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Belgrade Media Report 14 December 2015

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Joksimovic: Key and more dynamic phase of negotiations with the EU (RTS)
• McAllister: Real job starts for Serbia (Danas)
• Lopandic: Draft resolution on Kosovo unbalanced (Tanjug)
• Vucic: We are crawling in the dark (Tanjug)
• Prime Minister to give us information on Panda case (B92)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Agreement on cooperation between SIPA and Ministry of Interior of RS will be reviewed (Novo vrijeme)
• Contract on the border of B&H with Montenegro ratified (Klix.ba)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• IS uses weapons exported to Britain from Serbia and Bosnia (newzy.net)
• EU concern after Bosnia's Serbs suspend police co-operation (BBC News)
• Western Balkans: EU blindspot on Russian propaganda (EUobserver)
• Dayton Ain’t Going Nowhere (Foreign Policy)
• Bosnia’s impaired peace may not last (Al Jazeera)

Belgrade Media Report 11 December

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Committee for Kosovo and Metohija adopts report on progress in Belgrade-Pristina dialogue (Tanjug)
• DSS, DPS: Chapter 35 path to recognition of Kosovo (Beta)
• Islamic State graffiti in Zubin Potok (Tanjug/TV Most)
• Serbia, welcome to Chapter 35 (Politika)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Vucic: We follow the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Srna)
• Dodik: SIPA could have caused an armed conflict (Srna)
• Salkic: Government and National Assembly instigate armed conflict (Vijesti.ba)
• Lukac: RS Interior Ministry not a criminal organization to be searched in such manner (Srna)
• RS Prime Minister invites High Representative to remove her from the office (Fena)
• Izetbegovic: RS has no right to act this way (Bosna danas)
• Foreign officials: Powers of state institutions must not be challenged (Fena)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• EU and Serbia to begin membership talks on December 14 (dpa)
• Serbia to complete EU reforms by 2019: PM (Xinhua)
• Bosnia Arrests Five for Bosanski Novi War Crimes (BIRN)

Belgrade Media Report 10 December 2015

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Vucic: We want to complete everything by end of 2019 (RTS)
• Hahn: We are opening chapters on Monday (B92/Beta)
• Gojkovic talks with Hahn (Tanjug)
• Djuric: Opening of chapters excellent news for Kosovo Serbs (RTS)
• Dikovic asks KFOR to engage more in non-Albanian areas (Novosti)
• Court for KLA crimes in Pristina (Blic)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Government and all institutions of RS terminated all cooperation with the B&H Court, Prosecutor’s Office and State Investigation and Protection Agency (Nezavisne)
• B&H Court rejects the prosecution’s motion for custody of Sakib Mahmuljin (Srna)
• Legal aggression on B&H is taking place via intelligence-security agencies of Serbia (Klix.ba)
• Why have U.S. agents arrived in B&H? (Nezavisne)
• Izetbegovic in Brussels: We will resolve Croatian question in the first half of 2016 (Klix.ba)
• Attaché for Security of the U.S. Embassy visited Ministry of Interior of CS (Novo vrijeme)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Thousands removed from Macedonia border camps after being rumbled for NOT being refugees (Daily Express)
• Bosnian Serbs say to halt cooperation with state police, court (Reuters)
• MEPs to Tell Montenegro to Protect Journalists (BIRN)
• Belgrade Waterfront: an unlikely place for Gulf petrodollars to settle (The Guardian)

Belgrade Media Report 9 December 2015

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Former employees of Serbian Interior Ministry in Kosovo on hunger strike (RTS/Tanjug)
• Dacic: No textbooks from Kosovo and Albania (Beta)
• Cadez: Focus on concrete cooperation (Tanjug)
• Jevtic: Attacks in Kosovo and Metohija aimed at killing, not intimidating (B92)
• Hahn: Opening of chapters a moment for celebration (RTS)
• Dabic: Returnees from fronts pose significant threat to region (Danas)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Protocol on Cooperation between B&H and Serbia signed (Faktor.ba)
• Izetbegovic and Covic in Brussels: The European future of B&H after Dayton (Srna)
• Covic and Stoltenberg: Cooperation between B&H and NATO intensifies (Bosna danas)
• B&H’s visa regime not threatened (Oslobodjenje)
• Government’s stance on the Republika Srpska day decision by the Constitutional Court (Srna)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Kosovo hampers Serbia’s progress towards the EU (Global Risks Insights)
• Wartime Bosnian commander arrested for crimes by Islamic fighters (Reuters)
• Bosnian Serb President’s Mladic Testimony Challenged (BIRN)
• NATO Moves Forward with Montenegro (the-American-interest.com)

Belgrade Media Report 8 December 2015

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• UNMIK Head Zahir Tanin condemns violence in Gorazdevac (Tanjug/RTS/B92)
• Stojanovic: Almost nothing happens by accident in Kosovo (RTS)
• Maric: There must be will to punish perpetrators (RTS)
• Fear has become life (Politika)
• McAllister’s report on Serbia’s progress presented (Novosti)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• What has Dodik said at the trial of Ratko Mladic? (Klix.ba)
• B&H general arrested for war crimes (Bosna danas)
• SDA strongly condemns this morning’s arrest of Sakib Mahmuljin (Dnevni avaz)
• Macedonia: Terror suspects were "defending against police" (Telma TV/Time.mk)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• While PM remains silent on Debono Grech, Serbia PM fires minister over sexist remark (The Malta Independent)
• Bosnia Parties Edge Towards Deal on Mostar (BIR)