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Belgrade Media Report 11 September

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LOCAL PRESS

• Vucic: Serbia will not change opinion about Haradinaj (Beta)
• Djuric: We will continue to support Serb List (RTS)
• Serb List representatives: We are not fighting for positions but for the future (RTS)
• Ivanovic: Serb List’s decision expected (Danas)

REGIONAL PRESS

Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Dodik: Idea of possible referendum on status of RS will be discussed later (RTRS)
• Govedarica: Idea of referendum is not act of RS Assembly but of SNSD (TV1)
• Borenovic: Opposition does not want to take part in further isolation and disappearance of RS (BN TV)
Croatia
• Grabar-Kitarovic says ICTY will lose its credibility if second instance verdict in ‘Prlic et al case confirms joint criminal enterprise; Grabar-Kitarovic to ask Putin about his countr’s ties with Serbia (N1)
• Croatian President responds to criticism from Bosnia and Herzegovina (Jutarnji list)
• Hungary joins Slovenia in blocking Croatia’s OECD Membership (Jutarnji list)
Montenegro
• Boycott not sustainable, dialogue necessary (Dan)
• Vukovic: There is no healthy opposition in Montenegro (Pobjeda)
• Darmanovic: Montenegro contributed to victory over ISIS (CDM)
• Mandic and Knezevic to write Declaration on Preservation of the Serbian Nation (Pobjeda)
fYROM
• Dimitrov in Tallinn: I have a great story at this hopeful moment for Macedonia (Meta)
• At a meeting with Dimitrov, Hahn gave his support for the government’s reforms (Meta)
• Dimitrov: Negotiations with Greece will definitely begin at the end of this year (Meta)
Albania
• President Meta Signs Edi Rama as Prime Minister (ADN)
• Albanian parliament elects Gramoz Ruci as new speaker (ATA)

INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• As China Moves In, Serbia Reaps Benefits, With Strings Attached (The New York Times)

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New Kosovo PM to Revise Montenegro Border Deal (Balkan Insight)

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Shortly after being elected as Kosovo’s Prime Minister, Ramush Haradinaj said his government would take a fresh look at the controversial border agreement with Montenegro – whose adoption MPs have postponed repeatedly. http://bit.ly/2wScZfx

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New Kosovo PM pledges dialogue with Serbia, graft fight (Reuters)

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Kosovo’s newly-elected prime minister, ex-guerilla commander Ramush Haradinaj, pledged on Saturday to maintain dialogue with a former foe Serbia and put an end to endemic corruption. http://reut.rs/2xrbzcS

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Veseli, Haradinaj talk about “importance of forming institutions” (media)

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Kosovo’s Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj met today with Assembly President Kadri Veseli. Haradinaj posted on his Facebook account: “I met today with the President of the Kosovo Assembly, Kadri Veseli. We discussed the importance of forming the institutions and the need to accelerate all processes Kosovo faces. We also focused on the need for inter-institutional […]

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Haradinaj government to “reinvent the wheel” (Zeri)

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The paper’s editor, Lavdim Hamidi, writes in an opinion piece that while a government run by Ramush Haradinaj could last more than his 100 days in office in 2004 when he was forced to resign to face war crimes allegations in The Hague, it is unlikely to endure a four-year mandate in the present situation […]

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Delawie: Leaders to put state interests before personal interests (media)

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U.S. Ambassador Greg Delawie said today that Kosovo’s priorities should be the rule of law and economic development. After meeting newly-elected Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, Delawie said that Kosovo’s leaders should put the interests of the state before their personal interests and that Kosovo has no time to lose. “The United States of America will […]

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Ružić: Interest of Serbs in Kosovo is important (Dnevnik, Tanjug)

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Minister of State Administration Branko Ružić believes that the interest of Serbia and the Kosovo Serbs is maximal involvement in the work of Kosovo institutions, and one should not be guided by emotions or myths. “It is our interest to be maximally involved in order to preserve, above all, the right to the existence of […]

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“Coalition with Haradinaj – a black page in the history of Serbia” (Vesti)

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The coalition with Haradinaj will remain with black letters on the black pages of Serbian history, said President of the Free Citizens Movement Saša Janković, Vesti portal reports. – To bring the man into power, that you raised a war crimes indictment against him, make a coalition with him, and then you try to accuse […]

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“Party of Kosovo Serbs congratulates Vučić the coalition with Haradinaj” (KIM radio)

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“Party of Kosovo Serbs (PKS), attacked by Aleksandar Vučić and the official Belgrade for non-existent cooperation with the” war coalition “in Kosovo, congratulates Vučić and the Serbian government the coalition with Ramush Haradinaj,” said the PKS in a statement, reports KIM radio. “The SNS’s hypocrisy policy and its irresponsible approach towards our country and our […]

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B92: Serbs join new Kosovo government led by Haradinaj (Serbian media)

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The 120-seat Kosovo Assembly on Sunday elected Ramush Haradinaj, the PDK-led coalition candidate, as new head of the Kosovo government. 61 voted in favor, while one member of the Assembly abstained. After the session, members of the Self-Determination and the coalition gathered around the LDK left the session and did not attend the taking of […]

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Albanian lobbyists, Clinton Foundation drafting resolution to make Pristina UN observer (InSerbia, Sputnik, B92)

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Following the announcement of internal dialogue on Kosovo, Albanian lobbyists are busily preparing a resolution for the UN in order to give Kosovo a chair. According to Sputnik, lobbyists in America are working on the draft, helped by the Clinton Foundation, and their plan is for Kosovo to gain the status of “an observer state,” […]

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OSCE Broadcast 10 September

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• Extraordinary Assembly session fails (All monitored broadcasters, RTK1 & KTV)
• Haradinaj: I will be at service of country and people (All monitored broadcasters, RTK1)
• Haradinaj: Border agreement is wrong (KTV)
• EU welcomes establishment of new Kosovo Government (All monitored broadcasters, RTK1)
• Lottery for local elections to be drawn on Monday (All monitored broadcasters, RTK1)
• KLI: CEC certified candidates with criminal background (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)

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