Belgrade Media Report 15 August 2019
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Thursday 15 August 2019
LOCAL PRESS
• Kuburovic: North Macedonia decision on Morina politics, not law (Beta)
• Stefanovic: This tramples on the essence of international law (RTS/Tanjug)
• Djuric: Attempt at artificial equalization of Belgrade and Pristina (RTS)
• Russia prepared to assist the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue (TV Prva)
• SzS: Vucic buying time trying to split opposition (Beta)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• SDA: Only solution for overcoming current deadlocks in process of Euro-Atlantic integration and establishment of new convocation of B&H CoM is adoption of modified ANP (TV1)
• Dodik: SDA’a false claims about ANP (Srna)
• Komsic: Dodik has three options re ANP (TV1)
• Izetbegovic: International community conducting activities to bring closer stances on submission of ANP (Al Jazeera)
• Dzaferovic: It is necessary to find compromise re all issues (ATV)
Republic of North Macedonia
• Zaev: For me and the government, all people are equal (MIA/Republika)
• VMRO DPMNE: The European perspective of the state is seriously endangered because of Zaev’s crimes and corruption (Republika)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Expert to ANSA, foreign fighters return challenge to Balkans (ANSA)
Read More →Haradinaj softens his position on Quint’s request for tariff and dialogue (Zeri)
The resigned Prime Minister of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj has reacted to the joint statement of the Quint countries, which requests lifting of the tariff on Serbia’s goods and normalization of the relations with Serbia. “Agree on the necessity of normalisation between Kosovo and Serbia. Government presented QUINT and EU with Draft Comprehensive Agreement including outstanding […]
Read More →Haradinaj: Friendship with western allies, permanent and sacred (media)
Outgoing Prime Minister of Kosovo and leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) Ramush Haradinaj posted on social media a message to those he calls ‘servile’. “Friendship with western allies for me and the AAK is permanent and sacred. Our relations with partners are based on sincerity, not servility. Thanks to such […]
Read More →Deadlocked Serbia and Kosovo rebuff western call for compromise (Irish Times)
Serbia and Kosovo have rejected a call from western states to make compromises that could help restart EU-brokered talks to normalise their relations. Negotiations broke down last November when the Pristina government imposed a 100 per cent tax on imports from Serbia, in retaliation for Belgrade successfully lobbying to keep Kosovo out of Interpol, the […]
Read More →North Macedonia Frees Kosovo Ex-Guerrilla Wanted by Serbia (Balkan Insight)
North Macedonia released former Kosovo Liberation Army member Tomor Morina after the country’s Supreme Court decided not to extradite him to Serbia to face war crimes charges. Former KLA fighter Tomor Morina was released from detention and returned to Kosovo on Wednesday afternoon after North Macedonia’s Supreme Court earlier the same day ruled that there […]
Read More →Blockade in Kosovo – Serbia dialogue, early elections postpone Paris Summit (Lajmi)
The news website reports that early parliamentary elections are expected to cause delays in the dialogue with Serbia and they could also postpone the Paris Summit which was scheduled to be held in September. Sources in the Kosovo government told Telegrafi that there are currently no developments in this regard. “There is no movement. We […]
Read More →Alexander Botsan – Kharchenko to TV Prva: Russia supports Belgrade-Pristina dialogue (Serbian media)
Russian Ambassador to Serbia Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko told Belgrade based TV Prva this morning that Kosovo is an issue that needs additional international community activity and that Russia is ready to assist in establishing or renewing Belgrade-Pristina dialogue. Botsan-Kharchenko says that Russia is ready to help the dialogue if Belgrade seeks help, primarily at the UN […]
Read More →Djuric: Political differences between Serbs yes, but not in Kosovo (Danas, RTS)
Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Marko Djuric told RTS today Serbs should “monolithic and united” take part in the Kosovo elections, Danas daily reports. Djuric added he is convinced it would be shown, based on the results of Srpska Lista, how much Serbs are attached to their state and how much they […]
Read More →Serwer: There is no urgency for dialogue with Serbia (Gazeta Express)
Daniel Serwer, director of the Conflict Management and American Foreign Policy Programs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a Balkans analyst, told the news website today that Kosovo should form a new government first and have a clear platform before resuming talks with Serbia. “I don’t think there is any good […]
Read More →Elections in Kosovo postpone meeting in Paris? (Blic, TV Most)
If elections are called in Kosovo the meeting in Paris would most probably be postponed and won’t take place in September, Belgrade-based daily Blic reports referring to diplomatic sources. During a recent visit to Serbia, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that he would organize the meeting with Serbian and Kosovo leaders, as well as German […]
Read More →Dacic to TV Prva: “Whatever happens Serbs are to blame, we have no information” (Serbian media)
Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic told Prva TV “for Pristina authorities the Serbs are always to blame.” Dacic added he has no information that would confirm accusations of the Kosovo FM Behgjet Pacolli who claims that diplomatic office of Pristina in Copenhagen was attacked by the Serbian citizens in Denmark. “Last night, hearing that […]
Read More →Trump set August 25, 2020 as a deadline for Kosovo? (Vecernje Novosti, Srpski Telegraf, Tanjug)
Srpski Telegraf daily writes today that US President Donald Trump has set August 25 next year as the deadline for resolving the Kosovo issue, and states that it includes a demarcation deal. “The deadline to put an end to the Kosovo node is August 25 next year, two months before the US presidential election (in […]
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