Belgrade Media Report 31 July 2019
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Wednesday 31 July 2019
LOCAL PRESS
• Gratitude for continued support of the Kingdom of Cambodia for Serbia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity (Tanjug)
• Dacic: Serbia committed to cooperation in the field of foreign and security policy with the EU (RTS)
• Drecun: Abolishment of taxes necessary for resumption of Belgrade-Pristina dialogue (RTS)
• SNS MP denies any talks with opposition (Beta)
• SzS denies negotiations held between government, opposition (Beta)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Dodik: Izetbegovic is culprit for failure to form authorities at B&H level (TV1/Srna)
• Croatian President Grabar-Kitarovic claims B&H is unstable country controlled by militant Islam and connected to terrorist groups (Dnevni avaz)
Croatia
• Grabar-Kitarovic calls for raising relationship with Israel (Hina)
• Von der Leyen: Croatia is exceptionally successful story (Hina)
• Croatia, B&H and Serbia strengthening cooperation in search for war missing (Hina)
Republic of North Macedonia
• Hahn: EU members view North Macedonia more favorably than Albania when it comes to opening accession talks (Nezavisen vesnik)
• Dimovski: Census to be held in 2021, instead of next year (Nezavisen vesnik)
• Serbia will demand the extradition of former KLA member, reactions in Kosovo (Nezavisen vesnik)
Albania
• President warns no EU integration without free elections (ADN)
• Hahn praises the work done by the government to clean up and strengthen the judicial system (ADN)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Political Quarrels Cloud North Macedonia Special Prosecution’s Future (BIRN)
Read More →‘Finding truth in film:’ Dokufest XVIII (Prishtina Insight)
The eighteenth edition of Prizren’s International Documentary Film Festival, Dokufest, begins on Friday, with 280 films being shown alongside artistic exhibitions, special programs and musical events across the next nine days. Now celebrating its eighteenth edition, Prizren’s International Documentary Film Festival, Dokufest, has become one of the most highly anticipated events in Kosovo’s cultural calendar. […]
Read More →More meetings between Serbian authorities and opposition to come (BETA, TV N1)
The Open Society Foundation and Belgrade University Political Sciences Faculty (FPN) said on Wednesday that they would continue organizing meetings between representatives of the Serbian authorities and opposition to discuss elections, TV N1 reports. A press release said the next meetings would focus on the financing of election campaigns, access to the media, electoral rolls […]
Read More →Die Welt: Border correction remains on the table (Die Welt, Gazeta Express)
The German newspaper Die Welt has published an interesting article about the final agreement between Kosovo and Serbia, saying that the correction of the border between the two countries still remains one of the options at the Brussels negotiating table. The European Union has now managed to avoid the idea of Serbian President Aleksander Vucic […]
Read More →Hoxhaj: Serbia becoming Russia’s ‘Trojan Horse’ in the Balkans (media)
Enver Hoxhaj, deputy leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and outgoing Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo, acused Serbia of becoming Russia’s “Trojan Horse” in the region. Commenting on Serbia obtaining armament from Russia, Hoxhaj wrote on Twitter: A country responsible for genocide and 4 wars in the Balkans spends the most in WB […]
Read More →LDK: We consult Hashim Thaci only about the day of elections (Zeri)
The President of Kosovo Hashim Thaci has not met yet with leaders of the main parliamentary parties in Kosovo, after the resignation of the Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj. He met on Tuesday with “the small ones” in politics and mentioned possibility of creation of a new governing structure, despite the requests of political parties to […]
Read More →Thaci: If parties fail to find response to current situation, I am ready to announce elections (media)
After meeting head of the Central Election Commission (CEC) Valdete Daka, President of Kosovo Hashim Thaci said that he plans to exhaust all options in consultations with parliamentary parties in an effort to “find a response to the new political reality”, in line with Article 95 of the Constitution of Kosovo. “If political parties are […]
Read More →Specialist Chambers continue with interviews, this time with a journalist (Express)
Journalist Nuhi Bytyci informed that he was interviewed by the Specialist Chambers and Office of the Specialised Prosecutor of Kosovo. Bytyci said his entire testimony was related to his work as journalist during the war of the Kosovo Liberation Army. “My work as journalist and head of the broadcasting team of the Albanian Television in […]
Read More →PM Brnabic: Continuation of the dialogue depends on the tax, not the election (TV Prva, B92, Tanjug, Radio Mitrovica Sever)
The continuation of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue has nothing to do with the possible elections in Kosovo, but solely with taxes, said Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic this morning in morning TV Prva Show. Brnabic called the current political developments in Kosovo a farce, thus answering the question how the possible elections and political turmoil in […]
Read More →CEC head Daka after meeting Thaci: Elections date was not discussed (media)
Head of the Central Election Commission, Valdete Daka, had a meeting today with President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, and said that they discussed “constitutional timeframes in case elections are held” but not any specific date. “There can be no discussion about a date without all possibilities being exhausted, we always have options about extraordinary elections,” […]
Read More →VoA: New US ambassador says Serbia must normalize relations with Kosovo (Serbian media)
The new US Ambassador to Serbia Anthony Godfrey told a Senate hearing that the normalization of Belgrade-Pristina relations would be his priority during his term as Washington‘s envoy. Serbia is a political and economic leader and plays the key role in regional stability. Serbia‘s development into a modern, democratic and European nation is in the […]
Read More →Drecun on Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, Haradinaj (RTS)
Chairman of the Serbian National Assembly Committee for Kosovo and Metohija, Milovan Drecun told RTS in order to continue the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue it is necessary to revoke the tariffs and stronger engagement of the international community. RTS recalled that EU Enlargement and Neighborly Policy Commissioner Johannes Hahn said earlier resolution of the Kosovo issue is […]
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