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Belgrade Media Report 24 April

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LOCAL PRESS

• Day of Remembrance of genocide in Jasenovac marked (B92/Beta)
• Dacic: Statements about Greater Albania are not careless but dangerous (RTS/Beta)
• Joksimovic expects Serbia to open two or three new chapters (Tanjug/RTS)
• Ivanovic released until trial (Novosti)
• Serbian parliament passes several international agreements, protocols (Beta)
• Local elections held in five municipalities (RTS)
• Protests “Against Dictatorship” continue (Beta)

REGIONAL PRESS

Bosnia & Herzegovina
• RS, Serbia organize commemoration for victims of Jasenovac in Donja Gradina: Dodik refuses to shake hands with US Ambassador Cormack (FTV/BN TV)
• Foreign Affairs Ministry of B&H condemns behavior of Dodik who refused to greet US Ambassador (NAP)
• Dodik, Vucic in Dubica discuss current political situation in B&H (RTRS)
• Moore: Fact that there is no political stability at state level anymore is sad (N1/TV1)
• Dodik: If it is established that Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ letter is authentic, RS will cease all cooperation with that institution (RTRS)
Croatia
• Separate commemorations held at Jasenovac (Hina/N1)
• EUFOR ‘makes up’ in report that Croats are initiative new entity (Vecernji list)
Montenegro
• Djukanovic: Opposition threats are in vain (MINA)
• Vujanovic: No need to have a referendum on NATO (CDM)
fYROM
• Osmani: Zaev and Gruevski are having meetings (Meta)
• SDSM: The blockade of democratic processes will lead to criminal charges (Meta)
Albania
• General elections-CEC: 29 April deadline for presenting list of candidates (ATA)
• Peleshi: Ruling coalition does not want to hold elections without opposition (ATA)
• SP condemns opposition’s calls for protests (ATA)
• Bushati: Basha is driving DP to political suicide (ADN)
• Internationals to visit Tirana the upcoming week (ATA)

INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• ‘Kosovo’ Project Failed Despite Massive Financial Help From the West (Sputnik)
• Belgrade-Sarajevo Highway Sparks Battles in Bosnia (BIRN)
• Albania opposition blocks roads, wants technocrat government (Reuters)

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Simic addresses CEC, request clarification on who is the leader of Serbian List (Arbresh.info)

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 The problems among the members of the Serbian List, do not stop. Members of this party are divided in two when the leader of the party is concerned. Aleksandar Jablanovic has already returned at the position of the leader of the Serbian List, while this is being objected by some of the members of this […]

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Gecaj: PDK has started presenting “Veseli’s era as Prime Minister” too early (Lajmi)

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Bajram Gecaj, adviser to the Prime Minister of Kosovo, said that opposition sought early elections from the first day of “Mustafa’s” government. However, he added, voices among the government have also started to be heard requesting early elections. He said that the Democratic Party of Kosovo has very early started to present “the era of […]

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Higher education bill fails to get parliamentary committee approval (Klan Kosova)

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Kosovo Assembly’s committee on education, science, technology, culture, youth and sports failed to endorse the draft law on higher education due to lack of quorum. Representatives of the opposition parties walked out of the committee’s meeting after accusing the government of heeding Serbian List demands by withdrawing the bill from the voting procedure at the […]

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Kosovo Assembly opens office at PACE (RTK)

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Head of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Ismet Beqiri, posted a picture on his Facebook account with the president of European People’s Party, Joseph Daul, taken at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. Under the caption, Beqiri wrote that Kosovo Assembly also opened an office today at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of […]

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Spahiu: Nonsense of Rama and Thaci (KIM radio, Kontakt Plus radio)

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Analyst from Kosovo Nexhmedin Spahiu says that threats of Edi Rama and Hashim Thaçi to the EU on the unification of Albania and Kosovo are nonsense. Spahiu said that the eventual unification of Kosovo and Albania cannot jeopardize FYROM or Montenegro, let alone Serbia, and that statements of these two officials were funny, he also said that […]

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Moscow reacts to “Albanian unification” talk (B92)

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The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs late last week issued a statement reacting to “a series of recent statements by various Albanian politicians.” These statements that concern “the redrawing of borders in the Balkans” have raised particular concern, the Russian MFA said. “We assert that, under the guise of unfounded accusations of attempts to destabilize […]

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Montenegro to Try Kosovo War Murder Suspect (Balkan Insight)

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An ex-soldier accused of involvement in the killing of Kosovo Albanians in 1999 while he was serving with the Yugoslav Army will start next month – the first war crimes trial in Montenegro in years. http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/montenegro-to-trial-kosovo-war-murder-suspect-04-20-2017

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OSCE Broadcast 23 April

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• PM Mustafa against early elections(Most monitored broadcasters, KTV&RTK1)
• Vetëvendosje Movement is not a civil initiative anymore (KTV)
• Qosja: Serb MPs should not decide the fate of the Army (RTK1&KTV)
• Blakaj: Kosovo and Serbia to cooperate in prosecuting war crime suspects (KTV)
• GAP: Government again failed to address EC recommendations (Most monitored broadcasters, KTV)

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UNMIK Headlines 24 April

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Border demarcation, “pretext” for bringing the government down (Koha)
Mustafa: Elections now mean avoiding responsibility (RTK)
Hoti: LDK is waiting for PDK to proceed with demarcation (VOA)
NISMA’s Krasniqi and PDK’s Grabovci meet in Albania (Klan Kosova)
Gecaj excludes possibility of LDK-Vetevendosje coalition (Lajmi)
Vetevendosje applies for political party status (Koha)
U.S. Embassy: We alarmed citizens, due to the terrorists (Gazeta Express)
Bajrami: Association cannot deal with higher education issues (Koha Ditore)

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