LOCAL PRESS

Vucic: Against instability with policy of maximum restraint (RTS/Tanjug)

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic on Monday met with representatives of the diplomatic corps and heads of foreign missions and institutions in Serbia.Speaking after the meeting, Vucic said it was the vital interest of the Serb people to have peace and stability and that these are the essence of future progress. “Our policy in the future will be the policy of keeping silent, of not responding, not gossiping, with which Minister Dacic was not completely in agreement,” said he. Vucic added that he would be scared if he should have to deal with some other things, that are not work and economic progress. “One of the most difficult weeks is behind us. As the head of government I am prepared to receive political blows and remain silent to most serious insults,” said Vucic. Opening the meeting earlier in the day, Vucic thanked the foreign diplomats for accepting his invitation and stressed that “Serbia thinks that regional stability has been endangered for the first time in a more serious manner”. Vucic also said it was his government’s appraisal that due to this situation political and economic prosperity in the region is not 100 percent certain in the coming period. According to him, meetings like the one today are usually called on the occasion of some positive development. However, “that is unfortunately not the case this time, considering the number of incidents in the region over the past year,” he stressed. Vucic particularly underlined that despite this, we have not gathered in this composition to attack anyone but to express clearly Serbia’s position on the situation in the region. Representatives of 64 embassies located in Belgrade were present at the meeting today – including Russia, Germany, the U.S., China, France, and Britain – as well as those from the European Investment Bank, the International Organization for Migrations, the European Center for Peace and Development, the OSCE, the EU, the Holy See, and the United Nations and its UNICEF agency. According to announcements, representatives of the embassies of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Slovenia, and Montenegro were also taking part – but not of Croatia.
Dacic to Ban: Community of Municipalities key to dialogue (Beta)

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic told United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at a meeting in New York that establishing the Community of Serb Municipalities in Kosovo was key to the development of the Belgrade-Pristina dialog and that Serbia believed that the UNMIK mission should remain with an unchanged mandate, Dacic said in a written statement released to media. The press release notes that Ban inquired about the unfolding of the Brussels dialog, and that Dacic pointed out that Serbia considered as a key issue the formation of the Community, as defined by the Brussels deal which both sides signed, and that Pristina keeps finding reasons to postpone it. Dacic added that he had told Ban that the Brussels talks could be negatively influenced by some countries’ advocating for the recognition of Kosovo by other states, which is something that can be heard at U.N. Security Council sessions too. “This kills dialogue, and we want dialog, not a policy of the fait accompli, like Pristina and its allies want to make it out: that it’s already a done deal and that now we are just talking about some technical details,” stated Dacic, who participated in an Security Council session on the secretary general’s  trimonthly report on Kosovo.

Dacic: Major differences remain between Belgrade, Pristina (Tanjug)

Thursday’s UN SC meeting on Kosovo demonstrated that “major differences” remain between the positions of the Belgrade and Pristina delegations, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said after the meeting. The Serbian delegation insisted on a consistent interpretation of UN SC Resolution 1244 – under which the meetings on Kosovo are also held every three months – and on status neutrality of the Brussels dialogue, Dacic said. On the other hand, “Pristina is constantly approaching these meetings as an opportunity to present various untruths and positions suggesting that Kosovo is an integral, sovereign state,” Dacic said. ‘That alone is a breach of Resolution 1244, which is also evident from the requests by certain countries that call on other countries to join them in the recognition of Kosovo’s unilaterally declared independence,” Dacic said.

Odalovic: Community of Serb Municipalities will be founded if Pristina gets Biden’s message (RTS)

Veljko Odalovic, general secretary at the Serbian Foreign Ministry, said that he expected Pristina to get the message brought by U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden that the Community of Serb Municipalities must be established. “If Pristina takes Biden seriously and if it is sincere, the Community of Serb Municipalities will be formed quickly, otherwise, the formation of the Community will not go easily,” Odalovic told Radio and Television of Serbia (RTS).

