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NATO concerned over Pristina’s army plans (Novosti)

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Unnamed NATO official said to Novosti daily that NATO is concerned over Pristina’s proposal to transform Kosovo Security Forces (KSF) into armed forces without constitutional amendments. Such unilateral steps are not helpful, Novosti daily reported today. The official also said, the NATO Secretary General passed this message to the Kosovo authorities directly. He also called […]

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A ‘unity team’ to strip Kosovo? (Prishtina Insight)

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By: Shpend Kursani Kosovo President Hashim Thaci’s initiative for a “unity team” to represent Kosovo in negotiations with Serbia may strip Kosovo’s statehood down to its last item of clothing. In a recently published piece in local media, Kosovo President Hashim Thaci flexed the idea of a “unity team” as a way to approach the […]

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Kosovo: Domestic Entrepreneurship and Help From the Diaspora (IMF News)

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Kosovo’s economy has been growing at an average of 3.4 percent since the landlocked country declared its independence in 2008. Its growth has been supported both by the international community, including the IMF, and also by its own people that work outside the country. We talked with Bedri Hamza, who was Governor of the Central […]

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UNMIK Headlines 28 September

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• Hoxhaj indicates turning point in dialogue with Serbia (media)
• O’Connell: Supreme Court enabled “criminals” to run for election (Zeri)
• Justice Minister Tahiri supports current border demarcation agreement (Koha)
• KSF Minister Berisha meets COMKFOR Major General Fungo (Zeri)
• Kosovo fails to meet 22 priorities agreed upon with EU in 2016 (Koha)

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Weakened Merkel is Bad News For the Balkans (Balkan Insight)

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By: Marcus Tanner An enfeebled Angela Merkel means a weaker, less courageous Germany – which will not do any of the Balkan states hoping to join the EU any favours. Like Britain’s Theresa May, Angela Merkel has come out of her general election looking a lot weaker than when she went in. Weeks ago, the […]

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Montenegro Snubs Kosovo Plea to Review Border Deal (Balkan Insight)

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In an attempt to convince neighbouring Montenegro to review the controversial border deal, Kosovo’s Foreign Minister has visited Podgorica – but without apparent results, as yet. Despite the visit to Montenegro of Kosovo’s new Foreign Minister, Behgjet Pacolli, on Tuesday, the deadlock between the two countries over their border demarcation agreement – which Kosovo MPs […]

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Belgrade Media Report 27 September

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United Nations Office in Belgrade

Daily Media Highlights

Wednesday 27 September 2017

LOCAL PRESS
• Vucic: Serb-Albanian relations must be resolved once and for all (RTS)
• Vucic: UK should be more understanding of our position on Kosovo (Tanjug)
• Interior Minister thanks countries which helped in preventing Kosovo from joining Interpol (Blic)
• Vulin meets with Italian Security Agency delegation on migrants (Beta)
• SNS official criticizes verdict against Vasiljkovic (RTS)
• Joksimovic: More certain European future of Serbia (Tanjug)

REGIONAL PRESS

Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Directors of Croatian and B&H Security-Intelligence Agencies met and agreed there was no wiretapping between B&H and Croatia (BHT1)
• Covic, Novalic meet and agree priorities of Federation of B&H in upcoming period of time will be excise duties, budget and Questionnaire (TV1)
• International conference on new security challenges takes place in Sarajevo (TV1)
• RS President Dodik says RSNA will adopt resolution on military neutrality of RS soon (TV1)
• Macron: If EU is reformed, Western Balkans countries may join Union by 2024 (Dnevni avaz)

Croatia
• Grabar-Kitarovic u in a letter to Kavazovic: My words weren’t directed against Muslims, Bosnjaks and B&H (Hina, HRT)
• Serbs and Croats “will have to be allies in future” (Vecerni list)
fYROM
Government to provide conditions for fair and democratic elections, Zaev tells Glover (MIA)
FM Dimitrov meets EU Commissioner Hahn (MIA)
SPO wants to confiscate 2.2 million euros in assets and property from Gruevski, Protoger and Dimovski (Meta)

Albania
• PM of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj to visit Tirana on Wednesday (ATA)
• Albania to support Kosovo’s NATO membership, says Xhacka (ATA)

INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• I would rather kill myself than steal a vote, Vucic says (IBNA)

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“UK should show more understanding for our position on Kosovo” (Tanjug, B92)

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President of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic received today in Belgrade a delegation of the British House of Lords, Serbian media reported. According to a statement issued by the Presidency, Vucic and his guests spoke about “regional issues and the European path of Serbia.” Vucic “thanked the representatives of the House of Lords for […]

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DSS: Serbian president to explain statement on Kosovo membership to UN (Beta, Blic)

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Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) requested today Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic to say openly, what is Serbia’s stance on the issue of Kosovo, Serbian media reported. “An important step would be made if the President of Serbia precisely explains his statement that “Kosovo would not enter UN unless we are satisfied with something, and we […]

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Kosovo not ready for border demarcation with Montenegro (The Washington Post)

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TIRANA, Albania — Kosovo’s new prime minister said Wednesday his government has no set deadline for resolving the impasse over the ratification of a border demarcation deal with Montenegro. Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, speaking in Albania on his first trip abroad since taking the post earlier this month, said his Cabinet was working on the […]

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Lekaj, Bechtel Enka: Arben Xhaferi highway ends in 2018 (Koha)

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Kosovo’s Minister for Infrastructure, Pal Lekaj, signed a contract with the Bechtel Enka company to finish the construction of the Arben Xhaferri highway by the end of 2018. Lekaj said: “We pledged to respect the contract and meet our obligations as the Government of Kosovo and at the same time we received promises from Riyadh […]

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Apostolova disappointed with Kosovo Assembly (Klan Kosova)

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Head of the EU Office in Kosovo and Special Representative, Nataliya Apostolova, said she was disappointed with the slowness of Kosovo Assembly’s work being that it held no other session following its constitutive one. In a roundtable organised by the Group for Political and Legal Studies on the implementation of Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA), […]

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