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Belgrade Media Report 29 April 2024

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United Nations Office in Belgrade

Daily Media Highlights

Monday 29 April 2024

LOCAL PRESS

• Vucic, South American Ambassadors discuss UN draft Srebrenica resolution (Tanjug/RTS/RTV)
• Dodik asks Vucic to hold Serb people’s rally after adoption of resolution on Srebrenica (Beta)
• Dacic: UN General Assembly to hold urgent session on Bosnia at Russia’s request (Beta/N1)
• Brnabic meets with Mexican Ambassador to Belgrade (Tanjug)
• Serbia’s determination to build the best possible relations with Tanzania (Tanjug)
• Dacic: Serbia to get new government over the holidays (TV Pink)
• Why did the Germans and the USA postpone the statement on the resolution on Srebrenica (Novosti)
• Brnabic says cabinet will be formed by 6 May, calls elections most serious so far (TV Prva)
• Jovanovic: Vucic’s and Hill’s elections on 2 June (TV Nova S)
• Djilas: SSP will not call on citizens to boycott elections (Nova)
• Tepic: We naively believed we could do anything in ‘pre-stolen elections’ (N1)
• Lazovic: Decision to run in elections does not mean surrender (Beta)
• Opposition party Together says will not run in local elections on 2 June (Beta)

REGIONAL PRESS

Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Konakovic announces request of payment of war damages from Serbia (ATV)
• Holocaust expert Zuroff says that resolution on Srebrenica should not be supported because labelling Srebrenica as genocide further weakens importance of that term (ATV/Times of Israel)
• Dodik: There is no extraordinary situation in B&H, RS and FB&H created B&H (Face TV)
• Nesic: If there was no respecting of competencies, RS is ready to exist as an independent state (Dnevni list)
• Statement of Israel Ambassador to Serbia denying genocide provokes reactions (N1/Nova BH)
• Despite insisting of US Ambassador, FB&H government still has not sent proposal of law on ‘Southern Interconnection’ gas pipeline to FB&H parliament for adoption (Oslobodjenje)
Croatia
• Post-election negotiations to continue (HRT)
Montenegro
• 35 members of Montenegrin parliament call on government of Montenegro to make decision without further delay on co-sponsorship of proposal for resolution on genocide in Srebrenica (AJB)
• Jaksic: False claims about UN resolution on Srebrenica do not have potential to fuel tensions in the region (MINA)
Republic of North Macedonia
• Kovachevski expects mass turnout on 8 May, support for Pendarovski from all citizens (MIA)
• Kasami: Worth It coalition as partner in next government ‘already announced’ (MIA)
Albania
• Minister Hasani attends Conference on “Autonomous Weapon Systems and the Challenge of Regulation” in Vienna (Radio Tirana)

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UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, April 29, 2024

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UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, 29 April, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti call with Scholz, asks for support for Council of Europe bid (media)
• Tahiri: Association is not a condition for CoE; govt must be careful (media)
• Muja: I believe Kosovo has met all conditions to become CoE member (EO)
• Statistics Agency: Serbs in north resist to register, those in the south not (RFE)
• Bislimi: We are always vigilant, always calculate worst possible scenario (media)
• Von Cramon: Reason for EU measures against Kosovo no longer exists (Kallxo)
• “EU must immediately lift measures against Kosovo” (Kosovapress)
• Kurti remembers 376 killed in Meja and buried in Batajnica mass grave (media)

Serbian Language Media: 

• Office for KiM says Kurti’s regime responsible for surge of violence against Serbs (media)
• Serbian List reacts to the latest incidents targeting Serbs (media)
• Kosovo Central Bank decision made lives of Serbs difficult (Blic, Kosovo Online)
• Arlov handed over scholarships to children from Kosovo at Jarinje crossing point (Kosovo Online)
• Elshani: Prosecution informed of audio recording with Radomirovic (Kosovo Online, Novosti)
• Chinese President Xi Jinping coming to Serbia in May (N1)
• Lawyer: Pristina needs to deliver autopsy report for Serbs killed in Banjska (Kosovo Online)

Opinion:

• Baerbock: Showing courageous responsibility for our Europe (media)

International:

• Kosovo-Serbia Declaration on Missing Persons Remains Unimplemented (BIRN)
• Slovenia President Backs Predecessor as New Kosovo-Serbia Envoy (BIRN)
• British man, 53, is ‘wrongly’ detained in ‘hellhole’ prison for war crimes dating back to 1999 after being rounded up by police while trying to cross over into Croatia (Daily Mail)

Humanitarian/Development:

• Petition launched for draft law on suicide prevention in Kosovo (RFE)

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UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, April 29, 2024

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Albanian Language Media:
• Kusari-Lila: Association draft to court, not a condition before vote at Committee of Ministers (EO)
• Knaus shares part of Kurt’s speech in Berlin: He said he cannot impose QUINT draft statute on Serbs (Albanian Post)
• Martens: Berlin, Paris intend to postpone vote for CoE membership (Albanian Post)
• Haxhiu: CoE membership paves way for justice for war crimes (media)
• Kryeziu reacts to SL: Cameras in north are in service of public security (media)
• “Nearly 900,000 citizens registered so far, Serbs in north remain hesitant” (Klan)
• Tahiri: Kurti to explain why Serbia remains unpunished even after Banjska (EO)

Serbian Language Media:
• Two Serbs beaten up in Bosniak mahala, Mitrovica North, three Albanians arrested (Tanjug, N1, media)
• Three Albanians arrested, two more identified and one looked for, in relation to attack against Serb young man in Mitrovica North (KoSSev, media)
• Lawyer: Bosniak arrested at Brnjak crossing point over alleged war crimes sent to one-month detention (Kosovo Online)
• Kosovo police started installing security cameras in Mitrovica North, Serbian List demands their removal (KoSSev, media)
• Will holders of “second class“ travel documents, who cannot obtain Kosovo ones, finally get good news? (KoSSev)
• Vucic: Good discussion with Ashton about Serbia’s future, place in world (Tanjug)
• Pahor preparing new proposal for Pristina-Belgrade dialogue (N1)
• Serbia to receive €1.6 billion from EU’s Growth Plan for Western Balkans (N1, RTS)
• Kurti surprised with State Department’s report on human rights in Kosovo (N1, BETA)

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