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 […]
Read More →Pacolli: Kosovo will apply again for membership at INTERPOL (RTK)
Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo and Minister for Foreign Affairs Behgjet Pacolli, informed that Kosovo will be part of the agenda at the INTERPOL General Assembly which will be held this year in Chile. “Today, INTERPOL headquarters based in Lyon (France) debated about the application of the Republic of Kosovo and decided in favor of […]
Read More →Haradinaj: Rule of law is priority of the government (RTK)
The Prime Minister of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj met today with the head of EULEX mission in Kosovo Alexandra Papadopoulou to discuss joint engagement on further strengthening of the rule of law. “We assessed that concrete steps to empower the rule of law and war against organized crime and corruption, as the only way that guarantees […]
Read More →Informal economy: the devil on Kosovo’s shoulder (Prishtina Insight)
Kosovo’s informal economy, a cycle of tax evasion by businesses, elusive governmental oversight and exploitation of workers, will continue to run until political will to formalize the system emerges. As the old saying goes, “When a French peasant paints the devil, he paints him in the guise of a tax collector.” A few hundred years […]
Read More →Vucic on food supply in north, Haradinaj’s statement (Tanjug, B92)
The Serbian state would help Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija, and we expect nothing from the international community in regard to aggravated supply for our people in Kosovo, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said Tanjug news agency reports. Vucic added Serbia must rely on itself and the state would see how it can help people in […]
Read More →Balkans’ Independent Journalists Must Unite, or Fall Together (Balkan Insight)
At a time when pressures on the media are stronger than ever – if often more subtle and less physical than before – it is vital for those of us who see our work as serving the public interest to stand together. Worsening trends in media freedom and security of journalists registered in EU Progress […]
Read More →Identity of protected witness disclosed in ‘Toka’ case (Prishtina Insight)
The EULEX prosecutor that drafted the indictment for the Toka case tells BIRN that one of two witnesses named in the opening court session today was under protection. On Tuesday at the Basic Court of Prishtina, the names of two witnesses were publicly disclosed in the opening session of the ‘Toka’ case by Kosovo Special […]
Read More →Brnabic on Kosovo: I am not big optimist (Tanjug, B92)
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said the government would do its utmost to enable that the goods from central Serbia would reach all people in Kosovo and Metohija, Tanjug news agency reported. She also expressed hope that the international community would start paying greater attention to it and enable free flows of goods in addition […]
Read More →A new approach to Serbia and Kosovo (Emerging Europe)
I was in Belgrade this past May, at the annual NATO Week, co-hosted by the courageous and indefatigable Jelena Milic of the Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies, Ambassador Bjornstad of Norway, and the NATO Public Diplomacy Division. I also had the privilege to meet with President Aleksander Vucic of Serbia. I left Belgrade concerned but strangely […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 25 June
• Pacolli: There hasn’t been humanitarian crisis in north since 1999, when Serbian forces left (Klan Kosova, RTK&KTV)
• Norway calls for improvement of relations between Kosovo and Serbia (KTV)
• Haradinaj: Kosovo is becoming leader in the region in respecting community rights (RTK2&KTV)
• Berisha: Egyptians in Kosovo not treated equally with other communities (KTV)
• Lancaster: UK to continue support KFOR (RTK)
President Thaci meets delegation of Egyptian community (Telegrafi)
Kosovo President Hashim Thaci met today with a delegation of the Egyptian community led by MP Veton Berisha, congratulating the Egyptian community on the Egyptian Week and on June 24 – Egyptian National Day. “One of Kosovo’s biggest achievements is the integration of communities in society,” Thaci said. He also thanked members of the Egyptian […]
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