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Belgrade Media Report 3 August 2015

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STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Dacic thanks Iran for not recognizing Kosovo (Tanjug)
• Tasovac: Government opposes Kosovo’s admission to UNESCO (FoNet)
• Tanaskovic: Ban Ki-moon shall act in accordance with UNSCR 1244 (Danas)
• Binding Belgrade-Pristina agreement with EU seal (Novosti)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• New FB&H government in mid-August: Coalition of SDA, SB&H, BPS and A-SDA agreed (klix.ba)
• Novalic: We opened the doors to European integrations (Oslobodjenje)
• Cudic: Gathering marking “Storm” regularly reported to Sarajevo Canton (Srna)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Russia Respects Int’l Law in Issue of Republika Srpska Referendum (Sputnik)
• Summer Halts Work on Macedonia Crisis Deal (BIRN)

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Former KLA members throw bottles at Thaci (B92, Tanjug)

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Deputy Kosovo PM and ruling LDK party leader Hashim Thaci was pelted with bottles on Monday as he was walking from the assembly to the government building. Thaci was attacked by former members of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), who were also chanting, “thief, thief.” They were protesting for not being included in a […]

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Brussels serving us the contract with Kosovo (Vecernje Novosti)

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All reached agreements would become part of legislation through ratification. Legally binding agreement which Belgrade is supposed to sign with Pristina will be verified by the European Union, and then it would reach Serbian parliament for ratification in a form of the ‘agreement between the EU and Serbia that refers to Kosovo’ in order to […]

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Dacic thanks Iran for its principled position on Kosovo (Tanjug)

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Serbia’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic Monday thanked Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif for the country’s principled position of non-recognition of the unilaterally proclaimed independence of Kosovo-Metohija (KiM). According to a release from the Serbian Foreign Ministry, during the meeting between the two countries’ foreign ministers in Tehran, […]

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KLA veterans protest in front of Kosovo government building (media)

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Several news sites report that around 50 war veterans of the former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) are protesting in front of the Kosovo government building in Pristina. Gazeta Blic reports that some war veterans threw bottles at Deputy Prime Minister Hashim Thaci and called him “thief” as he was entering the government premises. Indeksonline reports […]

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Mustafa: Formation of special court shows we support justice (RTK)

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Kosovo Prime Minister, Isa Mustafa, said today in his address to the Kosovo Assembly, that Kosovo must clarify allegations of crimes committed during and after the war. “Kosovo needs to act responsibly vis-à-vis the obligations it has assumed. Resubmitting the constitutional amendments [on the special court] protects Kosovo’s sovereignty. It will be damaging for Kosovo […]

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Current status of the Serbian heritage is optimal (Danas)

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Currently, on the UNESCO list of world cultural heritage, the Serbian monuments in Kosovo are under Serbia. However, in July at the meeting of the Committee for World Heritage, without discussion was decided that these are ‘medieval monuments in Kosovo.’ When asked what does that mean, Serbian Ambassador to UNESCO Darko Tanaskovic responded that “there […]

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Jovanovic: If I were Prime Minister of Serbia, I would recognize Kosovo (Koha)

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Cedomir Jovanovic, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party in Serbia, said in an interview for Croatian newspaper Vecernji List that if he were Prime Minister of Serbia he would recognize Kosovo’s independence. “The recognition [of Kosovo’s independence] should be seen as a tool to improve the position of the Serb community living there,” Jovanovic was […]

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EU allocates €55 million to support the rule of law (Zeri)

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The European Union through the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) allocated over € 55 million to support the rule of law in Kosovo. European Integration Minister Bekim Collaku said that the projects would be implemented from 2016 until 2018. According to him, €24 million will go on projects to support the Kosovo justice system reforms, […]

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Ban Ki-moon will act in accordance with Resolution 1244 (Danas)

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Serbian Ambassador to UNESCO, Darko Tanaskovic Pristina expects admission to UNESCO, referring to the number of member states that have recognized the self-proclaimed independence of Kosovo, the fact that it has already entered into many financial, cultural and international organizations, as well as the legally non-binding opinion of the International Court of Justice on the […]

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Deep mistrust between Kosovars and internationals (Koha Ditore)

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The paper’s Brussels-based correspondent, Augustin Palokaj, argues in his opinion piece that one today can easily find senior Western diplomats who unofficially express negative remarks about certain Kosovo’s politicians. “And certainly, Chuck Sudetic, a former associate of Carla del Ponte, was able to find such diplomats in Brussels and Washington when he authored a very […]

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“Genocide resolution” not included in assembly’s agenda (Blic, Vecernje Novosti, B92)

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The Kosovo assembly has not accepted a proposal to consider a draft resolution on alleged genocide by Yugoslav army and police forces against ethnic Albanians. 45 deputies on Monday voted in favour of including the draft in the agenda, 55 were against, while five abstained. The initiative to adopt such a resolution came from the […]

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