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OSCE Broadcast 12 February

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• Thaçi-Dacic meeting ends without agreement (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Krasniqi: We will not allow KIA to become a comrades’ agency (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)
• Kosovo ranked 80th in RWB Index (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV&TV21)
• Constitutional Court rejects request of minority parties (Klan Kosova)
• Independent Oversight Board reacts to Minister Rexhepi’s statement (KTV)
• Radivojevic sentenced to eight years imprisonment for war crimes (Klan Kosova)
• KP Inspectorate arrested a police officer (Most monitored broadcasters, TV21)

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Belgrade Daily Media Highlights 12 February

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STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Coalition agreement of two Serb lists in Kosovska Mitrovica (Novosti)
• Fate of missing persons (Radio Serbia)
• Radmanovic: There will be no early elections in RS (RTS)
• Luksic to visit Kosovo soon (Novosti)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• SDA supports continuing work of B&H Federation government, seeks Radoncic’s resignation (Oslobodjenje)
• SDS seeks early elections in RS (Fena)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Kosovo Starts Rationing Water as Lack of Rain Cuts Supply (Bloomberg)
• Macedonian Election Chief Doubts Accuracy of Roll (BIRN)
• Bosnians Mull Early Elections Amid Protests (BIRN)
• Bosnia protesters: “People are unemployed and hungry” (France 24)
• Bosnia: ‘It’s just like Ukraine’ (Deutsch Welle)
• OPINION: Why are the Balkans boiling again? (Al Jazeera)

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US ambassador expects good news for integration of courts in the north (Lajmi)

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U.S. Ambassador in Kosovo, Tracey Ann Jacobson, said she hopes the prime ministers of Kosovo and Serbia will reach an agreement on the judiciary in Brussels today. “I hope to hear good news from today’s meeting in dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia, especially for the integration of the judiciary,” Jacobson wrote on her Twitter account.

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European Parliament resolution distorts ICJ ruling (Telegrafi)

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Kosovo Parliament’s foreign affairs committee examined today a recent resolution adopted by the European Parliament for Kosovo’s European integration process. Participants said the resolution not only failed to remove the footnote on Kosovo but that the text also includes the Serb argument for “the unilaterally declared independence” thus distorting the ruling of the International Court […]

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Serbian ex-paramilitaries guilty of Kosovo killings (BBC News)

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Nine Serbian former paramilitaries have been found guilty of killing more than 100 ethnic Albanian civilians during the Kosovo conflict in the late 1990s. A war crimes court in Serbia sentenced the ex-members of the so-called Jackals unit to up to 20 years in prison. Prosecutors ruled that the men had raped, murdered and robbed […]

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Swoboda: Serbia needs to recognize Kosovo’s independence (Telegrafi)

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Hannes Swoboda, leader of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, said today that Belgrade needs to recognize the independence of Kosovo. Swoboda, who nominated Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci for the Nobel Peace Prize, said whether Serbia would de jure or de facto recognize Kosovo’s statehood is a matter of […]

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Playing with laws (Kosova Sot)

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The paper’s front-page editorial notes that “whenever faced with a crisis, Kosovo politicians immediately come up with the solution of amending laws”. “On paper, a good share of Kosovo’s legislation is even a model for countries in the region, but in practice laws, regulations and administrative directives are violated constantly … What is even more […]

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Rexhepi: I gave the testimony on political role of Ivanovic (RTK2)

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Minister of the Interior of Kosovo Bajram Rexhepi said for portal lajmi.net that he testified at the prosecutors’ office about the political role of the leader of the Civil Initiative SDP Oliver Ivanovic in the post-war period. “I testified about the role of Olvier Ivanovic, I wasn’t witness of a murder,” said Rexhepi. He went […]

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The time has come for someone to deal with murdered Serbs (Vesti)

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The Deputy War Crimes Prosecutor of Serbia Bruno Vekaric announced the possibility for the creation of an ad-hoc tribunal which would deal exclusively with the processing war crimes in Kosovo in period 1998-2000. Vekaric said that information comes from ‘contacts with the international actors’ and that tribunal would resemble on the one created for the […]

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The students’ lesson to the opposition (Zeri)

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Vetevendosje leader Albin Kurti argues in an opinion piece that even though it has the necessary votes, the opposition is failing to bring down the government. “The opposition is lacking readiness to bring down the government. We are witnessing that two opposition parties – LDK and AAK – are focused even more than the PDK […]

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Reporters without Borders: Kosovo ranked 80, made progress for five places (Radio Kosova)

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Kosovo has achieved progress regarding the freedom of press. Kosovo has been ranked 80 in the index of freedom of the press published today from organization Reporters Without Borders. Unlike last year this is a progress for five places, while one year earlier Kosovo was ranked 85. From countries of the region Albania is ranked […]

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Works in the mass grave in Rashka to begin in March or April (Radio Kosova)

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Kushtrim Gara the head of the Department for Missing Persons in the Government Commission, said for Radio Kosova that Governing Commission for Missing Persons have sent to the Commission of Serbia an official letter expressing readiness to give necessary contribution in the case of Rashka. The works in the location of mass grave in Rudnica, […]

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