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Belgrade Media Report 12 September 2014

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STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Dacic: UNMIK’s role should not be reduced (RTS)
• Serb list postpones constituting of Kosovo Assembly (Politika)
• No halt over Kurti (Danas)
• Miscevic: Hahn’s assessment is realistic (Beta)
• Much work before Serbia on course of European integrations (Radio Serbia)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Serbia, B&H to exchange liaison officers (Fena)
• Komsic: Time for a new generation on the political scene (Oslobodjenje)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Kosovo Memorial to Abducted Serbian Journalists Removed (BIRN)
• Bosnia Serb Leader Rubbishes Secession Plan (BIRN)
• Wartime Croatian Serb Minister Denies Controlling Fighters (BIRN)
• The remarkable but dangerous fantasy of Kosovo’s president (Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso)

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Dacic: Non-reduced role of UNMIK needed on the ground (Beta)

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Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia Ivica Dacic, during his meeting with the Head of the UN Office in Belgrade, stressed the need for non-reduced role of UNMIK on the ground, particularly in the context of offering support to dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina. Ministry stated that Dacic also underlined the importance for respect of […]

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Is the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina jeopardized? (RTS)

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Continuation of the Kosovo Assembly’s constitutive session is postponed for 18 September, following the request of the Serbian List. By this postponement the Serbian List is seeking additional consultations due to its disagreement with the stance of the movement Self-Determination for revision and the eventual discontinuation of the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina. “Brussels Agreement […]

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There won’t be any deadlock because of Kurti (Danas)

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Representatives of the European Union member states, at the moment, have nothing against Albin Kurti, leader of the Self-Determination movement, being at the helm of the technical dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, if it is about the firm agreement of the opposition parties in Kosovo, learned Danas from diplomatic circles after the signing of an […]

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Coalition bloc calls postponement of assembly session unacceptable (Koha)

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The meeting of the post-coalition bloc representatives called after the decision to postpone Kosovo Assembly constitutive session has ended. The bloc’s candidate for prime minister, Ramush Haradinaj, said the postponement of Assembly’s session is unacceptable and that the decision of the chair, Flora Brovina, only served the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK). Haradinaj said it […]

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Memorial board to missing journalists destroyed again (KIM radio)

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The memorial board to missing journalists Djuro Slavuj and Ranko Perenic, which was placed on August 21, near Orahovac/Rahovec, by the representative of the Association of Journalists of Serbia and Association of Journalists of Kosovo and Metohija is destroyed and removed again, the third year in a row. “This is the third time that the […]

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Vulin: Serbia works on reducing the number of socially vulnerable in Kosovo (Politika)

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Minister for Labor and Social Welfare Aleksandar Vulin stated yesterday that Serbian government and the Ministry of Labor are working on reducing number of socially vulnerable in Kosovo and Metohija, and stressed that such policy will be pursued in order to preserve Serbian population in the southern province. “Without an active engagement of the state […]

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EULEX prosecutor: We have nothing against Serb politicians (Politika)

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EULEX has nothing against Serbian political representatives in northern Kosovo, said EULEX chief prosecutor Jaroslava Novotna and stressed that investigations are not carried out based on ethnic principle. “Speculations on secrete arrest lists of Serbs are completely unfounded and we have rejected several times such allegations. Each prosecutor works on its own case without his […]

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The remarkable but dangerous fantasy of Kosovo’s president (Osservatorio Balcani)

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Andrea Lorenzo Capussela 12 September 2014 Atifete Jahjaga By illegally appointing three constitutional judges, the Kosovo president breached the constitution. If the EU delegation supported the president’s decision, it gave her bad advice On 31 August Kosovo’s president has extended the mandate of the three foreign judges sitting in its constitutional court, whose term in […]

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Serbia hands over to Kosovo 22 mortal remains from mass grave in Rudnica (Radio Kosova)

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Today at border crossing point between Kosovo and Serbia in Merdare will be done handover of 22 mortal remains found in mass grave of Rudnica, Municipality of Rashka. This information is confirmed from the head of Government Commission for Missing Persons, Prenk Gjetaj. The handover of mortal remains starts at 13:00 hours.

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Kosovo Is Not Serbia (Huffington Post)

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Jasmina Tesanovic Feminist author and political activist Crossing the border from Serbia to Kosovo is easy. Serbian citizens can get by with daily ID, as if they were EU citizen inside the EU Schengen fortress. If you are, for example, a globetrotting American, it gets interesting. The Kosovo border officers admire your travel stamps and […]

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“B Day”

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Lumir Abdixhiku, director of the Pristina-based research institute Riinvest, argues in his opinion piece that “the unification of opposition parties in one camp gives meaning to good governance for Kosovo and to the Albanian majority”. The unification of the opposition also gives guarantees for the overall political will in the country. This unification of political […]

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