Clashes between Kosovo Albanians, police in Musutiste (Tanjug)

A larger group of Serbs was prevented on Sunday to visit their property in the village of Musutiste near Suva Reka, since the gathered local Albanians did not allow them and blocked the road where their former neighbors were supposed to arrive; incidents were condemned by political representatives of Kosovo Serbs and officials of Serbian Government. Kosovo police assessed in the end that safety conditions that would enable Serbs to reach the destroyed monastery where they were supposed to be present for the liturgy this morning. That is why three buses with approximately 150 dislocated Serbs, including twenty children, after more than four hours of waiting, instead of gathering in the yard of the demolished XVIII century church in

Musutiste, have been forced to go to Zociste Monastery, near Orahovac. Albanians from Musutiste called their compatriots from Suva Reka and surrounding villages through social networks in the past days to prevent the arrival of Serbs to this village and anti-Serb billboards were put up in the village. In the end, enough Albanians gathered on Sunday to physically prevent police from doing their work. Tanjug news agency reported that after the clash between police and protestors, several dozen protest participants were arrested. Police was forced to use batons and tear gas and there were injured, including police officers who were hit with stones and bottles by the protestors. During the protest of Albanians in Musutiste, Serbs were waiting in vain some ten kilometers away for the police to enable their arrival. Serb Ticket, the main political represent of Kosovo Serbs, condemned preventing of dislocated Serbs to visit their properties in Musutiste and attack of the protestors on the police.

Djuric: Heated security situation (Politika/Tanjug)

The Head of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric said that incidents in Musutiste were “outburst of extremism and unhidden hatred towards Serbian people”. “Several days ago, after Albanian extremists put up a billboard that was the main invitation for the outburst of hatred towards Serbs, we warned what would happen and if the authorities reacted timely, we would not be witnessing the scenes that reminded us on those during the persecution in March 2004,” Djuric emphasized in the announcement and referred to the several days of ethnically motivated violence during which the Albanians killed at least 16 and persecuted approximately 4.000 Kosovo Serbs. “Serbia does not see anything normal in the mass manifestation of hatred towards Serbs who only wish to gather on the remains of their houses and demolished church from religious and commemoration reasons. If Serbs are not allow to do even that, what kind of perspective for Serbian-Albanian relations we can talk about today,” Djuric asked.

Djuric: Establish fate of disappeared people (Tanjug)

The Head of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric said on the occasion of 30 August, the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, that he expects that Belgrade and Pristina will make more resolute progress towards Serbian-Albanian reconciliation in the forthcoming period by establishing the fate of all victims of enforced disappearances.
In a written statement, Djuric said that “6,049 cases of disappearances in Kosovo and Metohija have been reported to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), with 4,383 cases closed to date. Still, 1,666 persons are considered as disappeared, including more than 570 Serbs and other non-Albanians”. He added that Belgrade and Pristina are working together on the issue within a working group which is chaired by the ICRC which is a good, but evidently not quite an effective mechanism for cooperation in the field.

UNSC to vote again, Jeremic hopes to make it to “Final Four” (Tanjug)

The UN Security Council will meet on Monday in New York for the third round of voting in the process of electing the new UN secretary-general. This round should show who the favorites are, and who will de facto drop out of the race. Serbia’s candidate is former Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic, who placed second in the previous vote. As Nikola Jovanovic from Jeremic’s CIRSD think-tank explained for Tanjug, today’s vote will mark the end of an important phase in the process, with the aim of forming a rank list of candidates according to the degree, number and strength of support they enjoy in the Security Council. “Although there are no formal criteria, it is expected that only four (candidates) will go to the final part of this process. They will continue to be the subject of decision-making in the Security Council in September, above all of the most important five permanent members of the Security Council,” said Jovanovic. According to him, Jeremic’s goal is to be among them in order to qualify for the final vote and became “the subject of consideration” of the world’s greatest powers – China, France, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States. “The chance of Serbia having its representative in the final process of electing a new secretary-general of the UN, and of them being discussed by the biggest powers represents a great opportunity for Serbia to raise its visibility and prestige in the international arena, especially bearing in mind that our country is small and does not have a large, specific weight in international relations,” said Jovanovic. He stressed that Jeremic’s campaign, in addition to adding to Serbia’s prestige, also fights the stereotypes about our country which continue to be present in certain parts of the world. Other candidates eligible in today’s round of voting include Antonio Guterres of Portugal, Susana Malcorra (Argentina), Helen Clark (New Zealand), Danilo Turk (Slovenia), Irina Bokova (Bulgaria), Christiana Figueres (Costa Rica), Natalia Gherman (Moldova), and Srgjan Kerim (Macedonia). Although Jeremic has a real chance to enter the so-called “Final Four”, the selection of the next head of the world government will not be easy, given the intertwining of big powers’ political interests, and historical circumstances that are not easy to overlook, Tanjug has reported. When the voting ends today, a new phase will begin with the methodology changing as direct negotiations are introduced, but also, according to experts, the bargaining between major powers. In a way, the candidates and their campaigns will take the back seat in favor of other moments, estimates, and arrangements.

