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Belgrade Media Report 07 October

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STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Vucic asks Tsipras for Greece not to vote for Kosovo’s UNESCO membership (Tanjug)
• ROSU members arrest 15 Serbs on Mt. Brezovica (Tanjug/RTS)
• Is Pristina grabbing towards UNESCO (Politika)
• Zoran Todic to replace Dragan Jablanovic (Politika)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Izetbegovic: There is an interest of SBB to join government (klix.ba)
• Moore: Relations between B&H and Serbia excellent (klix.ba)
• Interview with HR Valentin Inzko (vijesti.ba)
• Djukanovic on anti-government demonstrations (MINA)

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• Kosovo Lets War Criminal Seek Treatment Abroad (BIRN)
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Kosovo police in Brezovica arrested Serb workers (Kontakt Plus radio)

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Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric said today that the special forces of the Kosovo police arrested all the workers of Serbian nationality employed in the National Park “Sara” in Brezovica, stating that it was a trampling of the Brussels agreement and provocation directed against the whole of Serbia. Djuric told […]

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Refugee crisis knocking on the door (Zeri)

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Naser Sertolli writes that the political crisis in Kosovo is deepening each day, due to the objections of the opposition parties on the establishment of the Association/Community of Serb majority municipalities and demarcation of the border with Montenegro. This crisis notes Sertolli, has distracted the attention from some of the major developments in the region […]

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A Kosovar exit strategy (Kosova Sot)

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The front-page editorial of this daily notes that it has become a routine to seek help from those that Kosovo politicians call with extreme servility “international friends,” every time that they face crisis. “The same is happening with Assembly blockade which is consequence of the abuse of the dialogue with Serbia, producing in this manner […]

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Journalists to be careful when reporting on religious extremism (Zeri)

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The Kosovo Centre for Security Studies supported by European Union Office in Kosovo, yesterday organized a round-table where it was debated on the challenges that journalists face when reporting on violent extremism in Kosovo. During the meeting it was said that Kosovo journalists should be careful when reporting on matters related to religious radicalism and […]

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Mustafa: Visa liberalization criteria will be met by November 30 (Telegrafi)

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Kosovo Prime Minister, Isa Mustafa, said today that Kosovo’s institutions will fulfil the remaining eight conditions for visa liberalization by November 30. In his address at the government meeting in Pristina today, Mustafa said the European Union has no reason not to set a date for visa liberalization for Kosovo. He also briefed his ministers […]

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Haradinaj: We won’t stop, we will block implementation of agreements (Express)

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Ramush Haradinaj, leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), said during a visit to Gjakova/Djakovica that the opposition is determined to block the implementation of the agreement on the formation of the Association/Community of Serb-majority municipalities and the border demarcation agreement with Montenegro. “The government has made several unreasonable decisions, including the […]

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Kosovo submits report on dialogue to European Union (Koha)

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The Kosovo Government presented to the European Union today a report on the last six months of the dialogue with Belgrade. The report signed by Kosovo’s Minister for Dialogue Edita Tahiri notes: “In general terms, the Government of Kosovo considers that the Brussels dialogue has made very good progress in this reporting period because there […]

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Drenas/Glogovac mayor sentenced to prison for abuse of power (Koha)

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Basic Court in Pristina has sentenced the Mayor of Drenas/Glogovac, Nexhat Demaku, to one-and-a-half year in prison for abuse of official post. Demaku was found guilty for allocating a land parcel for the construction of a public school which the court decided is actually private property not municipal. One other municipal official was sentenced to […]

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Vucic asked Greece not to vote for Kosovo in UNESCO (Tanjug)

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Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic spoke on the phone with his Greek counterpart Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday and asked Greece not to vote in favour of Kosovo’s UNESCO membership, the government’s media relations office said in a release. In a long conversation, the two prime ministers expressed their opinions on the migrant crisis and agreed […]

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Kerry pushes Kosovo in UNESCO (Vecernje Novosti)

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In the finish of struggle between Belgrade and Pristina over every vote ‘against’ or ‘pro’ Kosovo’s membership in UNESCO, the US state secretary John Kerry has sent a letter of support to Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hashim Thaci, with regard to Kosovo’s membership in this organization. The wind in the […]

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Djuric in Brussels until Friday (TV Most)

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Director of the Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo-Metohija Marko Djuric will meet with officials of the EU and representatives of Pristina in Brussels. He will discuss about implementation of the agreements reached in the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina and about topics that would be opened in the continuation of the process. According to a […]

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