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Belgrade Media Report 13 March

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LOCAL PRESS

• National Security Council: Serbia stable, no possibility of significant threats to peace (RTS)
• Vucic: Belgrade fulfilled 90 percent of agreed in Brussels dialogue (RTS/Beta)
• Vucic does not see rejection of application as victory (RTS/Tanjug)
• Drecun: Cessation of dialogue could cause war fire in Balkans (RTS)
• Dacic welcomes decision of ICJ to deny motion for revision (RTS)
• RIK: 90 polling stations in Kosovo, 53 abroad (Tanjug)
• Candidacies of Stamatovic, Parovic and Canak declared (Tanjug/RTS)

REGIONAL PRESS

Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Radoncic, Niksic, Komsic, Bajrovic, other politicians request Izetbegovic’s resignation (Hayat)
• Izetbegovic says he will not resign (N1)
• Covic says hiding of ICJ’s letter re Softic’s status exposed existence of parallel structures (Vecernji list)
• Softic: Letter I received in 2016 represents opinion of ICJ Registrar and not ICJ as an institution (TV1)
Croatia
• Croatian PM tells Juncker, Cerar arbitration with Slovenia over (Hina)
Montenegro
• DF: Voter turnout shows that citizens do not support DPS (CDM)
• Abazovic: Protests possible only after joining NATO (Pobjeda)
• Theresa May: Let us do more to curb destabilizing Russian campaigns (Pobjeda)
fYROM
• SDSM leader Zaev unveils government program (MIA)
• SDSM’s program is a basis for upgrading, said Besa (Meta)
• VMRO-DPMNE: Zaev must renounce from turning Macedonia into a bi-national state (Meta)
Albania
• Rama meets with German FM, judicial reform and EU integration discussed (TV Klan)
• Rama unveils reasons of government change (ADN)
• Opposition no step back, Basha: we want Rama’s head (ADN)
• Elections, CEC replaces opposition urges citizens to contribute (ADN)

INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Balkan migration route is ‘not closed’ (EurActiv)
• Macedonia President Defends Refusal to Offer Mandate (BIRN)
• ‘Creation of a Multi-Speed Europe is Inevitable’ (Sputnik)

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“OSCE in Kosovo ready to organize the vote” (KIM radio)

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Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo Ambassador Jan Braathu said soon will be known whether the people of Kosovo with Serbian citizenship would be able to vote for the President of the Republic of Serbia in the elections scheduled for the 2nd of April. Braathu recalled in the show “Free Serbian” that the OSCE […]

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Government: Demarcation must be passed this month, we must not keep the youth isolated (Indeksonline)

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The news website reports that the border demarcation agreement with Montenegro was supposed to be resent to the Assembly this week. While some MPs have expressed their opposition to the deal, EU high representatives have reiterated that the Assembly must adopt the agreement so that Kosovo can get closer to visa liberalisation. Faton Abdullahu, spokesman […]

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Haradinaj: Kosovo army will not present a threat for anyone (media)

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Chairman of the Kosovo Assembly’s commission for internal affairs, security and Kosovo Security Force (KSF) supervision, Daut Haradinaj, said at a debate today that the aim of the KSF transformation is to create security inside and outside of Kosovo and not to endanger anyone. Haradinaj urged the international community not to misunderstand the creation of […]

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Council for National Security meeting in Belgrade (B92)

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A meeting of the Council for National Security started on Monday around 13:00 CET in the Presidency of Serbia in Belgrade. The meeting is dedicated to announcements coming from Pristina about the formation of an army in Kosovo, and to the Kosovo Assembly’s request to suspend the dialogue with Belgrade until Ramush Haradinaj has been […]

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President Thaci condemns wounding of Kosovo lawyer (media)

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Several news websites report that Kosovo President Hashim Thaci has reacted after today’s wounding of Kosovo Albanian laywer Azem Vllasi in Pristina. “Such acts are unacceptable for a society in which the main priority is strengthening the rule of law. I wish Vllasi a quick recovery and I call on the authorities to bring the […]

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Vllasi: I was wounded by a paid assassin (Radio Free Europe)

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Azem Vllasi, Pristina-based lawyer, who was wounded this morning in front of his apartment in Pristina, told the news agency that “the attacker had a weapon with a silencer and based on his features was a paid assassin”. “Before 8 A.M, someone rang our bell. I opened the door and saw a man holding some […]

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Osmani: Possibilities for the Serbian List to vote the army, are exhausted (lajmi.net)

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Kosovo Assembly MP from the Democratic League of Kosovo, Vjosa Osmani, said at the round-table organized by Kosovar Centre for Security Studies, that Kosovo cannot wait for Serbia to change its rhetoric with regards to the independence of Kosovo. “All the possibilities to convince the Serbian List to cooperate with KSF are exhausted,” she said. […]

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Lawmakers care about what happens in Kosovo, Sri Lanka and Georgia. Here’s why (Washington Examiner)

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Russian and Chinese ambitions to be great powers tested the Obama administration and will pose a continuing challenge to President Trump’s ability to maintain the global network of U.S. alliances. But a group of House lawmakers isn’t leaving that task to the president. The House Democracy Partnership, a bipartisan commission of lawmakers started in 2005, […]

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Vučić: Willingness of Pristina to reject the dialogue underestimated (N1)

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Prime Minister of Serbia Alekasandar Vučić said today that Belgrade is ready to continue dialogue with Pristina; he also said that some in the world do not take sufficiently serious the commitment of Pristina to reject the dialogue. When it comes to the regional cooperation, Vučić says that he will meet the prime ministers of […]

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Rakic against changes at the Police (Koha Ditore)

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Mitrovica North citizens protested today in front of the Police Station in the north, due to the replacement of three Police senior officers. Mayor of Mitrovica North, Goran Rakic, aslo participated at the protest. He said that he will request withdrawal of these decisions. The paper also learned that Rakic, together with the Director of […]

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90 polling stations in Kosovo for the Serbia’s presidential elections (Blic)

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The Republic Electoral Commission announces that on April 2nd, for the Serbian presidential elections, in Kosovo would be open 90 polling stations and 53 abroad. REC made the decision on the number of polling stations on the basis of notifications of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. According to […]

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