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Belgrade Media Report 04 March

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LOCAL PRESS

• Vucic: There is no big plan and agreement for Kosovo (RTS/Tanjug)
• Brnabic: Serbian diplomacy has every right to ask countries to withdraw their recognition of Kosovo (Beta/Politika)
• Vucic slates regular parliamentary elections for 26 April (RTS/Beta)
• Pastor slates provincial elections for 26 April (Beta/Politika)
• Gojkovic slates local elections for 26 April (Tanjug/RTS/Beta)

REGIONAL PRESS

Bosnia & Herzegovina
• New Sarajevo Canton government appointed (FTV)
• Dodik: B&H CC is just called B&H CC, this is occupation court that wants to create new political system (RTRS)
• Muratovic: If OHR fails to act, Chairman of B&H Presidency has right to address UN SC and asks for OHR to secure implementation of DPA (Dnevni avaz)
• Radoncic: My first responsibility is to defend sovereignty of B&H and B&H citizens and then care about migrants (N1)
• Number of migrants in B&H is expected to increase to 10,000 (O Kanal)
• Western Balkan countries should jointly protect borders of Western Balkans (ATV)
Croatia
• Plenkovic: We all stand in solidarity with Greece (Hina)
Montenegro
• Is Montenegro braced for a large wave of migrants? (CDM)
Republic of North Macedonia
• Coalition with Besa – the beginning of the end of SDSM? (Republika/Netpress)
• Dimitrov: If there is no decision on negotiations, the EU will send a bad signal to the region (Republika/Slobodna TV)

INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Serbia Keeps Pressure on Kosovo Despite Western Push for Thaw (Bloomberg News)
• Serbian President Sets Election Date as Boycott Threat Fades (Bloomberg News)

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UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, March 04, 2020

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Albanian Language Media:

• In absence of Assembly session, Thaci to hold press conference (media)
• Osmani: Request for Assembly session should be made days in advance (media)
• Thaci says meeting with Vucic was ‘encouraging’ (media)
• Hoti: Kosovo government’s agenda only successful with U.S. and EU coordination (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Vucic: ”News on Belgrade-Pristina deal being reached is false” (B92)
• Grenell resigns as ambassador to Germany: White House announced his resignation (Serbian media)
• An unannounced guest at a meeting with Vucic, Grenell retweeted (Tanjug, B92, Blic)
• Judah: We could be approaching a crunch point in KOS-SRB dialogue, land swap talks without recognition (KoSSev)

Opinion:

• Wolves In The Woods: Liberal Democracy And Its Enemies (Balkan Insight)

International:

• Serbian President Sets Election Date as Boycott Threat Fades (news.yahoo.com, bloomberg.com)
• Field Missing: Discrepancies and Gaps Plague Kosovo’s Public Data (Balkan Insight)
• Serbia Keeps Pressure on Kosovo Despite Western Push for Thaw (Bloomberg)
• Territory, Energy, Politics: Serbia’s Long-Running Border Disputes (Balkan Insight)

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UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, March 4

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• Thaci-Vucic meeting to move dialogue from Brussels to Washington (Koha)
• Kurti invites Thaci to a meeting (media)
• Kurti spoke on the phone to Grenell and O’Brien (Kallxo)
• “President leads Kosovo’s foreign policy” (Zeri)
• Engel: The main problem for Kosovo is Serbia not the tariff (Epoka e Re)
• Konjufca requests relieving seven ambassadors of duty (media)
• Citaku expresses readiness to leave ambassadorial post to U.S. (media)
• Reka: No visa liberalisation without results in corruption fight (KP/Telegrafi)

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