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Belgrade Media Report 20 August

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STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Kosovo Office director “banned from entering Kosovo” (B92)
• Djuric: Our goal in Brussels is establishment of ZSO (Tanjug)
• Serbs expect ZSO to be guarantee of stability (Tanjug)
• Meucci: EULEX acts according to law (Tanjug)
• Aid delivered to farmers in KiM (Tanjug)
• Zahir Tanin appointed as new head of UNMIK (Vecernje Novosti)
• Elections at all levels to be held in March 2016 (Vecernje Novosti)
• Cooperation with Russia “won’t have undesired consequences” (Vecernje Novosti)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Dodik: B&H institutions not interested in Vucic attack case (Glas Srpske)
• Interview: Valentin Inzko about the political situation in B&H (Dnevni list)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Serbia says migrants in Macedonia should go to Bulgaria, Croatia (EurActiv)
• Migrants seeking Serbia and EU get help from Macedonia (DM)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Bobar Banka case (OBC)
• Montenegro MPs to Debate NATO Membership (BIRN)

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Djuric: One of the topics in Brussels and release of Ivanovic (Blic)

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Director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric said today that Serbs in Kosovo and throughout Serbia expect leader of the Citizens’ Initiative  ‘Freedom, Democracy, Justice’ Oliver Ivanovic to be released on August 26, when his detention sentence is due to expire. Ivanovic is tried before the Mitrovica Basic Court for the […]

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US to continue support for democratic processes in Kosovo (Koha)

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Kosovo Assembly Speaker Kadri Veseli and members of the Assembly presidency met today a US Congress delegation led by Senator Vern Buchanan and other members of the Democracy Partnership commission. The meeting focused on the current partnership between the US Congress and Kosovo Assembly and the US support to building political and legislative capacities in […]

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PM Mustafa farewell meeting with UNMIK chief (Telegrafi)

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Kosovo’s Prime Minister, Isa Mustafa, today hosted a farewell meeting with the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General in Kosovo, Farid Zarif.  Mustafa and Zarif discussed general developments in Kosovo. “Prime Minister Mustafa praised the support of the UN agencies and various organizations to Kosovo,” noted a press release sent by Mustafa’s Office.  […]

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In effort to read logically some illogical agreements (Koha Ditore)

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Adriatik Kelmendi considers that the agreement for the free movement between Pristina and Belgrade, is not reciprocal. He notes that despite the fact that the agreement was a necessity, it in fact “only mended the problem, without resolving it. Seeing the reactions and Serbia’s damage caused to Kosovo, and reach of the two agreements for […]

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Djuric: Our goal in Brussels is establishment of ZSO (Kontakt plus radio, KIM radio)

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Director of the Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo-Metohija Marko Djuric said today that the representatives of Belgrade in the dialogue with Pristina will go to Brussels next week with an aim to bring about the establishment of the community of Serbian municipalities (ZSO) in the southern province. After a meeting with the officials of Serb […]

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In Kosovo, a Thirst for Progress, and Beer, Too (NYT)

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On weekends, Kosovo’s millennials dance to Smiths and New Order songs from the 1980s as if they were hearing them for the first time at the new Irish pub Miqt (facebook.com/MIQT.NET) in Pristina. The bar is by turns trendy and louche and hidden down one of the many bumpy, half-paved roads in Kosovo’s capital. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/travel/pristina-kosovo-beer.html […]

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Aid delivered to returnee farmers in Kosovo (RTK2)

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Deputy Director of the Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Dusan Kozarev presented on Wednesday in Gracanica, contracts for 50 aid packages to returnee farmers in the municipalities of Pec/Peja, Istok/Istog, Klina/Klline, Urosevac/Ferizaj and Gora. The aid packages in the form of agricultural machinery, provided by the Office for KiM though public procurement totalling […]

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Staro Gracko the first case of the Special Court for crimes of the KLA? (Kossev)

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The murder of 14 Serbian reapers on 23 July 1999 in Staro Gracko could be the first case before the Special Court. Close associates of the KLA wing, led at that time by Hashim Thaci, may be suspects. The investigation, led by UNMIK has ended long time ago, and the names of the perpetrators are […]

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Hyseni: 46 Kosovars killed in Syria (RTKLive)

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Kosovo’s Interior Minister, Skender Hyseni, said today that 46 individuals from Kosovo were killed until now in Syria and Iraq. He added that he is worried with the number of Kosovo citizens participating in foreign wars. According to him, Kosovo is ranked among the places with the largest number of fighters in Syria and Iraq per […]

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Trigazis: Greece will not recognize Kosovo (Vesti, Kurir)

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Coordinator of the Department for International Cooperation of Syriza Panos Trigazis said that Greece maintains its position that Kosovo’s independence should not be recognized in full. “At this moment I cannot talk on behalf of the government, but only in the name of Syriza. However, I can confirm that Greece and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras […]

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Vetevendosje action against Association/Community (Indeksonline)

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The Vetevendosje Movement today again called on Kosovo people to join its actions and meetings to prevent the establishment of the Association/Community of Serb-majority Municipalities.  Vetevendosje activists today placed posters in front of the government building, in which they illustrate Kosovo in two ways: “Kosovo without Association/Community” as a single entity, and “Kosovo with Association/Community” […]

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