Belgrade Media Report 08 July 2019
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Monday 8 July 2019
LOCAL PRESS
• Brnabic: We don’t need Pristina to recognize us (Beta/Politika)
• Brnabic hopes May will reason with Haradinaj (Tanjug)
• Vucic: Had they left us alone, perhaps we would have also agreed with the Albanians (RTS)
• Dacic: Compromise, agreement have no alternative (RTS/Tanjug)
• Scott: Pristina to lift taxes, both sides to return to negotiations (FoNet)
• Zaev: Relations between North Macedonia and Serbia are traditionally good and improving (Politika)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Western Balkans Summit in Poznan comes to end (N1)
• B&H to host SEECP Summit in Sarajevo, Kosovo and Albania not to participate due to tensions between B&H, Serbia and Kosovo (N1)
• Izetbegovic: Process of formation of authorities to be completed in three to four months (Hayat)
• 27th anniversary of crimes committed against Serbs marked; Dodik: IC do not attend ceremonies marking of killings of Serbs except for Russians (RTRS)
Croatia
• Parliament commemorates Srebrenica genocide victims (Hina)
Montenegro
• DPS is preparing political platform, will urge opposition for dialogue (CDM)
Republic of North Macedonia
• Pendarovski signs the renaming of the Army of the Republic of North Macedonia (Nezavisen vesnik)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Bulgarian PM Borissov on Dačić spat: Serbia should come to an understanding with Kosovo (The Sofia Globe)
Read More →“Joint foreign policy with Republic of Srpska – why not?” (B92)
Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic commented in Sarajevo on joint foreign policy of Pristina and Tirana and his earlier statement that Serbia could do the same with Republic of Srpska by saying “we could, why not,” B92 reports. Dacic made these remarks at the South-East European Cooperation Process (SEECP) Summit. Asked to comment on […]
Read More →Kosovo and Albania refuse to participate in Sarajevo summit (Prishtina Insight)
A two-day regional summit for state leaders in the Western Balkans held in Sarajevo this week will have two empty seats on Monday, as both Kosovo and Albania declined their invitations to attend. Political officials in Kosovo and Albania announced last weekend that their countries’ representatives will not participate in the South East European Countries […]
Read More →Kosovo crisis cannot be ironed out without US and Russia, Serbian president says (TASS)
The talks cannot be effective if some party demands unconditional recognition of its independence within the current borders, Serbia’s leader believes. BELGRADE, July 8. /TASS/. The Kosovo crisis cannot be solved without efforts taken by the United States, Russia and other international powers, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told RTS TV channel on Monday. See at: […]
Read More →Analyst: One should not expect swift agreement between Belgrade and Pristina (RTS, Radio KIM)
The European Union does not have unified stance when it comes to Kosovo and Metohija and that is why one should not expect a swift reaching of an agreement between Belgrade and Pristina, analyst Branko Rudin told Serbian national broadcaster RTS. “Format of Kosovo representation on the international plan is limited, however there are different […]
Read More →Lessons of the EU Leadership Fight (Balkan Insight)
After EU elections in which fears of a populist surge proved unfounded, the European Council has nominated candidates for the bloc’s top jobs. But has it exacerbated the EU’s ‘democratic deficit’? The haggling may have been unedifying, but the candidates nominated by the European Council to lead the European Union’s governing institutions are undoubtedly impressive. […]
Read More →Poznan Must Not Forget Fate of Balkan Missing (Balkan Insight)
The West Balkans summit will be a useful occasion for governments to check the progress made to account for the 12,000 people who went missing in the 1990s wars – and remain unaccounted for. This week in Poznan, in western Poland, the countries of the Berlin Process, an initiative designed to foster stronger ties between […]
Read More →Kosovo and North Macedonia MPs discuss human rights (RTK)
Kosovo Assembly committee for human rights, gender equality, missing persons and petitions hosted the homologue delegation from the Republic of North Macedonia. Duda Balje, head of this committee said they also discussed issues which do not concern human rights. “We have concluded that we as Kosovo, are leader of the communities’ human rights in the […]
Read More →“Kosovo and Albania by boycotting summit launched joint foreign policy” (RTS)
Foreign Affairs Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina Igor Crnadak said decision of Kosovo and Albania to boycott the summit in Sarajevo represents an implementation of announced joint foreign policy of Pristina and Tirana. Crnadak made these remarks to Sarajevo-based Klix portal, adding that Kosovo delegation recently submitted visa request which points out there was obviously […]
Read More →Scott: Pristina should revoke tariffs; EU still leads dialogue (Tanjug, TV Most)
US Ambassador to Serbia Kyle Scott said today that Pristina should revoke the tariffs on goods from Serbia in order to continue negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina, adding that the US still recognizes the leadership of the EU in this process, TV Most reported. Asked if the US would use its influence in order to […]
Read More →Danas: Merkel tried to mitigate Vucic’s angriness over tariffs
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was aware of the official Belgrade discontent against the west, due to the fact that neither Berlin nor Paris “pressed” Pristina strongly enough to revoke the tariffs it imposed on the goods from Serbia, Danas daily reports referring to diplomatic sources. That is why Chancellor Merkel tried to mitigate the situation […]
Read More →Dacic: European officials behave as wise men from Tibet (RTS)
Instead of leading the European Union and clearly voicing their stances, European officials act and speak as they are the spiritual leaders from Tibet, and now they are spiritually opining about the problems of the continent, Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic said. He added none of them is saying anything concrete on what needs […]
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