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Belgrade Media Report 18 July

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STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Djuric: Stability is Serbia’s interest in Kosovo and Metohija (Tanjug)
• Mihajlovic: Democratic move by the Serb list (RTS)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Fule: I am proud of rapid response assistance mechanism (Fena)
• Dodik requests that Hill be declared persona non grata (Srna)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• EU Shrinks Kosovo Rule-of-Law Mission (BIRN)
• Chaotic scenes in Kosovan chamber (herald.scotland.com)
• Kosovo lawmakers struggle for control of parliament (Reuters)
• Bosniak Fighters Jailed for Prijedor Killings (BIRN)
• Croatian Serb Leader Denies Links to Paramilitary Arkan (BIRN)
• Slobodan’s Ghost (RFE/RL)

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Djuric: Stability in Kosovo is in Serbia’s interest (Blic)

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The Director of the Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric, said today in a talk with UNMIK chief Farid Zarif in Kosovska Mitrovica that Belgrade’s key interest in Kosovo is stability. He added that Serbia, with the “reinforced power” it has gained from entering the provincial government and parliament of Kosovo, will […]

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Rasic: Constitutive session confusing and shameful (KIM radio)

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“First session was at least confusing, whereas in some moments it was even shameful,” said Serb MP in the Kosovo Assembly Nenad Rasic. Rasic abstained from voting for the Kosovo Assembly speaker and explained to KIM radio that he didn’t want to vote for Isa Mustafa from moral reasons. “For year and a half before […]

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Jablanović: The Serbian list showed its strength (KiM radio)

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The president of the parliamentary group of the Serbian List, Aleksandar Jablanović, said after the constitution of the Assembly of Kosovo that the Serbian List showed “its strength and constructivism.” “As a political entity in the parliament of Kosovo we hope that in the future we will have the opportunity to contribute to the work […]

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In the hands of minorities (Kosova Sot)

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Votes of minorities enabled leader of Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Isa Mustafa, to get elected as the Kosovo Assembly Speaker in a controversial session accompanied by verbal clashes between MPs. As a result, the way the Speaker was elected will be interpreted by the Constitutional Court, an institution which already ended the mandate of […]

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President, internationals do not congratulate new Assembly Speaker (Gazeta Express)

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Isa Mustafa, who was elected yesterday as Speaker of the Assembly, has yet to receive congratulations from local and international officials in Pristina. President Atifete Jahjaga was present at the constitutive session of the Assembly on Thursday but left the room before Mustafa was elected Speaker in a procedure that has been contested by the […]

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Palestinian ambassador to Belgrade: Kosovo is part of Serbia (Koha)

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Mohamed Nabhan, Palestinian ambassador to Belgrade, told Danas newspaper that Arabs support Serbia and not the independence of Kosovo. “Kosovo failed to get the status of a state thanks to Arab countries and Muslims and not thanks to Israel. Arabs have supported Serbia’s position and we still do,” he said. Nabhan also said that the […]

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Little light across the jungle (Koha Ditore)

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Enver Robelli writes about recent developments in the Kosovo Assembly and notes that yesterday’s session carried some important details that he further describes in the column. Isa Mustafa, says Robelli, got elected to the post of Assembly Speaker and regardless of how long he remains in this capacity, he needs to begin immediate changes to […]

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“It is good that the voice of Serbs was heard” (B92)

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The leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) Ramush Haradinaj assessed that it is good that voice of Serbs was heard yesterday in the Kosovo Assembly and added that it is also good that Serb MPs, by taking part in the voting, have taken over their role in the parliament. With regard […]

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Thaci: I will address the Constitutional Court (Express)

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Hashim Thaci, the outgoing Prime Minister of Kosovo and leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), wrote in his Facebook profile that Thursday’s decisions at the Assembly of Kosovo, which derived from an illegal, anti-democratic and anti-constitutional process are invalid and equal to a big null. “Yesterday we saw demeaning scenes for Kosovo’s democracy, […]

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Serbs to make a landmark in politics (KIM radio)

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“It is necessary for Serbs to participate in the work of Kosovo institutions in order not to bring Serbian community into full isolation,” said the MP from the ranks of the Serbian List in the Kosovo Assembly Slavko Simic. Simic went on to say that before the Kosovo elections were slated Serbian community has decided […]

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The Constitutional Court cannot interpret proposer of Assembly Speaker (kohaonline)

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Enver Hasani, President of the Constitutional Court of Kosovo said for KTV show Rubikon, that the Court does not have the right to give its opinion on the issue of the proposer of the Assembly Speaker nor which the biggest parliamentary group is. “I cannot comment on the proposer or on the parliamentary group. Neither […]

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