assembly, Arban Abrashi and Nait Hasani, visited Bujanovac and supported the idea of a referendum on the unification of municipalities in the south of Serbia Bujanovac, Presevo and Medvedja with Kosovo, and inclusion of the issue in the Belgrade – Pristina negotiations. “We support the […]
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- European Integration of Kosovo: Macron Urges Progress on Serb Minority - Bloomberg 24/04/2024European Integration of Kosovo: Macron Urges Progress on Serb Minority Bloomberg
- Kosovo Fails to Offer Protection to Whistleblowers - Prishtina Insight 24/04/2024Kosovo Fails to Offer Protection to Whistleblowers Prishtina Insight
- Kosovo, Serbia Clash at UN Security Council Meeting - TRT World 24/04/2024
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