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Belgrade Media Report 2 December 2014

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STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Vucic: Giving up from South Stream is bad news (RTS)
• Dacic: Condemn Seselj, not Serbia (RTS/Tanjug)
• Vulin to ICTY: Do not invocate misfortune! (RTS)
• Gasic and Dikovic greet Serbian peacekeeping members from Lebanon (Tanjug)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• B&H House of Peoples delegates not selected: FB&H government to be formed next year (Oslobodjenje)
• The inaugural session of the House of Representatives of FB&H: Sworn statements and election (Oslobodjenje)
• Covic: Goverment at the level of B&H meaningless without SNSD (RTRS)
• Dodik: I do not depend on the charity of Covic and Izetbegovic (Oslobodjenje)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Fears of Serbia Return to Iron Rule of Nationalism (Associated Press)
• Serbian PM: Termination of South Stream project bad news (ITAR-TASS)
• EU lashes itself as Russia shuts down South Stream (Pravda.Ru)
• In fight for influence, Russia can play good cop too (Reuters)
• Putin says will not build South Stream gas pipeline (EUobserver)
• IMF to discuss Bosnia’s frozen deal from this week (Reuters)

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Kosovo destroys thousands of seized firearms (AP)

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Associated Press, December 02, 2014 FERIZAJ, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo authorities destroyed more than 2,000 small arms and rifles as part of an ongoing effort to increase security in the Balkan country. The firearms, mostly guns, sniper rifles and AK-47 rifles, were thrown into a furnace in central Kosovo on Tuesday and melted to make […]

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Ristic is suspected of a total of 15 offenses (KoSSev)

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Slavisa Ristic, former Mayor of Zubin Potok, after five hours of questioning in the building of the Municipal Court in North Mitrovica, is in his house, where he will remain, confirmed to KoSSev, Ristic’s lawyer Ljubomir Pantovic. Ristic is suspected of a total of 15 offenses – mostly from 2011, which are grouped in two […]

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Beqiri: We have not nominated ministers yet (telegrafi)

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Beqiri: We have not divided the ministries ( Ismet Beqiri, member of the leadership of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK,) has denied the news published in the media that he will be leading with the Ministry of Culture. He stressed that no decision on the names of the ministers from LDK was made yet. […]

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Thaci’s visit to New York, delays finalizing of the PDK-LDK agreement (indeksonline)

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The leaders of the recently created coalition between the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK,) and the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK,) were excepted to finalize the agreement for the joint governance today. However, it appears that this will be postponed due to the absence of the PDK leader, Hashim Thaci. According to the sources of […]

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The mission of “fleeing” (Tribuna)

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Editor Agron Halitaj argues in his opinion piece that “it is fortunate that, 500 or more persons who are fleeing Kosovo daily are showing that they love their country although they are leaving. 50,000 persons, who according to official statistics have fled Kosovo last year and this year, chose not to damage their state, because […]

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PDK takes the posts of the Assembly Speaker and Principal Deputy of the Prime Minister (gazetablic)

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Gazeta Blic reports that after the coalition with the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK,) only two significant posts, those of the Assembly Speaker and Principal Deputy Prime Minister have remained for the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK.) Sources of portal within PDK, informed that deputy leader of this party, Hajredin Kuci, will most probably become […]

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Gasic, Dikovic welcome Serbian peacekeepers (Tanjug)

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NIS – Serbian Armed Forces troops returning from the UNIFIL multinational operation in Lebanon were given a ceremonial welcome at the Constantine the Great Airport in Nis on Tuesday. A company from the 21st Infantry Battalion of the Land Forces 2nd Brigade was welcomed by Serbian Defence Minister Bratislav Gasic and the Serbian Armed Forces […]

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The coalition agreement is postponed (Radio Kosova)

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Sources within the coalition parties, Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) told Radio Kosova that the agreement for the new government is going to be delayed due to the outgoing Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, travelling to New York. Thaci will attend the meeting of the United Nations Security Council, […]

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Usurpation of property in Kosovo part of the system (RTS)

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There is no greater progress in resolving property disputes, even after 15 years of conflict in Kosovo, in which Serbs have been the majority among the injured parties. Family Ivic from Caglavica, since 1999, was not able to come into the possession of their land. They said that Albanians two times have entered into the […]

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Kosovo Ex-Mayor Quizzed Over Policeman’s Killing (Balkan Insight)

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The Serb former mayor of the Zubin Potok municipality, Slavisa Ristic, was questioned by EU rule-of-law mission prosecutors over the murder of a Kosovo police officer in 2011. Ristic was questioned by EU rule-of-law mission, EULEX prosecutors at the basic court in Mitrovica on Monday over suspected involvement in an attack in July 2011 in […]

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Vucic, Liberman on political cooperation,situation in region (Tanjug)

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BELGRADE – Serbia’s Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic conferred in Jerusalem on Tuesday with Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman on the two countries’ political and economic cooperation. The two officials also discussed the situation in the Western Balkan region, the Serbian government office for media relations has stated. Vucic thanked Israel for its support to preservation […]

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