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Belgrade Media Report 27 May 2016

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STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Putin to Vucic: Russia counting on further development of relations (Tanjug)
• Djuric: Why is formation of ZSO postponed? (Tanjug/RTS/Beta)
• Kozarev: Tahiri’ s clumsy excuses for non-implementing ZSO (Tanjug/Beta)
• In letter from jail, Ivanovic urges Serbs to form ZSO (Tanjug/Kontakt Plus Radio)
• Miscevic: Formal decision on Chapter 23 next Wednesday (B92)
• Davenport: Serbia is late with implementation of Action Plan for Chapter 23 (Danas)
• New Serbian Army contingent leaves for peacekeeping mission in Lebanon (Beta/Novosti)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Joint committee should investigate alleged participation of the B&H Security Ministry, OBA and foreign intelligence services in the organization of the opposition protests in Banja Luka (Srna)
• B&H Constitutional Court confirms Bosniaks’ right to the name of their language (Fena/ Srna)
• IMO: B&H to finalize and publish the census results urgently (Fena)
• Serbia Will No Longer Prosecute Croatian Citizens (Vecernji List, by Vedran Pavlic, 27 May 2016)
• MOST: Karamarko will no longer be a member of this government (Jutarnji list)
• Protest of DF in Montenegro: Protesting over the election of the government of electoral trust (RTCG)
• EU Commissioner Hahn calls on Macedonia’s old-new government to work on urgent reform priorities (MIA)
• New Protest in Skopje, across Macedonia against President’s pardoning decision (Telegraf.mk)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Serbs rally against shady demolitions after masked crew ‘tied up witnesses’ (The Guardian)
• Kovac: Croatia not blocking Serbia, rejects extremism (La Croix)
• NATO in Montenegro: Securing the rear before Barbarossa II? (RT)

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October NATO Summit to be held in Kosovo (Klan Kosova)

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Albania will host tomorrow for the first time the three-day Summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. 260 people from 28 NATO member countries as well as delegates from the partner countries are expected to attend the Summit. The main focus of the discussions will be global and Balkans security. Kosovo will also be represented […]

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Office for KiM condemns demolition of the memorial plaque (RTK2)

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Serbian Government Office for Kosovo strongly condemned the repeated demolition of a memorial plaque dedicated to the missing journalists of Radio Pristina, Ɖuro Slavuj and Ranko Perenić. “The fourth time vandals have destroyed a memory on the innocent victims of the conflict. We expect that the authorities will, unlike previous times, finally do something, so […]

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Find responsible for the demolition of the plaque dedicated to the missing journalists (Večernje Novosti)

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The Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) and the Association of Journalists of Kosovo and Metohija (DNKiM) condemned the demolition of the memorial plaque dedicated to the missing journalists of Radio Pristina, Ɖuro Slavuj and Ranko Perenić, who disappeared in 1998. On the anniversary of setting the plaque to the missing journalists, the Associations stated […]

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Stojanović: Even more belongs to the monastery of Visoki Dečani (RTK2)

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Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister, Branimir Stojanović points out that the judgment of the Constitutional Court has damaged the monastery because there are a few more plots that they claimed, while Stojanović considers the protest as an excuse for provoking instability. “This has nothing to do with confirming a judgment that was made before 1999, and […]

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Border demarcation to reunite opposition parties? (Kallxo)

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Officials from the three opposition parties – Vetëvendosje, Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA) – have not ruled out the possibility of joining their forces to oppose the ratification of the border demarcation agreement with Montenegro. The agreement is expected to be put to vote at the Kosovo Assembly within […]

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Doris Pack against demarcation as a condition for visas (GazetaExpress)

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German politician and former Member of the European Parliament, Doris Pack, in a Twitter post today wrote that she does not agree with the border-demarcation agreement with Montenegro as a condition for visa liberalisation for Kosovo. According to her, the criteria for visa liberalisation should be the same for all places.

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Serbian National Forum: Who gave a mandate to Stojanović to lead discussion on army? (KIM radio)

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The Serbian National Forum (SNF) expresses its concern regarding the statement of Branimir Stojanović that the “Serbian List is ready to discuss the establishment of Kosovo’s armed forces only through official meetings and not via the media.” The SNF is asking ”who gave a mandate to Branimir Stojanović to lead the talks on establishment of […]

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Kozarev: Unconvincing excuses of Tahiri (Blic)

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Deputy Director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija Dušan Kozarev said that the Pristina Chief negotiator, Edita Tahiri tried again to confuse the public, inventing unconvincing excuses for non-implementation of the agreement on the establishment of the A/CSM.  “With invented excuses Tahiri tried to hide the fact that the deadline for all […]

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President Thaçi to attend Brdo-Brioni summit in Sarajevo (RTK)

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Kosovo’s President, Hashim Thaçi, this weekend will attend the Brdo-Brioni Leaders Process which will be held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.Along the members of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Brdo-Brioni Process initiators, presidents of Croatia and Slovenia, also leaders of Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Kosovo will attend […]

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In a letter from jail, Ivanovic urges Serbs to form ZSO (B92, Kontakt plus radio, Blic, Tanjug)

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Serbs in Kosovo must start establishing the Community of Serb Municipalities (ZSO), according to Civic Initiative SDP leader Oliver Ivanovic. Ethnic Albanians’ opposition to the formation of this community, agreed on during the EU-sponspored Belgrade-Pristina talks, “will subside only when they realize that it will be formed with or without them,” Ivanovic said in a […]

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Kosovo not at risk from terrorist attacks (Indeksonline/RFE)

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Security mechanisms in Kosovo say that Kosovo is not currently at risk from possible terrorist attacks. Daut Hoxha, Kosovo Police (KP) spokesperson, told Radio Free Europe that KP has undertaken the necessary measures to prevent such occurrences. However, according to him, radicalism, extremism and organized criminal groups pose a potential threat to Kosovo society. “Concrete […]

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