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UN Human Rights experts statement marking International Day of the Girl Child: Agents for change; Girls take up the fight for a better world

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GENEVA (10 October 2019) – On the occasion of the International Day of the Girl Child, UN human rights experts* have applauded the energy and sense of urgency, as well as courage and intellect, that girls and young women have brought to recognizing and confronting many of today’s struggles from climate change and gender equality […]

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International Day of the Girl Child- these things you should know (Lajmi.net)

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October 11th is marked as International Day of the Girl Child, but as far as this topic is concerned, there is much to be said and much left to be desired. In the world, nearly 1.1 billion girls are part of a new generation, ready to take the path of the future. However, the gender equality […]

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Kosovo’s Election Winner Says Peace Impossible Unless Serbia Faces Its Past (RFE/RL)

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Albin Kurti, the leader of Kosovo’s leftist-nationalist Vetevendosje (Self-Determination) party that won a plurality of votes in parliamentary elections, said that dialogue with Serbia has to include the “recognition of Kosovo’s independence.” Speaking to RFE/RL on October 10 in Pristina, the country’s likely future prime minister also said that unless Serbia faces its past, there […]

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Limaj does not give in on election result, writes to CEC (media)

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Fatmir Limaj, leader of the Social-Democratic Initiative (NISMA) has addressed a letter to the head of Central Election Commission (CEC) Valdete Daka and the other members of the commission. Limaj has requested recount of votes at Kosovo level. He wrote among the other things that irregularities and flagrant violations on the use of the result […]

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“Message from Washington: Form government and resume dialogue ASAP” (Telegrafi)

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The news website reports that following U.S. President’s special envoy for Kosovo – Serbia negotiations, Richard Grenell, visits to Pristina and Belgrade, the U.S. Embassy to Kosovo issued a press release calling on both sides to work closely and quickly with an eye toward the future. Political commentators in Pristina said the message from Washington […]

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Hasani: Only the Serbian List can represent the Serbian community in government (Kosovo online)

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According to former Kosovo Constitutional Court President Enver Hasani only representatives of the Serbian List can represent the Serb community in Kosovo, in parliament and government. “The Constitution is clear in terms of our constitutional democracy, meaning that the division of powers is done according to the principles of the Constitution where the majority and […]

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Vjosa Osmani: “Little Schengen”, big mistake (Blic, KTV)

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LDK candidate for Prime Minister Vjosa Osmani called the idea of the Balkan “mini-Schengen”, agreed Thursday by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, and Northern Macedonia Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, “a big mistake.” – I think it’s an accident that something like that happened. I do not know if Prime Minister Rama […]

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“Message from Washington: Form government and resume dialogue ASAP” (Telegrafi)

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The news website reports that following U.S. President’s special envoy for Kosovo – Serbia negotiations, Richard Grenell, visits to Pristina and Belgrade, the U.S. Embassy to Kosovo issued a press release calling on both sides to work closely and quickly with an eye toward the future. Political commentators in Pristina said the message from Washington is […]

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CEC on completion of vote recount (Gazeta Express)

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The Central Election Commission (CEC) started on Thursday vote recount at 313 polling stations, as it was found out that some forms had technical mistakes in matching the data and results. Votes at ten from these polling stations will be recounted completely due to the finding that votes of candidates and pages of the result […]

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Selimi: We won’t cooperate with Serbian List (ekonomiaonline)

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Rexhep Selimi, member of the Vetevendosje Movement which won the highest number of votes in the snap parliamentary elections, said in an interview to the news website today that people voted for change and trusted Vetevendosje. “The citizens of Kosovo brought about the change, and not because they did not want this to happen earlier, […]

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Serbian FM Dacic: “Pristina will lose. Everyone knows that, even they do” (Politika, Tanjug, B92)

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Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic told Politika daily that he is sure Pristina will lose if a vote is taken at the Interpol General Assembly in Chile. “Everyone knows that, even they know it”, Dacic underlined for Belgrade based daily Politika. Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic and Foreign Affairs Minister Dacic hosted yesterday’s briefing for diplomats […]

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Serbia’s President PR: Tough meeting with Grenell, Vucic takes minutes himself (TV Prva, Beta, N1)

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Suzana Vasiljevic, Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic media advisor, said on Friday the meeting with Richard Grenell, the US head of state Donald Trump’s envoy to Kosovo, was challenging, but could not go into the details of the talks, the Beta news agency reported. Speaking to the Prva TV, Vasiljevic said the two spoke alone in […]

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