Radio Television of Serbia team stopped at Jarinje crossing (RTS)
RTS reports that the “Most Beautiful Folk Songs” wagon, heading to North Mitrovica, was stopped at the Jarinje crossing. RTS report that Kosovo authorities are not allowing the RTS team to enter, despite paperwork duly submitted. According to RTS, a convoy with equipment has been waiting at Jarinje for 20 hours.
Read More →Belgrade Media Report 11 September 2019
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Daily Media Highlights
Wednesday 11 September 2019
LOCAL PRESS
• Dacic: USA can make influence to have taxes abolished (Blic)
• US Ambassador Kyle Scott: US is going to support any kind of agreement that is good for Belgrade and Pristina and would contribute to the stability of the region (RTS)
• Czech President Zeman”I love Serbia and the Serbian people, but not Kosovo” (Beta, B92)
• PM: If ustasha salute is acceptable to some, protest note can’t change that (Beta)
• Brnabic: Cooperation with OSCE not a concession to either the opposition nor international community (Beta)
• Ambassador Botsan-Kharchenko dismisses US Envoy’s claim (Tanjug)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• B&H HoR Collegium fails to convene session of B&H HoR (BHT1)
• Komsic, Kavazovic, Inzko attend commemoration for late HR Ashdown: He was great friend of B&H (N1)
• Komsic meets number of UK officials in London: UK is great friend of B&H, B&H wants to be part of NATO (N1)
• Dodik: Komsic is not visiting London on behalf of B&H Presidency (ATV)
• US’ Palmer: Komsic and Dzaferovic were clear in statements that they want B&H to move forward by submitting ANP (Dnevni list)
Croatia
• Pupovac: I am neither a Chetnik, nor secret collaborator of Serbian authorities (Hina)
Republic of North Macedonia
• Meeting of party leaders fails as Zaev refuses to allow placing his Government under investigative scrutiny (Republika)
• Palmer: North Macedonia soon to become NATO’s 30th member (Nezavisen vesnik)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Serbs ignore EU warning over plan to join Russian-led trade bloc (The Moscow Times)
Read More →Balkan Oscars Hopefuls Start to Dream of Hollywood (Balkan Insight)
Ahead of next year’s Academy Awards, Bosnia, Croatia, North Macedonia, Romania and Serbia have already chosen the movies they are nominating as national contenders for the Best Foreign Language Film category. See at: https://bit.ly/2mcXrzD
Read More →Education in central Kosovo and its problems discussed at the Gracanica Civic Energy Center (KIM radio)
Poor working conditions, insufficient space, reduced hours and work in shifts, transportation of students, delivery of books is some of the burdens on the education in central Kosovo, KIM radio reported. However, the quality of children’s education depends mostly on the teachers, agree the participants in the education debate held at the Civic Energy Center […]
Read More →“Kosovo’s Chernobils – the silent assassins” (Koha)
The paper carries in one of its front-page stories the third part of a series of article titled “Kosovo’s Chernobils – the silent assassins”, highlighting that there are 110 polluted zones in Kosovo as a result of different economic activities. “Mitrovica has the biggest and most dangerous hot-spots in the Balkans created by the remnants […]
Read More →Zeman: In one month on possibility to revoke recognition of Kosovo (Kosovo-online portal)
Czech President Milos Zeman said in Belgrade today that he would in one month, during the meeting of constitutional authorities in Prague, ask the question, is it possible to revoke recognition of Kosovo independence, Kosovo-online portal reports. He said this responding to a journalist’s question could it be expected that some EU state in the […]
Read More →Djuric: Decision to deny Serbs right to vote, attempt to erase them from Kosovo (Kosovo-online portal)
Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Marko Djuric said today decision of the Central Election Commission in Pristina to deny right to Serbs to cast the vote with Serbian ID cards, respectively, with valid personal documents runs contrary to the applicable laws that Pristina made itself and represents an attempt to politically “erase […]
Read More →Srpska Lista: CEC decision on Kosovo documents in elections unlawful (Kosovo-online portal, N1)
Srpska Lista assessed today decision of the Central Election Commission (CEC) in Pristina that only voters with Kosovo documents may cast the vote in the upcoming elections is unlawful and represents a flagrant violation of the law, aiming to deny the Serbs their right to vote and elect their legitimate representatives, Kosovo-online portal reports. Srpska […]
Read More →Haradinaj: “I was told that nothing can be realized without Serbia’s consent” (B92, Kosovo online, Gazeta Express)
Outgoing Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj visited Urosevac, where he spoke about the efforts to prevent Kosovo’s partition in direct communication with citizens. He said that there were times when he was told that nothing can be done without Serbia’s “consent”, Gazeta Express carried. “They wanted to hand us over to Serbia. They’ve told us that […]
Read More →U.S. special representative Matthew Palmer plans to visit Kosovo (Gazeta Express)
Gazeta Express reports that the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and Special Representative for the Western Balkans Matthew Palmer plans to visit Kosovo in his new capacity. The news was confirmed by the U.S. Embassy in Kosovo. “The Special Representative Matthew Palmer plans to visit Kosovo. However, the date of his visit has not […]
Read More →Eleven-year-old girl forcibly married (RTCG, Kontakt plus radio, RTS)
Radio Television of Montenegro (RTCG) reported that another case of forced juvenile marriage has been reported to the Police Directorate. Kontakt plus radio quoted RTCG that an eleven-year-old girl from Montenegro was married to a groom from Kosovo, announced Fana Delija from the Center for Roma Initiatives, adding that she expects the girl to be […]
Read More →Suspension due to daughter’s political engagement? (KIM radio)
KIM radio reported that Sladjana Djokic from Caglavica, a long-time employee of the Pristina Clinical Hospital Centre, received a decision on her suspension on Tuesday. Djokic claimed that the director of the institution, Bratislav Lazic, made the decision because of her daughter’s political involvement. According to KIM radio report, Djokic claimed that she was recently […]
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