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Belgrade Media Report 07 October

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STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Drecun: Strong network of radical Islam exists in Kosovo and Metohija (Tanjug)
• Jahjaga (not) coming to Belgrade (Danas)
• Hoxhaj coming to Belgrade with an “asterisk”? (Novosti)
• Search for a mass grave near Djakovica (Politika)
• Brussels’ criticism over Kosovo (Novosti)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• B&H authorities have shown no willingness for negotiation process (Dnevni avaz)
• Mogherini: Political will is needed to solve the “FYROM” name issue (Republika/MIA)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Kosovo to Probe Suspected Mass Grave of Serbs (BIRN)
• Serb ex-paramilitaries tried in Spain for murder (Agence France-Presse)
• EU puts pressure on Serbia to stop South Stream gas pipeline (EUobserver)
• Balkans hope for South Stream (Vestnik Kavkaza)
• Montenegro’s Capital Finally Gets New Mayor (BIRN)

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Haradinaj: We don’t know what to discuss with PDK (Indeksonline)

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Ramush Haradinaj, leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), told reporters after meeting President Atifete Jahjaga today, that the coalition bloc will go to the Assembly session on Thursday with the aim of electing the Assembly Speaker. Haradinaj said a government that has lost the majority in the Assembly should resign. “Cancelling […]

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Thaci: Agreement through dialogue (Telegrafi)

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Following a meeting between Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) representatives with Kosovo President Atifete Jahjaga, PDK leader Hashim Thaci told reporters that this was another meeting in a series of consultations aimed at forming the new institutions. “We had a correct meeting. We appreciate President Jahjaga’s commitment to pave way to an agreement for the […]

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Thaci agrees with EU Progress Report (Gazeta Express)

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Hashim Thaçi, Kosovo’s outgoing Prime Minister has welcomed the EU Progress Report. “Kosovo welcomes the EU Progress Report on the process of the European integration. We expect for this report to be a realistic reflection of an intensive year and to confirm successes in the processes of fulfillment of final conditions for Stabilization Association Agreement […]

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What now?! (Gazeta Blic)

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Adrian Collaku writes in an opinion piece for the news website that in all the recent developments in Kosovo there is one thing that has not been debated and that is lessons that should be drawn and immediate need for changing the governance system and, as a result, the Constitution of Kosovo. One thing that […]

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Serb police officers protest against EULEX (Gazeta Express)

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Serb citizens from the north will protest against EULEX on Tuesday at 09:30 hours in front of the Mitrovica North court, to express dissatisfaction with the efforts of this mission to arrest former mayor of Zubin Potok, Slavisa Ristic and current mayor of this municipality, Stevan Vulovic. According to KosovaPress, many former MUP members from […]

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Kosovo to Probe Suspected Mass Grave of Serbs (Balkan Insight)

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The authorities will investigate the suspected mass grave near the town of Djakovica in Kosovo where Serbs killed by guerrillas during the late 1990s war could be buried. The Serbian war crimes prosecution and the EU rule-of-law mission in Kosovo, EULEX, have information that Serbs killed by Kosovo Liberation Army fighters at a detention camp […]

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No compromise with partners of crime and corruption (Koha Ditore)

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Publicist Enver Robelli writes that the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) has captured all institutions of Kosovo and there are two recent examples that demonstrate this situation. The first relates to the pending indictment against PDK MP, Azem Syla, by Swiss authorities on charges of abusing the country’s social welfare system and although the investigations […]

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Will the perpetrators be brought to justice ? (Blic)

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President of the Association of Djakovica/Gjakova citizens, Đokica Stanojevic, asked whether the international community will be able to provide the displaced Serbs the right to return and live in Djakovica/Gjakova. He noted that citizens were seized all rights and that they were forbidden to visit their houses, cemeteries and shrines. Stanojevic, in response to the […]

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Families of kidnapped Serbs hope to learn about their fate (B92)

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An association gathering families of Serb victims in Kosovo said it hoped that an investigation of a suspected mass grave will yield “concrete results.”  The Association of the Families of 1998-2000 Kosovo Victims warned at the same time that last year only nine people were identified from a long list of kidnapped Serbs, and this […]

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Albania does not consider the Greater Albania option (Vecernje Novosti, Danas)

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Albania supports Kosovo’s independence, but does not consider the option of so-called “Greater Albania,” says Remzi Lani, executive director of the Albanian Media Institute. – No political party in Albania stands for something like that. It’s something we hear outside Albania – said Lani for Danas daily, on the eve of the official visit of […]

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DSS condemned the statement of Marko Djuric (RTK2)

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Provincial Committee of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) for Kosovo and Metohija today condemned the statement of the Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric that Serbs and Albanians in 2025 will be allies. The committee said that such a thing cannot be said by someone who does not know the […]

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