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Belgrade Media Report 16 April

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STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Office for Kosovo and Metohija: Pristina politicizes air traffic issues (Tanjug)
• Dacic thanks Zambia for not recognizing Kosovo (Beta/Tanjug)
• B&H Foreign Minister:The aim is to further improve relations with Serbia (Tanjug)
• Mihajlovic: Thaqi acceptable in Brussels, but not in Belgrade (B92)
• Vukcevic: If Thaqi comes, he will be arrested (Blic)
• Seselj files complaint against Brammertz (Tanjug)
• Russian Foreign Ministry: “Pan-Albanian” rhetoric will not contribute to preservation of climate of stability in Balkans (Tanjug)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Zvizdic, Pusic meet: B&H Council of Ministers focused on socio-economic reforms (Oslobodjenje)
• Cvijanovic at a working lunch with Michelle Obama (Srna)
• Head of the EU Delegation: True progress in sphere of social and economic reforms needed (Srna)
• U.S. Embassy urges NSRS delegates to respect Dayton Accord, Inzko sending warnings (Patria)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Expert slams EU’s handling of Kosovo corruption case (EurActiv/Reuters)
• Eulex report exposes EU failure in Kosovo (EUobserver)
• Serbia is interested in the South gas corridor (Azertac)
• ‘Albanian Paramilitaries’ Claim Macedonia Govt Attack (BIRN)
• It’s not just Iraq that has been destroyed by Western intervention (Spiked)

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Serbia has to recognise Kosovo, impose sanctions against Russia (IBNA)

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Serbia is faced with two very hard preconditions considering its path towards the membership in the European Union. The first is the recognition of Kosovo’s independence and the second – imposing economic sanctions against Russia, German political analyst Bodo Weber warned today. In the interview to Serbian tabloid Kurir, Weber underlined that Serbia would get […]

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Possible visit by Kosovo’s Thaci puts old foe Serbia in a bind (Reuters)

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(Reuters) – Kosovo Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci, who led a guerrilla insurgency against Serbia, hopes to pay a landmark visit to Belgrade next week for a conference, an adviser said on Thursday, despite calls for his arrest.  Serbian politicians have long branded Thaci a war criminal for his role in Kosovo’s 1998-99 conflict…Read more

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Tahiri discusses migration during Brussels visit (Telegrafi)

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A Kosovo delegation led by Minister for Dialogue Edita Tahiri has participated at the second meeting on irregular migration held in Brussels under the auspices of the European Commission. A press release issued by the Office of the Prime Minister of Kosovo notes that European Commission representatives said Kosovo authorities displayed efficient engagement in preventing […]

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Opposition to boycott the Assembly (Koha)

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The Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), Vetevendosje Movement and the Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA) said today they would boycott today’s and future sessions of the Kosovo Assembly after discussions on the petition with over 30,000 signatures against electricity prices were not included in the agenda. The AAK proposed the discussion but it failed […]

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Kosovo’s independent task force also dealing with corruption at EULEX (Koha)

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Koha online has published the press release of the Office of the Chief State Prosecutor which notes that “regarding the recently published report of the independent expert, Jean-Paul Jacqué, the Office of the Chief State Prosecutor would like to thank Mr. Jacqué, for his work and efforts. At the same time there is a need to emphasize […]

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Berlin’s conditions for opening of the chapter 35 (Politika)

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It could be heard, unofficially, that the reason behind the Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic’s anger with regard to new conditions set to Serbia related to its pre-accession talks with the EU is that European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, during her recent visit to Belgrade actually presented Germany’s […]

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Jovic, Drulak discuss situation in Kosovo (Tanjug)

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Deputy Director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Damjan Jovic conferred in Brussels on Thursday with Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister of the Czech Republic Petr Drulak concerning the implementation of the Brussels agreement on normalisation of the Belgrade-Pristina relations and the current situation in Kosovo. Jovic noted that Belgrade has fulfilled all the […]

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Why should we be more and more persistent (Gazeta Blic)

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 Albert Mustafa writes in his opinion peace today that Albanians are often exhorted if emotionally moved, as it was the case with the insult of the former Serb minister Jablanovic, or the Trepca case. Even though this is a good sign, he writes, “we should also prove that we are also a visionary population and […]

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We will not fire workers of Ski Centre Brezovica; Pacoli is hiding behind the French consortium (Vecernje Novosti)

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Pascal Roux, president of the French consortium MDP Consulting said that their intention is not to deal with the politics, but to make modern ski centre Brezovica. “It is true that we are on the territory with the intensive history. However, our project is multi-ethnic and should contribute to reconciliation.” He said that together with […]

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Thaci in Belgrade? (Vecernje Novosti)

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Hashim Thaci was invited by NGO Youth education Committee to attend conference “EU integration of the western Balkan: we can do it better together”. As media in Pristina reported Thaci accepted the invitation. But, as soon he would step in Belgrade Hashim Thaci could be arrested because in 1997 he was sentenced on 10 years […]

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The EU slows down Serbia because of the neighboring countries (Vecernje Novosti)

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Brussels will slow down the Serbia’s progress on the road to the EU with the new conditions, regardless of Serbia’s tangible progress, so that all Balkan countries could be admitted “as a package”, was confirmed for Novosti from several informal diplomatic sources. Because of this informal strategy Belgrade is faced with the additional conditions and […]

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