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Kosovo Partition May Solve Historic Dispute, Serb Deputy PM Says (Bloomberg)

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Serbia should end its claim to all of Kosovo and seek to regain control of the northern part of the breakaway province where Serbs are in the majority, Deputy Premier Ivica Dacic said in an opinion piece published by Vecernje Novosti on Monday. In his second such appeal in two weeks and echoing calls for […]

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“Kosovo won’t join UNESCO; they haven’t even reapplied” (B92, Beta)

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First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic assessed on Sunday that Kosovo would not succeed in joining UNESCO. Speaking during the marking of the anniversary of the Gorazdevac crime, Dacic said that Pristina has not filed a new request for membership. According to him, Pristina is “aware that Kosovo would not be able to […]

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DSS: Serbia should get out from vicious cycle of European integration (Tanjug, Blic)

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Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) called upon all political stakeholders to state their opinion on the EU conditions, adding the time has come to Serbia to get out from the vicious cycle of the European integration and focus on regulating its own society, freed from the Brussels tutoring, Serbian media reported. Leader of DSS, Milos […]

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Vulin: KFOR and UNMIK to open investigation on Gorazdevac again (Tanjug, RTS)

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Serbian Minister of Defence, Aleksandar Vulin on the occasion of the two Serb youngster murder anniversary in Gorazdevac, said to Tanjug news agency the evil that has killed them must get a name and a punishment. The investigation was stopped, Vulin further said, adding, as if Pantelija and Ivan died from a sun or a […]

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Blic: “There are evidences against 160 members of KLA” (Blic, KIM Radio)

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More than 160 persons of the Albanian nationality are charged for the war crimes in Kosovo at the Serbian War Crimes Prosecution, Blic daily wrote on weekend. These persons, mainly members of the KLA, are suspected of committing the crimes against Serbs and non-Albanian population during the conflict in Kosovo, since the end of 1997 […]

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“It is shame to use commemoration for political promotion” (RTV KIM, Radio Gorazdevac)

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Spasoje Dakic, close relative to the murdered Pantelija Dakic, stated on Sunday, following the commemoration of the murdered Serb youth at the River Bistrica 14 years ago, it is regretful that politicians come to the commemoration in Gorazdevac just to be photographed. Spasoje said to the journalists that no one comes to visit families of […]

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UNMIK Headlines 14 August

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• Fourth attempt to elect Assembly President today (RTK)
• Quint countries call for forming of institutions (media)
• Ahmeti: Quint called on PAN not to block institutions (media)
• Krasniqi: VV is trying to impose an authoritarian mindset in Assembly (RTK)
• Hoxhaj: Dialogue should conclude with mutual recognition (Koha)
• Dacic: Kosovo to be debated at UN also in the future (RTK)
• Dacic: Division of Kosovo, only an idea (Zeri)
• Vucic: Kosovo, EU’s main condition for Serbia (Koha)

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Serb children and teens gunned down in Kosovo remembered (B92, Serbian media)

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True reconciliation and a future in the European family can happen only when killers and criminals are no longer celebrated as “national heroes” in Kosovo, Serbian media reported. First Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said this on Sunday, during the marking of the anniversary of the 2003 crime committed in the enclave of […]

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New Elections ‘Risk Damaging Kosovo’s Economy’ (Balkan Insight)

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If Kosovo fails to form a government and has to hold another snap election, it risks damaging its economic outlook by stalling progress and spending unnecessary funds on new polls, experts warned. Two months after Kosovo held snap elections following the fall of the previous government, the country is facing a political deadlock and the […]

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Balkan Jihadis Return, Disillusioned with ISIS “Caliphate” (Balkan Insight)

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Jovo Martinovic BIRN Podgorica Some jihadis from the Balkans who travelled to the Syrian conflict zone to support Islamic State told BIRN that they returned home because they became disenchanted with the brutality, poverty and oppression. Hilmi, an ethnic Bosniak, travelled to Syria hoping that life in Islamic State’s‘caliphate would be an ideal religious environment […]

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