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Belgrade Media Report 5 May 2016

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STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Vucic: Serbia will challenge UEFA decision on Kosovo (Tanjug)
• Ambassador Scott conveys Kerry’s congratulations to Vucic (Tanjug)
• Results after repeated elections (Tanjug/RTS/Beta/B92)
• Decisions on caucus whip ongoing (Danas)
• PIK announces final results of Vojvodina provincial elections (RTS)
• Croatia keeps blocking opening of Chapter 23 in negotiations with Serbia (RTS)
• Joksimovic: It is European Commission’s turn now (Tanjug)
• Kosovo’s “both standards and status” (Politika)
• KFOR takes away the bridge in Leposavic municipality (Politika)
• Crime in Dobrovoljacka street, 24 years later (Politika)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Central Election Commission reaches decision on local elections (Novo vrijeme)
• Stevandic: Bosic is inciting conflicts between citizens in RS (Srna)
• HR Meets UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon: The country has chosen its direction (Fena)
• Croatian President booed during speech on freedom of media (Hina)
• Croatian Culture Minister: Zuroff has no right to be an arbiter of the Croatian government policies because he explicitly denied genocide in Srebrenica (Hina)
• Montenegro: No single opposition list, no session of parliament (CDM)
• Simovic: Opposition to agree on a single list (RTCG)
• Berlin: Appointment of Haindl sign of commitment to situation in Macedonia (Telegraf.mk)
• Joseph Daul: Situation in Macedonia resembles theater, only way out is through elections (MIA)
• Bozinovski: If DUI demands election postponement, it would mean Ahmeti Went for meeting at the US Embassy (Telegraph.mk)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Turkey urges EU, China to cooperate in Balkans (World Bulletin)
• President Provokes Protests in Macedonian Prisons (BIRN)

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Mustafa: Europe is more complete with Kosovo (Klan Kosova)

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Prime Minister of Kosovo Isa Mustafa, in a joint press conference with the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini and the Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos, said the European Commission’s recommendation for visa liberalization is an important step for Kosovo. Mustafa said that he discussed in […]

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Vucic: Serbia will challenge the UEFA’s decision on Kosovo (Tanjug)

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Serbia will take all legal measures to challenge the decision of European football’s governing body UEFA to admit Kosovo as its member, leader of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) Aleksandar Vucic said. What happened in Budapest, when UEFA accepted Kosovo as its member, is in contravention of the Statutes. We will take legal action to […]

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O’Connell: Kosovo-Albania unification sounds like a threat (RTK)

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Answering a question during a live chat on Facebook, the British Ambassador to Kosovo Ruairi O’Connell said that a unification of Kosovo and Albania sounds like a threat. “To be honest, when I hear that there will be stability in the Balkans only if Kosovo and Albania is unified, it sounds like a threat,” said […]

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Serbs from Orahovac/Rahovec are targeted by robbers (RTK2)

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Serbs in Orahovac/Rahovec have been targeted by burglars for months. On Monday evening livestock of the owner Vladimir Moravcevic was damaged and almost a flock of pigeons was stolen and few ornamental chickens. Locals are complaining on the work of the police while they claim that they perform their work responsibly. Residents of this village […]

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Cinderella’s fairy tale is over, now the truth (Gazeta Blic)

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Ben Andoni writes that the decision of the European Commission to recommend liberalization of visas for Kosovo, was celebrated more by the politicians than the ordinary citizens. Just like in Albania, majority of them remain skeptical that liberalization of visas would change things much, even though, non-liberalization of visas in Kosovo was felt a bit […]

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Twenty percent of Kosovars do not feel safe in Kosovo (Koha)

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Kosovo Centre for Security Studies today published the results of a special edition of the Kosovo Security Barometer on trends of perceptions of public safety in Kosovo 2012-215. During this period, an average of 40 percent of citizens feel safe in Kosovo, while 20 percent of them feel unsafe in Kosovo, the report says. In […]

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Lajcak: Slovakia supports visa liberalization for Kosovo (Gazeta Express)

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Slovakia Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak said on Thursday that Slovakia sees no problem that the citizens of Turkey will travel without visas in the European Union, and that it supports visa liberalization for Kosovo, Ukraine and Georgia. Slovakia is one of the five member states of the EU which has not recognized Kosovo, but despite […]

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Jahjaga: The power of women in Kosovo should be accepted (Kosovapress)

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The former President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, today while speaking at the Global Summit of Women in Parliaments held in Jordan, said that peace cannot be achieved and sustained if women are not part of the decision-making processes. Jahjaga invited the participants in the summit to learn from the courage of the women of Kosovo and […]

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Aktiv: Visa liberalization for the people with passports of Coordination Directorate (Radio Kontakt Plus)  

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On the eve of today’s visit of the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini to Pristina, NGO Aktiv urged the Serbian representatives in the Kosovo institutions to raise the issue of visa liberalization for the passports which Republic of Serbia is issuing to its citizens in Kosovo. Aktiv recalls that Coordination […]

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The families of the kidnapped and murdered Serbs from Orahovac: Injustice is killing us (Vecernje Novosti)

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The arrest of former KLA member Albert Spahiu in Switzerland, accused for crimes committed in the municipality of Orahovac/ Rahovec, opened new wounds of the families of the kidnapped and murdered Serbs. No one was held responsible for the crimes committed in July 1998 in Orahovac/Rahovec and villages Opteruša, Retimlje, Zočište and Velika Hoca. “In […]

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Rasic: The proposal of the EC is a good step (KIM radio)

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The European Commission proposal on visa-free regime for citizens of Kosovo represents a good step towards a free movement of people in the Schengen zone, considers Nenad Rasic. MP of the Serbian List in the Assembly of Kosovo and President of the Progressive Democratic Party, Nenad Rasic believes that the European Commission’s proposal for visa […]

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