Belgrade Media Report 03 September 2019
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Tuesday 3 September 2019
LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic dissatisfied with dynamics in searching for missing (Beta/RTS)
• Djuric: Violence towards Serbs must be sanctioned immediately and most harshly (RTS)
• Palmer: I hope Belgrade will stop its efforts for international de-legitimization of Kosovo (Tanjug)
• Botsan-Kharchenko: Revision of history dangerous (Tanjug/Beta)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Russian Ambassador to B&H Ivantsov meets with Dodik and Cubrilovic (ATV)
• SDA: If Dodik says he respects B&H laws, Dzaferovic will vote for Tegeltija; Dzaferovic: Dodik is trying to implement dictatorship in B&H (N1)
• Palmer: I am committed to working in partnership with authorities of all levels in B&H (BHT1)
• Reactions to the appointment of Matthew Palmer to the post of the US Special Representative for the Western Balkans (BN/EuroBlic/ATV)
• Dodik: Grabar-Kitarovic’s statement that Croats mostly contributed to antifascist struggle is worst revision of history (ATV)
Montenegro
• Canak: Russia won’t withdraw from its strongholds in Montenegro (Pobjeda)
Republic of North Macedonia
• Government elects new ministers, opposition insists on early elections (Nezavisen vesnik)
Albania
• Albanian Assembly kicks off the new parliamentary session (Radio Tirana)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Situation in western Balkans still fraught with risks: Bulgaria’s deputy PM (Xinhua)
Read More →How Political Instability Has Felled Kosovo’s Governments (Balkan Insight)
Kosovo will hold another general election next month after the current parliament was dissolved prematurely – the fourth in a row to fail to complete its four-year term. President Hashim Thaci last week announced October 6 as the date for people in Kosovo to go to the polls again to elect a new parliament. The […]
Read More →Pacolli meets Palmer: Kosovo can count on the U.S. (media)
Kosovo’s outgoing Minister of Foreign Affairs Behgjet Pacolli met the U.S. Special Representative for Western Balkans Matthew Palmer at the sidelines of the Bled Forum. “I congratulated Mr. Palmer on his appointment and as an old friend of Kosovo in this new position he will continue to support us at all levels. We see dialogue […]
Read More →Veseli calls on party leaders to sign anti-corruption pact (media)
Leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) Kadri Veseli has called on leaders of political parties in Kosovo to sign a joint declaration vowing to fight corruption and nepotism. In a press conference today, Veseli signed a pact against corruption and said he would be sending it to all leaders of political parties competing […]
Read More →Aida Derguti will not run for election (media)
Former MP Aida Derguti has announced she will not be running for election on 6 October but that her vote will nevertheless go to candidates from the Social Democratic Party (PSD) which she joined after leaving Vetevendosje. “My political engagement was always in accordance to my beliefs, without taking into account difficult circumstances, such as […]
Read More →Ksenija Bozovic summoned for third time to make statement in Ivanovic’s murder investigation (KoSSev, Serbian media)
Deputy leader of Civic Initiative Freedom, Democracy, Justice (GI SDP) and close associate of Oliver Ivanovic, Ksenija Bozovic received on Monday the third summons for a witness questioning in the case of the murder of SDP leader, Oliver Ivanovic, KoSSev portal reports. Bozovic confirmed to KoSev that she will respond to the summons, stressing that […]
Read More →Serbian ambassador says Palmer should not have agreed to be special envoy (N1)
Serbia’s Ambassador to Russia Miroslav Lazanski said on Tuesday that US diplomat Matthew Palmer should not have agreed to be special envoy for the Western Balkans. “If he had studied history a little he should not have accepted. All envoys either died or were dismissed, from Richard Holbrooke to Hoyt Lee. I don’t know of […]
Read More →Kosovo Serb political landscape: Fatherland (Otadzbina) (KoSSev)
Ahead of the seventh extraordinary parliamentary elections in Kosovo scheduled for October 6, the Kosovo Serb political scene is divided over whether to participate in these elections, or not, while those willing to take a chance are confronted by the in so far major Kosovo Serb force – Serbian List (Srpska Lista). Such a political […]
Read More →Opposition leader Rada Trajkovic: I expect from Kosovo Serbs not to vote for Radoicic and Rakic (Danas, N1)
The newly formed coalition of Kosovo’s Serbs will go to the polls on 6 October and participate in an unequal and difficult battle, writes Belgrade based daily Danas. President of the European Movement of Serbs from Kosovo and member of the newly formed coalition, Rada Trajkovic, told Danas that the Serbian List has already begun […]
Read More →Djuric: Violence against Serbs must be sanctioned the most severely (RTS)
Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Marko Djuric told RTS this morning that the latest incident in Mitrovica North in which an underage boy was injured indicates that the brutal attacks against the Serbs continue. He also warned that the violence against the Serbs must be immediately and the most severely sanctioned. Speaking […]
Read More →Limaj on Haradinaj, tariff on Serbian products and whether he’ll become PM (Express)
Fatmir Limaj, leader of the Social Democratic Initiative (NISMA) and candidate for Prime Minister from the AKR-NISMA coalition, in an interview to T7 commented on recent remarks by Ramush Haradinaj who accused partners of the ruling coalition that they expected him to back down on his positions on the import tariff on Serbian products and […]
Read More →Robelli: The price that every citizen pays (Koha)
Publicist Enver Robelli argues in an opinion piece that in the upcoming elections Kosovo’s citizens “should be afraid from those that use big words claiming they will fight corruption!” “They will bring only misfortune. Their words are not important, but their hands are: because they stole and will keep on stealing with those hands. What […]
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