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Belgrade Media Monitoring 29 January 2015

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STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Djuric: Pristina to use recent unrest as an excuse for non-implementation of Brussels agreements (Radio Belgrade)
• Obradovic: Rights of Serbs and other non-Albanians are not respected in Kosovo and Metohija (RTS/Radio Serbia)
• Trifunovic: We expect light to be shed on the fate of the missing (Tanjug)
• Humanitarian Law Center: Dikovic involved in war crimes (B92/Beta)
Ker-Lindsay: Nikolic’s platform will be ignored in Brussels (Danas)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Dodik: RS preparing set of laws as response to EU suggestions (Oslobodjenje)
• B&H makes progress in economic freedom (Oslobodjenje)
• Boris Tucic: Pitiful to treat arms exports as political issue (Srna)

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• Freedom House Moves Kosovo up – Bosnia, Macedonia Down (BIRN)
• Karadzic Demands Internet Access in Detention (BIRN)

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Education sector to hold a one-day strike tomorrow (Gazeta Blic)

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A Kosovo-wide strike of the education sector has been announced for tomorrow, head of the education trade unions Rrahman Jashari confirmed. He said that all primary and secondary schools, including the University of Pristina, will observe the strike as a sign of protest over the failure of the Kosovo government to implement the entire Collective Contract. […]

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EU Office to support women in Mitrovica (Zeri)

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The Initiative on Agricultural Development in Kosovo (IADK) has started the implementation of a project supported by the European Union Office in Kosovo, to help widows in Mitrovica, especially those without any financial support. The Executive Director of the IADK, Zenel Bunjaku, said that widows will be trained on how to prepare food, and after that, they […]

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Thaci: The more stones the opposition hurls, the fewer votes it will have (Indeksonline)

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Kosovo’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hashim Thaçi, said in an interview for Tirana-based television Top Channel that political battles in a democracy need to be fought inside the institutions and not in the streets. He said no one has justified the controversial statement of the Serbian Minister Aleksandar Jablanovic but added […]

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Serbs in fear of demonstrations in Pristina (Politika)

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Political consequences of the Tuesday’s violent demonstrations in Pristina are twofold. Most important shot-term consequence is an adamant request for resignation of the Minister for Communities and Return in the Kosovo government, Aleksandar Jablanovic, because he called protestors in Đakovica, who prevented the passage of buses with displaced Serbs, savages. He later apologized. The second […]

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Deda: Jablanović must go (Blic)

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MP of the opposition Self-determination Movement Ilir Deda said that the protests in Kosovo are not directed against Serbs. Still, Minister for Communities and Returns in the Kosovo government Aleksandar Jablanović “must resign” and that is clear to all political factors in Kosovo.  Deda has announced that the opposition protests in Kosovo will be discontinued […]

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Jagland: Long journey of Kosovo to Council of Europe membership (Vecernje Novosti)

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The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjorn Jagland, said in his interview to Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti that Pristina’s request for a membership in that organization has not been received in Strasbourg, and even if that would be the case, a journey to eventual membership would be a long one. When asked how […]

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Exercises for “Democracy and state” exam” (Koha Ditore)

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Adriatik Kelmendi writes that Kosovo government and opposition had their chance to use each other in order to draw the red line for Belgrade’s destabilizing impact in Kosovo “and to end the Jablanovic episode. However, he continues to be a Minister of Kosovo government considering for his chief the Prime Minister of Serbia, and using […]

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Nikolic’s platform will be ignored in Brussels (Danas)

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With regard to Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic’s formulation of a new platform for Kosovo, a senior research fellow on the politics of south east Europe at the London School of Economics, James Ker-Lindsay, claims that ‘it won’t have the effect’. “If it doesn’t mean that Serbia is called to recognize Kosovo as an independent state, […]

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Collaku: Kosovo expects good news from EU by December (Koha)

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Minister of European Integration Bekim Collaku said in an interview for the Austrian paper Der Standard that the Agreement on Stabilisation and Association (SAA) with the EU is in the process of being translated and once completed, “we expect to sign it.” “We believe this will happen very soon. In April or May,” said Collaku. […]

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Kurti is toppling Kosovo government, not me (Vecernje Novosti)

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“Request for my dismissal is just a pretext for toppling the government, since it is obvious that Albanian opposition is not able to win the power by democratic means,” said Minister for Communities and Returns in the Kosovo government, Aleksandar Jablanović, regarding the request of the Movement “Self-determination” for his dismissal.  While requested your dismissal […]

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Jablanović resigns? (Blic)

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Minister for Communities and Returns in Kosovo Government Aleksandar Jablanović will soon resign, reports the Pristina television KTV quoting “reliable sources”. According to these sources Jablanović decided to resign after a request of leaders of LDK and PDK, the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo, Isa Mustafa and Hashim Thaci, who requested him […]

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