Belgrade Media Report 08 August 2019
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Thursday 8 August 2019
LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic: A difficult fall awaits us regarding the issue of Kosovo and Metohija (TV Prva)
• Pristina doing its best to make life difficult for Serbs in Kosovo (Tanjug/RTS)
• Dacic: I don’t plan to interfere in US internal politics (Politika/B92)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Members of B&H Border Police find 18 injured migrants on territory of Velika Kladusa Municipality; Migrants claim members of Croatian police beat them (TV1)
• Dodik: Thirty days for Council of Ministers or deep crisis (Nezavisne)
• Stevandic: Sarovic will attempt to negotiate with Komsic about formation of new parliamentary majority at B&H level with DF (ATV)
• US Embassy to B&H: Political parties confirmed existing consensus on importance of B&H’s progress on path towards EU and NATO (Hayat)
• Bissell: NATO supports ongoing efforts to form authorities at B&H level and it will support B&H authorities in further steps in cooperation between B&H and NATO (BHT1)
Montenegro
• Opposition’s political fiasco (CDM)
Republic of North Macedonia
• North Macedonian court rejects extradition of Morina to Serbia (Novamakedonija)
Albania
• President: Elections only solution (ADN)
• Dialogue facilitation with consent of all sides (ADN)
• Some Rama government’s tendencies are worrying (ADN)
• SMI to participate in 13 October local elections (ADN)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Bosnian Deal on New Govt Leaves Key Issues Unsolved (BIRN)
Read More →Mustafa: We want to form new government with opposition parties (Express)
Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) leader Isa Mustafa met today with Italian Ambassador to Kosovo, Piero Sardi, and briefed him on LDK’s preparations for the upcoming early general elections. The LDK issued a press release after the meeting citing Mustafa as saying, “the LDK prefers that all parties run alone in the elections. The LDK […]
Read More →Popovic-Ivkovic met Cyprus Ambassador (Danas)
Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs State Secretary Biljana Popovic-Ivkovic met yesterday with Cyprus Ambassador to Serbia Constantinos Eliades and discussed police cooperation between the two countries as well as Kosovo request to join Interpol, Danas daily reports. Popovic-Ivkovic thanked Ambassador Eliades for the support Cyprus offered to Serbia at Interpol General Assembly session last year, […]
Read More →Macedonian Court Rejects Extradition Of Kosovar War Crimes Suspect To Serbia (RFE)
A court in North Macedonia has rejected a Serbian extradition request for a former member of the Kosovo Liberation Army accused of war crimes. https://bit.ly/2yJvbr1
Read More →Serbian Perpetrator of Kosovo Massacre Released Early (Balkan Insight)
Miodrag Solaja was convicted over the killing of 14 civilians during the 1998-99 Kosovo war, including seven children executed in the yard of a house. He was released last month three years early. https://bit.ly/2YAzLHF
Read More →Haradinaj to FAZ: I have never threatened witnesses (media)
Online media are carrying an interview Ramush Haradinaj, outgoing Prime Minister of Kosovo and leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), gave to the German daily paper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung where he spoke about his interview with Specialist Chambers, his resignation and opposition to the border changes idea. Haradinaj said that his […]
Read More →Psychological pressure on Oliver Ivanovic’s associate (Danas, Radio kontakt plus)
The hearing of Silvana Arsovic, long-term secretary and associate of murdered Oliver Ivanovic lasted three and a half hours yesterday in Pristina Special Prosecution, Danas daily reports. This is the fifth time that Arsovic, as a suspect within Olvier Ivanovic’s murder investigation, is giving a statement. At the time of Ivanovic’s murder, the surveillance […]
Read More →Daka: Elections unavoidable, we are ready whenever they are proclaimed (RTK)
Valdete Daka, head of the Central Election Commission said at a press conference today that it is already obvious that elections are unavoidable. According to her, CEC is prepared for this process whenever elections are proclaimed. Florian Dushi from the Council for Legal Affairs informed about the cases at the State Prosecution with regards to […]
Read More →Illegal logging along Kosovo boundary line in southern Serbia (N1, Beta)
Large amounts of lumber have been cut illegally in the Toplica District of southern Serbia; a local forestry company spokesman told the Beta news agency on Thursday. Spokesman Stojan Bijelic said that 4,280 cubic meters of lumber had been cut from woodlands managed by the Toplica Forestry Company in the municipalities of Kursumlija, Blace, Prokuplje, […]
Read More →OSCE Broadcast 07 August
• LDK prefers to enter elections alone, PSD wants VV and Nisma (KTV)
• OSCE about murder in Prizren: Domestic violence should be combatted through concerted efforts of institutions (Kosovo portals, KTV)
• Veseli: No more Prime Minister for rent (KTV)
• Hoxhaj: PDK does not negotiate Prime Minister’s post (RTK)
• Tomor Morina will not be extradited to Serbia (KTV&RTK)
Kusari-Lila: Unclear if Kosovo is going to early elections (media)
Alternativa leader Mimoza Kusari-Lila said in an interview to KTV on Wednesday that it is unclear if Kosovo will go to early parliamentary elections and that she believes there is a scenario to find “a solution without elections”. “Although the opposition believes that elections are necessary, and before the August 22 meeting to disband the […]
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