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Belgrade Media Report 08 July

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STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Dacic invites ECOSOC members to donors’ conference (Tanjug)
• Vucic: We wish to join the EU, but not to the detriment of our relations with Moscow (Politika)
• Odalovic: Excavations in Rudnica should continue next week (Tanjug)
• Vekaric: Important to establish a court to investigate into KLA war crimes (Politika)
• Kosovo Serb representatives examining tactics for Kosovo Assembly constitutive session (Novosti)
• Donors’ conference for Serbia and B&H on 16 July (RTS)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Izetbegovic to be SDA candidate for B&H Presidency, Salkic candidate for RS President (Fena)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• The big Serbian information shutdown (New Internationalist)
• Russia Rushes To Seal Ukraine-Bypassing Gas Pipeline: Lavrov Pays Bulgaria A Visit (Zero Hedge)
• Izetbegovic to re-run in Bosnian presidential election (www.aa.com.tr)
Bosnia Raises New Indictments Against Wartime Fighters (BIRN)
• Bosnian Serb Soldier Acquitted of Kljuc Killings (BIRN)
• Reeling from the floods, Bosnians’ anger surfaces (DW)
• ‘Fascist’ Croatian Flag ‘Sparked Clashes with Serbs’ (BIRN)

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New Kosovo Parliament to Convene for First Time (Balkan Insight)

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Over a month after elections, the Kosovo parliament is due to convene next week, paving the way for a new government to be established after an opposition bid to rule was thwarted. Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga said on Monday that the recently-elected legislature should convene for the first time on July 17 so she can […]

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Meeting of opposition bloc ends, Kurti speaks of approximation of stances (Koha)

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The meeting between the leader of Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Isa Mustafa, that of Alliance for Future of Kosovo (AAK), Ramush Haradinaj, leader of Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA), Fatmir Limaj and of Vetevendosje, Albin Kurti. The meeting is said to have focused on issues relating to the constitution of the Kosovo Assenbly and the […]

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Xhavit Haliti: PDK will have the post of Assembly Speaker (indeksonline)

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The Chairmanship of the Assembly of Kosovo, met today to discuss the procedures of the constitutive session of the new Assembly of Kosovo. The meeting comes a day after President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, decided to call the constitutive session of the Assembly of Kosovo on 17 July. Xhavit Haliti, the outgoing Deputy Speaker of […]

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Kosovars to petition UN to investigate cases of rape (Lajmi)

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Women raped during the conflict in Kosovo are not included in the United Nations global report on sexual violence. Inclusion of Kosovo in such a report would make it easier for it to demand justice for rapes committed during the conflict. This has led to the initiative to start a petition to the UN to […]

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Dacic invites ECOSOC members to donor conference (Tanjug)

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NEW YORK – Serbia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic informed in New York on Monday the members of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) about the extent of the damage caused by the May floods in Serbia and invited them to take part in the international donor conference in Brussels on […]

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KLA Veterans: Ready to come to the aid of Albanians in FYROM (Gazeta Express)

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War Veterans of the Kosovo Liberation Army issued a press release today saying they are ready to use all their capacities to come to the aid of Albanians in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. “The problem of Albanians in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia does not date from the latest protests or by […]

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Thaci: Now I see the light at the end of the tunnel (Kosovapress)

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Hashim Thaci, the outgoing Prime Minister and leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), stated that the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Vetevendosje, Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), and NISMA have bypassed all criteria and principals by creating a “union” based on close personal interests and spite. According to him, this “union” […]

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Unity for realization of basic rights (Tribuna)

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Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu, member of the chairmanship of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), writes that the latest protests by Albanians in Skopje and other cities in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia show that more time is needed to achieve sustainable peace between people living there. “It is evident that peace cannot be achieved without […]

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Haliti: Elections are held for the sake of solutions (Tribuna)

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Xhavit Haliti, deputy speaker of the Assembly of Kosovo, writes that the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) and the Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA), “which were historically close to the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK)”, entered into a coalition with the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) and even before the certification of election results, […]

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Henri Bone: Schokenhoff visiting Serbia in order to encourage reforms promised to Berlin by Vucic (RTS)

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Director of the German Foundation Conrad Adenauer in Belgrade Henri Bone stated he sees the visit of the German MPs to Serbia, headed by Andreas Schokenhoff, as an encouragement and support to reforms of the Serbian government and society in the context of European integrations. Schokenhoff, the deputy head of the German Councilor Angela Merkel’s […]

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Scenario for electing Isa Mustafa to Assembly Speaker’s post (Gazeta Blic)

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Leader of Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Isa Mustafa, will not face a serious problem in his election as the new Speaker of Kosovo Assembly. Although the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) insists that a parliamentary group cannot be formed without the new Assembly being established, this will not prove to be a problem for […]

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