Belgrade Media Report 17 January 2020
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Friday 17 January 2020
LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic congratulates Mishustin : I am certain we will continue development of friendly relations (RTS)
• Vucic: Elections to be held on 19 or 26 April (TV Prva/Tanjug/RTS)
• Djuric: Belgrade devoted to dialogue, the problem is in Pristina (RTV/Beta)
• Joksimovic: Candidate Countries Should Join Debate on New EU Enlargement Methodology (Beta)
• Cadez: Serbia, region can count on US support (Tanjug)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Dodik, Ivantsov: Any changes to DPA would be death sentence for B&H (RTRS)
• Dodik: Sarajevo needs to return property of Serbian Orthodox Church (RTRS)
• National agreement required in B&H without international interventions (Srna)
• EU to present new methodology for accession of candidate countries and possible candidates to EU (Nezavisne)
Croatia
• Plenkovic on working visit to Germany (HRT)
Montenegro
• Visegrad group wants WB to take part in the discussion on Europe’s future (RSE)
Republic of North Macedonia
• Ahmeti says he was given an offer to partition Macedonia, but he rejected it (Republika)
• Interior Minister Culev discusses election preparations with members of the diplomatic corps (Republika)
Albania
• Commissioner Varhelyi: EU should open accession negotiations with Albania before the Zagreb summit (Radio Tirana)
• Elections in Serbia, Albanians in Presevo Valley united (ADN)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Last Chance Saloon: Can the EU and Balkans be Reconciled in 2020? (BIRN)
Read More →UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 17, 2020
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 17, 2020
Albanian Language Media:
Thaci: Kosovo has met visa liberalisation criteria (RTK)
Daut Haradinaj asks LVV: Do you want to go to elections? (Express)
Nagavci: Vjosa Osmani wanted to co-govern with Vetevnedosje (KTV)
Osmani: LDK does not initiate Konjufca’s dismissal, I believe in agreement (RTK)
Serbian Language Media:
• Court for KLA crimes without comment on murder of alleged protected witness (Tanjug)
• “Next months crucial, EU faces risk if it doesn’t send a clear signal to region” (TASS, B92)
• Six years since murder of Dimitrije Janicijevic in Mitrovica North (Radio KIM)
• Djuric: Belgrade committed to dialogue, problem is in Pristina (Danas)
• “Major changes” in Serbian government, Vucic says (Prva TV, N1)
International:
• Kosovo PM Dismisses Rama’s Libel Charge as ‘Decoy’ (Balkan Insight)
• Why is Kosovo Taking Home Islamic State Members? (VoA)
UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, January 17
• Kurti: Agreement for the government, not “a deal of monarchs” (media)
• Mustafa says Kurti’s letter is unofficial (RTK)
• Mustafa: I cannot say if there is going to be a coalition, we are committed (RTK)
• “It’s good that whole society is involved in debate on new government” (media)
• Konjufca calls the first Assembly session (RTK)
• U.S. Embassy calls for Oliver Ivanovic’s murder to be resolved (RTK)
• Thaci hails agreement on single electoral list of Albanian parties in Serbia (media)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 16, 2020
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 16, 2020
Albanian Language Media:
• “Bringing PAN back to power, Vetevendosje’s worst gift to the people” (Koha)
• LDK’s Abrashi: We don’t have a name yet for post of Kosovo President (T7)
• Haradinaj receives an invitation to attend National Prayer Breakfast (Telegrafi)
Serbian Language Media:
• “If the killed was protected witness, then this is a rerun of the ‘Haradinaj case’” (Politika, Sputnik, B92)
• Two years ago, Ivanovic was killed; “Serbia will not stop until a killer is found” (Beta, Tanjug, B92)
• Milena Ivanovic: I’m trying to find out the truth on my own, disregarding Pristina (Kosovo-online, B92)
• Milan Ivanovic: Two years is too long, confusing that Belgrade protects Radoicic (N1)
• Memorial gathering to Oliver Ivanovic held in Mitrovica, Srpska Lista attended it (Radio kontakt plus, KoSSev)
• Pantovic: Court proceeding against Darko Tasic unduly prolonged (Radio KIM, Kosovo-online)
• Racak 21 years later: An important event for Pristina, while Belgrade remains silent (KoSSev)
• Two tons of wheat stolen in Novake village (KiM radio, RTS)
Opinion:
• Kelmendi: The (dis)agreement race (Koha Ditore)
• 100 days of nonsense (Prishtina Insight)
• Last Chance Saloon: Can the EU and Balkans be Reconciled in 2020? (Balkan Insight)
International:
• Truth Commission Activists Plan Yugoslav ‘Book of the Dead’ (Balkan Insight)
• Shifting Focus of Kosovo Government Talks Hampers Deal (Balkan Insight)
Humanitarian/Development:
• Health institute warns: Air pollution is threatening people’s health (media)
• Caglavica: It was agreed to increase police patrols (Radio KIM)
Belgrade Media Report 16 January 2020
