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Belgrade Media Report 09 August

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STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• UN SC to discuss situation in Kosovo on August 25 (Tanjug)
• Parliament to inaugurate new cabinet this week (RTS)
• Vucic’s presentation to be followed by debate and vote (Tanjug)
• Dacic: SPS Presidency unanimously for joining Government (Tanjug)
• Serbia to get first openly gay cabinet minister (B92)
• Vucic to travel to Vienna on his first visit as head of new Government (Tanjug)
• Not much can be expected from the new ministers, say analysts (VIP, Politika)
• Opposition leader: Govt. forming process was “telenovela” (Tanjug)
• Vucic repeats accusation that Savamala civic protest organizers of trying to topple Government (VIP)
• “Croatian FM vs. common sense – fight he cannot win” (Tanjug)
• Serbian MUP helping Macedonia in wake of deadly storm (Vecernje Novosti)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Izetbegovic claims that issue of Coordination Mechanism is resolved (TV1)
• Izetbegovic and Covic open their cards (Glas Srpske)
• US Embassy to B&H: Referendum in RS violates Constitution of B&H (Oslobodjenje)
• Baralija: Silent agreement of SDA and HDZ B&H to form conflict, pre-election atmosphere (BN TV)
• Kovac: Serbia should rid itself of aggressive Greater Serbia virus (Hina)
• Vujovic: If the ‘troika’ leaves the Government, new political crisis will begin (Pobjeda)
• Kosovo Assembly to discuss demarcation with Montenegro today (RTCG)
• There’s no giving up, Luksic and Jeremic to stay until the end (Pobjeda)
• EU Civil Protection Mechanism activated to support Macedonia following deadly floods (MIA)
• Albania’s Government earmarks EUR 100,000 in relief to flood-affected regions in Macedonia (MIA)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Kosovo genocide suit against Serbia “likely to fail” (BIRN)
• Pristina wants “completely different format” of dialogue (Radio Free Europe)
• Serbia braces for PM’s marathon speech (BIRN)
• Russia “counts on practical Serbian help in Aleppo” (TASS)

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Thaçi ready for everything only to win mercy of the Special Court (RTK2)

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The vice-president of the Self-Determination Movement, Driton Çaushi said that dialogue with Serbia will most probably shift to the level of presidents. “It was announced that the format of the dialogue with Serbia will change, and most probably shift to the level of presidents. Thaçi is ready to do everything only that the Special Court […]

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Recognition or termination of negotiations in Brussels (Sputnik)

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Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa said that negotiations with Belgrade under the Brussels agreement must be given a time limit, and the end of the dialogue, but also a completely different form of negotiations. Mustafa has announced that he will appeal to Brussels for the “behaviour of Belgrade in the dialogue” because as he said […]

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Ðurić: Kosovo as a state has no place at the Olympic Games (Kontakt Plus Radio)

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The director of the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Ðurić, today stated that Kosovo has no place in the International Olympic Committee, nor it has place as an independent state at the Olympic Games. “No one in Serbia prevents athletes from Kosovo from taking part at OG. They could do it as […]

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Effects of investments in Northern Kosovo after the Brussels Agreement – Do we live better? (Kontakt Plus Radio)

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With the goal of assessing effects and results of investments in municipalities in northern Kosovo in last three years, the Institute for Territorial Economic Development (InTER) in cooperation with the RTV Mir from Leposavić/Leposaivq, supported by the Kosovo Foundation for Open Society, is conducting a project dubbed ‘Effects of investments in Northern Kosovo after the […]

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DSS : Repression by Serbian Progressive Party in Kosovo (Kossev)

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DSS Provincial Board for Kosovo and Metohija in its latest press release supports the former President Sanda Rašković-Ivić in the attitude that “in no case” should be made up a coalition with the Serbian Progressive Party in Voždovac, and especially not in Vračar, because the municipality of Vračar is a “symbol of resistance to dictatorship […]

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Proposal to reward the person who would reveal the locations of potential grave sites (Vesti)

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A member of the working group for drafting the law on missing persons, Lawyer Miroslav Perković proposes that Serbia initiate the adoption of a regional law that would, after more than twenty years since the end of the war, not only solve the problem of missing persons but also and competence of the prosecution of […]

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AAK:  Sending demarcation deal to Assembly, “ticking bomb” for Kosovo’s future (Koha)

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The Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) through a press release today said it considers the Committee on Foreign Affairs made a mistake today by submitting the draft-law on border-demarcation with Montenegro to the Assembly, because, it has processed a “ticking time bomb” for the future of Kosovo. “It is up to all of […]

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Vetëvendosje sets off teargas in parliamentary committee meeting (media)

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The Kosovo Assembly Committee on Foreign Affairs approved the draft law on ratification of the border demarcation agreement with Montenegro paving the way for the Assembly Presidency to set a plenary session for voting on the bill. Media report however that a member of Vetëvendosje believed to be MP Driton Çaushi set off teargas in […]

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DokuFest and UNDP open Corruption Museum in Prizren (Koha)

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Museum of Corruption was officially opened yesterday in Prizren as part of a joint project between the UNDP and DokuFest, the international documentary and short film festival. The museum will stay open from 5 to 13 August and is aimed at raising public awareness of the negative aspects of corruption.

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Kadaj-Bujupi: Kosovo has no land to give away (Indeksonline)

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The Vetëvendosje Movement MP, Donika Kadaj-Bujupi, said on Tuesday that nothing can stop Vetëvendosje to oppose the border-demarcation deal with Montenegro. “We will not stop opposing this harmful agreement, because Kosovo has no land to give away. Arrests and other efforts cannot stop us,” Kadaj-Bujupi said.

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Kosovo government building attacked with stones (Zëri)

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Unidentified persons threw stones at the Kosovo government building on Tuesday while the Committee on Foreign Affairs was reviewing the draft-law on the ratification of border-demarcation agreement with Montenegro, Zëri reports.  Several windows were broken while media report that no one was injured from the attack.

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