Currently 4,000 migrants in Serbia, 2,000 more during winter (RTS)

There are 4,000 migrants in Serbia at the moment and that number should not exceed 6,000 during the winter, said on Monday assistant of the commissioner for refugees and migration Danijela Popovic Roko. She pointed out that the work on the expansion of existing facilities at reception centers with the aim to ensure enough room for the winter, when the higher number of migrants is expected, is taking place. New facilities at the reception center in Krnjaca will be opened on Monday, said Popovic Roko and added that there are plans to expand capacities of the other four centers. She told RTS that Serbia faced the migrant crisis with five asylum centers last year and recalled that the transit reception centers were opened meanwhile.

REGIONAL PRESS

Suspending of investigation against Merdic in Vucic case triggers reactions (RTRS)

Decision of the Prosecutor’s Office of B&H to cease investigate against Almir Merdic, who is one of the main suspects for the attack on Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic in Srebrenica in 2015, triggered reactions on Sunday. Serb representatives from both the RS and Serbia deem that the suspending of the investigation shows that relevant institutions did not have intention to solve the case. RS President Milorad Dodik stated: “This is B&H – a country that does not make sense.” He stressed that the case was supposed to be prosecuted and added that the Court of B&H and the Prosecutor’s Office of B&H were formed to prosecute Serbs, not crimes committed against Serbs. Speaker of the RS National Assembly Nedeljko Cubrilovic stated that having in mind relations of Bosniak officials towards Serbs, such decision was expected. According to Serb member of B&H Presidency Mladen Ivanic, the cessation of the investigation is the “worst possible political event.” He said that according to Bosniak logic, those who are attacked from Serbia should be protected, and added that this logic will downgrade relations among peoples. Also, the statement of SDA’s Sadik Ahmetovic, who said that Vucic “attacked himself” in Srebrenica triggered reactions. For Serbian authorities, this is an international scandal, because Vucic went to Srebrenica at the request of the host, who was supposed to take care of his security. Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic stated that Serbia showed how a serious state looks like, because B&H Presidency member Bakir Izetbegovic visited Belgrade a few days after the attack and nothing happened to him. Commenting on Dacic’s claims, Head of Srebrenica Municipality Camil Durakovic stated that no matter how much Dacic wishes that B&H does not exist as a state, it is a state with its own bodies, including the Prosecutor’s Office of B&H. Durakovic deems that the Prosecutor’s Office of B&H surely has an explanation for the decision to suspend the investigation.

RS Commission for Implementation of Referendum on RS Day to hold session on Monday, PIC to discuss referendum issue on Tuesday (TV1)

TV1 carried that the RS Commission for Implementation of Referendum on the Day of the RS will hold a session on Monday, while the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) will discuss the issue of the referendum at a session scheduled for Tuesday. The presenter stressed that outcome of the PIC’s session is uncertain because High Representative (HR) Valentin Inzko confirmed that ambassadors in the PIC have different stances regarding the referendum.

