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OSCE Broadcast 5 December

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• Thaçi and Dacic agree on integration of Serbs in KP (Most monitored broadcasters, RTK1)
• Kosovo MPs worried about statements of Serb mayors-elect (All monitored broadcasters, KTV, RTK1, & Klan Kosova)
• EULEX rejects PDK request to release Lushtaku (KTV)
• Zubin Potok Serbs protest against Kosovo Border Police (Klan Kosova, KTV)

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Belgrade Daily Media Highlights 5 December

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STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• New round of Belgrade-Pristina dialogue (RTS)
• Kocijancic: Full implementation of agreement – positive report from Ashton (Tanjug)
• Still uncertain – Kosovo in one or two chapters (Tanjug)
• EP: Committee asks for negotiations with Serbia in December (Politika/Tanjug)
• Skrbic: Sarajevo will not recognize Kosovo (Novosti)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Radmanovic: PIC less and less interesting to anyone in B&H (Radio RS)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Police detain 9 former Bosnian Serb policemen suspected of crimes against humanity (AP)
• Bosnia survivors outraged at war criminals’ release (AFP)
• Bosnian Prime Minister denies plans to sell BH Telecom (CET)
• Dzenana Karup Druško: the painful importance of the ICTY (Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso)
• Time to resolve the Greece-Macedonia name game (EUobserver.com)

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New elections in Skenderaj in the hands of EULEX judge (dailies)

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Early elections in Skenderaj are depending in one person, Dariusz Sielicki, the head of judicial body in Drenica case, who has the authority to decide about the possible release of Sami Lushtaku from detention before 20 December. If he is not released by then, Skenderaj is expected to head to early elections. This is foreseen […]

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Kosovo authorities to fight corruption within themselves (Koha Ditore)

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Koha Ditore reports that over 100 amendments have been presented in the draft report for Kosovo, which has been drafted from raporteur of the Austrian Green party, Ulrike Lunacek, and which is going to be discussed on Thursday in a session of the Commission for Foreign Policy of European Parliament. Also in this draft resolution European […]

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Italians to replace French (Tribuna)

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Italy’s Foreign Minister, Emma Bonino, stated that the Government in Rome is ready to consider sending additional troops in Kosovo. Her statement was a response to the question of journalists if Italy could send additional troops to KFOR, since France has decided to withdraw the last 300 soldiers from Kosovo, giving opportunity to the military […]

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Kosovo and Serbia working groups on security meet in Brussels (Koha Ditore)

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Government of Kosovo did not wish to say whether an agreement was reached with the Serbian side on integration of Serbian Interior Ministry (MUP) members into the Kosovo Police although the ninth meeting on the issue took place yesterday in Brussels. “There was discussion in the meetings regarding modalities and timelines of integration process of […]

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Two rounds of dialogue to ensure start of negotiations for Serbia (Koha Ditore)

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Koha Ditore reports that as they have agreed in their last meeting, immediately after the end of the first round of local elections in Kosovo, today Prime Ministers of Kosovo and Serbia with the facilitation of EU Representative for Foreign Policy and Security, Catherine Ashton, will be meeting in another round of the dialogue. In the […]

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Association to bring about a “Republika Srpska” (Zëri)

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Kosovo political analysts warn that the north is slipping into a new “Republika Srpska” before the very eyes of Kosovo leadership despite claims that such a thing will not be allowed to happen. Azem Vllasi said Kosovo authorities are behaving as if nothing is happening in the north and if they continue with this approach, […]

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Blomeyer: Association should not create a Republika Srpska (Koha Ditore)

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For Germany, Association of Serb Municipalities should not create an entity of the kind of Republika Srpska like in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This was explicitly rejected by German Ambassador in Kosovo, Peter Blomeyer, in an interview for the newspaper. According to him, the new mayors from the Serb list must comply with Brussels agreement and […]

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Dialogue for redefinition of association (Tribuna)

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Prime Ministers, Hashim Thaçi and Ivica Dacic will discuss during their meeting in Brussels on Thursday, the power of the association of Serb municipalities. While Serbia calls the association a union and considers it a Serb government in Kosovo, Pristina considers it to be a NGO of municipalities with Serb majority. The Prime Minister of […]

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Thaçi: Association is not a Republic (dailies)

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In an interview for Radio Free Europe, Prime Minister of Kosovo Hashim Thaçi said ahead of another meeting with Prime Minister of Serbia Ivica Dacic that the association of Serb municipalities will have to be in full accordance to the Kosovo Constitution and Agreement of 19 April. “Any other interpretation for a different functioning will be […]

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Serb mayors obliged to pledge according to Kosovo laws (kohaditore.com)

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Deputy of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK,) Donika Kada Bujupi, has raised her voice against changes of the Law for the Association of Municipalities, for the change of the 19 April agreement. Kadaj Bujupi stated on behalf of the AAK parliamentary group that changes or negotiation of this Law would have long-term […]

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