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Belgrade Media Report 06 March

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LOCAL PRESS

• Albanian President to visit Serbia on 7 March, but he is not meeting with Nikolic (Novosti)
• Stefanovic: Visit by Albanian President to southern Serbia will not threaten security (Novosti)
• Ivanovic on situation in Kosovo (Beta)
• Mogherini: Western Balkans is tense; EU must offer credible support (Beta/Tanjug)
• Vucic’s candidacy for Serbian President proclaimed (RTS/Tanjug/Beta)
• Jankovic’s candidacy for Serbian President proclaimed (Novosti)
• Seselj’s SRS submits signatures for presidential candidacy (Tanjug)
• Canak: If I win I will recognize Kosovo independence (Novosti/RTS)

REGIONAL PRESS

Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Media publish content of Covic’s letter to ICJ (TV1)
• ICJ receives letters from members of B&H Presidency (Hayat)
• Mektic announces SIPA will launch investigation on opening of ICJ’s letter to Ivanic (Nezavisne)
• Mogherini meets B&H Presidency members (BHT1)
• Dodik returns from Russia: Russia played crucial role in matter of revision of lawsuit (Nezavisne)
Croatia
• Croatian minister hopes dialogue with Serbia’s judiciary will resume (Vecernji list)
fYROM
• Zaev: I don’t expect violence and clashes (Meta/HRT)
• VMRO-DPMNE calls for fresh elections (MIA)
• SDSM: Swift and peaceful power transfer (MIA)
• DUI decides to take part in new government (MIA)
• Duncan: 67 out of 120 is a clear majority, Ivanov should reconsider his decision (Meta)
Albania
• Opposition ready for dialogue for a caretaker government (TV Klan)
• Mogherini: Albania is Europe, we want it in EU (TV Klan)

INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Macedonia’s Crisis has Become Existential (BIRN)

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Jokey Video Wants US to Put North Kosovo ‘First’ (Balkan Insight)

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Northern Kosovo is the latest place where people are making satirical YouTube videos about US President Donald Trump’s slogan “America first”. “America first, but North Kosovo ahead of Kosovo,” is the slogan of a new satirical video made in the northern, Serb-run part of Kosovo – playing on US President Donald Trump’s election slogan of […]

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Mogherini: Situation in Balkans tensed, needs EU support (Lajmi.net)

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The European Union High Commissioner for Foreign Policy and Security, Frederica Mogherini said today that the situation in Western Balkans is tensed, and it requires a strong and reliable EU support. She told the journalists on the verge of the meeting of the Foreign Policy and Defense Ministers that she would report to the Ministers […]

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The meeting on normalization of air traffic over Kosovo (KIM radio)

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Defence Minister Zoran Đorđević led the meeting of the Working Group on the normalization of air traffic over Kosovo, announced the Ministry of Defence. The meeting also discussed the need to specify the details of the proposal platform for negotiations which should be presented to the Government of Serbia, and on current issues within the […]

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Vetevendosje against Thaci’s idea for changing KSF law (Indeksonline)

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Vetevendosje has come out against President Hashim Thaci’s idea to create an armed force by changing the current law on the Kosovo Security Force (KSF). Vetevendosje deputy leader, Driton Caushi, said Thaci has failed to deliver on all his promises, and the latest one will be no different. “We have continuously supported the formation of […]

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Thaci welcomes State Department’s report on human rights

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President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, hailed today the report of the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor on Human Rights Practices saying it identified progress as well as challenges in protection of human rights. In a Facebook post, Thaci wrote: “It is regrettable that the first problem mentioned is violence in […]

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Regional projects in the shadow of politics (RTS)

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Since the beginning of the year was announced several important multimillion infrastructure and other projects related to the region i.e. the highway Belgrade-Sarajevo, the Niš- Albania highway, and the last the Customs Union in the Western Balkans. Meanwhile, political issues have erupted to the foreground – from the crisis in Kosovo, the attempt to revise the […]

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SNF: They vote for Thaçi and hate Jeremić (KIM radio)

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Members of the Serbian National Forum (SNF) have announced that the Serbian list with their primitivism and anti-national action does not cease to surprise. The SNF announcement came after the MPs of the Serbian List criticized the visit of Vuk Jeremić to Peć Patriarchate. The statement of the Serbian National Forum to the media, said that […]

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Đurić: Yet another in a series of denial of rights of the Serbian people (KIM radio)

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Director of the office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Đurić reacted to the opposition of certain Albanian politicians in Pristina to the holding of Serbian presidential elections in Kosovo, and cautioned on yet another in a series of attacks on the rights of the Serb population. “Leading Albanian politicians in Kosovo and in the region […]

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OSCE Broadcast 5 March

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• Thaçi announces sooner changes of Law on KSF (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Mustafa urges ratification of border demarcation with Montenegro ((RTK1&Klan Kosova)
• Opposition’s violence and lack of punishment for corruption, Kosovo’s problems (RTK)
• Hyseni: Security situation in Kosovo stable, institutions should be watchful (TV21)
• Judicial Council privileges Serbs all over Kosovo (Klan Kosova)
• Suriganë Albanians say that investments were made only in Serb-inhabited part (KTV)
• AAK to propose resolution regarding Haradinaj’s detention (Klan Kosova)
• Kosovo Assembly session postponed to Wednesday (RTK2, RTK1)

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Headlines 6 March

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• Thaci promises creation of army through changes to KSF law (Koha Ditore)
• Mustafa: No sense to continue opposing border demarcation (Telegrafi)
• Opposition does not change position after Mogherini’s mesage (Zeri)
• Mogherini to report today about her visit to Balkans (RTK)
• Vetevendosje does not exclude teargas and protests against demarcation (Lajmi)
• State Department report highlights corruption and Assembly violence (Koha)

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