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OSCE Broadcast 10 December

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• Ambassador Jacobson and Kosovo political leaders discuss election reform (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Moore: Association of Serb municipalities neither an NGO nor a special entity (Klan Kosova, RTK2)
• EULEX rejects request for Lushtaku’s release (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• CEC presents final election results (Most monitored broadcasters, TV21)
• Civil society marks International Anti-Corruption Day (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)

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Belgrade Daily Media Highlights 10 December

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STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Mutual respect of Serbia and Montenegro (RTS)
• Silence of both Pristina and the international community about the missing in Kosovo (Tanjug)
• Dikovic meets Serbian peacekeepers in Lebanon (Beta)
• Wilhelm: Normalization of relations with Pristina and Serbia’s EU membership talks to run parallel (Tanjug/Beta)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• SDP Presidency: State leaders should get serious (Oslobodjenje)
• Greece denies international community pressure on the name issue (Utrinski Vesnik)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Serbia pursued a wrong economic policy – Radulovic (InSerbia)
• Tensions in Serbian Ruling Party Burst Open (BIRN)
• AP Enterprise: Decaying economy, Balkans war legacy fuel domestic violence crisis in Serbia (AP)
• World Bank to Lend Serbia $490 Million After New Laws Approved (Bloomberg)
• Serbia’s telecom market lags behind the most developed in CEE (Balkans.com Business News Correspondent)
• Lack of BiH judiciary reforms criticized (SETimes)
• Bosnian Serb MPs Stage Protest Boycott (BIRN)
• EBRD is providing a €10 million loan to Bosnia Herzegovina’s Sberbank (Balkans.com Business News Correspondent)
• Serbia Begins a Diplomatic Offensive against Croatia (euinside.eu)
Uncivil Society: The Politicisation of Macedonia’s NGOs (BIRN)

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Works in Raska blocked, Serbs fail to bring excavators to the site (Indeksonline)

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Excavations in Raska of Serbia have not started yet at the site suspected of being a mass grave with victims killed in the Kosovo war. Director of Forensic Department, Arsim Gërxhaliu, confirmed to publiku.net that excavations have not started yet because of the lack of readiness of the Serb side to bring digging machinery. “The […]

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Hodzic: For time being, I have no plans for political engagement (telegrafi.com)

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Former candidate for northern Mitrovica mayor, Adriana Hodzic, told Telegrafi that residents of the northern part of Mitrovica feel more relaxed after the November 3 local elections. “It is positive that elections were generally peaceful and now the situation is more relaxed. The main concern was not who would win the elections but for the […]

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World Bank: Kosovo in 2014 with a solid economic growth (Radio Kosova)

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Radio Kosova reports that World Bank presented the report over economic development in Southeast Europe “Slow Recovery”. According to this report, Kosovo is foreseen to have a solid economic growth in 2014, but not enough for creation of new working places In the World Bank report the part for Kosovo, it says that the budget […]

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Vulin meets Due (Tanjug)

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BELGRADE – Serbia’s Minister Without Portfolio in charge of Kosovo Aleksandar Vulin has met with Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of UN Office in Belgrade Peter Due. According to a release from the Serbian government office for Kosovo, the two met on Monday and Due congratulated Vulin on the results of the local […]

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Jahjaga: Six Kosovo’s challenges in two decades (Koha)

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President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga, at the “Governance Challenges 2013” conference at the Blavatnik School of Oxford University said that citizens of Kosovo experienced tectonic changes in a period of two decades, from war to peace, from dictatorship to democracy, and from social economy into capitalism and free market. She stated that Kosovo, the youngest […]

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Mass grave excavations continue in Raska (Koha)

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Excavations are scheduled to continue today in Raska of Serbia at a site suspected of being a mass grave. Kosovo’s Justice Ministry has announced that the excavations will resume by a team led by the director of Forensic Department, Arsim Gërxhaliu and experts from EULEX. “Excavations that were carried out two months ago are expected […]

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In Srbica possible new elections (Blic)

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In Municipality Srbica/Skenderaj, within 45 days, will be again held elections for mayor, because the Trial Chamber of the Basic Court in Mitrovica did not accept the request of Mayor Sami Lustaku, to give an oath in new term, as head of the municipality.  If the Mayor fails to take the oath then the mandate […]

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Concern over threats to Serbian journalist (B92)

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VIENNA — The South East Europe Media Organization (SEEMO) has expressed alarm at a spate of recent threats delivered via text messages to journalist Milorad Bojović. He is a journalist from the Serbian weekly NS Reporter. According to Bojović, since November 29 he has received more than 30 SMS message, sent from different phone numbers, […]

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Germany postpones talks (Vecernje Novosti)

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It is not certain that the first intergovernmental conference of Serbia and the EU will be held in December, since Germany and partly United Kingdom unofficial advocate for postponing the decision to March, revealed on Monday, Prime Minister Ivica Dacic.   He says that for Belgrade any delay for March is very harmful decision and counterproductive […]

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Yugoslav Commander ‘Didn’t Attack Kosovo Villages’ (BIRN)

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The former driver for a Yugoslav military commander charged with war crimes over killings in Kosovo villages in 1999 said that his chief was not there when two of the attacks took place. Dusan Langulic, who during the Kosovo war was the driver for the former Yugoslav Army commander Toplica Miladinovic, testified on Monday at […]

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