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Belgrade Media report 02 June

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STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Dacic: Conditions for participation of Serbs in Kosovo elections must be fulfilled (Radio Serbia)
• Dacic: Serbia can’t block Kosovo in the Venetian Commission (Politika)
• CIK and international community ignoring requests of Serbian list seven days before elections (Novosti)
• North Kosovo mayors: CIK breaching the law to the detriment of non-Albanians (Beta)
• DSS calls Serbs not to vote in Kosovo elections (Tanjug)
• Irinej: Kosovo and Metohija is a Serb sanctity (Tanjug)
• Zannier call Serbs to take part in Kosovo elections (Tanjug)
• Cross-section of the UN peacekeeping activities (Politika)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• MONEYVAL releases statement: B&H blacklisted, all transactions with special checks (Oslobodjenje)
• Dodik receives a decoration of Holy Russian Emperor Nicholas (Srna)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Kosovo Serbs Urged Not to Boycott Elections (Balkan Insight)
• Serbia-Turkey relations: ready for a new era? (Today’s Zaman)
• Serb lawmakers approve tax relief for employers, ratify UAE loan (Reuters)
• Macedonia Opposition Mulls ‘Parallel Government’ (BIRN)
• Warning Issued Over Bosnia Money-Laundering Risks (BIRN)
• Kosovo and Crimea – what’s the difference? (TransConflict)

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Djuric in Kosovo (RTS,TV Most, KiM radio)

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Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric will visit Kosovo, the Office for KiM announced. Djuric will visit the monastery of Gracanica, where he will meet with Bishop Theodosius, Bishop of Raska-Prizren and Kosovo-Metohija. This will be the first official meeting for Djurić since he took the office of the director, and […]

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Democracy in Action: Peaceful campaign so far (Lajmi)

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Democracy in Action, based on information from monitors of this mission, said election campaign has so far been peaceful, civilised and without any reported incidents. In a press conference, DiA officials also expressed concern with the proposal of certain members of the Central Election Commission for recount of all votes. DiA considers that such an […]

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The vote in favour or against (Tribuna)

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Columnist Donik Sallova writes that as the elections are approaching the political discourse of parties is becoming fiercer. He says this election campaign is being characterised by concrete aspects of economic development and improvement of welfare for the citizens and that the outcome will show whether or not a political era that was identified with […]

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Children’s rights are violated in Kosovo (telegrafi)

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The 1 June, International Children’s Day was celebrated in Kosovo. A range of activities, which symbolized 1 June, was organized in the capital. Pristina square was filled with children who were each playing in their own way. Ombudsman, Sami Kurteshi, was among the organizers of the activities. He stated that he is not pleased with […]

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Campaign of fear (Zeri)

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Judging from the election campaign so far, political parties have openly reflected insecurity regarding the final result of upcoming elections, says the paper’s editor-in-chief Arbana Xharra. This year’s elections, apart from being a challenge for leaders, are also a challenge for political parties which will most likely undergo a reconfiguration process in case of a […]

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Northerners wait for the “order” from Serbia on 8 June elections (Koha)

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Serbs from the north have frozen all their election activities due to their dissatisfaction with some of the decisions of Central Election Commission, and it remains unknown if they will participate in Kosovo’s general elections that will be held on Sunday. Concerns of the northerners are related mainly to the symbols of the Republic of […]

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‘Kosovo was always Serbian and it must remain so’ (Vesti)

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“Kosovo must remain Serbian and of Serbian Orthodox Church, because we have our biggest shrines there and we have the seat of Serbian patriarchs there. It’s been Serbian for thousand years, and this ordeal will pass and with the God’s help, it can’t be that Kosovo is not Serbian,” said Serbian Patriarch Irinej on Saturday […]

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Germany pressuring Pristina to remove “war leaders” (Vecernje Novosti)

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Departure of “war leaders”, as stated in the analysis, is needed to consolidate democracy in Kosovo and create the conditions for achieving justice and reconciliation. The International Institute for Middle-East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) from Ljubljana said in an analysis of the situation in Kosovo, ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections, that there is an interest […]

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It all depends on CEC (Danas)

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Even though mayors of eight, out of ten, majority Serbian municipalities in Kosovo system of local self-governance announced on Saturday that ‘conditions do not exist for participation of Serbs’ in extraordinary parliamentary elections in Kosovo on 8 June, one of those who signed the statement, Mayor of Leposavić/Leposaviç Dragan Jablanović said to Danas that final […]

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We cannot prevent Kosovo’s membership in the Venice Commission (Politika)

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Dacic said that, there are various pressures he faces on a daily basis, and some of them are related to the fact that some of the colleagues that he meets do not inform him openly about their next steps in the areas that are the subject of mutual talks, Beta reported. “Almost every two weeks […]

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Pristina is trying to discourage Serbs from voting (Tanjug)

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BELGRADE – Head of the Serbian parliament committee on Kosovo Milovan Drecun believes Pristina is interpreting the election law in Kosovo in a way that is unacceptable in order to discourage the Kosovo Serbs from voting in the election on June 8. Pristina’s bad intention is clear, as well as its attempt to influence the […]

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