Belgrade Media Report 23 July 2020
United Nations Office in Belgrade
Daily Media Highlights
Thursday 23 July 2020
LOCAL PRESS
Vucic: They want the same, they want an independent Kosovo (RTS/B92)
Vulin thanks Botsan-Kharchenko on Russia’s active support and principled stand in preserving Serbia’s territorial integrity and sovereignty (RTV)
Bujanovac, Albanian parties independently form government (RTS)
Expert teams of Belgrade and Pristina in Brussels (Tanjug/RTV)
NATO Week in Belgrade: Only nine percent of people support membership (N1)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Vucic: Serbia motherland of all Serbs worldwide (Srna)
B&H CEC calls on B&H CoM to urgently react and secure money for local elections, otherwise they will not be held on 15 November (Nova BH)
Stabilization and Association Parliamentary Committee adopts Rules of Procedure after five years (FTV)
Roth: Balkans is not backyard, but central courtyard of EU (Nezavisne)
Croatia
Tenth parliamentary Assembly sworn in (HRT)
Montenegro
Pazin: Government proposal was the end line of compromise (CDM)
Brajovic: We can only accept dialogue about the implementation of the law (CDM)
Markovic: Claiming that the government is working on converting Montenegrins into Catholicism is nonsense (CDM)
Republic of North Macedonia
Ahmeti invited to testify at The Hague-based Specialist Prosecutor’s Office (MIA)
Pendarovski to hold consultations with parties before giving mandate to form gov’t (MIA/TV 21)
Albania
SP and parliamentary opposition: 5 June agreement to be voted on 23 July, lists to open on 30 July (Radio Tirana)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
ANALYSIS – Corona elections in North Macedonia produce ambivalent results (Anadolu Agency)
Read More →UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, July 23, 2020
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, July 23, 2020
Albanian Language Media:
• COVID-19: 181 new cases, eight deaths (media)
• Lajcak meets Hyseni and Djuric (RTK)
• Hoti: Technical dialogue is over, today the dialogue for mutual recognition starts (RTK)
• Assembly endorses five international agreements (media)
• Assembly does not endorse neither LVV’s nor PDK’s resolutions on COVID-19 (media)
• Heldt: I leave a major piece of luggage in Kosovo (media)
• Geci: I was warned from Brussels that my life is in danger (Telegrafi)
• Hoti meets Telecom trade union representatives, promises solution (media)
Serbian Language Media:
• 21 new cases of Covid-19 infection in Serb areas in Kosovo (Kosovo-online)
• Janjic: The topic of today’s talks between Belgrade and Pristina is not recognition (NMagazin, TV Prva)
• Vucic: Two new Covid-19 hospitals; Something strange in the region; New government by the end of August (media)
• Anniversary of killing of 14 Serb harvesters in Staro Gracko marked (Kosovo-online)
• Serbian DefMin Vulin discusses military cooperation with Russian ambassador (N1, Beta)
• WHO Director: Coronavirus trend in Balkans and South Europe worrying (FoNet, RTS, N1)
• Damon Wilson: Russia wants status quo in Kosovo (RFE)
• “No serious negotiations without USA and Russia, there’ll be none in a hundred years” (B92)
• NATO Week in Belgrade: Only nine pct of people support membership (N1)
• KOMS: 36 percent of young people think de-recognition campaign on Kosovo should continue (KoSSev)
• Covic: The only capital of the Albanian nation is Tirana (Radio Mitrovica Sever, TV Most)
Opinion:
• Why the opinion of the International Court of Justice did not put a seal on Kosovo’s independence (KoSSev)
• A fork in the road for Serbia (euobserver.com)
International:
• Questions Shadow Kosovo’s Financial Support for War Suspects (Balkan Insight)
• Hague Prosecutors Summon North Macedonia’s Albanian Leader (Balkan Insight)
• Turkish-Financed Mosque Sparks Rival Protests in Kosovo (Balkan Insight)
• Kosovo Court Ruling Pushes Telecom Closer to Bankruptcy (Balkan Insight)
Humanitarian/Development:
• Asylum Outsourced: McKinsey’s Secret Role in Europe’s Refugee Crisis (Balkan Insight)
Read More →UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, 23 July
• COVID-19: 241 new cases, six deaths (media)
• Newly founded COVID-19 advisory board holds first meeting (media)
• Haradinaj: Thaci will resign if indictment is confirmed (Klan Kosova)
• Hoti’s delegation of dialogue powers to Hyseni, deemed unconstitutional (Koha)
• Wilson: Russia wants a status quo in Kosovo (Radio Free Europe)
• Limaj: We cannot have dialogue with Serbia without all leaders at table (T7)
• Haradinaj-Stublla: Agreement with Serbia needs U.S. leadership (media)
• Mothers’ Cries: Do not rush in finalising talks with Serbia (media)
• Ali Ahmeti summoned as witness by Specialist Chambers (media)
• KLA associations demand resignation of EP rapporteur (media)
• Vucic: I expect greater engagement by the U.S. in the dialogue (Lajmi)
• Board of Kosovo Telecom resigns over Z-mobile dispute (Prishtina Insight)