Belgrade Media Report 20 August
LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic, Pompeo meeting – Unfreezing of dialogue? (Blic/Novosti/Tanjug)
• Milivojevic: Key to compromise solution in US hands (Tanjug)
• Extraordinary cooperation between Serbia, China in all areas (RTS)
• SzS no longer to take part in talks with ruling party (Beta)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Cancelling both sessions agreed (Srna)
• Komsic meets with Ambassadors Nelson and Field (Hayat/FTV/TV1)
• EC allocates 10 million Euros for B&H for solving of migrant crisis (Al Jazeera)
Republic of North Macedonia
• Nikoloski: Merkel and Orban’s policies are the future of VMRO-DPMNE and Macedonia (Republika)
Albania
• DP protests in Shkodra, FRPD’s Chairman gets arrested (ADN)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Merkel: ‘Truly united Europe’ includes Western Balkans (Politico)
Read More →Russian media: Togo withdraws recognition of Kosovo (N1, Srna, Sputnik)
Togo, a West African nation on the Gulf of Guinea, became the 15th country which withdrew the recognition of Kosovo, according to Sputnik, a Russian state media outlet, as carried by the Srna news agency. Sputnik said it got the news confirmed by diplomatic sources. Last week, Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic announced the latest […]
Read More →Haradinaj meets Limaj, they don’t discuss possible coalition (Express)
Kosovo’s outgoing Prime Minister, Ramush Haradinaj, met today with Fatmir Limaj, leader of the Social Democratic Initiative (NISMA). An advisor to Haradinaj confirmed the meeting saying that the two leaders discussed recent developments. Haradinaj told reporters after the meeting that they discussed the motion for disbanding the Assembly which will be voted on this Thursday. […]
Read More →Kosovo and North Macedonia ministers agree to remove trade barriers (media)
Kosovo’s Minister of Trade and Industry, Endrit Shala, met in Pristina today North Macedonian Minister of Economy, Kreshnik Bekteshi, and discussed ways to eliminate trade barriers. Shala said both parties agreed in principle to remove all trade barriers by the end of the week. He said the Kosovo agency of food and veterinary will submit […]
Read More →Kosovo, North Macedonia trade ministers agree to lift barriers (media)
Several news websites report that Kosovo’s outgoing Minister of Trade and Industry, Endrit Shala, and North Macedonia’s Minister of Economy, Kreshnik Bekteshi, met today in Pristina to discuss ways how to eliminate trade barriers. Shala said after the meeting that they have agreed to finish some tasks and “for both countries to lift the trade […]
Read More →Serbian List this evening or tomorrow about the Thursday’s session participation (RTK2)
RTK2 reports that President of the Serbian List Goran Rakic said during his visit to the Municipality of Gracanica that the ban on employment in the public sector would be lifted very soon, so that, as he said, there would be new jobs very soon. Rakic said that youth employment is expected, adding that it […]
Read More →Haki Abazi confirms he will join Vetevendosje today (Express)
The news website reports that Haki Abazi, an international development expert and political analyst, has confirmed that he will join the Kurti-led Vetevendosje Movement today. Express recalls that Abazi recently said he was in a favor of a coalition between Vetevendosje and the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK). “This coalition would not turn Kosovo into […]
Read More →Veseli: War against corruption cannot be won in one day (RTK)
Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) leader Kadri Veseli visited the premises of the Cardiac Surgery Department of Pristina Hospital today and said this is a model of the fight against corruption. He argued that the fight against corruption cannot be won in one day. “I met many healthcare staff in the premises of the cardiac […]
Read More →It is a pity that Belgrade only supports the Serbian List, says President of the Progressive Democratic Party (RTK2, Slobodno Srpski, Kontakt plus radio)
President of the Progressive Democratic Party Nenad Rasic said that he was sure that the Assembly would decide to dissolve the Parliament on August 22, after which early parliamentary elections would be called. Rasic said that to Serbs was irrelevant who would form the new government among the Albanian political parties, but that it was […]
Read More →Serbian ambassador says US does not see Kosovo as closed issue (RTS, FoNet, N1)
Serbian Ambassador in Moscow Miroslav Lazanski told Serbian public broadcaster RTS on Tuesday that Washington does not consider the Kosovo issue closed. He says that today’s meeting between Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and US State Secretary Mike Pompeo shows that Washington insist on the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue to continue. “The fact that America insists on meetings […]
Read More →Foreign Affairs Ministry confirms: Kosovo will take part in Helsinki meeting (Lajmi)
Federica Mogherini, the European Union’s outgoing diplomacy chief, has invited Kosovo to attend an informal meeting of the EU Foreign Ministers which will be held in Helsinki by the end of August, the news website reports. Jetlir Zyberaj, advisor to Kosovo’s Foreign Minister Behgjet Pacolli, confirmed the invitation from Brussels. “Yes, we have received an […]
Read More →Haradinaj hails Merkel’s statement: Kosovo is ready (RTK)
The resigned Prime Minister of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj took to Twitter to haile the statement of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who said that truly united Europe includes Western Balkans. “I applaud Chancellor Merkel for reaffirming Western Balkans’ EU enlargement perspective today from the Hungarian town of Sopron. The European Union will be stronger and […]
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