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Belgrade Media Report 9 December 2014

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STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Vucic: Nobody is asking us to recognize Kosovo (Tanjug)
• Berlin sends 11 conditions to Serbia (Novosti)
• Conflict in Serb List regarding distribution of posts in Kosovo government (Politika)
• Bad timing for Nikolic’s truth (Politika)
• OSCE: Still no solution for return of IDPs to Kosovo (Tanjug)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• The CEC: Verified five lists of candidates from the RS for the state House of Peoples (Fena)
• The Constitutional Court issued a judgment in favor of Niksic and Krajina (Srna)
• Izetbegovic received Yee (Oslobodjenje)
• Two former Bosnian Army members arrested for war crimes (Tanjug)
• The attempted assassination of Imam Beganovic for criticizing the Wahhabis (Dnevni avaz)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• IOC grants full Olympic recognition to Kosovo (AP)
• Termination of South Stream is bad news – Serbian PM (Famagusta Gazette)
• Russian, Serbian PM discuss energy cooperation following South Stream freeze
• Economy (TASS)
• Macedonia’s New Monuments ‘Fuel Ethnic Divisions’ (BIRN)
• Montenegro expects stronger economic support from the EU (New Europe)
• Montenegrins Trust President and Church, Survey Shows (BIRN)
• Four Hopefuls Compete for Croatian Presidency (BIR)

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Thaci to hand over his duties to Mustafa on Friday (indeksonline)

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Hashim Thaci, the outgoing Prime Minister of Kosovo, has decided to hand over his duties to the just-elected Prime Minister, Isa Mustafa, on Friday. “We inform all media that Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi shall hand over the office to the newly elected Prime Minister of the Government of the Republic of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, on […]

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Thaci meets Lunacek (Koha)

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Hashim Thaci, Principal Deputy to the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Kosovo, hosted today Urlike Lunacek, the Deputy President of the  European Parliament and Deputy Head of the Delegation for Bosnia and Herzegovina and  Kosovo. They discussed Kosovo’s European perspective. “We confirmed once again at this meeting our determination for the European perspective of […]

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Russia and the West request from Serbia to bring decision (Blic)

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From the moment relations between the West and Russia became more harsh and started to resemble to the renewal of the Cold War, increased the pressures from both sides on Serbia to choose the side. The battle over the “South Stream” project and the crisis in Ukraine brought us in the center of the fight, […]

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Valdete Daka: We are ready for elections in Gracanica (Gazeta Express)

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The Municipality of Gracanica is expected to hold extraordinary elections within 45 days, being that Branimir Stojanovic, mayor of this municipality holds now the post of the Deputy Prime Minister. Valdete Daka, head of the Central Election Commission (CEC,) said for Radio Dukagjini that CEC is ready for these elections. “These are extraordinary elections, and […]

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Government in co-production (Danas)

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Exactly six months after the early parliamentary elections of Kosovo, Pristina yesterday inaugurated the new Assembly of Kosovo. Elected President of the Assembly is an official of the PDK, Kadri Veseli, a former chief of the Intelligence Service of the KLA, known as SHIK. At the time of this commentary it was expected that the parliament […]

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Recycled government (Kosova Sot)

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In its front-page editorial, the paper today writes that Monday put an end to speculations on who will lead the new government of Kosovo and also proved that the two largest parties, the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), were not immune to narrow interest groups and chose 14 “recycled” […]

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Berlin sent 11 new conditions (Vecernje Novosti)

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The Brussels conditions for opening the chapter 35 relating to the normalization of relations with Kosovo, based on which should begin negotiations with the EU, are almost “impossible” for Serbia, because many of them go deep into the status of Kosovo. Moreover, together with 11 requests from Brussels arrived even list of recommended responses, which […]

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New Kosovo Government elected (Koha)

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With 73 votes in favour, 38 against, and 2 abstentions, Kosovo Assembly elected the new Government led by Isa Mustafa. The Government of Kosovo will consist of: Isa Mustafa, prime minister Hashim Thaçi – first deputy prime minister Kujtim Shala – deputy prime minister Branimir Stojanovic – deputy prime minister PDK 1. Ministry of Foreign […]

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EU welcomes the constitution of the Assembly (Radio Kosova)

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Radio Kosova reports that the European Union Office in Kosovo and heads of missions of EU Member States present in Kosovo, through a press statement, welcomed the constitution of the Kosovo Assembly and congratulated Prime Minister Isa Mustafa on the appointment of the new government. “There are many challenges ahead of Kosovo, from pursuing political […]

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International Anti-Corruption Day marked in Kosovo (Radio Kosova)

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On the International Anti-Corruption Day [9 December], head of Kosovo Anti-Corruption Agency, Hasan Preteni, said that the year 2014 has not shown any significant progress in fight against corruption in Kosovo. Radio Kosova reports that according to Preteni, the Transparency International Report and Progress Report are unpleasant signals for Kosovo. “The field of combating corruption […]

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Petrovic: Selection of Jasmina Zivkovic breach of agreement (KoSSev, RTK2)

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The leader of the SLS, Slobodan Petrovic said that the selection of Jasmina Zivkovic as Vice President of the Assembly of Kosovo is breach of agreement reached within the Serbian list and that this function should belong to him. Expressing dissatisfaction over the election of Jasmina Zivkovic as Vice President of the Assembly in front […]

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