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Belgrade Media Report 09 July 2019

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Daily Media Highlights

Tuesday 9 July 2019
LOCAL PRESS

• Brnabic: SEECP does not recognize Kosovo (Tanjug/B92/RTV)
• Dacic: Returning to basic principles of OSCE (Tanjug/RTS)
• Mali: Tax administration of so-called Kosovo not admitted to IOTA (Tanjug/RTV)
• Opposition files criminal charges against Serbia’s minister for forging diploma (N1)
• Macron’s visit to Belgrade officially confirmed (Tanjug)

REGIONAL PRESS

Bosnia & Herzegovina
• SEECP Summit begins in Sarajevo (RTRS)
• Turkish President Erdogan pays visit to B&H (Hayat)
• Wigemark and Eichhorst express confidence that B&H authorities will be formed soon (RTRS)
Croatia
• Kuscevic resigns as minister and HDZ political secretary (HRT)
Montenegro
• Djukanovic and Gricaj: Relations between Montenegro and Russia aren’t as good as they used to be (CDM)
Republic of North Macedonia
• Zaev congratulates Greece’s new PM Mitsotakis on his victory (Nezavisen vesnik)
Albania
• United opposition held its 10th national protest (Radio Tirana)
• President expresses gratitude to residents that didn’t participate in fake elections (ADN)
• Soros Foundation: President Meta’s comments on plot against Albania are strange (ADN)

INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Kosovo – focal point of instability in the region (la Repubblica)
• Statement on 20th Anniversary of the Murder of the Bytyqi Brothers (US Embassy in Serbia)

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Shaban Berisha got three-month suspended sentence for demolishing memorial plaque to missing journalists (BETA, KoSSev)

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Shaban Berisha (47) received three-month suspended sentence and EUR 200 fine over demolishing the memorial plaque dedicated to the missing journalists Djuro Slavuj and Ranko Penezic, while ethnic motives were excluded from the verdict, Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) said in a statement. The verdict made by the Basic Court in Djakovica is not […]

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Brnabic: Tensions with Sofia ended (Tanjug, B92)

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Serbian Prime Minister said a full stop is put on the misunderstandings over the statement of Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov regarding Kosovo independence, B92 reports. She added Bulgaria is a great partner of Serbia, noting there is no need for tensions and estranged relations between the two states. Serbian PM Brnabic also appeared alongside […]

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Kosovo government denies Serbia’s allegations on Kosovo-France relations (RTK)

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French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Serbia within this month, where he is expected to discuss the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue. Serbian newspaper ‘Blic’ reported that Macron’s position towards Kosovo has changed due to Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj’s disrespect of the request of France and Germany to lift the tax on Serbian products. This is being denied […]

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Apostolova: Economic reforms crucial for dialogue with Kosovo (Klan)

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Bedri Hamza, Kosovo’s national coordinator for the economic reform program said economic reforms requested by the European Union should commence. “The main challenge is for the economic reforms not to affect market economy of Kosovo in long term,” he said mentioning also activation and employment of youth among the main challenges. Nataliya Apostolova, head of […]

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Thaci congratulates Mitsotakis for the victory in Greece, looks forward to cooperation (RTK)

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The President of Kosovo Hashim Thaci congratulated the elected Prime Minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis. “Congratulations to Kyriakos Mitsotakis and New Democracy for the victory in elections in Greece. I look forward to continuing to work on building good neighborly relations between Kosovo and Greece, for mutual benefit and the benefit of the region,” Thaci […]

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Meta: Bosnia and Herzegovina should understand, Kosovo is independent (Gazeta Express)

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The President of Albania, Ilir Meta has not respected the decision of Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama not to participate at the South-East European Cooperation Process (SEECP) Summit, organized in Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the Summit, Meta called on Bosnia and Herzegovina to make the first steps of accepting the new reality of Kosovo as […]

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Brnabic responded to Meta: We will not be provoked, SEECP does not recognize Kosovo (Tanjug, B92)

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Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic reacted to Albanian President Ilir Meta’s speech at South-East European Cooperation Process Summit in Jahorina saying that SEECP doesn’t recognize Kosovo, adding that there is no room for provocations, B92 reports. Albanian President Ilir Meta, who spoke on the plenary session of the SEECP right before the Serbian Prime Minister, […]

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“Kosovo – focal point of instability in the region” (Tanjug, B92, La Repubblica)

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Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic stated for Italian daily “la Repubblica” that “Kosovo presents focal point of instability in the Balkan region,” B92 reports. Dacic added that Belgrade “put up great efforts into the dialogue while Pristina constantly undermines it”, pointing out that “Pristina’s authorities do not want compromise”. When asked how dangerous is […]

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Macron comes to Serbia directly from Russia, taking over the role of mediator? (Blic, Tanjug, B92)

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Despite his standpoint against EU expansion, French President Emmanuel Macron comes to Belgrade with a message that France supports Serbia’s EU integration. This is according to Belgrade-based newspaper Blic that further said President Macron will pass on to the President of Serbia that France supports Serbia in resolving an open conflict with Kosovo Albanians. In […]

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Haradinaj on Bytyqi brothers: Serbia is guilty of absence of justice (media)

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Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj said today that the absence of justice makes Serbia guilty for the killing of Bytyqi brothers, U.S. nationals, in Serbia in 1999. Agron, Yll and Mehmet, were American – Kosovo Albanian members of the former Kosovo Liberation Army, and they were killed by Serbian police shortly after the war in […]

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Krasniqi: With criminals like Dacic, there can be no peace in Balkans (RTK)

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Jakup Krasniqi, chairman of the National Council of the Social Democratic Initiative (NISMA), a partner in the ruling coalition, commented today on Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic’s remarks that Kosovo is the central point of instability in the Balkans. Krasniqi said any kind of talks with politicians like Dacic “is failure and submission”. “These criminals […]

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