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Thursday 16 January 2020
LOCAL PRESS
• Brnabic: Serbia will not give up until the real perpetrators of this crime are discovered (RTS)
• Cadez: Atlantic Council supports Little Schengen initiative (Tanjug)
• Djilas presents “Serbia 2020” Program (Beta)
• Witness to KLA crimes against disloyal Albanians removed (Politika)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Cvijanovic and Vucic comment claims of Nacional that Milanovic and Erdogan talked about need to change DPA (RTRS)
• Croats in B&H should not choose between Serbs and Bosniaks (Vecernji list)
• Delegations of SDA and HDZ B&H meet to discuss solving of key problems at state, entity and local level including solution for local elections in Mostar (Vecernji list)
• SDS, PDP, Our Party, SDP and Independent Bloc discuss ways to change Law on Elections of B&H (Nezavisne)
• OHR provides interpretation of current situation in SC Assembly concluding Kristic is legitimate speaker (BHT1)
Croatia
• Croatia sees Montenegro as next EU member state (Hina)
Montenegro
• Markovic: We are open to dialogue about conceptual agreement (CDM)
Republic of North Macedonia
• Varhelyi pledges that enlargement toward Balkans will be a priority for the EU (Republika)
• Pendarovski meets Varhelyi (Republika)
• Xhaferi tells Varhelyi he hopes Macedonia will open EU accession talks in March or May (Republika)
• VMRO has a plan to fast-track Macedonia toward the EU, Mickoski tells Varhelyi (Republika)
• New bribery tape – Zaev says “f… the name” (Republika)
Albania
• Venice Commission to discuss Albanian parliament addressed questions at March session (Radio Tirana)
• EU should carry on the enlargement process (Republika)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Serbia’s campaign to reduce the number of countries which recognise Kosovo is working (Emerging Europe)
Read More →UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, January 16
• EU High Representative Borrell speaks to Presidents Thaci, Vucic (media)
• Thaci speaks to Borrell, calls for visa liberalisation (media)
• Mustafa: Our structures will not consider LVV’s offer (media)
• Vetevendosje’s Bislimi: We are closer to a solution than elections (Express/T7)
• Vetevendosje turns down LDK offer, calls it “a joke” (media)
• Abdixhiku: LDK will not agree to increased number of ministries (RTK)
• Kurti: We need the government to implement resolution on genocide (Express)
• EU: Miseries in Recak are well documented (RTK)
• Albania’s PM files lawsuit against Ramush Haradinaj (media)
Belgrade Media Report 15 January
LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic, Borrell discuss Belgrade-Pristina dialogue (Tanjug/RTS)
• Why didn’t Grenell visit Pristina and what is Walker doing over there (Tanjug/RTV)
• Stefanovic: 28 adult Serbs in Syria, Iraq, warns participation in foreign wars punishable (Beta)
• Antonijevic expects new meeting with MEPs; topic will be lowering electoral threshold (Tanjug/Politika)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Dodik and Vucic’s statements provoked only couple of reactions from Sarajevo (Oslobodjenje)
• Still no agreement on Bozovic’s appointment as B&H Minister of Human Rights and Refugees (N1)
• Dzaferovic rejects media allegations in which he was tried to be brought in connection with Iranian general Soleimani (O kanal)
Croatia
• Plenkovic presents priorities of Croatia’s EU Presidency to European Parliament (Hina)
• Plenkovic: Croatia won’t become hotspot for migrants (Hina)
Montenegro
• Minister Darmanovic: There’s room for dialogue with SPC (MINA)
Republic of North Macedonia
• Zaev: US continuously supports the realization of our strategic interests (Republika)
• Mickoski – Byrnes: Fair and democratic elections key to Macedonia’s future (Republika)
Albania
• Albanian political forces reached an agreement to implement electoral reform by 15 March (Radio Tirana)
• OSCE and US Embassy hails the agreement reached by political parties on the electoral reform (Radio Tirana)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 15, 2020
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 15, 2020
Albanian Language Media:
• EU’s High Representative Borrell speaks to Presidents Thaci and Vucic (media)
• Thaci speaks to Borrell, requests visa liberalization (media)
• LDK’s Veliu: Vetevendosje wants absolute power (media)
• Haxhiu: Additional minority ministry will not belong to the Serbian List (media)
• LDK with the old response to LVV: Requests Assembly Speaker’s post (RTK)
• Kosovo leaders remember Recak victims (media)
• OSCE: 45 innocent Albanians massacred in 1999 in Recak (RTK)
Serbian Language Media:
• Vucic and Borrell spoke about Belgrade-Pristina dialogue (Tanjug, RTS)
• Kosovo police raided house of “Bora Stankovic” school director (RTS, B92)
• Thousands left Kosovo, statistics office says (BETA, N1)
• Archbishop Teodosije: To do all in our power that a neighbour and a brother never turn against one’s own neighbour and brother (KoSSev)
