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OSCE Broadcast 10 February

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• OSCE will organise Serbia’s elections in Kosovo (RTK2)
• CEC needs more time for reforms (TV21, RTK1)
• Students call Prof Krasniqi racist (Klan Kosova, KTV)
• Opposition parties unable to bring down Government (All monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Legislation Committee has done nothing in amending Election Law
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• LDK nominates Isa Mustafa as candidate for Prime Minister (Most monitored broadcasters, RTK1)
• Government requests establishment of ad hoc war crime tribunal (Klan Kosova)

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Belgrade Daily Media Highlights 10 February

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STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Dacic on UN Security Council session (RTS’ correspondent Nenad Zafirovic in New York)
• Government guarantees for four arrested Serbs (RTS)
• Deadline expires for four Serb municipalities (Beta)
• Goranis support SNS (Beta)
• Radic: Pristina forming army (Radio Serbia)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Vucic: Solving disputes in elections (RTS)
• Dodik: Serbia must be involved in B&H (Srna)
• Bosic: We will not remove Dodik from power in the streets (Srna)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Bosnia draws back from unrest, protesters vow to persist (Reuters)
• Bosnia protesters attack presidency building (Al Jazeera)
• Bosnian Protesters Accuse Police of Brutality (AP)
• Bosnia parties call for snap election (AAP)
• Bosnia violence orchestrated by same choreographers as Kiev protests – expert (The Voice of Russia)
• Unrest Spreads in Bosnia (Transitions online, by S. Adam Cardais, Ioana Caloianu, and Karlo Marinovic)
• Macedonia Albanians Warned Against Poll Boycott (BIRN)

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Not all parties want to bring down Thaci’s government (koha.net)

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Opposition parties in Kosovo, except for the Vetevendosje Movement, are no ready to bring down the current government. After today’s meeting of the parliament presidency, heads of parliamentary groups expressed different opinions about the possible downfall of the government. Parliament Speaker Jakup Krasniqi did not give a concrete answer, saying that everything depends on parliamentary […]

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Harsh water restrictions begin today (Indeksonline)

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As of this morning, regional water company “Pristina” has imposed water restrictions taking effect in Pristina, Obiliq, Gracanica, and surrounding areas. “Prishtina” water company urges the citizens to use water as rationally as possible and save available water reserves which, if there is no precipitation meanwhile, will only last the next three to four months. […]

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Bosnia as a warning for Kosovo (Koha Ditore)

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Brussels based correspondent of this daily, Augustin Palokaj, writes that recent protests in Bosnia and Herzegovina, served as a reminder that this state is not functioning. The population there is in despair and disappointed, while the international community has not completed its duty. For more than 20 years, we have been hearing the expression “Bosnia […]

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Politics without moral (Zeri)

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Arbana Xharra writes that it is unbelievable how far can manipulations of politics go in order to profit. Without any moral norm or responsibility, it tends to dim the scandal of oil with high percentage of sulfur, even though laboratory results prove the opposite. She considers that the decision of Pristina mayor, Shpend Ahmeti, to […]

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Hoxhaj asks for support from Greece and Slovakia (Telegrafi)

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Kosovo Foreign Minister, Enver Hoxhaj, during a visit to Brussels, met Greek Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Evangelos Venizelos, who is chairing the European Union’s Greek presidency. Hoxhaj also had a meeting with Slovak Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Miroslav Lajcak. In the meetings, Minister Hoxhaj briefed his Greek and […]

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UNSC to hold meeting on Kosovo (Tanjug, Politika,Blic)

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BELGRADE – The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will hold a meeting on Monday, tabling the regular three-month report by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the situation in Kosovo-Metohija, and the list of speakers will include Ivica Dacic, Serbia’s outgoing prime minister. In the report for the period between October 16 and January 20, […]

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EULEX is trying to solve the “sensitive” cases (Danas)

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Florian Cehaja, Pristina analyst, about the recent arrests in Kosovo Pristina, Belgrade – EULEX invest more efforts to cope with the number of cases to ensure that the most sensitive ones are to be found before the international prosecution and judges before the reconfiguration of the EU mission in June of 2014. The idea is […]

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Today Security Council holds a session for Kosovo (Radio Kosova)

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UN Security Council will be reviewing today the report of the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon over the developments in Kosovo, who in his observations emphasizes that 2013 was “a year of considerable political progress of a leadership and commitment of Pristina and Belgrade, which culminated with the historic agreement of 19 April.” The meeting […]

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Northern Mitrovica could go to repeated municipal elections (RTK2)

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Four municipalities in the north populated mostly by Serbs will try today to elect municipal leaderships in municipal assemblies before the deadline expires today. It could happen also that Northern Mitrovica goes to extraordinary elections for assembly too, since Serbian and Albanian parties couldn’t agree about the speaker of the assembly. Five Albanian councilors in […]

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Reprise of the BiH riots do not threaten Kosovo (Danas)

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Pristina, Belgrade – After last week’s student protests, the Rector of the University of Pristina, Ibrahim Gashi over the weekend has resigned, and was replaced by acting Naser Sahiti. Gashi shift came after the students’ announcement that protests will continue and today with a new requirement – the removal of Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hashim Thaci. […]

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