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Belgrade Media Report 16 January

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STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Nikolic: If need be, we’ll send army to Kosovo (Beta/RTS/Tanjug/Beta)
• Vucic: Large-scale conflict averted (B92/Beta)
• Djuric: Pristina authorities not working alone (TV Pink/Tanjug)
• Drecun: Pristina not doing anything that contributes to resumption of dialogue (RTS)
• Dacic: Foreign Ministry to keep fighting for Serbia’s territorial integrity (Beta)
• Hahn: Belgrade-Pristina dialogue must not be jeopardized (RTS/Beta)
• Jeremic to seek Serbian Presidency (FoNet)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Dodik: Izetbegovic’s statement that RS was founded on genocide is unacceptable (RTRS)
• Stevandic: RS Assembly can terminate co-op with OHR, with consent of all political factors (RTRS)
• Dodik criticizes international community for failure to react to prevention of freedom of movement (TV1)
• Patrushev: Steady course to join Montenegro, FYROM, B&H to NATO by force is set (BN TV)
• Croatia rejects B&H’s request to process Jelavic (Hina)
• Markovic: Russian military structures responsible for the incident (MINA)
• Maliqi: Montenegro has nothing to fear from Albania and Kosovo (Analitika/Pobijeda)
• VMRO DPMNE: Albanian conditions for forming the government unacceptable (MIA)

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Kosovo Police refutes Serbian politicians: the railway was not mined (Lajmi)

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Kosovo Police reacted harshly to the untrue statement of Milovan Drečun, MP at Serbian Parliament and member of the Serbian Progressive Party, that ROSU (Kosovo Police Special Unit) uses terrorist methods, that they are a destabilizing factor, who set explosives on the railway in northern Kosovo and recorded videos afterwards. “Kosovo Police is an institution […]

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DS: President Nikolić is engine-driver of sufferings (B92, Blic)

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Opposition DS party leader Dragan Šutanovac has accused President Tomislav Nikolić of “fueling further conflict and leading Serbs in Kosovo into new risks.” According to Sutanovac, Nikolic is doing this with his “warmongering statements.”  The President of Serbia, instead of calming passions and to publicly warn Vučić because of his sending of a travesty of the […]

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 Veseli: We will not allow Serbia’s walls and trains in Kosovo (Koha/Telegrafi)

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Kosovo Assembly President Kadri Veseli said today that the situation regarding Serbia’s train was an “artificial provocation” and urged the people of Kosovo to have more faith in their institutions. “The situation is serious but people should feel safe. They should not feel threatened. We will not allow Serbia’s walls and trains in Kosovo,” Veseli […]

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Albanian FM: Serbia’s provocations do no service to regional cooperation (Telegrafi)

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Albanian Foreign Minister Ditmir Bushati reacted to the recent statements of Serbian officials regarding the Belgrade-Mitrovica train calling them “destabilizing provocations.” In a Facebook post, Bushati said the statements coming from Belgrade do not contribute to the climate of regional cooperation. “The beginning of 2017 was not a good one for South-East Europe. Destabilising provocations […]

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Mitrovica North Assembly session on legalizing the wall cancelled (Telegrafi)

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The session of the Mitrovica North Assembly scheduled for today to approve the construction of the wall in the “King Peter I” in the northern part of the city was cancelled on the request of the Serbian List representatives. Bashkim Cimili, member of the Mitrovica North Assembly from the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) said […]

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Session of the North Mitrovica Municipal Assembly postponed (Kontakt plus radio)

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Session of the Municipal Assembly of North Mitrovica, which was supposed to be held today, was postponed based on the request of the councillors of the Serbian List, says the press release. “At a time when someone wants to cause the fear among Serbs in Northern Kosovo and Metohija, by using long guns and demonstration […]

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Multi-ethnic States Have Failed in the Balkans (Balkan Insight)

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In response to Jasmin Mujanovic’s comment article, ‘New Partitions are the Last Thing the Balkans Need,’ Timothy Less maintains that the Balkan countries lack even the most basic elements needed to make multi-ethnicity work, so it is time to consider a new territorial settlement. The starting point when formulating policy is to recognise the world […]

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Rakić: Demolition of the supporting wall will represent violence (Kontakt plus radio, RTS)

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Hahn: The dialogue should not be put in question (Kontakt plus radio, N1)

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European Commissioner Johannes Hahn says that “must not be endangered what has already been achieved in the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina,” and that “must be looking forward, not backward.” He said this during arrival for the upcoming meeting of foreign ministers of the EU, answering journalists’ question on how he sees the tension between […]

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New evidence against Ramush Haradinaj (Blic)

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Serbian investigators in the supplement to the investigation of war crimes charged Ramush Haradinaj for another 13 victims, including children, Blic reports. Although he was tried in The Hague for a period in 1998, the majority of the witnesses, according to the assessment of the Court and the Prosecutor’s Office, was intimidated and did not […]

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