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Kosovo’s Tough-Guy Tactics Won’t Get it Far (Balkan Insight)

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Kosovo’s government is in fighting mood, taxing Serbian goods and vowing to form its own ‘army’ – but it is going for the wrong targets. “Revenge is a dish best served cold,” says an old English proverb. It clearly hasn’t reached Kosovo. Within hours of Serbia blocking Kosovo’s attempt to join Interpol, Kosovo had slapped […]

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Vucic ahead of UNSC session; I will fight with all my heart (B92, RTS, Tanjug)

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President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic says he would “fight for Serbia with all his heart” during the UN Security Council session on Kosovo, to be held on Monday. During an unscheduled press conference in Belgrade on Sunday, Vucic announced he would travel to New York on an Air Serbia plane, and “hopes it won’t be […]

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New KFOR Commander: We are ready to intervene if stability is endangered (Tanjug, B92, Pobjeda)

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Newly appointed KFOR Commander Major General Lorenzo D’Addario said KFOR is ready to intervene in Kosovo if stability is endangered, Tanjug news agency reported. General D’Addario told Podgorica-based daily Pobjeda that decision on transformation of Kosovo Security Forces into armed forces is ill-timed. He added, the North-Atlantic Organization would now have to re-examine its level […]

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Oliver Ivanovic’s death still remains unsolved (N1)

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The assassination of Kosovo Serb political leader Oliver Ivanovic remains unsolved 11 months after it happened, Ivanovic’s party senior official Ksenija Bozovic told N1, warning that no detail on perpetrator in this case has been found. The investigation into Ivanovic’s death has not progressed at all but his party, SDP initiative, will continue exerting pressure […]

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Belgrade Media Report 14 December 2018

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United Nations Office in Belgrade

Daily Media Highlights

Friday 14 December 2018
LOCAL PRESS

• Vucic to tour in next 72 hours several army units stationed in Ground Safety Zone (RTS)
• Vulin: Serbian Army ready to carry out orders (TV Pink/Tanjug/B92)
• Djuric: So-called army – occupying armed formation (RTV)
• Selakovic: International law is dead (RTS)
• Fabrizi: EU clear, dialogue best solution (Beta)
• Stoltenberg: I regret Pristina’s decision (Tanjug)
• Djuric: Only KFOR and Serbian Army may be in Kosovo (Beta)
• Mogherini: Kosovo import taxes jeopardize Belgrade – Pristina dialogue (Beta)
• Lazanski: Transformation of Kosovo security forces is violation of international law (RTS)
• Zaharova: Russia will support new UN resolution if it is in Serbia’s interest (Beta)

REGIONAL PRESS

Bosnia & Herzegovina
• B&H CoM appoints members of B&H Commission for NATO integration process (Hayat)
• Cvijanovic: We do not want NATO border between RS and Serbia (RTRS)
• B&H authorities plan to adopt first annual national program for NATO MAP activation by end of year, Dodik says he will stop this process (Al Jazeera Balkans)
• Palmer: US strongly support B&H in NATO integration process (Dnevni avaz)
Croatia
• Plenkovic raises the issue of Croats in B&H in Brussels (HRT)
Montenegro
• Medojevic got out from prison, Knezevic from Assembly building (CDM)
• Djukanovic is the most popular, and the DPS strongest (CDM)
fYROM
• Government passes on final versions of amendments to parliament (Meta)
• MPs gave themselves green light for amnesty (Nezavisen vesnik)
• Macedonian government hopes meeting with Bulgarian government is not canceled, despite heated exchanges (Republika)

INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Kosovo’s army dreamers enrage their Serbian neighbours (BBC News)
• Prespa Agreement Seen as “Huge Achievement” in US (Greek Reporter)

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UNMIK Headlines 17 December

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• Thaci: Kosovo army, irreversible process (media)
• UN to discuss creation of Kosovo’s army today (RTK)
• Protest in front of UNHQ in New York on genocide and rape victims (Bota Sot)
• Government rejects EU’s call for lifting tax (dailies)
• Stabilisation-Association meeting to be held today (media)
• U.S. support Kosovo Assembly’s resolution on dialogue with Serbia (dailies)
• EU welcomes Assembly’s resolution on dialogue (Epoka)
• Veseli: EU should have sincere approach towards Kosovo (RTK)
• Ymeri: No agreement without recognition (RTK)
• Vetevendosje opposes resolution on dialogue (Kosova Sot)
• Mustafa: Dialogue team is an improvisation and without legitimacy (media)
• “Kosovars disappointed with EU, but don’t lose love for it” (Koha)
• Turkey supports KSF transformation into army (media)
• KFOR: Situation under control, provocations must be avoided (media)

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