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Belgrade Media Report 13 July

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Daily Media Highlights

Thursday 13 July 2017
LOCAL PRESS

• Brnabic: Serbia dedicated to regional cooperation (Beta/Politika)
• Serbia determined to continue with its EU integration (Beta)
• Dacic: Europe not complete without Balkan region (Beta)
• Stable Serbia is the key to progress in the region (RTS)
• Serbian Orthodox Church and Academy prepared to join resolution of Kosovo issue (Novosti)
• Opposition suspicious concerning Vucic’s dialogue on Kosovo (Danas)
• Tadic: We are now before a fait accompli (Blic)

REGIONAL PRESS

Bosnia & Herzegovina
• 2017 Western Balkans Summit within Berlin Process begins in Trieste (TV1)
• Crnadak meets Hahn (Hayat)
• Conclusions to lead to complete isolation of B&H (Oslobodjenje)
• Zvizdic meets Merkel, discusses EU integration and reform processes (Oslobodjenje)
• New German-Turkish initiative considers civic B&H? (N1)
• Trial of SBB B&H leader Radoncic resumes before B&H Court (FTV)
Croatia
• Slovenian and Croatian Prime Ministers meet in Ljubljana (24sata.hr)
Montenegro
• Markovic with Merkel: Now is a real opportunity to come to Montenegro (CDM)
fYROM
• Zaev: Good neighborly relations, Euro-integration not political issues, but necessity (MIA)
• New Macedonian, Serbian PMs hold first meeting at sidelines of Western Balkan Summit (MIA)
• Merkel voices support for Macedonia’s reforms, Euro-Atlantic integration (MIA)
• Hahn: The requests of the civil sector in the Balkans are acceptable (Meta)
• Athens tells Roth to refrain from giving history lessons (Meta)
Albania
• Rama: The stronger and more democratic Macedonia, the stronger and better Albania will be (ATA)
• Bushati: Trieste Summit to focus on concrete avenues for two initiatives (ATA)

INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Western Balkans: further than ever from EU membership? (Eurotopics)

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Serbian opposition sceptical toward Vucic’s dialogue on Kosovo (Danas)

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Representatives of the opposition parliamentary parties are sceptical regarding idea of the Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic to initiate a nationwide dialogue on Kosovo issues, Danas daily reported. Serbian media over the last days extensively covered Vucic’s announcement saying that in addition to all parliamentary parties, representatives of non-governmental sector, church dignitaries, heads of the Serbian […]

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President Thaci meets AAK leader Haradinaj (Koha)

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President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, is reported to have met PAN coalition’s candidate for prime minister and leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), Ramush Haradinaj, in one of Pristina restaurants today. The meeting was also attended by AAK MP Daut Haradinaj and journalist Dardan Gashi. Thaci did not comment on the […]

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Telegrafi: Thaci expected to announce date for Assembly’s constitutive session today or tomorrow

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Quoting sources from the Kosovo Assembly, Telegrafi reports that President of Kosovo Hashim Thaci is expected to announce date for Assembly’s constitutive session today or tomorrow. Sources said the likeliest date for the session will be sometime next week as many MPs are presently away on holidays.

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LDK’s Abdixhiku: President Thaci making favours to PDK (Telegrafi)

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New MP from the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Lumir Abdixhiku, accused the President of Kosovo Hashim Thaci of “unjustifiably” delaying the process for calling the constitutive session of the Assembly and thus favouring his old party, the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK). “I don’t know what he is waiting for,” said Abdixhiku of Thaci […]

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“Kosovo Assembly should decide about continuation of dialogue” (RTS)

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Kosovo Assembly should decide on the format of the dialogue in Brussels, recently continued at the presidential level, RTS reported referring to Pristina-based media reports that Hashim Thaci, with unilateral decision to meet Aleskandar Vucic breached Constitution. After the new government is formed, Kosovo Assembly should call for a session and decide about the future […]

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40 Kosovo women estimated to be in Syria and Iraq (Klan Kosova)

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According to the Kosovo Centre for Security Studies there are currently 40 women from Kosovo that have joined religious extremist groups in the conflicts in Syria and Iraq. Furthermore, it is estimated that 37 children from Kosovo are in these conflict zones.

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“EU wants to create mini-Yugoslavia in Balkans” (Welt, Index, B92)

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Reporting about the Western Balkans Summit in Trieste, German newspaper Die Welt writes that “the EU wants to create a new mini-Yugoslavia in the Balkans.” This is according to Croatia’s Index website, which said the summit brought together “the countries of the Western Balkans, as well as the leaders of Germany, France and Italy, and […]

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Vetevendosje’s Haxhiu: PAN has not enough votes to form government (Klan Kosova)

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Vetevendosje MP, Albulena Haxhiu, said the PAN coalition led by the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and its candidate for prime minister Ramush Haradinaj do not have required numbers to form the new government of Kosovo and that this was the reason why an Assembly session is not being called. In a Facebook post, Haxhiu […]

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U.S. to deploy battalion to Kosovo amid “enduring tensions” (RTK)

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RTK quotes reports from the U.S. military’s news outlet Stars and Stripes that the U.S. will deploy to Kosovo 500 new troops from  Arkansas, Texas, North Carolina, Oklahoma, California and New York and that the move comes in face of the possibility of rising tensions. The new troops will be deployed on 19 July and […]

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Serbs will get two ministries and positions of deputies? (Novosti)

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Novosti daily reported that these days, the leaders of major Albanian parties are in the process of intensive negotiations on the formation of the future government in Kosovo, while the representatives of Serbs say they have not yet received any official invitation for consultations. “No one has contacted us yet, but of course we will […]

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Trieste Western Balkans Summit declaration (B92, Esteri.it)

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Declaration issued by the Italian chair on July 12, 2017 In the framework of the Western Balkans Process, Italy welcomed in Trieste on 12th July 2017 the Heads of Government, Foreign Ministers and the Ministers of Economy of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, as well as Austria, […]

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