• Serb family in Caglavica robbed (Radio KIM)
• Kabasic: Russian citizens fined 250 euros each (Kosovo-online)
International:
• Kosovo, Serbia Play Blame Game over Ivanovic Assassination (Balkan Insight)
• Kosovo Prosecutor Seeks Fine For Russians Charged With Illegal Border Crossing (RFE)
Humanitarian/Development:
• Initiative for the protection of Lake Gracanica launched (Kontakt plus radio, RTK2)
• Human Rights Progress Faltering in South and Central Europe: HRW (Balkan Insight)
OSCE Broadcast Report 14 January
• Vetëvendosje presents new offer to LDK, proposes enlarging government to 14 ministries (KTV)
• Quint: Reçak Massacre prompted NATO allies to end a humanitarian catastrophe (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Petrovic meets Ambassador Kosnett, complains about pressure from Srpska List (KTV)
• HRW: Problems with respect of human rights in Kosovo (KTV)
• Serbia buying de-recognitions for Kosovo with bribes, Hoxhaj says (KTV)
• Kosovo prosecutor seeks fine for Russians charged with illegal border crossing (Radio Free Europe)
• Lumezi tells “incapable” prosecutors: Ask for additional training (KTV)
• Kosovo war crime witness was killed last month (GazetaExpress)
• “Repentant” Kosovo woman who joined ISIS pleads guilty (GazetaExpress)
• Thousands left Kosovo, Statistics Office says (N1)
UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, January 15
Vetevendosje confirms offer to LDK: Government with 14 ministries (media) LDK’s Osmani says Vetevendosje’s last offer is serious (media) German MP calls for formation of new government in Kosovo (media) Quint: Victims, families of Recak massacre to have full access to justice (media) Prosecutor in Mitrovica wants mandatory fine for two Russian nationals (RFE) […]
Read More →Belgrade Media Report 14 January
LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic: There is no RS without Serbia (TV Pink)
• Dacic: National priority of Serbia in the past year, and in the year ahead, is certainly the fight for the preservation of sovereignty and territorial integrity (RTS/Beta/Tanjug/RTV)
• How the US and Russia see the solution of the Kosovo issue (RTS)
• Dacic: Law on Freedom of Religion destabilizes relations between Serbia and Montenegro (RTV)
• Opposition: If regime can change threshold, it can postpone elections (N1)
• Milivojevic: Initiative for lower election threshold to create quasi democracy in Serbia (Beta)
• Report against Inzko to follow (Novosti)
• Belgrade students’ requests on Montenegro submitted to Serbian Presidency (Tanjug/RTV/Politika)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Dodik: RS will remain military neutral and this stance needs to be respected; RS has all characteristics of state (ATV)
• Yes to Rescue Unit of B&H, but only temporarily (EuroBlic)
• SDP B&H, Our Party, People and Justice and Independent B&H List to sign agreement on joint participation in the upcoming local elections in B&H (FTV)
Republic of North Macedonia
• Spasovski celebrates NATO, rather than acknowledging that “North” did not bring anything to the people (Republika)
• Commissioner Varhelyi set to visit Macedonia (Republika)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
• Montenegrin Law on Religious Freedom: Polarization that benefits the government(s)? (European Western Balkans)
Read More →UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 14, 2020
Albanian Language Media:
• Vetevendosje sends final offer to LDK? (Indeksonline)
• Mustafa: LDK has received a new offer from LVV (Telegrafi)
• Analysts on consequences from delays in forming new government (Telegrafi)
• Thaci calls parties to propose new election commission members (Indeksonline)
• Police arrest two Russian nationals near border with Serbia (Klan Kosova)
• William Walker: Recak must not be forgotten (media)
• Haxhiu: Decision for Assembly Speaker irreversible, elections an option (media)
Serbian Language Media:
• Dacic: Belgrade dissatisfied with small number of chapters opened (BETA, N1)
• Schütz: Agreement on Kosovo-Serbia dialogue has to be sustainable, not hasty (KoSSev)
• KP: Russian, Albanian citizens arrested in Leposavic for “illegal border crossing” (KoSSev, Kontakt plus radio, RTK2)
• New Insajder show on the murder of Oliver Ivanovic: (Not) a perfect crime (Insajder, N1)
• Von der Leyen: Next six months crucial for both EU and Western Balkans (N1)
International:
• Kosovo-Albania future: the many ‘but-s’ that follow the idea of unification (Tirana Times)
• Kosovo President May Seek Court Advice Over Political Stalemate (Balkan Insight)
• Return to Kosovo: The Serbs Who Re-Embraced Their Hometown (Balkan Insight)
• Paralysis in Pristina: poll winners struggle to form coalition govt (RFI, AFP)
Humanitarian/Development:
• ‘The rapist is you:’ Kosovo joins global anti-violence movement (Prishtina Insight)
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