Izetbegovic: Referendum in RS needs to be stopped before those who are playing with fire become incapable of preventing consequences (Dnevni avaz)

Chairman of the B&H Presidency Bakir Izetbegovic, gave an interview to Dnevni avaz after Saturday’s meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul. Commenting on announced referendum on the Day of the RS, Izetbegovic said that referendum needs to be stopped before it is too late, and before those who are playing with fire in B&H become incapable of stopping it and preventing the consequences. Izetbegovic expressed hope that Serbian officials will not interfere. “B&H is a country with problems, and those try to destroy it and bring the peace agreement in question (…) might easily destroy the peace in B&H. And that would suit no one”, Izetbegovic said. “If we have the OHR in B&H, what is its purpose if it is not going to stop such things and do its job? The same applies to Constitutional Court and the Prosecutor’s Office of B&H. An attack on institutions of B&H, on constitutional-legal order of B&H is currently being carried out, and an attack on territorial integrity of the country is being promised. Thigs are clear, it is better to call them by their real name”, Izetbegovic said. Commenting on the announced session of the Peace Implementation Council (PIC), scheduled to take place on Tuesday, Izetbegovic said that he expects PIC members to courageously do their job. “This is undoubtedly an anti-Dayton activity, they should not pretend not to see it and they should react because, as I said, it will be much harder to stop things later, when they start to accelerate”, Izetbegovic concluded.

Ahmetovic calls on HR Inzko to use his competences and annul RSNA’s decision to call referendum on RS Day regardless of what PIC decides (TV1)

SDA representative in the House of Representatives of B&H (B&H HoR) Sadik Ahmetovic commented on the upcoming session of the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) dedicated to the referendum on the Day of the RS, saying that he does not have high expectations from the session and he does not expect from the PIC to allow the High Representative (HR) to use the Bonn powers due to lack of consensus. He called on HR Valentin Inzko to use his competences and annul the RS National Assembly’s (RSNA) decision to call the referendum regardless of what the PIC decides, adding that this is the only way to prevent destruction of B&H and processes which will be a threat to peace in entire region. Asked what will happen if HR Inzko does not annul the decision to call the referendum, Ahmetovic said: “I think that every purpose of his (HR’s) existence and presence in B&H will be lost because the HR is obliged to protect stability, to control and protect the Constitution where local actors are unable to do so. These are his (HR’s) competences in line with the Dayton Peace Accords.” He claims that Inzko should be relieved of duty and someone with more courage and strength should be appointed as the HR if the decision to call the referendum is not annulled.

Milanovic: If they fail to prevent referendum on secession of RS, Croats in B&H maybe end up isolated (N1)

Leader of Croatian SDP Zoran Milanovic commented on B&H again on Sunday. He said that if they fail to prevent the referendum on secession of the RS, Croats in B&H maybe end up isolated. He said that this requires action, not by weapons but by words, to warn that it is bad. Milanovic said he wants to preserve B&H, although it is dysfunctional and added that Bosniak politicians commented that he attacked B&H. He stressed that he attacked those who want to cut B&H in half by the referendum.

Vujanovic: I am not expecting incidents on Kosovo border (CDM)

There is no reason that anyone in Kosovo should be dissatisfied with Montenegro. We did not earn any bad acts of Kosovo people, said President of Montenegro Filip Vujanovic during the celebratory session of local assembly in Kolasin. When asked whether he expects incidents on Kosovo border after the ratification of Agreement on demarcation is passed in Kosovo Parliament, Vujanović said he does not. “I do not expect any incidents of course. You know my attitude on this Agreement. It was made through careful consideration. It was signed in Vienna, and ratified in Montenegro. It is Kosovo’s interior matter when will it be ratified there, but we are understandable,” Vujanovic was clear. “We are a country who treats others with respect, and we accepted the reality in Kosovo. According to the population of Kosovo, we have been responsible. We did not deserve any bad acts. We are a good neighbor and a good partner. I expect Kosovo to understand this,” Vujanovic is assured. Regional media from Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro published yesterday an announcement of so called Albanian national army that threatened war between Albania and Montenegro should the Agreement be ratified. Vujanovic has no knowledge of this. “I learned about this from the media. I believe that citizens of Kosovo understand that Montenegro is a good neighbor. We have no pretensions, and have only respect,” he said. Montenegro demonstrated respect for the Agreement. “I think agreement on borders in our region sends a good message, because it is a sensitive matter. Montenegro is responsible as a country, respects the reality of Kosovo and I expect Kosovo to reciprocate,” he said. Matters in Kosovo are their interior business, and the Parliament should be well prepared for the ratification. “We have been patient. We respect Kosovo’s interior pace. We do not need anyone’s land. We want good relations with neighbors and we are internationally supported in this intent,” he said. He was asked whether safety services are on alert. “Montenegro cares about its safety. In this situation, we feel secure. No citizen will be put in danger. I will repeat, there is no reason to be dissatisfied with Montenegro. We want good relations with the region,” Vujanovic said.

