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OSCE Broadcast 4 December

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• Schlumberger welcomes successful elections in Kosovo (RTK2)
• Serbia hails second round of elections in Kosovo (RTK2)
• First regional police conference held (RTK2, Klan Kosova&RTK1)
• Thaçi: The Association without legislative and executive functions (Most monitored broadcasters, TV21)
• ECAP: No revote in Mitrovicë/Mitrovica (Most monitored broadcasters, TV21)
• Vetëvendosje: Project for integration of north Serbs failed (All monitored broadcasters, RTK1)
• Reactions to Serb mayors’ statements (TV21)
• LDK and AAK ready for possible early elections (KTV)

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EU warns about threat of foreign fighters in Syria (AP)

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BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s anti-terror chief will tell EU interior ministers on Thursday about the “major security threat” that the increase of foreign fighters in Syria poses. A note for the meeting from the office of EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator Gilles de Kerchove stresses that numbers of fighters traveling back and forth from Syria […]

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Belgrade Daily Media Highlights 4 December

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STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Dacic satisfied about results of local elections in Kosovo (Tanjug)
• Serbia “ready for accession talks,” says negotiator (B92, Novosti)
• Djilas: DS wants Serbia in EU (Tanjug)
• Serbia’s cooperation with ICTY is positive (Tanjug)
• “Countries informed” about anti-Serb incidents in Croatia (B92)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Dodik : Never against the policy of official Belgrade (Nezavisne novine/ Srna)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• EU satisfies over second round of polls in Kosovo (KUNA, 3 Dec. 2013)
• Tax Rises in Serbia’s 2014 Budget Defended (BIRN, 4 Dec. 2013)
• Bosnia’s Unfinished Business (New York Times, 3 Dec. 2013)
• EU Says Progress Achieved At Marathon Bosnia Talks (RFE/RL’s Balkan Service, 4 Dec 2013)
• Bosnian police sentenced for war crimes in Serbia (World Bulletin, 3 Dec. 2013)
• Hague Tribunal President faces protest in Bosnia (Netherlands Times, 3 Dec. 2013)
• Deripaska’s En+ affiliate seeks EUR 100 mln from Montenegro (RAPSI, 4 Dec. 2013)
• Macedonia’s Small Parties Demand Election Reform (BIRN, By Sinisa Jakov Marusic, 4 Dec 2013)
• Croatian Anti-Cyrillic Campaigners Eye Referendum (BIRN, By Josip Ivanaovic, 3 Dec. 2013)

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Haradinaj: Yes, I am aiming for the prime minister’s post (indeksonline.net)

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Even though he has lost four municipalities in the last local elections, Ramush Haradinaj, leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) said he is still aiming for the post of prime minister of Kosovo after parliamentary elections which are expected to be held next year. Asked by reporters if he still wants […]

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Vllasi: Serb mayors will be “an instrument” of Serbia (telegrafi.com)

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Political analyst Azem Vllasi in an interview for Telegrafi said the real danger lies on whether the new mayors of Serb majority municipalities will try to act as Serbia’s instrument in Kosovo. “It will be really dangerous if these mayors hope that the Association of Serb majority municipalities will operate as Serbia’s instrument in Kosovo’s […]

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Bonino: We’ll consider sending additional troops to KFOR (rtklive.com)

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Italian Foreign Minister Ema Bonino said the Italian Government is ready to consider deploying additional troops to KFOR. Bonino was answering questions by reporters about the possibility of deploying troops that would replace French soldiers in Kosovo. Bonino also said that Rome has yet to receive a specific request from NATO.

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Citizens made the change by being part of it (Zëri)

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Vetëvendosje leader Albin Kurti remarks in an opinion piece for the paper that there is a great deal of work ahead for Vetëvendosje and Shpend Ahmeti as the elected mayor of Pristina. Kurti admits that running Pristina will not be easy at all and that Ahmeti will need each and every citizen to help him […]

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Election Panel for Complaints and Appeals EPCA has received runoff complaints (Radio Kosova)

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Legal deadline  for submission of complaints for the election campaign 2013 has passed. Election panel for Complaints and Appeals EPCA has received 32 complaints during the process of runoff and 14 other complaints in the second round of elections, held on 1 December. The news has been confirmed from, Mul Desku, Chief of EPCA Secretariat. […]

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Dacic: Seat of Basic Court should be in northern Mitrovica (Tanjug)

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BELGRADE – Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic expressed the expectation on Wednesday that the talks with Pristina in Brussels on Thursday would be most problematic in connection to judiciary issues, especially the establishment of the Basic Court in northern Kosovska Mitrovica which is home to Serbian majority population. Dacic told reporters that he expects problems […]

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Army chief visits NATO command in Naples (B92,Tanjug)

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NAPLES — Serbian Army chief-of-staff Gen. Ljubiša Diković has met with commander of NATO Allied Joint Force Command Admiral Bruce Clingan in Naples, Italy. They discussed “cooperation between the Serbian Armed Forces and KFOR,” the Serbian Army said in a statement. Diković and Clingan”also discussed KFOR activities, cooperation within the Partnership for Peace program and […]

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Soon, Kosovo Customs towards Serbia (Vesti online)

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The joy of Krstimir Pantic, newly elected President of Kosovska Mitrovica municipality, due to the narrow victory in the elections, in which voted small number of Serbs in northern Kosovo, could be of a short breath. As of 14 December, when beginning of customs clearance of all kinds of goods from Serbia that are entering […]

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“Kosovo can have small chair in UN corridors” (B92,Tanjug,NIN)

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BELGRADE — Parliament Speaker Nebojša Stefanović has said that he “does not know who in the government is working against the interests of the state.” But the high ranking official of the ruling SNS party told the weekly NIN that “this person must be dismissed.” “We need to find out as soon possible who it […]

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