Sources: Isa Mustafa, consensual candidate for LDK leader (Express)
Citing sources from today’s meeting of the chairmanship of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), the news website reports that an agreement was reached for Isa Mustafa to be the consensual candidate for party leader at the party’s general convention tomorrow.
Read More →Tahiri: Repatriation of Kosovars from Syria made us a global reference against terror (media)
Kosovo’s Minister of Justice, Abelard Tahiri, said today that one of his most difficult decisions has been the repatriation of Kosovars from the fighting zones in Syria but that he was determined to make sure that Kosovo would not be used as a reference to terror-related activities. “I was also very determined that children and […]
Read More →Belgrade Media Report 02 August 2019
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Daily Media Highlights
Friday 2 August 2019
LOCAL PRESS
• Djuric on change of authority in Pristina: Serbs have nothing special to hope for (RTS)
• China continues to support Serbia’s sovereignty (RTS)
• Dacic discusses Kosovo with Serbian Ambassadors in US, Sweden, Argentina and Algeria (RTS/Tanjug)
• Botsan-Harchenko: We will support solution for Kosovo that we can defend in Security Council (Tanjug)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Dodik comments possibility of authority formation at B&H level without SNSD: We will return to original Dayton (RTRS)
• US Embassy: Secession is not part of DPA or Constitution, any attempt represents violation of these documents; OHR: Secession represents violation of DPA (Oslobodjenje/N1)
• Mektic: Croatian police officers are forcibly returning illegal migrants to B&H’s territory; Komsic: Croatia needs to withdraw police from B&H (N1)
Croatia
• Grabar-Kitarovic: Operation ‘Oluja’ saved B&H (HRT1)
• Slovenia: EU should not pamper Croatia regarding border arbitration ruling (Hina)
Montenegro
• There won’t be technical government (CDM)
Albania
• Head of State willing to meet with Premier anywhere (ADN)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Russia wants to have military base in the RS, exchange of territories that would lead to division of B& H is still possible (Die Welt)
Read More →Tahiri: LDK cannot run with a consensual candidate for party leader (media)
The news website reports that the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) will hold its general convention this Saturday which will elect the party leader and the general council. Ramush Tahiri, a Pristina-based political commentator, told Telegrafi that he does not believe the LDK will have a consensual candidate for party leader. “I don’t believe there […]
Read More →Hague Prosecutors Call Female Kosovo MP for Questioning (Balkan Insight)
MP Time Kadrijaj, who is reported to have been a Kosovo Liberation Army doctor during wartime, is the latest politician to be summoned for an interview by the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office in The Hague. https://bit.ly/2GKWTZ8
Read More →Kosovo Municipality Files 100 War Crimes Complaints Against Serbs (Balkan Insight)
A municipal war crimes office in Gjakova/Djakovica in Kosovo has filed 100 more criminal complaints about wartime violations by Serbian police and military forces – bringing the total number filed to around 1,500. https://bit.ly/2KiQoxp
Read More →MP Deda suggests current opposition run under one ticket in elections (Koha)
Kosovo MP Ilir Deda said that he hoped extraordinary elections will be announced in the coming week and will take place sometime between 8 and 15 September. In an interview with KTV, Deda spoke in favour of current opposition parties running under one ticket in the upcoming elections. He said the unification of the opposition […]
Read More →Kosovo’s foreign policy ‘needs a software update’ (Prishtina Insight)
Reports that the Central African Republic is the latest country to withdraw its recognition of Kosovo were met with silence from the Kosovo Government this week, with experts labelling this another setback in a disastrous recent era for Kosovo foreign policy. See at:https://bit.ly/2KcCi24
Read More →Vukcevic: FBI questioned a witness in case of Bytyqi brothers (Danas)
It is true that representatives of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) were involved in the investigation into the murder of the three Bytyqi brothers, as well as in a questioning of a witness in one northern country, but nothing came out of it, a former prosecutor, Vladimir Vukcevic told Belgrade based daily Danas. […]
Read More →Palmer: Pristina needs new government to abolish tariffs (RTK, Blic, Radio kontakt plus)
“The most important thing now is for Pristina to get a new government as soon as possible and for that government to do whatever it takes to continue the dialogue with Belgrade, including the abolition of tariffs on goods from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina”, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian […]
Read More →Stefanovic on Tomor Morina case, Zoran Zaev (Tanjug, Blic)
Serbia awaits the extradition of Tomor Morina and that North Macedonia Prime Minister Zoran Zaev fulfills his promise he would respect the international law, Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said, Blic daily reports. He made these remarks responding to a journalist’s question if former KLA member, arrested in North Macedonia on international arrest warrant would […]
Read More →Chen: China will continue supporting sovereignty of Serbia (B92, Tanjug)
Ministry of Internal Affairs State Secretary Biljana Popovic-Ivkovic met yesterday Ambassador of China to Serbia Chen Bo, Serbian media report. They discussed concrete forms of cooperation between the two states in the area of internal affairs and a new request of Kosovo to join Interpol. Ambassador Chen Bo said China would continue supporting Serbia in […]
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