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Belgrade Media Report 22 July

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STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Serbia appreciates China’s position not to recognize unilaterally proclaimed independence of Kosovo (RTS)
• Williamson’s report very important for Serbia (RTS/Beta)
• Vukcevic: Serbia has evidence for Yellow House (Tanjug)
• Drecun: Williamson’s report might be astonishing, but not surprising (Radio Serbia)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Daviddi: Of 809 million Euros, 40 percent are grants and 60 percent favorable loans (Fena)
• FB&H House of Peoples passes Law on Internal Affairs (Fena)
• SNS sends note to B&H CIK, challenging Ivanic’s candidacy (Srna)
• Covic: No theoretical possibility for elections in Mostar (Nezavisne novine)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Kosovo expects findings of organ stealing investigation next week (Reuters)
EC Recommends To Serbia To Suspend Work on South Stream Pipeline (novinite.com)
• How Albanian Discontent Fuelled Macedonia’s Ethnic Protests (BIRN)
• Bosnian Croat Fighter Indicted for Mostar Prisoner Abuse (BIRN)
• Montenegro Earns More From Arms Sales (BIRN)
• Germany to Try Top Yugoslav Spy for Murder (BIRN)

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Can Kosovo learn from Ukraine? (Koha Ditore)

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Columnist Enver Robelli writes that many politicians in Ukraine today regret the decision (mediated by the international community) to hand over the nuclear weapons stationed there to the Moscow authorities in condition for Russia to accept and guarantee Ukraine’s independence, right after the disintegration of Soviet Union. There are many other issues that the Ukrainian […]

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Energy delays (Kosova Sot)

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One of the most significant projects of Kosovo, power plant “Kosova e Re,” has been delayed once again. The bidders have requested more time to submit their offers however, due to Kosovo’s current political obscurity, the tender for the new power plant might have the same fate as the one for the Post Telecom of […]

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Jevtic condemned the attack on the houses in Ljevosa (Kim Radio)

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Minister for Communities and Returns, Dalibor Jevtic, strongly condemned the attack on the houses of Serb returnees in the village Ljevoša, near Pec. “Kosovo needs a stable society in which all people will live safely. The perpetrators of the attacks on returnees’ houses must immediately be found and punished appropriately, so that these unfortunate events […]

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Vukcevic: Time for a decision on the case of “yellow house” (NoviMagazin)

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War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic said today that the investigation into organ trafficking in Kosovo (the case of the yellow house), came to an end and now should be decided whether charges will be filed or they will give up from it, saying that the evidence Serbia has speak about the existence of war crimes. […]

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Staro Gracko: Tomorrow will be held memorial service for the killed harvesters (KiM radio)

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Tomorrow will be 15th anniversary from the murder of 14 Serbian harvesters in Staro Gracko, near Lipljan. They were killed from the ambush and the youngest of them was seventeen. Memorial service will serve the clergy of the Diocese of Ras and Prizren. In October 2007, UNMIK police arrested Mazljum Bitici, from the village of Veliki […]

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Investigations into privatization of KEK distribution network (Gazeta Blic)

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Law enforcement authorities are investigating the privatization of the distribution and supply network of the Kosovo Power Corporation (KEK). Sources in the EU Rule of Law mission in Kosovo (EULEX), which confirmed the investigations, said considerable material has been collected and that concrete results are expected. “Investigations are on the right track,” the source said. […]

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Vucic: A report on organ trafficking is of great importance for Serbia (Politika)

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Belgrade – Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said in Belgrade that the publication of the report of the Chief Prosecutor Clint Williamson, investigating human organs trafficking, will be of paramount importance to Serbia. As announced by the Government of Serbia, Prime Minister Vucic said at a meeting with Williamson that the publication of report will confirm […]

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The houses of returnees in Ljevosa burglarized (RTK2)

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Three houses of Serb returnees in the village Ljevoša near Pec have been burglarized previous night, told village representative Ranko Bakic. The owners of the houses are in Central Serbia, so it is not known whether the thieves took some of the things, said Bakic. This is not the first time that houses of returnees […]

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Kosovo Says More Recognitions Are in Sight (Balkan Insight)

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22 Jul 14 Kosovo minister say two more states plan to recognise its statehood by September, though neither country has been named and such predictions have proved false in the past. Edona Peci BIRN Pristina Enver Hoxhaj, Kosovo’s outgoing Foreign Minister, said that two more countries planned to recognise its independence this summer. “I expect… […]

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Kosovo Wartime Organ-Trafficking Report Due Next Week (Balkan Insight)

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21 Jul 14 An international task-force investigating alleged organ trafficking by Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas during the 1990s conflict will publish its long-awaited report next week. Edona Peci BIRN Pristina Clint Williamson, the lead prosecutor with the task force set up by the EU rule-of-law mission in Kosovo to probe the alleged illicit organ trade, […]

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Kosovo Serbs Threaten to Quit Pristina’s Institutions (Balkan Insight)

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21 Jul 14 Local leaders in the Serb-run north of Kosovo are threatening a collective resignation from Pristina-led institutions unless arrested Serbs are freed ahead of their trials. BIRN, Tanjug The Community of Serb Municipalities, which represents Serbs in the north, made its threat at a protest in the northern town of Zubin Potok on […]

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