Belgrade Media Report 2 December
LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic: Situation among Serbs boiling, nobody wants to suffer Kurti’s terror (Tanjug/RTV)
• Vucic: Terrorist scum, take care… (B92)
• Vucic: EU has demonstrated anti-Serb attitude (TV Pink)
• Brnabic: EU’s shameful reaction to appointment of Nenad Rasic (RTS)
• Dacic: Pristina sabotaging efforts for compromise (Tanjug)
• Bilateral meetings of Dacic on side lines of OSCE Ministerial meeting (Tanjug/RTV)
• Dacic: We will not let Pristina’s CoE membership happen without a fight (Tanjug/Politika)
• Orlic with Varhelyi on Kosovo and Metohija (Tanjug/RTV)
• Lajcak: I’m coming to Belgrade (Tanjug/Kanal10 TV/RTV21)
• Escobar: Serbia to impose sanctions on Russia, ZSO a legally binding obligation (FoNet)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
• RS parliament elects delegates to B&H House of Peoples; SNSD to have four and SDS one delegate in B&H HoP (FTV)
• RS opposition dissatisfied with election of delegates for B&H HoP in RS parliament (BNTV)
• Inaugural session of B&H HoR held, Cavara, Zvizdic and Radmanovic elected to B&H HoR leadership (Hayat)
• FB&H HoR speaker and deputy speakers elected at FB&H House of Representatives inaugural session on Thursday (BHT1)
• Representatives in Posavina Canton Assembly elect delegates to FB&H House of Peoples (O Kanal)
• HNC Assembly elects six delegates in FB&H HoP (FTV)
• CBC Assembly elects seven out of eight delegates in FB&H HoP at inaugural session on Thursday (BHT1)
• Podzic: It is expected that allies will ask B&H to hold referendum on NATO membership (BHT1)
• Viskovic responds to Podzic: No one from level of B&H can organize referendum in RS (RTRS)
• Atlantic Council hosts online conference ‘Western Balkans’ Euro-Atlantic Future (N1)
Montenegro
• Djukanovic: Ready for dialogue, government’s adventure with attempt to introduce MNE into OB would be equal to high treason (RTCG)
• Abazovic’s government enables party-affiliated employment for over 3,500 citizens (Pobjeda)
• Konatar: Let’s choose all four Constitutional Court judges and we can agree on date for elections (CdM)
Republic of North Macedonia
• Pendarovski: Quality reforms to stop negative trends in rule of law (MIA)
• Osmani addresses panels on human trafficking and climate change at OSCE Ministerial Council (MIA)
• N. Macedonia’s OSCE chairmanship to focus on restoring peace and stability in Ukraine: minister (MIA)
Albania
• Steinmeier-Begaj: 6 December summit will illuminate the path to EU integration (Radio Tirana)
• Steinmeier in his speech in the Albanian parliament welcomes the European spirit of the Albanians (Radio Tirana)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, December 2, 2022
Albanian Language Media:
• Government: Rasic’s appointment has not violated the Constitution (media)
• “Kurti decision on Rasic right from Kosovo standpoint; north is a problem” (Express)
• Osmani calls meeting of institutional leaders after killing of pregnant woman (media)
• Haxhiu: Ministry completed its tasks; problem lies with judicial institutions (Koha)
• PDK’s Lushtaku tells Interior Minister: I was hoping you will resign (Kosovapress)
• Kosovo Police arrest Serb suspected of war crimes in 1999 (media)
• PDK deputy leader Citaku reacts to Vucic’s remarks about Kurti (media)
• Court temporarily blocks decision to reduce salaries of prosecutors and judge (media)
• Kurti: Judiciary very efficient when their case is concerned, but not with court cases (Klan)
• Suspect of the murder of the 35-year-old pregnant woman committed suicide (media)
Serbian Language Media:
• Stano: The appointment of Rasic ‘does not meet all the conditions stipulated by the Constitution’ (media)
• Vucic: The situation in Kosovo boiling, I meant everything I said about Rasic, Trajkovic and Kurti; Serbs South of Ibar close to leave the institutions (media)
• Serbia, EU sign three agreements (Tanjug)
• Foreign Minister Dacic: Vucic is right (Danas, TV Pink)
• Vucic: EU has demonstrated anti-Serb attitude (Tanjug, media)
• Serbian List: President Vucic exposed the hypocrisy of the international community towards the Serbian people in Kosovo (Kosovo Online)
• Hill: There will be no further agreements without solving the issue of the collective rights of Serbs, the US and the EU made it clear to Kurti (KoSSev)
• KP: Arrested Serb suspected of war crimes (KoSSev)
• Office for KiM: G. M. arrested when he went to report usurped property (KoSSev)
• Petkovic: The EU received the answer it deserves from Vucic (Kosovo Online)
• PM Brnabic reacted to Stano’s statement: This kind of reaction is a shame for the EU (Blic, Kosovo Online)
• Stano: Both sides urgently need to work on the return of Serbs to institutions (Tanjug, media)
• Dacic met Nuland (Tanjug)
International:
• Kosovo Must Get Real on Threat of Far-Right Extremism (BIRN)
Read More →UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, December 2, 2022
• Escobar confident that agreement on Association will be implemented (media)
• Lajcak: If parties committed, agreement can be reached within weeks (media)
• Lajcak will visit Kosovo and Serbia next week (Kanal10)
• Osmani: Membership in EU and NATO, pillar of peace and stability (media)
• Kurti to Pack: Kosovo to apply to the EU this month (media)
• Kurti: Entire chain of irresponsibility must resign (media)
• Haxhiu: Ready to resign if my responsibility for murder case is proved (teve1)
• UNMIK chief stands in solidarity with the women of Kosovo, calling for an end to gender violence (KosovaPress)
• ‘Resignation isn’t enough’: protest after murder of pregnant woman (Euronews)
• Vucic says he will not attend EU-Western Balkans summit in Tirana (media)
• “Vucic’s hysteria is failed attempt to true reasons for refusing summit” (media)
• Hasani argues Rasic’s appointment violates the Constitution (Koha)
• PDK leader Krasniqi meets Viola von Cramon (media)
• Kosovo’s Low-Quality TV Debates Deter Real Experts (Prishtina Insight)