It is in our interest to connect the area of Plav and Pec, like it used to exist. “Good communication, good trade. The border should be no obstacle. I hope that the Kosovo Assembly resolves this issue in a responsible manner,” Vujanovic concluded in Kolasin.

INTERNATIONAL PRESS

Hand grenade thrown at Kosovo state TV chief’s home – police (Reuters, 29 August 2016)

PRISTINA – A hand grenade was thrown at the home of the head of Kosovo’s state broadcaster RTK, police said on Monday, the second incident in a week to target the TV channel or its executives. Police said in a statement that no injuries were reported and no perpetrator found following the incident in a suburb of the capital Pristina at around 10 p.m. (2000 GMT) on Sunday. “It was a powerful explosion which shocked the entire neighbourhood,” said RTK director Mentor Shala, who owns the house. “We (the family) were all inside but luckily no one was injured.” On Aug. 22, a hand grenade was thrown into the courtyard of RTK’s headquarters in Pristina, causing slight damage to transmitters. That attack was claimed by an activist group opposing a planned border deal with Montenegro that parliament is due to debate on Thursday.

Kosovo is facing its worst political crisis since it declared independence in 2008 as opposition groups protest against the border deal and an EU-brokered accord with Serbia that would give more autonomy to Serb-held areas of the country. Opposition deputies have released teargas in the country’s parliament several times since last October while police have used teargas to disperse violent demonstrations against the two deals on the streets of Pristina. Parliament is due to vote on Sept. 1 on the deal with Montenegro which will fix the undefined border between the two countries of former Yugoslavia but which opposition parties say will cost Kosovo some 8,200 hectares of land. The government rejects that claim and says the border deal is a key condition for its citizens to eventually benefit from a visa-free travel regime with the European Union that neighbours including Montenegro and Serbia obtained in 2010. Landlocked Kosovo, most of whose 1.8 million citizens are ethnic Albanian, declared independence from Serbia in 2008 but is not recognised by Belgrade.

(Reporting by Fatos Bytyci; Editing by Ivana Sekularac and Catherine Evans)

World View: Increasing Anger in Turkey Threatens the EU-Turkey Migrant Deal (breitbart.com, by John J. Xenakis, 28 Aug 2016)

Hungary may build a second ‘massive’ fence to block migrants from Serbia

Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán announced that Hungary may erect a second fence along the border with Serbia, parallel to the existing fence. The existing 500 km fence was built hastily last year in September, in defiance of European Union criticisms. It is a four-meter-high razor wire fence that has slowed, but not stopped, the flow of migrants from Serbia. The new “massive” fence, if erected, will use “the most modern technology.” The new fence will be built if the EU-Turkey migrant deal collapses. Last year, about 400,000 migrants crossed into Hungary from Serbia. That’s been reduced to 18,000 in 2016, because of the EU-Turkey deal, but it’s expected that the massive flood of migrants would return if the deal collapsed.

Orbán announced other steps as well. Hungary will increase the number of border police by 3,000, to 47,000 from 44,000. According to Orbán, “Then if it does not work with nice words, we will have to stop them with force, and we will do so.” Hungary has already passed a law imposing a three-year prison sentence on those who cross its borders illegally. The EU government in Brussels has announced a plan to allow a limited number of migrants to enter Europe, and then to resettle them in all 28 countries in the EU, according to a quota system. Orbán has scheduled a referendum for October 2 on whether to accept migrants for resettlement. (Balkan Insight and Reuters and Russia Today)

