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Belgrade Media Monitoring 12 August 2014

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STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Call for minorities to be registered in the special voters list (Danas, 12.08.2014)
• Samardzic: Serbia will need to align its policy with the EU (Danas, 11.08.2014)
• Towards Brussels according to the timetable (Vecernje Novosti, 12.08.2014)
• “Patriarch accepted invitation to visit Vatican” (Dnevnik, 12.08.2014)
• Process of approving assistance for flooded houses starts (Tanjug, 12.08.2014.)
• Banks in Serbia will send client data to U.S. authorities (B 92, 12.08.2014.)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Bosnian committed suicide attack in Iraq (Nezavisne Novine, 12.08.2014)
• Russian citizen arrested for terrorist financing (Vecernje Novosti, 11.08.2014)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Serbia Probes NIS Sale to Gazprom Neft Amid UAE Plans (Bloomberg, By Gordana Filipovic and Misha Savic – Aug 11, 2014 )
• Serbian Volunteers Destroy Ukrainian Artillery in Donetsk Region (RIA Novosti, 12 Aug 2014)
• Croats Eye Using Serbia to Skirt Russian Ban (BIRN, By Sven Milekic, 11 August 2014)
• Dip in Unemployment Cheers Croatia (BIRN By Sven Milekic, 12 Aug 14)

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Kosovo Arrests 40 Suspected Islamist Militants (WSJ)

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By Laurence Norman Updated Aug. 11, 2014 11:18 a.m. ET Kosovo launched a major operation Monday morning against suspected domestic militants who have fought in Syria and Iraq, arresting at least 40 people and seizing weapons and explosives in dozens of locations, authorities said. The move is the biggest action yet against suspected militants in […]

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Prosecution asks for international arrest warrant for Gani Geci (Koha)

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Basic Prosecution in Mitrovica asked a judge today to issue an international arrest warrant for former MP, Gani Geci, in relation to a murder in Skenderaj last week. The request was filed today after a week-long search for Geci failed to produce results. In addition, the prosecution has received information that Geci is no longer […]

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Scary undermining of the political class (Koha Ditore)

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Deputy leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), Kadri Veseli, in an opinion piece published in several media outlets calls on political parties to come together and form a sustainable government as the only guarantee for continuation of reforms, rule of law, economic development and other issues of importance for Kosovo. Veseli says that […]

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With hypocrisy against fundamentalism (Zeri)

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Editor-in-chief Arbana Xharra argues that for several years now, a group of imams in Kosovo freely preach extremist ideologies and make open calls to young men to fight in Syria. “These imams did not fall from the skies, but rather they found shelter and were even employed by the Islamic Community of Kosovo (BIK)”. Xharra […]

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Kosovo with independent international codes “SWIFT” and “IBAN” (Indeksonline)

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Kosovo Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci, said today that the Republic of Kosovo has received its international codes SWIFT and IBAN. The two codes enable easier and quicker transfer of funds, greater transparency and also provide opportunities to combat money laundering. “This is a joint result by the Central Bank, Kosovo’s commercial banks but also our […]

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From Civil Protection to Kosovo Police (Gazeta Express)

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Kosovo institutions have prepared a plan to integrate 760 Serbs, who used to work for Serbia’s parallel structures in northern Kosovo, to Kosovo institutions. These Serbs used to work for the Civil Protection, a Serbian paramilitary structure operating in Kosovo. As Kosovo does not have a similar military structure, these Serbs who were commanded by […]

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11 years have passed after children were murdered in Gorazdevac (Politika)

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It will be 11 years tomorrow after two Serb children were murdered and four were wounded in Gorazdeavac in Kosovo and Metohija, hence no one is held responsible yet for the crime. Despite the reward amounting to a million euros and a promise of UNMIK officials that, as they said, every stone will be turned […]

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Žač: Only Serbian houses without electricity (92)

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Serb returnees in village Žač in Istok/Istog Municipality in Kosovo and Metohija are left without electricity for seven days now. One of returnees in the village Žač Veljko Komatović said to Tanjug that today is the 7th day since they are left without electricity on last Tuesday, after the region suffered from the bad weather. […]

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Ceku creates army by the trick (Vecernje Novosti)

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If Pristina announcements become a true, and Kosovo army will be formed through legal shortcuts in order to avoid the ramp of Serbian MPs, the political crisis in the province would only deepen. According to calculations stipulated by the Kosovo constitution, the votes of Serbian MPs are necessary for the formation of the army and […]

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Ban Ki-moon calls for special court for KLA crimes (Vecernje Novosti)

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 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Kosovo authorities and the EU to ensure that a special court will be formed no later than early next year, which would deal with the issue of war crimes allegedly committed by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in Kosovo in 1999. “I strongly urge the Kosovo authorities, as well as […]

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Witness mentioning Thaci at the trial Drenica 2 (International Radio Serbia)

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At the trial process known as “Drenica 2”, where leaders of the terrorist KLA are charged with war crimes, a protected witness mentioned the name of outgoing Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci. “Witness A” stated before the court in northern Mitrovica that 12 KLA commanders were responsible for the prison in Likovac, where he himself […]

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