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Belgrade Media Report 09 September 2019

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United Nations Office in Belgrade

Daily Media Highlights

Monday 9 September 2019

LOCAL PRESS

• Senators: You’ll have to give something in order to gain something in return (B92, Tanjug)
• Metropolitan Amfilohije: Belgrade will recognize Kosovo, shame on Vucic (Beta)
• Zeman won’t rule out eventual Czech withdrawal of Kosovo recognition (Beta)
• Vucic: Foreigners paying Serb candidates to run against Serb ticket (Beta)
• Convincing Victory of SNS in Medvedja (Tanjug)
• Opposition leaders: Boycott of elections is a necessity (Politika, Blic, Beta, N1)
• Brnabic: EU enlargement equally important to Balkans and Europe (RTS)
• Serbian officers banned from Croatia (Beta)

REGIONAL PRESS

Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Dodik says he would accept EU Commissioner Hahn’s invitation for meeting with members of B&H Presidency (ATV)
• Komsic and Dzaferovic send letter to Commissioner Hahn (BHT1)
• HDZ B&H leader Covic: Agreement on authority formation in B&H was obstructed by blackmails of Bosniaks (Hayat)
• 77th anniversary of Ustasha crimes against Serbs in Stari Brod takes place (ATV)
• Plenkovic, Vucic, Krsticevic comment on recent incident at Bajakovo border crossing (ATV)
Croatia
• Serbian army personnel try to enter Croatia (Hina)
Montenegro
• Montenegrin President to receive Matthew Palmer (CDM)
• Montenegro only gained benefits from restoration of independence (Pobjeda)
Republic of North Macedonia
• Zaev congratulates Independence Day: Long live North Macedonia! (Republika)
• Pendarovski: Let’s renew unity shown at onset of independence (Republika)
• Katica will be dismissed after Sept. 8th- Independence Day (Nezavisen vesnik)
• Zaev: From what I heard, there is no evidence that Katica Janeva took money in “Racket (Republika)

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Constitutional Court rules sex-change request to be inadmissible and premature (Koha)

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The Kosovo-based Centre for Equality and Liberty (CEL) announced in a statement to the press that the Constitutional Court of Kosovo has ruled Blert Morina’s case against the Civil Registration Agency for recognition of gender identity to be inadmissible and premature. In 2018, Morina had requested the Civil Registration office in Gjakova to change the […]

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Back to the Balkans to Finish the Job (intpolicydigest.org)

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Many were surprised when on August 30, 2019, the State Department announced that Secretary Pompeo appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary Matthew Palmer as Special Representative for the Western Balkans. See at: https://bit.ly/2k6CJR1    

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Tahiri requests Poland to extradite corruption suspect (media)

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Kosovo’s acting Minister of Justice, Abelard Tahiri, has requested Polish authorities extradite a Kosovo national wanted on suspicion of abuse of office. “This is a concrete example of my commitment as Minister of Justice to fight corruption and criminal acts relating to abuse of office,” Tahiri said in a statement adding that this would be […]

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Kosovo Serb Remains Handed to Serbian Representatives (Balkan Insight)

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The remains of two Kosovo Serbs who went missing in 1999 – and were exhumed from the ‘Bunker Djakovica’ in 2018 – have been given to a Serbian government commission. See at: https://bit.ly/2m7DTwo

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Kosovo Serbs’ Freedom of Movement Curtailed by Serbia (Balkan Insight)

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For a decade, Serbian citizens resident in Kosovo have been treated differently from other Serbian citizens when it comes to passports and residence papers, leading to complaints of discrimination. See at: https://bit.ly/2lJzHCY

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Jeremic: To boycott elections, then all decisions, including the ones on Kosovo, illegitimate (Kosovo-online portal)

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Leader of Peoples’ Party (NS) Vuk Jeremic called for the boycott of elections in Serbia, arguing that in that case all decisions made by the institutions elected after the poll and international agreements that the authorities would sing, including the eventual agreement on “delineation” by which Pristina would get seat in the UN would be […]

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IDPs support the Serbian List (Kosovo Online)

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Coalition of Displaced Persons from Kosovo has given its full support and made all its resources available to the Serbian List for the upcoming elections in Kosovo on October 6, reads a press release. Coalition urged all displaced persons with voting rights to support the Serbian List in the name of unanimity and Serbian unity […]

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“59 percent of victims of sexual violence are 11 – 16 years old” (media)

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The Institute of Forensic Medicine (IFM) in cooperation with Kosovo Police and EULEX held a roundtable in Pristina today for greater awareness-raising on sexual violence, several news websites report. Tarja Formisto, IFM deputy director from EULEX, said more work is needed on awareness-raising for sexual violence. “I have two messages for you: first, now is […]

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German Special Envoy to the Balkans: “The road-map is clear, only that Serbia and Kosovo will not be eventually united” (Blic)

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Belgrade based daily Blic writes today that the great American diplomatic return to the Balkans, obviously initiated by the EU’s inability to unravel the Kosovo knot, has sparked nervousness in the EU, and emissaries come to see what can be done after Mogherini’s diplomatic collapse. One of them, Peter Beyer, a member of the German […]

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25 political entities registered for the parliamentary elections in Kosovo (KoSSev)

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Twenty five political entities – 20 political parties, 4 coalitions and one independent candidate – registered for the upcoming extraordinary elections in Kosovo scheduled for October 6. CEC spokesperson, Valmir Elezi told Pristina-based Koha that the candidate lists would be released after the CEC certifies them. He announced that the lists would be reviewed on […]

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Trajkovic: Upcoming Kosovo elections one of the last battles for Serbs’ honour (N1)

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Rada Trajkovic, the Chairwoman of the European Movement of Serbs in Kosovo told regional broadcaster N1 that the upcoming elections in Kosovo were “one of the last battles for the honour of Serbs and Serbia.” Without further explaining her words, Trajkovic also said she had information that a group of people was infiltrated from Bosnia’s […]

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