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OSCE Broadcast 10 March

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• Serbia insists on organising elections in Kosovo (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV&TV21)
• Dacic refutes Tahiri’s statement about Serbia’s elections in Kosovo (Most monitored broadcasters, Klan Kosova)
• Vllasi: Kosovo Serbs have the right to vote in Serbia’s parliamentary elections (RTK2)
• Kuçi: No conditioning of KAF establishment (Most monitored broadcasters, RTK1)
• Yagcilar: One more mandate for reserved seats (TV21)
• Serb extremist starts hunger strike in Jarinje border crossing (Klan Kosova)

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Belgrade Daily Media Highlights 10 March

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TORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Dacic: Brussels agreement didn’t abolish right of Serbs to vote (Novosti)
• Dacic : Belgrade and Pristina to resume dialogue after elections (Tanjug)
• Vulin: Elections to be held in Kosovo and Metohija as in 2012 (Novosti)
• Serb political representatives demand transfer of Ivanovic (RTS/Tanjug)
• Raska-Prizren Eparchy concerned about Oliver Ivanovic (RTS)
• Borislav Pelevic on a hunger and thirst strike at Jarinje crossing (Politika/Tanjug)
• Election duel: SNS vs DSS (Danas)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Dodik: There will be no “Dayton 2” (Srna)
• B&H Border Police and Directorate for Police Coordination (Oslobodjenje/Patria)
• Obradovic: Croatia’s thin evidence (RTS)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Devastated Serbia economy puts hope in election and reform (AFP)
• Kosovo national team cause a stir by posing with guns before first ever international fixture (The Independent)
• Serbia Asks FIFA to Scrap Kosovo Friendlies (Balkan Insight)
• Serb Fighters in Crimea Deserve Jail, Minister Says (Balkan Insight)
• The Balkans Watch Ukraine, But See Themselves (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
• Sovereignty vs. Self-Rule: Crimea Reignites Battle (New York Times)
• U.S. Hypocrisy on Crimean Secession Move: Washington Supported Breakup of Sudan and Yugoslavia (TruthDig)
• Ukraine: the next Bosnia? (The Australian)
• Suspect arrested in arson of presidential building in BiH (Xinhua)
• Bosnian leader: ‘Protests reveal immediate amendment’ (Anadolu Agency)
• Bosnia Turmoil and EU: Economics, Politics and Disillusion (Voice of Russia)

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The Women’s Court for the former Yugoslavia to be established (Danas)

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Belgrade – The Women’s Court for the former Yugoslavia should start working next year. It will be a space for women’s voices and their testimony of what they survived during the war, but also in peace. The organization of the Women’s Court should encourage women to testify about the violence in the private and public […]

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Children in Albania learn Serbian language again (Vecernje Novosti)

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Serbian lessons have commenced again, a week ago, in the premises of Serbian-Montenegro association ‘Morača-Rozafa’ in Skadar/Shkodër in Albania where classes in Serbian language are carried out in last couple years. Some 60 children applied for learning Serbian, following a program which is taught in Serbia’s elementary schools up to the fourth class. The classes […]

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Young in Prilužje/Prilluzhë protesting due to unemployment (Vesti)

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For more than a month, on the rain and cold, sixty young Serbs from village Prilužje/Priluzhë near Vučitrn/Vushtrri are protesting in front of the municipal building. They are protesting since they are in their best years, majority of them have families, however none of them is employed. They say that they are victims of all […]

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Kosovo politicians are afraid of the new Court for KLA (Politika)

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The announcement of the Serbian War Crimes’ Prosecution that there is a possibility of setting up a new ad hoc Tribunal for crimes committed in Kosovo since 1998 to 2000 and that such a court should prosecute trafficking in human organs (known as the Yellow House), but also other crimes which for three years is […]

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Ad hoc governing (Kosova Sot)

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Kosova Sot front page editorial criticizes the current Government of Kosovo for using the state budget for its electoral promises and decisions. Increase of salaries, creation of the one billion fund, creation of Kosovo’s Armed Forces, signing of the contract for the new Pristina –Skopje motorway and many other surprises to come, are the pre-election […]

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Community of Serbian Municipalities is a big scam (Danas)

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The Vice President of DSS (Democratic Party of Serbia), Slobodan Samardzic. The DSS Vice President and former Minister for Kosovo and Metohija Slobodan Samardzic in Danas pre-election matchup says that “the project community of Serbian municipalities is a great deception contained in the Brussels agreement.” Why 2012 model is preferred for the voting on 16th March in […]

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NATO to reengage politically in the Balkans (Koha Ditore)

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Augustin Palokaj writes that NATO contribution to Kosovo and the region is unparalleled and it is impossible to imagine how the Balkans would look like today were it not for NATO intervention. He acknowledges that all this undertaking has not been easy on the NATO member countries but its success in the region gave a […]

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Tahiri: Read the Brussels Agreement carefully, Mr. Vucic (Lajmi)

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Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, said on Sunday that Serbia’s general elections of 16 March will also take place in Kosovo in accordance to the Brussels Agreement. However, Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo, Edita Tahiri, Kosovapress reports, has reacted to the statement telling Vucic to read carefully the Agreement of 19 April reached […]

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The border of the southernmost region of Serbia is in Dragaš/Dragash (Danas)

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“Serbia does not recognize and will not recognize the unilaterally proclaimed independence of Kosovo,” claims Marko Djuric, member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), who is also a member of the national team for negotiations with Pristina and implementation of the Brussels Agreement.  Why for Serbian elections in Kosovo the most preferred is the model […]

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Tahiri: No elections in Kosovo! Drecun: There will be elections! (Vesti)

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Edita Tahiri said that Serbia cannot organize elections in Kosovo and that the Brussels agreement marked the end of Serbian interference in the internal affairs of Kosovo. “Serbia cannot organize elections in Kosovo. Serbia is neighbouring country.  Normalization agreement, reached in Brussels, definitely marked the end of any Serbian interference in the internal affairs of […]

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