Belgrade Media Report 01 August 2019
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Thursday 1 August 2019
LOCAL PRESS
• Ljajic: Without 260 million Euros in eight months over taxes (Novosti)
• Strengthening of Serbian-Russian cooperation in all spheres (RTS/Beta)
• Drecun: New evidence for Haradinaj’s crimes in Yellow House case (Politika)
• New pressures on Serbia over the burning of US Embassy and the Bytici brothers case (Politika)
• Djilas: Organizers wanted meeting behind closed doors (N1)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Croatian Ambassador: President Grabar-Kitarovic’s alleged statement about B&H is false (TV1)
• Wigemark: I do not consider that B&H is unstable country (TV1)
• US Embassy: B&H remains reliable partner in dealing with security challenges (Dnevni avaz)
• B&H Presidency adopts 2019 state budget (BHT1)
• Izetbegovic says he offered SNSD leader Dodik to accept reduced annual national program for NATO MAP activation, and it is now up to Dodik to make next move (BHT1)
• Dodik: B&H has shown that it is incompetent and unnecessary country (RTRS)
• UNMIK forensic knew about “the yellow house” (Srna)
Croatia
• Grabar-Kitarovic resolutely dismisses Jerusalem Post allegations (Hina)
• Croatian FM: It is not common to comment on unverified statements (N1/HRT1)
Montenegro
• Democrats will be part of the Committee (CDM)
Republic of North Macedonia
• Besa winks at VMRO-DPMNE, but it is still far from love (Nezavisen vesnik)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Merkel’s ‘Shakes’ Perceived As EU Tremors In The Balkans (RFE/RL)
Isa Mustafa meets former LDK leader Fatmir Sejdiu (media)
Former leader of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) Fatmir Sejdiu met today with the current leader of this political party, Isa Mustafa. Sejdiu said that he has informed Mustafa about his readiness to take over LDK’s leadership. “I have always wanted and expressed my readiness to take over the required responsibilities of leadership of […]
Read More →New Russian Ambassador gave first interview, spoke about Kosovo, dialogue, international law (Tanjug, B92)
“I would try to win over “shoulder by shoulder” with Serbia to return the international law to the region, once and for all, primarily when it comes to the Kosovo issue,” Russian Ambassador to Serbia, Alexander Botsan-Kharachenko told Tanjug news agency. He added Russia would support “a compromise and creative” solution, the one that Belgrade […]
Read More →Former US Deputy Ambassador: Kostunica to blame for setting fire to US Embassy; DSS: Unthinkable US impudence repeated (Serbian media)
Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade, Jennifer Brush, told Voice of America that Kostunica had been notified of the attack, but had issued a police order not to respond. “There was no reaction, which was astonishing. Later, I learned from eyewitnesses that the then Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica attended a service […]
Read More →Tahiri: Vucic cannot break free from Milosevic’s legacy (Indeksonline)
Kosovo’s Minister of Justice, Abelard Tahiri, took to Facebook today to comment on Serbia’s arrest warrants against Kosovo citizens. “It is apparent that Aleksandar Vucic cannot break free from Milosevic’s legacy, but he will lose even worse than his tutor,” Tahiri writes. “These are clear signs that Serbia is far from political reality and the […]
Read More →Weber: Haradinaj’s resignation leaves room for speculation, new elections logical (Express)
Bodo Weber, a Western Balkans analyst, said in an interview to the news website that following Ramush Haradinaj’s resignation as Prime Minister it is logical for Kosovo to go to new general elections. He said that the resumption of the Pristina – Belgrade dialogue depends on the election outcome and how soon a new ruling […]
Read More →Kosovo Football Federation asks FIFA,UEFA to stop Serbia from organising matches in Kosovo (Klan)
Chairman of the Kosovo Football Federation, Agim Ademi, has written to the international football governing bodies, FIFA and UEFA, expressing concern over Serbia organising football matches inside the territory of Kosovo. “The situation will escalate when the club from Kosovo, FK Trepca, will compete in Third Serbian League,” said the head of the Kosovo Federation […]
Read More →Drecun for Politika: There are witnesses, they should be protected (Serbian media)
KiM Assembly Committee Chairman Milovan Drecun said there is new evidence against Ramus Haradinaj for crimes he has not been tried for, reports Serbian media, quoting daily Politika. Drecun said this to Belgrade based daily Politika and added that Serbian authorities had found a way to speak with the Hague prosecutor, even though it was […]
Read More →EU should appoint a special envoy for the dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia (europeanwesternbalkans.com)
The unusual and marathon talks in Brussels this month (July), on the future leadership of the EU institutions resulted with the EU-28 agreeing on four names for the four key positions of leadership in the European Commission and agreeing on four candidates for the four key positions. The process showed how difficult it has become […]
Read More →Making new connections instead new border lines (KoSSev)
by Steinar Bryn After the breakup of Yugoslavia the International Community was optimistic in terms of a possible „europeanization“ of the Western Balkans. It was launched as the best strategy to integrate the new Republics in Europe and thereby securing stability and peace to start the process of building functional states. The EU, OSCE, UN […]
Read More →Defense Ministry: Serbian military got most donations from Russia (N1, B92)
Regional broadcaster N1 reports that the Defense Ministry said that the Serbian military gets its biggest donations from Russia and added the Ministry Informer did not publish the correct figures because it did not include donations which are underway. Thus, the Ministry denied Serbian media reporting that US was the biggest donator to the Serbian […]
Read More →“Russia will prevent membership of Kosovo in all international organizations” (BETA, TV N1, TV Pink)
Russian Ambassador to Serbia, Alexander Botsan-Kharachenko said during the meeting with Serbian Internal Affairs Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic that Kosovo is integral part of Serbia and Moscow would continue supporting Serbia in preventing Kosovo to join not only Interpol, but all international institutions, Serbian media report. The two officials assessed that the two countries have very […]
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