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Belgrade Media Report 19 January 2015

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STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Vucic: Voting on Trepca postponed (RTS)
• Sertic: State of Serbia undisputed owner of Trepca (RTS)
• Djuric: Confiscation of Trepca undermines Brussels agreement’s foundations (RTS)
• Vulin: Serbia will never renounce Kosovo and Metohija (Tanjug)
• Families of kidnapped send letter to OSCE (Tanjug)
• European Parliament: Serbia to harmonize foreign and security policy with EU, including the policy towards Russia (Tanjug)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Dodik: Dzaferovic cannot be the head of the Parliament (Srna/OBN)
• To prepare the laws as soon as possible (Srna)
• Kebo to show evidence Izetbegovic brought mujahedeen to B&H (Srna/Press)
• New Croatian President writes to UN chief about Seselj (Tanjug/Beta’s Zagreb correspondent)
• Steinmeier and Hammond: EU once more reached out to B&H, and it is a chance that will not present itself again (Fena)
• Lars-Gunnar Wigemark the new head of the EU Delegation to B&H (Vijesti)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Kosovo backtracks on bid to take control of mining giant (Reuters)
• Belgrade, London discuss region, Serbia’s EU path (New Europe)
• Saving Bosnia’s past from the ashes (BBC)

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Controversial draft law on Trepca withdrawn (Tanjug,B92)

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PRISTINA, BELGRADE — The assembly of Kosovo will not discuss a law concerning the Trepca mining complex on Monday, it has been announced in Pristina.  It was initially reported today that Trepca was removed at the last moment from the draft law on public companies, prepared last week by the Kosovo government with the goal […]

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Zbogar asks for an “internal solution” for Trepca (Kallxo.com)

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The head of the European Union Office in Kosovo, Samuel Zbogar said on Monday that the dispute over Trepca mining complex should be resolved within the Kosovo institutions, with the participation of Serbs who are present in the government and Parliament.  According to Kallxo.com, Zbogar said that it is in everyone’s interest to prevent the […]

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Trepca debts “sober up” the Government, Assembly to reconvene in the afternoon (Koha online)

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Today’s meeting of the Assembly of Kosovo started with almost one and a half hour delay, and closed only ten minutes later, with an announcement that an extraordinary meeting of the legislation will be held at 14:00 hours. In the meantime, the Prime Minister, Isa Mustafa and his Deputy, Hashim Thaci, gathered with respective Ministers […]

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Kosovo police is not investigating attacks on Serbs ( Kontakt Plus Radio)

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Kosovo Police is ex officio obliged to conduct an investigation for endangering the safety of citizens. However, when it comes to the case of stoning buses with the Serbs from “Ðakovica /Gjakova, there is no investigation.  Serbs from Ðakovica/Gjakove said that every year when they go to their hometown (last nine years) the same persons […]

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A dangerous overture (Zeri)

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The paper’s editor-in-chief, Arbana Xharra, considers that the weekend’s protest in Gjakova/Djakovica against the Serbian Minister in the Kosovo government, Aleksandar Jablanovic, can very easily move to in front of the government building in Pristina if the Prime Minister, Isa Mustafa, continues to tolerate Jablanovic’s behavior. Xharra claims that Jablanovic’s insult to the mothers of […]

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They don’t know or they don’t want to know about massacres in Kosovo? (Koha Ditore)

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The paper’s Brussels-based correspondent and columnist, Augustin Palokaj, writes that the “scandalous” statement of the Kosovo government’s minister, Aleksandar Jablanovic, that he was not aware that Serb forces committed massacres in Kosovo, is a serious problem that shows how Serbian politicians and society continue to deny responsibility for crimes committed in the territory of former […]

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New mayor should focus on better life of citizens (KIM Radio)

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“We are all clear that in the past few months we had a lot of challenges and problems. I expect that the new mayor will have much more success in the implementation of the projects and objectives that will ensure a better life for our citizens,” said Slobodan Petrovic, leader of the Independent Liberal Party. […]

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Peaceful protests in northern Kosovo have ended: Kosovo government proposed withdrawal of the Law on Public Enterprises (KoSSev, RTK2, TV Most)

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Kosovo government decided on today’s session to withdraw the proposal of the draft amendments to the Law on Public Enterprises from the assembly’s agenda. The government also decided that new Law on Trepča should be drafted instead in order that all issues related to the company, which is one of the most important economic subjects […]

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Vucic: There are shifts with regard to Trepča (Beta,Alo)

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Prime Minister of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, today said that debate in the Kosovo parliament over the ownership structure of Trepča Company is delayed for 21 January, what comes as result of efforts invested by the Serbian Government in addressing the problem. Vucic said to journalists at the Palace of Serbia that intensive talks were held […]

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Kosovo with only 14.8 percent of female managers (Koha)

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According to a study published by the International Labour Organization (ILO), Kosovo has only 14.8 percentage participation of women in managerial positions. Better than Kosovo is Albania, with 22 percent of women participation in business. ILO Director Deborah France-Massin, says there is a long way to achieve true gender equality in the workplace, especially when […]

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President Jahjaga received the leaders of the institutions for the rule of law, justice and European integration (Koha online)

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The President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, received today the leaders of the responsible institutions for the rule of law, justice and European integration, the Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr. Skender Hyseni, the Minister of Justice, Mr. Hajredin Kuçi, the Minister of European Integration, Mr. Bekim Çollaku, the Chairman of the Kosovo Judicial Council, Mr. Enver […]

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