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Belgrade Daily Media Highlights 4 April

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STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Drecun: Normalization of relations with Pristina (RTS)
• NATO: Kosovo air space open for traffic; Hungary controlling flights (Tanjug)
• Davenport: Serbia to support EU stand on Ukraine (Tanjug)
• Zeman: A dangerous process of redrawing borders started with Kosovo (Politika)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Radmanovic: RS for strict implementation of Dayton (Nezavisne novine)
• Nimetz prepares new proposal for settlement of name dispute (Vecer)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• EU to fund court for Kosovo organ harvesting probe (Associated Press)
• Serbian Govt Takes Over Another Media Outlet (BIRN)
• Serbia sentences two for car bombing of Croat journalist (Agence France-Presse)
• MEDIA: Arkan Bodyguard Shot Dead in Belgrade (BIRN)
• Sarajevo auxiliary bishop calls Bosnia an ‘artificial state’ (ANSAmed)
• Macedonia’s State Election Commission approves order of appearance of parties in ballot paper (Focus Information Agency)
• Macedonia Campaigns Started Too Soon, OSCE Says (BIRN)
• Montenegro PM’s Foes Complain to US Vice President (BIRN, by Dusica Tomovic, 3 April 2014)

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Drecun: To normalize relations with Pristina (RTS)

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The new government will have to deal with all the problems that exist in our society, and one of the key problems is the process of normalizing relations between Belgrade and Pristina, said Milovan Drecun to RTS. President of Serbia Tomislav Nikolic will propose the SNS leader Aleksandar Vucic for prime minister, confirmed the adviser […]

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Jevtić on return and cooperation with the Mayor of South Mitrovica (RTV Puls)

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Return of Serbs to village Svinjare and problems surrounding construction of houses in suburb Brđani in North Mitrovica were main topics at the meeting which took place yesterday between the Minister for Return and Communities Dalibor Jevtić and Mayor of South Mitrovcia Agim Bahtiri. Bahtiri expressed readiness to cooperate in the process of return of […]

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Thaci: We were fortunate that the justice was led by internationals (Telegrafi)

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Prime Minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, said today that Kosovo is ready to face any challenges in its justice system. He said Kosovo was fortunate that the justice system in the last fifteen years was led by internationals, first by UNMIK and now by EULEX. “It is time to clearly define that Kosovo has now […]

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EU to Fund Court for Kosovo Organ Harvesting Probe (AP)

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PRISTINA, Kosovo April 4, 2014 (AP) PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A senior European Union official says the 28-member bloc plans to set up an international tribunal in the Netherlands that would focus exclusively on crimes allegedly committed by Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian rebels during their war with Serbia in 1998-1999. The official told The Associated Press […]

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Krasniqi: There is no official document about the issue of Tribunal (Radio Kosova)

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Kosovo Assembly Speaker, Jakup Krasniqi says that he did not received any official document that would have to be dealt from the Assembly, regarding Tribunal that would try supposed KLA crimes. He requested more details about this request. Krasniqi made this statement after the meeting with his counterpart from Albania, Ilir Meta, who said that […]

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Hoxhaj in Lithuania, seeks support for SAA and visas (Telegrafi)

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After Brussels, Kosovo Foreign Minister Enver Hoxhaj has travelled to Lithuania on an official visit. In a meeting with his Lithuanian counterpart Linas Linkevicius, Hoxhaj said that Kosovo’s short-term objective is signing the Stabilization and Association Agreement, visa liberalization and membership in NATO Partnership for Peace programme. Linkevicius is reported to have hailed the progress […]

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Moore: Decision on EULEX should be taken from Assembly on this mandate (RTK)

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In an exclusive interview for RTK, US State Department Director for Central and East Europe, Jonathan Moore, said EULEX has a future in Kosovo and one of the steps that should be undertaken from the Assembly in this current mandate is precisely the decision about EULEX new mandate. “Kosovo is not special with regards to […]

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Airspace over Kosovo opens for traffic (Akter)

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Upper airspace of Kosovo, at the altitude higher than 8.700 meters, will be opened for civil flights today, after 15 years, in line with the agreement reached in 2013. According to the agreement, Hungarian air traffic control Hungarocontrol will be in charge for air control, whereas Kosovo remains within the administrative boundaries of Belgrade’s Flight […]

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4 April – International Day of Mine Awareness (RFE/Telegrafi)

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Today is the International Day of Mine Awareness which aims to raise awareness about landmines and progress toward their eradication. United Nations have declared 4 April as International Day for Mine Awareness eon 8 December 2005 and it was first observed in 2006. It called for continued efforts by states, with assistance from the UN […]

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Ilir Meta to begin a two-day visit to Kosovo today (Telegrafi)

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Assembly of Albania Speaker, Ilir Meta, has arrived last night in Pristina and will begin his official two-day visit today. Meta will first meet Kosovo Assembly Speaker, Jakup Krasniqi, and then Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci. Meta will pay respects to the resting place of the late president, Ibrahim Rugova, and to the Jasharaj memorial complex […]

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Take it to the end! (Kosova Sot)

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The paper’s front-page editorial notes that the prosecution has finally decided to tackle suspected corruption affairs in Pristina municipality. “The arrest of an entire municipal department is a sign that officials, former officials and other people with ties to the construction mafia could be brought to justice. Several members of the municipal assembly had already […]

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