Belgrade Media Report 28 December
LOCAL PRESS
Brnabic in parliament: Focus on rule of law in coming period (RTS/RTV/Tanjug)
Vucic presented three main goals for the next year (B92/Tanjug)
Drecun: EU doesn’t have political capacity to force Pristina to form ZSO (Radio Belgrade)
Petkovic: We are used to attacks from Pristina, unthinkable for someone to place politics above health (RTS/Tanjug)
Belgrade and Pristina still far from converging positions (Beta)
Federici: Security in Kosovo stable (Kurir/Beta)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
B&H CEC orders recount of ballots at seven polling stations in Mostar (Nova BH)
Inzko confirms to Austrian media he could be replaced by former Agricultural Minister of
Germany Schmidt; RS officials deem it is good that Inzko leaves (ATV)
Cvijanovic believes B&H does not need High Representative (RTRS)
Ukraine reportedly demands from B&H to return Orthodox icon previously gifted to Lavrov (BHT1)
Turkovic: No formal request for determining the procedure and path of the icon from Russia to B&H was received by B&H Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Hayat)
Situation in migrant camp in Lipa on verge of humanitarian disaster (Nova BH)
Cikotic: USC authorities made situation with migrants more complicated (O Kanal)
UK to transfer military engagement from EUFOR to NATO (Nezavisne novine)
Montenegro
Krivokapic met with heads of caucuses: Dismissals of DPS staff after amending certain laws (Dan)
SDP demands registration of SPC and that property provisions remain (CdM)
Krivokapic proposed adding one more point on the agenda for parliament sitting (CdM)
Republic of North Macedonia
Zaev: We wanted to be brothers with Bulgaria, but now they want to be our fathers (Kanal 5/Republika)
Mickoski: If Bulgaria doesn’t drop its hardline demands, Macedonia needs to stop the talks and end the 2017 treaty (Republika)
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES
Alexandar Vucic: The Balkan Stream gas pipeline in Serbia is filled with gas (Neftegaz.RU)
Read More →UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, December 28, 2020
Albanian Language Media:
• COVID – 19: 181 new cases, eight deaths (media)
• Hoti discusses with Varhelyi Serbia’s illegal smuggling of anti-COVID vaccines (Koha)
• Loncar: Vucic proposed to bring Covid-19 vaccines to all communities in Kosovo at beginning of January (Indeksonline)
• Kosovo Parliament to decide on Budget 2021 today (Express)
• Recica: PDK does not have special requests for approval of the budget (RTK)
• Haradinaj-Stublla travels to Turkey (RTK)
• Quni: We will soon become members of the Adriatic Charter (Koha)
• Hoti: There are several candidates for PM in LDK, each, better than the other (RTK)
• Daka: Organising elections, a challenge (RTK)
Serbian Language Media:
• 48 new cases of Covid-19 registered in Serbian areas in Kosovo on Saturday (Kontakt plus radio)
• Vucic: Did anyone ask Ms. Haradinaj which provision of the Brussels agreement we violated with the vaccines? (Kosovo-online)
• Petkovic: Politics has no place in preserving the health of citizens (KiM radio, Kontakt plus radio, RTS, Politika)
• Petkovic: Season of hunt for Serbs is not closed even at time of pandemics (Kosovo Online)
• Loncar for Indeksonline – Vucic proposed to bring Covid-19 vaccines to all communities in Kosovo at beginning of January (KoSSev)
• Fr. Ilarion: Let us not strive for imaginary happiness because it lies in our hearts (KoSSev)
• Serbia to send Covid-19 vaccines to BiH’s Republika Srpska entity (N1)
• NATO-led KFOR: Security in Kosovo stable (BETA, N1, KIM Radio)
• Permission of “Hortikultura” needed for Serb funerals at Pristina Orthodox cemetery? (Radio KIM, Gracanica-online)
• Milorad Arlov banned to enter Kosovo (Radio KIM)
• Halimi: How to trust the Kosovo judiciary after the embarrassment with the trial for the murder of Ivanovic? (Kosovo Online, Politika)
• HLC: On Nenad Arsic’s sentence after insight and analysis of the first-instance verdict (Radio KIM)
International:
• Kosovo Protests ‘Illegal’ Arrival of COVID-19 Vaccines in North (Balkan Insight)
Read More →UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, December 28
COVID – 19: 215 new cases, 4 deaths (media)
No Kosovo-Serbia agreement without status discussion, Lajcak tells Klan Kosova
Assembly expected to vote on 2021 budget today (media)
PDK to support 2021 budget bill (media)
PDK: Governments allowed Serbia undermining Kosovo’s sovereignty (media)
Kosovo Government: No information vaccines entered by legal channels (media)
Haradinaj-Stublla: Serbia threatening Kosovo’s national security (media)
Selimi calls on judiciary to investigate vaccine delivery in the north (media)
Reshitaj questions vaccines being used in the north (media)
Kurti: Vetevendosje aims to have over 65 seats after new elections (Koha)
Police stop Serbian official from entering Kosovo (media)
Kosovo: Top politicians sent to Hague to face war charges (Balkan Insight)
2020 showed that Kosovo’s social contract needs rethinking (Prishtina Insight)