"The important construction of the highway Nis-Pristina-Durres" (KIM radio)
Merkel requests Kosovo in the UN (Blic)
McAllister: Serbia on right track to EU (Blic,Tanjug)
Lajcak: We owe opening of chapters to Serbia (Vecernje Novosti, Tanjug)
Festival "Miredita, dobar dan" kicks off in Belgrade (RTK2)
The festival "Miredita, dobar dan", presenting Kosovo’s cultural scene, kicks off today in Belgrade, second year in a row. Serbian Minister for Culture will open the festival. Maja Stojanovic, the director of the Association of Civic Initiative, which is the organizer of the festival, assessed that it is important to open topics about what happened in ’90s in Kosovo, and noticed that last year festival has attracted more media attention in Kosovo than in Belgrade.
Edi Rama fishing fools in Kosovo (Gazeta Express)
Berat Buzhala writes that Albania’s Prime Minister Edi Rama and his Serbian counterpart, Aleksandar Vucic, appear to agree on a very critical issue: denial of existence of Kosovo state. According to Buzhala, Edi Rama went to Serbia “to fish fools in Pristina.” He considers that Rama’s “patriotic” position in Belgrade last November was a weak spectacle. “I was convinced that Rama was acting.
Centuries needed for return of 200.000 Serbs (Politika)
International community is paying lesser attention to displaced from the territory of Kosovo and Metohija, whereas donors are redirecting funds to new hotspots, argues Boro Tajic from the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija (Office for Kosovo). In the 2015, until late May, only two members of Belosevic family have returned to Kosovo and Metohija, whereas officials claim that the figure is 4.000 and that it is about ‘sustainable return’. It is becoming evident that unless something is drastically changed, concretely if Pristina and international
A month of Pristina in Belgrade (Kontakt Plus Radio)
A festival ‘A month of Pristina in Belgrade’ kicks off today in the Serbian capital and will last until 26 June, said organizers. Young movie and theater artists, writers, painters, musicians and other artists and activists from Kosovo will be offered a chance to present their work to their colleagues in Serbia. The festival is organized by the Helsinki Committed for Human Rights in Serbia in cooperation with the Liberal Democratic Center from Pristina.
Wilhelm: Kosovo issue needs to be resolved (B92)
German Ambassador to Serbia Heinz Wilhelm stated that Germany wants negotiation chapters with Serbia to open as soon as possible and that issue of Kosovo has to be settled.