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Belgrade Media Report 28 January 2015

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STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Serbian government: Ivanovic needs to be released immediately (Tanjug/B92/Radio Serbia)
• Djuric: Protest in Pristina over bad economic situation (RTS)
• Drecun: Goal of protest in Pristina to complicate Serbia’s position (RTS/Tanjug)
• Goranis want Serbian healthcare (Novosti)
• ICTY transferring court records to MICC (Tanjug)
• Oliver (Novosti)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• The SDA and DF seek SDP support to select FBiH leadership (Oslobodjenje)
• Radmanovic: The Presidency of B&H has no constitutional jurisdiction to write the Joint statement (Srna)
• OSCE warns RS about draft on public peace and order (Tanjug/Srna)
• Montenegro rejects investments in billions of dollars for NATO and EU membership (Pobijeda)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Police, protesters fight running battles in Kosovo (Reuters)
• OSCE Condemns Attack on Journalists in Kosovo (VOA News)
• Five indicted in Kosovo on terrorism charges (Reuters)
• Imam on trial, terror arrests in Europe, Morocco (Daily Star)
• Bosnia soldiers escape censure for ‘Chetnik Ceremony’ (Balkan Insight)
• Essay: Defending the devil (The Virginia Gazette)

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UNMIK: Violence has nothing to do with the exercise of the democratic right (RTK2, Politika, Vecernje Novosti, Blic, B92, TV Most, Tanjug, Kontakt Plus Radio, IRS)

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The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in Kosovo, Farid Zarif, commended proportionate response of the police during yesterday unrest in Pristina, and said that democratic rights are not exercised through violence. UNMIK expressed concern by the recent events in Pristina city centre. Such acts have nothing to do with the exercise of the […]

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Mihajlovic: We will not give up on “Trepca” (Tanjug)

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Serbia will not give up on “Trepca” and we believe that the talks about the property should begin as soon as possible, said today Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of construction, transport and infrastructure, Zorana Mihajlovic.  “Serbia will certainly not give up the “Trepca”. The Serbian Government has shown in the last year that we […]

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Jablanovic to be dismissed this week (Lajmi)

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A senior member of the Kosovo government told the news site that Communities and Returns Minister Aleksandar Jablanovic will be dismissed this week. “Minister Jablanovic will not be dismissed because of yesterday’s protest by the opposition but because the government of Kosovo wants to avoid tensions in interethnic relations that are being provoked by certain […]

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Kosovo opposition hindering normalization of relations (Beta)

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The Chairperson of the Serbia’s parliament’s Committee for Kosovo and Metohija, Milovan Drecun, said today that intention of hindering the normalization of relations with Kosovo lays behind the Self-Determination’s protests in Pristina. “What lays behind it is either Pristina’s or someone’s else intention that process of normalization is significantly hindered and that Serbia doesn’t receive […]

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Abrashi: We understand Djuric, he needs to make big statements (Koha)

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Arban Abrashi, the spokesman for the goverment of Kosovo, reacted today to a statement by Marko Djuric, the head of the Serbian government’s office for Kosovo, on the Trepca mining complex. “We need to stress that no one will ask Serbia to give up on something that is not hers. Trepca and all its wealth […]

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AAK: We support protests and condemn violence (RTKlive)

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The leadership of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) condemned the violent acts on Tuesday’s protest. “AAK considers that the protests are a democratic tool to express the dissatisfaction of people. The requirements directed to the government are legitimate and fair. We believe that civic protests do not intend to harm the state, […]

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Nojkić: Violent protests at the expense of Kosovo (KIM Radio)

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The president of the Provincial Board of the Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO), Ranđel Nojkić, said that violent protests surprised analysts, foreign embassies and all those who monitor events in Kosovo. “The statement of Isa Mustafa who said that this would cause great damage to Kosovo was not naive, at all. On the other hand protest […]

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Veseli: There will be no riots (KosovaPress)

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Kosovo Assembly Speaker Kadri Veseli on Wednesday visited the injured people from Tuesday’s protest. Veseli said that he is happy that no one was seriously injured, while ensured everyone that the Parliament would never make decisions against the will of the Kosovo people. According to him, the debate on Trepca and other issues should return […]

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Equal opportunities in education (RTKLive)

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Kosovo’s Minister of Education, Science and Technology Arsim Bajrami attended the conference: “Best practices for children who drop out of school” organized by UNICEF and Kosovo Pedagogical Institute, within the program “On equal opportunities in education”. “The Ministry of Education in collaboration with UNICEF will work on the design of specific strategies and policies to […]

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Stojanovic: Violence prove irresponsibility of the opposition (KoSSev)

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The Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo, Branimir Stojanovic, said to KoSSev that yesterday’s violence on the streets of Pristina is a proof of irresponsibility of the Kosovo opposition which misuses the issue of Trepca and the Serbian Minister in the Kosovo government, Aleksandar Jablanovic, as an excuse for trying to overthrow the government. “I think […]

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Mustafa: Decision up to Jablanovic, his resignation maybe desirable (RTK2)

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The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa, stated yesterday that demonstrations in Pristina went out of the opposition’s original demands for resignation of the Minister for Communities and Return, Aleksandar Jablanovic, and transformation of Trepca into u public company, and assessed that it was about a political protest with the request for resignation of the […]

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