Belgrade Media Report 16 October 2019
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Wednesday 16 October 2019
LOCAL PRESS
• Kosovo withdraws application for Interpol membership (Beta/Politika/Novosti/RTS/RTV)
• Vucic: Small tactical victory in Interpol (Tanjug)
• Withdrawal of “Kosovo’s” application at Interpol victory of international law (RTS/Tanjug)
• Djuric: I congratulate Kosovo Serbs on courage (TV Pink/Tanjug)
• Rebic, Drecun: Intimidation of Serbs following defeat in Interpol (RTS)
• The path to EU membership has many obstacles, but the goal is still valuable (RTS/Tanjug/EWB)
• Vucic asks British Ambassador: On which election did Kurti win and whose flag is it? (B92)
• Gojkovic, Indian parliament speaker: India respects Serbia’s territorial integrity and sovereignty (Tanjug/RTV)
• MacKenzie: Bombardment in 1999 and recognition of Kosovo was craziness (Politika)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• SDS and PDP leaders to meet on Wednesday, discuss possible formation of new parliamentary majority at level of B&H (Nezavisne novine)
• SDA and HDZ B&H delegations will meet on 21 October to discuss government formation and amendments to Law on Elections (Oslobodjenje)
Republic of North Macedonia
• EU ministers fail to reach decision on opening accession talks with N. Macedonia and Albania (Nezavisen vesnik)
• Hahn apologizes to the citizens of Macedonia and Albania (Republika/MIA)
• “No” from Brussels takes Zaev to the polls (Nezavisen vesnik)
Albania
• Meta-Conte: Italy one of Albania’s main trading partners (ADN)
• Italian PM appeals for unconditional political dialogue (ADN)
• Yes’ to Albania’s negotiations, Balla thanks Germany (ADN)
• Basha – Glover meeting discussions unveiled (ADN)
• Opposition’s MP unveils reasons for Hajdari’s removal (ADN)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Van Rompuy Interview: No EU member state will block a candidate that is fit to join (European Western Balkans)
Read More →Media outlets report Minister Tahiri has been called by Specialist Chambers
RTV Dukagjini reported quoting what it said were reliable sources that Kosovo’s acting Minister of Justice, Abelard Tahiri, has been called by the Specialist Chambers and is expected to travel to The Hague by the end of the month. Several media outlets, including Klan Kosova, Gazeta Express and Lajmi are meanwhile reporting that Tahiri neither […]
Read More →Hoxha: The arrested today worked under Radojcic’s directives (Gazeta Express)
Kosovo Police and Prosecution held today a joint press briefing about today’s action in the north of Kosovo. Both Police spokesperson Baki Kelani and Prosecutor Syle Hoxha confirmed that a police official is one from the two arrested today. Hoxha said he has interviewed him this morning and submitted the request for his detention to […]
Read More →Kurti meets Demiri from VAKAT coalition (media)
Vetevendosje leader Albin Kurti met today Rasim Demiri from VAKAT, coalition of Bosniak political parties, and commended him on the election result saying the party stands to get two seats at the Kosovo Assembly. “Met Mr. Rasim Demiri today and congratulated one another on the success. We spoke about the election process, the position of […]
Read More →Kelani about the action in the North: We are waiting for the decision of the prosecutor (RTK)
Kosovo Police Spokesman Baki Kelani, confirmed today’s arrests in Mitrovica North. He said that the two arrested were brought to Pristina, and are waiting for the decision of the competent prosecutor. “It depends on what the prosecutor decides, it is too early to say anything,” Kelani said. He added that Kosovo Police in cooperation with […]
Read More →Tahiri: Justice Ministry has not received expertise on Astrit Dehari case (media)
Acting Justice Minister of Kosovo Abelard Tahiri has issued a statement rejecting claims that the ministry has received final report from a Swiss forensic institute on the Astrit Dehari’s death at the Prizren detention centre in 2016. Tahiri said that the allegations made by Dehari family attorney, Tome Gashi, that the Ministry of Justice has […]
Read More →12 CEC officials to be released from hospital today (media)
Basri Sejdiu, Director of the Kosovo University Hospital and Clinical Service Center informed that the 12 officials of the Central Elections Commission (CEC) are expected to be released from hospitalization today. “Together with Professor Naser Ramadani, Director of the National Institute for Public Health and doctor Lindita Berisha, Acting Director of the Infectious Disease Clinic, […]
Read More →The Serbian list asks international community to bring Pristina to reason (Kosovo online)
”The Serbian List strongly condemns the brutal intrusion of armed special police forces in the north of Kosovo and considers it an attempt to destabilize the situation and intimidate the Serb people in North Mitrovica, ” reads the Serbian List statement on the morning action of the Kosovo Police special units in Mitrovica. Portal Kosovo […]
Read More →Vucic asks British Ambassador: On which election did Kurti win and whose flag is it? (B92)
Belgrade based B92 portal reports on Serbian President tweet with a question for the British Ambassador in Pristina, photographed with leader of Vetëvendosje next to Albanian flag. “I have a question for the Ambassador of the United Kingdom in Pristina: On whose elections did Kurti and his party win and whose is the flag in […]
Read More →Kosovo ISIS Women and Children ‘Escape Syria Camps’ (Balkan Insight)
Some 25 Kosovo Albanian women and children, relatives of so-called Islamic State fighters, have escaped from camps in Syria since Turkey launched its military incursion, said an organisation involved in trying to bring militants’ family members home. Bedri Elezi, director for security studies at the Kosovo Institute for International Studies, who has been helping to […]
Read More →Serbia’s President Was Real Loser in Kosovo Election (Balkan Insight)
Whatever the final shape of the new government in Kosovo, it is clear that Serbs will have far less influence on it than the last one, writes Serbian journalist and editor Milenko Vasovic. In terms of votes alone, the biggest loser in the recent parliamentary elections in Kosovo was Ramush Haradinaj, the former prime minister […]
Read More →Kosovo Arrests Two over Serb Politician Ivanovic’s Murder (Balkan Insight)
Kosovo police arrested two suspects, including one Serb policeman, in the town of Mitrovica early on Wednesday in connection with last year’s murder of Kosovo Serb political party leader Oliver Ivanovic. Kosovo police said they arrested two suspects – one of them a police officer – in the Serb-majority north of Mitrovica early on Wednesday […]
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- Distria Krasniqi claimed seventh European title for Kosovo - Judoinside 25/04/2024
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