Kurti: New elections as soon as possible, VV and LDK should create the government (media)
Vetevendosje leader Albin Kurti said today while speaking to the Diaspora at the Assembly of Kosovo, that after the resignation of the Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj there is no place for maneuvers and that Assembly should dissolve as soon as possible in order to go for new elections. He said he has noticed that all […]
Read More →Belgrade Media Report 25 July 2019
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Daily Media Highlights
Thursday 25 July 2019
LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic: Pristina doesn’t want dialogue, but Belgrade’s recognition of Kosovo (Beta/Politika)
• Dacic: Future of Belgrade-Pristina dialogue uncertain (TV Pink/Tanjug)
• Dacic informs Serbian ambassadors about situation in Kosovo and Metohija (Tanjug/RTV)
• Peace and cooperation in both Serbia and Albania’s interest (Tanjug)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• SNSD, HDZ B&H deem “self-nomination” of Sarovic for B&H CoM Chairman confirms the attempt of implementation of SDA’s secret plan (RTRS)
• Kovacevic: SDS and SDA – only ones to blame for institutional crisis in B&H (Srna)
Croatia
• One Croatian soldier killed, two wounded in Afghanistan (Hina)
Republic of North Macedonia
• Zaev: Government will fight against disinformation and fake news (Nezavisen vesnik)
• Government dismisses and appoints new directors and board members (Nezavisen vesnik)
Albania
• President’s dismissal, parliament addresses 8 questions to Venice Commission (ADN)
• Political crisis, Rama meeting with ministers (ADN)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Hahn in Skopje: North Macedonia deserves a green light in October (European Western Balkans)
Read More →Haxhiu claims Haradinaj’s calling the government meeting will bear consequences (Koha)
Kosovo Assembly MP from Vetevendosje Movement Albulena Haxhiu said Haradinaj’s action will bear consequences. “Once Haradinaj has resigned, the government has fallen, and the mandate of this government has ended, this is specified by the Constitution and by the Judgment of the Constitutional Court. These actions of the government which went down, are constitutional violations, […]
Read More →KP: Man went missing in Gorazdevac, domestic violence in Mitrovica North (KoSSev)
Montenegrin female reported to the police that her son Kosovo Serb left the house in the early hours on July 21 in Gorazdevac village and his whereabouts has remained unknown since then, KoSSev portal reports. The police registered a case as “missing person.” Meanwhile, Albanian women in Mitrovica North reported to the police that her […]
Read More →‘Can you eat asphalt, pal?’ (Prishtina Insight)
In the Dukagjini region – Peja, Decan and Gjakova – over 70 villages lack drinking water, and many suffer from inadequate sewage systems. Meanwhile, the Kosovo Government is preoccupied with the construction of a one billion euro motorway across Dukagjini soil. If the new highway named ‘Dukagjini’ is constructed, the lanes of the motorway would […]
Read More →Hoti: No technical government nor coalition with PDK (Klan)
The Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) will not accept to become part of any technical government after the resignation of the Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj. LDK caucus Avdullah Hoti said his political party has continuously requested new elections ‘as the former government had lost legitimacy.’ “No, absolutely not. It has been more than a year […]
Read More →Haradinaj calls meeting of government (Koha)
Outgoing Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj has called a meeting of the government this Friday despite announcing his resignation last week, Koha reports. Anticipating the move, Koha Ditore today referred to Article 95 of the Constitution of Kosovo which deals with the election of the government and stipulates under one of the paragraphs that if the […]
Read More →Vucic and Irinej: Every time we meet situation is more complicated (Tanjug, B92)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met today with the Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Irinej in Belgrade today, Tanjug news agency reported. Vucic said that the situation in Kosovo and Metohija gets more complicated every time they meet, adding Serbia was left nothing but to fight. He thanked the Patriarch Irinej because the Church has always been […]
Read More →Trajkovic: Thaci interviewed for several hours in his cabinet in Pristina (TV N1, KoSSev)
Hashim Thaci and Kadri Veseli were also interviewed by the Special Court for war crimes, but unlike Haradinaj they hid it from the public, Rada Trajkovic told “Dan uzivo” broadcast on TV N1, KoSSev portal reports. According to her, many states, among them Russia as well, possess material evidence on organ trade, something that this […]
Read More →Murder case of UNMIK police officers in 2004 goes to retrial (Klan Kosova)
The murder of UNMIK police officers in November of 2004 has gone to retrial following the decision of the person convicted for the act to cooperate with the prosecution. As a result, the prosecution has expanded the scope of investigation by identifying two more suspects in the case. Shkumbin Mehmeti, convicted for the crime in 2007, […]
Read More →Kosovo and France have outstanding cooperation (RTK)
Kosovo President Hashim Thaci met today in Pristina with the outgoing Ambassador of France, Didier Chabert. “Kosovo and France have outstanding cooperation and through your work as ambassador you have further strengthened our inter-state relations,” Thaci said. Chabert said the bilateral cooperation between the two countries would continue in the future. “We are in the […]
Read More →“They pressure Serbia, praise Pristina. Our restraint has come to an end” (TV Pink, Tanjug, B92)
Future of Belgrade-Pristina dialogue is very much uncertain because it is not known what the further development of the situation in Kosovo and Metohija would look like, Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic assessed, B92 reports. He added that at the end of August new visits by international officials to Serbia might be expected, new […]
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