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Belgrade Media Report 27 December 2017

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Daily Media Highlights

Wednesday 27 December 2017

LOCAL PRESS

• Dacic: Problems that caused wars have not been removed (TV Happy/Tanjug)
• Turkish Kurd extradited pursuant to decisions by court, commission – ministry (Tanjug/Beta)
• Sutanovac DS candidate for Belgrade mayor (Blic)
• Appeal for defense of Kosovo gathered intellectuals and bishops (Novosti/Politika)

REGIONAL PRESS

Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Dodik: Concept of coordination mechanism is biggest achievement in 2017, it stops centralization (RTRS)
• Ivanic asks Dodik to allow participation of Third Regiment during marking of January 9th (Klix.ba)
• Jerinic condemns Dodik’s decision re participation of B&H AF in ceremony marking RS Day (ATV)
• US Embassy to B&H on US Congressman Turner’s initiative for “Dayton 2” (Hayat)
• Former HVO member sentenced to 14 years in prison for war crimes against Serb civilians (Srna)
• Congress to Pentagon: Give us everything about Russians in the Balkans (RTRS)
Croatia
• President’s Office says messages sent out during holiday season must not incite conflicts (Hina)
• Serbian NGO accuses Croatia and Hungary of illegally returning migrants to Serbia (Hina)
Montenegro
• Decision on border demarcation postponed for 15 January (MINA)
• Mocnik: Western Balkans to be more involved in EU projects (Pobjeda)
fYROM
• Ivanov called for “compromise instead of revanchism” (Meta)
• Ivanov’s annual address was a shameful party-political speech, say SDSM and the government (Meta)
• Parties comment President Ivanov’s annual address (MIA)
• Zaev-VMRO-DPMNE leader Mickoski: Opposition should take part in Macedonia’s reform processes (MIA)
• Zaev on name issue, coalition partners and parliamentary majority (MIA)

INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Hahn: 2025 ambitious but realistic goal (European Western Balkans)
• 2018 will be important for Western Balkans (EUobserver)

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Initiative to abolish court for KLA crimes fizzles out (Tanjug, B92)

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Eight out of 43 members of the Kosovo Assembly who supported an initiative to annul the law on the Specialist Chambers have withdrawn their signatures. The Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor’s Office, referred to colloquially as “the special KLA court,” were set up in 2015 under the auspices of the EU to deal with the […]

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2018 will be important for Western Balkans (EUobserver)

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Bernard Kouchner, a former French minister for foreign and European affairs, co-founder of Medecins Sans Frontières, founder of Médecins du Monde, and the former UN Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, writes in an op-ed for EUobserver that next year is expected to be an important period for […]

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Hoxhaj urges Arab countries to recognise Kosovo (Klan Kosova)

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Kosovo’s Deputy Prime Minister, Enver Hoxhaj, thanked Saudi Arabia for support and recognition of Kosovo’s independence but expressed disappointment with the refusal of many Arab countries to follow suit. “When independence of Kosovo was declared, we expected there would be a wave of support and recognitions from Arab and Islamic countries but this did not […]

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“Kosovo leaders damaged relations with international allies” (RFE)

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Political analysts told Radio Free Europe that Kosovo political and institutional leaders showed they have no understanding towards the positions of the international community on sensitive issues. Ramush Tahiri said recent events give the impression that Kosovo leaders are not conscientious to international obligations Kosovo has taken on. “It is a fact that we are […]

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Another month in detention for Albin Kurti and Donika Kadaj-Bujupi (media)

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The Basic Court in Pristina has decided on another month of detention for Vetevendosje MPs Albin Kurti and Donika Kadaj-Bujupi. The two MPs are charged with activating teargas canisters in the Kosovo Assembly.

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Dobruna: Thaci should have resigned (Telegrafi)

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Sokol Dobruna, former president of the Kosovo Liberation Army Court, told RTV Dukagjini on Tuesday that the special court, which will address war crimes allegations in Kosovo, will not be revoked. Dobruna said Kosovo President Hashim Thaci should have resigned if he was under pressure to agree to the formation of the special court. “He […]

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Supreme Court turns down AAK’s complaint for Istog (media)

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Kosovo’s Supreme Court has overruled the complaint of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) for the runoff elections in Istog municipality. The AAK had complained about irregularities in the runoff elections and called on the Central Election Commission to annul the election results.

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Djuric: Some people are trying to escape responsibility for 17 years (TV Prva, Insajder)

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Some people are trying to escape from responsibility for 17 years, says Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric on the occasion of the attempt to abolish the KLA Special War Crimes Court. “War crime does not become obsolete, they can try to buy another month, another year, but sooner or later […]

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Kosovo: War Court Challenged, Ex-Guerrillas Acquitted (Balkan Insight) 

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MPs staged a dramatic intervention to try to stop the new special court which will try former Kosovo Liberation Army fighters, while courts in Pristina acquitted two prominent politicians and ex-guerrilla commanders. As the year drew to a close in Pristina, a group of MPs made a controversial attempt on the night of December 22 […]

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Dacic names great powers that are “not Serbia’s friends” (B92, TV Happy)

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Only a blind person could believe that problems in the Balkans are over, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said late on Tuesday. The regional conflict will last until the cause of those problems have been found – if you sweep all the problems under the carpet, you will trip over that carpet, Dacic told a […]

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Brammertz unsatisfied over Gotovina, Haradinaj and Perisic (Serbian media)

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Hague tribunal chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz says in the interview for Belgrade based daily Vecernje Novosti that he does not think that the Hague Tribunal directly leads to the reconciliation of the people in the former Yugoslavia, but that the determination of responsibility is a prerequisite for reconciliation. Brammertz says on the occasion of closing […]

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