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Belgrade Media Report 31 May 2016

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STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Preparations begin for visit of Chinese president (Beta/RTS/Tanjug)
• Ivanic informs Vucic on deterioration of political circumstances (Tanjug)
• Ivanic and Nikolic on tensions in the region (Radio Belgrade)
• Vucic, Dodik: Better future for RS, good relations with B&H (Tanjug)
• Djuric meets Australian Foreign Ministry official (Beta)
• Abdulah Numan new Mufti of Serbia (Blic)
• Jeremic: Serbia has chances of its candidate becoming UN Secretary General (RTS)
• Presiding of North Kosovska Mitrovica Municipality Assembly replaced (Tanjug/RTS)
• Ninety-four percent of Albanians, other non-Serbs opposed to ZSO (Beta/B92)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Jukic: I didn’t break the law – if anybody has doubts, do investigate me (Patria)
• Support to B&H in its efforts to activate Membership Action Plan (Fena)
• Djukanovic: I believe NATO member states will ratify the protocol without delay (CDM)

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• From Bosnia to Iraq: The Failure of Forced Coexistence (The National Interest)

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The US has big plans for Kosovo (InSerbia)

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The United States apparently has big plans for Kosovo and the Balkans in general, political analyst Petr Iskenderov told Radio Sputnik. These include increasing Washington’s political influence and military presence in the territory that was carved out of Serbia following NATO’s military intervention. If accurate, this assessment should come as no surprise. NATO recently welcomed […]

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Ahmeti: The A/CSM is destabilizing Kosovo (TV Most, KIM radio, Danas)

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Mayor of Pristina and an official of Vetevëndosje, Shpend Ahmeti says that the Association/Community of Serb Municipalities (A/CSM) is not a good solution. He also says that Albanians believe that A/CSM is necessary to Serbs only to destabilize them. “I am for dialogue with Kosovo Serbs, not with Belgrade. I think their concern makes sense, but […]

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Project ‘Sunny Valley’ to be presented today (RTK2)

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The Director of the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Đurić, Bishop of Raška and Prizren Teodosije and chairperson of the provisional body of Zvečan Ivan Todosijević will present today at 14:00 in the Palace ‘Serbia’ the project of construction of the returnee settlement in Kosovo north ‘Sunny Valley’. The agreement on construction […]

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Kosovo to give London Mayor award for promoting inter-religious dialogue (media)

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Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, will receive an award in Pristina for his role in promoting inter-religious dialogue. Kosovo’s President Hashim Thaci confirmed the news. Thaci posted on his Facebook page that Khan and the Community of Sant’Egidio from the Hole See will receive awards for inter-religious dialogue at the end of the “Interfaith […]

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Burglarized house of a Serb in Veliko Ropotovo (TV Puls, KIM Radio)

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House of Vasilije Arsić from village Veliko Ropotovo in Ranilug/Ranillug Municipality has been burglarized, reported TV Puls. Arsić, who is currently dwelling in town Niš in central Serbia, found out about the burglary last night after he returned to his house in Kosovo. According to him, an LCD television set was stolen from the house, […]

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Mitrovica North: Božović deposed from the post of the president of local assembly (KIM Radio)

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Vice-President of the Civic Initiative SDP, Ksenija Božović, was deposed yesterday from the post of the president of the local assembly in Mitrovica North Municipality. She is replaced by Dejan Gurišić. Instead of the announced discussion about the security and political situation in the town, spending of the funds and work of the Mayor Goran […]

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Ɖurić will meet tomorrow with Zahir Tanin and Ghasem El-Wane (TV Most)

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Director of the Serbian Government office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Ɖurić will meet tomorrow at 12:30 pm, in the Palace “Serbia”, with the Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Ghasem El-Wane. The meeting will be attended by the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General and head of UNMIK Zahir Tanin and representative of the […]

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Veseli: Kosovo determined to further peace in the region (RTK)

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The President of the Kosovo Assembly, Kadri Veseli, met today in Pristina with a delegation of the Swedish Parliament, members of the NATO Assembly, led by Bjorn von Sydow. The meeting focused on the priorities of the Kosovo Assembly with special emphasis on security issues. Veseli said: “Kosovo is determined to further peace in the […]

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Simić: CI SDP is not the same as before (KiM radio)

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“CI SDP is no longer a political party as it was, at the time when Mr Oliver Ivanović led it. We, municipal councillors, are not the only people who left the party. Huge numbers of people who had been on the list for councillors and other prominent members also abandoned the party, but the public […]

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Satisfaction with Kosovo institutions remains low (Koha)

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The results of the latest survey of UNDP’s Public Pulse show that as of September 2015, there has been a general increase in the satisfaction of Kosovars with the performance of Kosovo key institutions. However, despite the increase, the average percentage of Kosovars who are satisfied with these institutions remains low, currently at only 23%, […]

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Vetevendosje MP warns with uncompromising resistance against two agreements (Telegrafi)

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Vetevendosje MP, Donika Kadaj-Bujupi, said in an interview for TV Dukagjini that, the Kosovo government is “trying to smuggle in the Assembly two anti-constitutional agreements that it signed in Brussels”. Kadaj-Bujupi said her party would engage in a powerful and uncompromising resistance in the Assembly in order to prevent the border-demarcation agreement with Montenegro and […]

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