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Belgrade Media Report 22 March

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LOCAL PRESS

• Responsible policy of Serbia as factor of stability in Western Balkans (Beta/Tanjug)
• Visit of Vucic to Moscow proof of improving relations (RTS/Beta)
• Serbia grateful to N. Korea for stance on Kosovo (Beta/B92)
• Nikolic: Retirement does not mean I will stop working (Novosti/Politika)

REGIONAL PRESS

Bosnia & Herzegovina
• State-level coalition in B&H in serious crisis (FTV)
• SNSD and DNS parliamentarians to continue to boycott sessions of B&H Parliament (Oslobodjenje)
• Moore criticizes Izetbegovic for not sharing fact about Softic’s status with citizens and coalition partners (Nezavisne)
• Federation of B&H HoR adopts resolution that condemns federalization; Croats left the session (TV1)
Montenegro
• Dikic should have handed the phone over to a DF politician? (Pobjeda)
• Husovic: DPS-BS coalition doesn’t need to last forever (Dan)
• Radunovic: There is no crisis in DPS-BS coalition (Pobjeda)
fYROM
• SDSM leader expects government mandate, resumption of parliament’s work (MIA)
• Ahmeti: We are part of the majority and we will not breach the agreement (Meta)
• BESA leader: Hahn asks for state interests to prevail towards settling the crisis (MIA)
• Solution to political crisis lies in the institutions, says party leader Sela (MIA)
• Protesters told Hahn that he is not welcomed and voiced anti-EU slogans (MIA)
• Parties agree number of seats in the Committee on Elections and Appointments (MIA)

INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• EU to Macedonia: ‘Stop playing with fire’ (EUobserver)
• Russia, Bosnia sign deal settling Soviet-era debt (Associated Press)

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Demolli: Thaci acted in line with his competencies (Ekonomia Online)

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Kosovo Security Force (KSF) Minister, Haki Demolli, said President of Kosovo Hashim Thaci acted within the scope of his competencies when he initiated the transformation of the KSF but clarified that his ministry had prepared two years ago the proposal for constitutional amendments that would serve as legal basis for the creation of a Kosovo […]

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Hoxhaj at the meeting of Foreign Ministers of anti-ISIS coalition (Lajmi.net)

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During the second day of his visit to Washington, Kosovo’s Foreign Minister, Enver Hoxhaj continued with the meetings at the House of Representatives as well as Senators of the U.S. Congress from both the Republican and Democratic parties. A press release issued by the Foreign Ministry informs that on the verge of the first decade […]

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Ivanović: I expect a fair trial; I’m not guilty (Kontakt plus radio)

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Oliver Ivanović told Kontakt plus radio that he hopes that repeated court proceedings against him will be fair and efficient and that it will prove his innocence for the acts of which he was charged. In the basic court in Mitrovica on Friday begins a retrial to Ivanović with presentation of opening statements of the […]

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Kosovo government adopts strategy for integration of Montenegrins (Kallxo)

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The Kosovo government adopted today a draft strategy for the integration of the Montenegrin community in Kosovo, the news website reports. Prime Minister Isa Mustafa said his Montenegrin counterpart had requested that this strategy should provide greater competencies than an association. The news website recalls that Montenegrins living in Kosovo are not a constitutional category […]

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Serbia grateful to N. Korea for stance on Kosovo (B92)

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Serbian First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic on Tuesday received the new ambassador of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Ri Pyong Du. The diplomat delivered his accreditation letters to President Tomislav Nikolic, the Serbian government said. Ri Pyong Du thus officially assumed the office of ambassador on non-residential basis accredited from Bucharest, […]

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Serbia-US relations “on upward trajectory” (B92)

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Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic and US Ambassador to Belgrade Kyle Scott agreed on Tuesday that bilateral relations were “on an upward trajectory.” This is resulting in greater interest among US companies in investing in Serbia, they said, and cited as an example Tuesday’s signing of an agreement on the expansion of operations of US company […]

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OSCE Broadcast 21 March

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• Thaçi undertakes initiative for decriminalization of political scene (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Haxhiu: We have no time for the electoral reform (KTV)
• Abdullahu: Demarcation to be submitted to Assembly by end of March (TV21)
• VV ready to enter into coalition with LDK without Mustafa (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Djuric campaigns for Vucic in Kosovo (RTK)
• Surroi: Who is pushing Kosovo Serbs towards Belgrade? (KTV)

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UNMIK Headlines 22 March

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Kosovo army to be voted after presidential elections in Serbia (Zeri)
Kosovo government committed to establishing Association/Community (Zeri)
Hoxhaj receives U.S. support for new recognitions (Epoka e Re)
Molliqaj: With LDK in coalition, but without Isa Mustafa (Epoka e Re)
Media publish names of people in the “People’s Eye” assassination list
New “moratorium” on Trepca mining complex (Koha)

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