Greece makes contingency plans for 180,000 more migrants

If the EU-Turkey migrant deal collapses, then Greece can expect an additional 180,000 migrants and refugees from Turkey to reach Greece this year. Since Turkey’s July 15 attempted coup, the number of migrants reaching Greece has gone from almost zero to about 100 per day. ( “18-Aug-16 World View — Number of migrants reaching Greece surges since Turkey’s attempted coup”)

Greece has been working to upgrade its overcrowded refugee camps, which have been described as abysmal, where security is lax and mothers with babies are forced to sleep on the ground in makeshift tents. Conditions are particularly bad on the Greek islands in the Aegean Sea — Lesvos, Chios and Samos — with new migrants arriving every day, but unable to travel any further. Greece has been building new refugee camps to reduce the overcrowding. It’s estimated that there are about 50,000 refugees currently stranded in Greece. During the June 9 to July 30 period, 27,592 refugees and migrants went through the pre-registration process, with 57% of them being men and 43% women, plus thousands of children, both unaccompanied or with a parent. (Greek Reporter)

Increasing anger in Turkey threatens the EU-Turkey migrant deal

The issue of Syrian migrants in EU has rarely been in the news recently, so most people think that the problem is completely solved. Americans in particular have no clue what’s going on in the world beyond Donald Trump’s latest immigration plan or Hillary Clinton’s latest e-mail explanation. Nonetheless, there is a growing anger in Turkey that could lead to the collapse of the EU-Turkey migrant deal in September, as further negotiations proceed between the two parties. This anger was very evident several days ago, when US vice president Joseph Biden visited Ankara and was snubbed by obviously furious, stone-faced Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Much of Turkey’s anger comes from a lack of support following the July 15 attempted coup combined with a series of horrific terror attacks perpetrated by both the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh). These coup threatened Turkey’s entire government, and the terror attacks are much worse than anything that Europe has experienced, and yet from Turkey’s point of view, EU officials have done nothing but criticize Turkey’s attempts to recover from the coup attempt and terror attacks. Turkey also points out that the terror attacks are a threat to all of Europe, as well as Turkey.

With regard to the migrant deal itself, Turkey’s view is that they’ve fulfilled their commitments, but the EU hasn’t. In particular:

•           Europe promised 3 billion euros in aid for Syrian refugees in Turkey. That money was due months ago, and has not been paid.

•           Under the deal, Europe agreed to take 72,000 of the most vulnerable refugees, but has only accepted 1,000 so far.

•           Under the deal, the Europe promised visa-free travel for all Turkish citizens in Europe’s Schengen Zone by June, and that visa liberalization has not yet taken place.

Turkey also points out that it has taken in at least 2.7 million Syrian refugees and houses 270,000 in 26 provisional refugee camps with food, health and education services as well as psychological support, vocational education and social activities, and has spent 7 billion euros meeting their needs.

For Europe, the main issue is human rights in Turkey. Even before the July 15 coup, Turkey had already shut down the country’s main opposition media group. (“6-Mar-16 World View — Turkey’s ‘shameful day for free press’ as government seizes Zaman media”)

Since the coup, Erdogan has conducted a purge that can only be described as breathtaking, arresting thousands of soldiers and policy, and firing thousands more judges, teachers and clerics. In all, 58,000 people have been affected by the purge. ( “22-Jul-16 World View — Turkey’s Erdogan gives himself dictatorial powers, moving Turkey away from the West”)

EU considers Erdogan’s actions to be a major human rights violation, inconsistent with EU law, requiring remediation before the visa liberation can occur. However, even that reason doesn’t excuse the 3 billion euros in aid that hasn’t been paid. Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu makes it clear that Turkey sees the agreement so far as completely one-sided:

It cannot be that everything that is good for the E.U. is implemented by our side, but Turkey gets nothing in return. I don’t want to talk about the worst-case scenario. But it’s clear that we either apply all treaties at the same time or we put them all aside. Negotiations to overcome these differences will begin in September. If no agreement is reached by October, then Turkey could gradually increase the flow of migrants to Greece, and could also refuse to implement other parts of the EU-Turkey deal, such as the “readmission agreement,” which would permit Europe to send migrants not granted asylum back to Turkey. (Daily Sabah and Guardian and Washington Post)

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