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Vulin: Serbian govt and Serbs in KiM support compromise (Tanjug)

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 Serbian Minister without Portfolio in charge of Kosovo-Metohija Aleksandar Vulin stated that the Serbian government and Serbs in northern Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) are doing their best to achieve compromise concerning the staging of special sessions of municipal assemblies in the northern part of the province. Vulin stated that the staging of special sessions in northern Kosovo […]

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Belgrade Daily Media Highlights 10 January

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STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Report on the Money Flow in the Province of Kosovo has not yet been presented (Vecernje Novosti, 10 January 2014)
• Vulin: Serbian govt and Kosovo Serbs support compromise (Tanjug, 10 January 2014)
• Restructured EULEX would deal only with Serbs (Politika, by B. Mitrinović, 10 January 2014)
• Trajkovic: The Brussels agreement is a Great Enigma (FoNet, 9 January 2014)
• Minister Ljajic announces changes of the Criminal Law: prison for those who recruit the Wahabis (Blic, by Boris Vukovic, 10 January 2014)
• He died for Al-Qaeda: The death of Mirza Ganic upsets Sandžak! (Vecernje Novosti, by M. Niciforovic, 9 January 2014)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• They want to replace Djukanovic over Mugosa (Beta, 10 January 2014)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Balkan politics: Serbian shenanigans (The Economist, 10 January 2014)
• Do Serbian Pupils Know the Score? (Transitions Online, by Uffe Andersen 9 January 2014)
• Macedonia Union Slates Grading Public Servants (BIRN, by Sinisa Jakov Marusic, 10 January 2014)
• Montenegro: Tough Choices Face Divided Society (BIRN, Dusica Tomovic, 10 January 2014)
• Bosnian war victims criticize celebration by Bosnian Serb leaders (Associated Press, January 9, 2014)

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FIFA postpones decision on friendlies involving Kosovo teams (Tanjug)

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Following Friday’s meeting in Zurich with representatives of the Football Association of Serbia (FSS) and Kosovo’s football federation, the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) postponed the decision on whether to allow Kosovo teams to play friendly games. FSS officials said they are pleased with Friday’s meeting, voicing confidence that members of the FIFA emergency […]

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Possible new elections in the north? (KiM Radio)

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Minister of Administration and Local Government, Slobodan Petrovic told KIM radio that according to the Law, the last term for holding constitutive sessions in Kosovo north is 11 January.  According to the same law, if the constitutive sessions will not be held within the stipulated time, new elections will be scheduled. “The deadline is 11 […]

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Restructured EULEX would deal only with Serbs (Politika)

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In recent days, Pristina dailies were writing about announced reorganization of EULEX and whether the same reorganization will be carried out at the request of Pristina or the EU.  No one of Serbian officials yet reacted.  The EU strategy for the EULEX transformation, to which we had access, states that from 14 June restructured EULEX […]

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Ivica Dacic : Nobody wants new elections in Kosovo and Metohija (Blic)

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Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic said today that no one wants new elections in K&M, stating that the solution for the constitution of the Community of Serbian municipalities is sought. That is also the topic of today’s talks of working groups in Brussels.    “A compromise solution that will be status neutral is sought, and relates […]

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Rama-Thaci, a show in Prizren (Tribuna)

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Columnist Armand Shkullaku writes in his opinion piece about the meeting between the governments of Albania and Kosovo in Prizren this Saturday. Shkullaku notes that the meeting has a powerful symbolic as it will be held in the house of the Prizren League and that being the first of its kind deserves a historic epithet. […]

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Degradation (Kosova Sot)

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The paper’s front-page editorial notes that dialogue with Serbia has brought modest results but Kosovars are still the only people who cannot move freely in the Schengen Zone, “while Belgrade has received the candidate status for EU membership along with hundreds of millions of euros”. “Kosovo meanwhile has yet to become a member of the […]

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EU: Serb elected mayors to respect Kosovo laws (Koha)

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Kosovo delegation, yesterday, had bilateral meetings with EU representatives led by Ana-Maria Boura. The meeting between the Kosovo delegation, led by Deputy Prime Minister Edita Tahiri and consisting of Mimoza Ahmetaj, Kosovo’s ambassador to Brussels and Besnik Osmani, Secretary in the Ministry of Local Government and EU representatives focused on implementation of Brussels Agreement in […]

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Inauguration of municipalities in the north postponed (RTK Live)

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The office of Deputy Prime Minister and at the same time the head of the implementation of the agreement for normalization, Edita Tahiri, announced that inauguration sessions of municipalities in northern part of Kosovo have been postponed for this evening after the clear position that has been held from European Union, that those inaugurations should […]

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A century-long wait for the meeting (Lajmi.net)

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Prime Minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi, said the joint meeting of the governments of Kosovo and Albania, set to take place tomorrow in Prizren, marks a new chapter in relations between the two countries. In today’s meeting of the Government, Thaçi said this will be a meeting that has been anticipated for “a century”, and […]

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Every two hours, a municipality in the north (kohaditore.com)

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Belgrade media report, that today, mayors and assembly members will take over the duties, during the solemn meetings that will be held in four municipalities in the north of Kosovo. Zubin Potok mayor, Stevan Vulovic, stated yesterday that the meeting in Leposavic will be held at 08:00 hours, in Zubin Potok at 10:00, Zveçan at […]

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