Belgrade Media Report 27 June 2019
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Thursday 27 June 2019
LOCAL PRESS
• Belgrade-Pristina dialogue to resume at end of this or start of next year (Beta)
• German Ambassador: Dialogue isn’t dead (RTV)
• Stefanovic: Pristina claims regarding Interpol false (Tanjug)
• Drecun: Pristina wants to create conflict with Serbs (Pink TV)
• Food supplies for north Kosovo (Beta)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• B&H HoR discusses situation in judiciary and migrant crisis; SNSD and its coalition partners absent from session (N1)
• Dodik: Republika Srpska will form gendarmerie (RTRS)
• Zvizdic, Wigemark attend meeting in Brussels (FTV)
Croatia
• Croatia’s Foreign Minister named Council of Europe Secretary-General (HRT)
Montenegro
• PM: Vucic hasn’t read, but comments on Religious Freedom Draft Law (TMN)
Republic of North Macedonia
• Zaev withdraws from the post of finance minister (Nezavisen vesnik)
• Berlin will make the “right decision” over the date (Nezavisen vesnik)
• Borissov: I expect Bulgaria and North Macedonia to maintain good-neighborly relations (Nezavisen vesnik)
• Budapest court refuses to extradite Nikola Gruevski (Nezavisen vesnik)
Albania
• President invites Rama and Basha for talks; Rama refuses (ADN)
• Mayor Veliaj: Hundreds of OSCE observers in Tirana for the June 30 local elections (Radio Tirana)
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
• Illumination of Serbia, Hungarian Style (BIRN)
Read More →Constitutional Court: Negotiating team in contradiction with Constitution (RTK)
The Constitutional Court of Kosovo has found that the State Delegation, which was established by the challenged Law, is not foreseen by the Constitution, and is not foreseen within the form of government and separation of power. As such, the state delegation cannot be involved in the interaction of separation, control and balance of powers […]
Read More →Thaçi issues decree on the 2019 terrorist organisations list (media)
The President of Kosovo Hashim Thaci has issued a decree which obliges the security institutions of Kosovo to create a domestic list of persons, groups and organisations involved in terrorist acts, subject to restrictive measures in the territory of Kosovo. “President of the Republic of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi, taking into consideration the determination of the […]
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 →Pacolli: Kosovo ready to become part of UN (RTK)
Kosovo’s Foreign Minister Behgjet Pacolli said at Crans-Montana Forum in Geneva that Kosovo, with its 20 year constructive role in the region, is ready to become part of the United Nations. Pacolli used the Forum to address Spanish delegation by saying that Kosovo’s case is in no way related to Catalonia. “Because we emerged from […]
Read More →NATO for portal KoSSev: ”All to demonstrate restraint in actions and statements; support for the dialogue”
”A shock message by the Alliance to the Serbs, NATO: Take the north of Kosovo, we will not interfere” – Belgrade tabloids wrote early in the week, referring to the idea of the chair of the Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies, Jelena Milic, wrote Kosovo north portal KoSSev. KoSSev added that Milic, for years, has openly […]
Read More →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 […]
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