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Belgrade Media Report 22 April 2015

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Progress in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue (RTS)
• Vucic asks to open accession negotiations chapters in June (Tanjug)
• Vucic to Tusk: We deserve to open chapters in June (RTS)
• Nikolic: Brussels should demonstrate that Serbia’s decisive steps are not futile (RTS)
• Djuric: Ready to open chapters in June or September (Tanjug)
• Russian Foreign Ministry: 2014 – the year of intensive Russian-Serbian contacts (Tanjug)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• KLA claims responsibility for attack on Gosince watchtower (Press24)
• Joint statement of six prime ministers of Western Balkans countries (Oslobodjenje)
• Zlatko Lagumdzija to visit Azerbaijan (Fena)
• Italian support to the B&H reforms (Srna)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Thaci dispute highlights bad will in Serbia relations (EUobserver)
• Reform Justice or Lose Funds, EU Tells Bosnia (BIRN)

Belgrade Media Report 21 April 2015

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Pavicevic: Thaqi will be arrested (Tanjug/Politika)
• Selakovic: Pristina creating tension before every round of talks (Tanjug)
• Drecun: Thaqi unacceptable for Belgrade (RTS)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Conclusion of Stabilization and Association Agreement with B&H (Fena)
• Bosnian Presidency chairman sees new opportunity for B&H (Dalje/Dnevni avaz)
• Expert team formed to represent RS in a hearing before the B&H Constitutional Court (Srna)
• FYROM Ministry of Interior: State institutions target of terrorists in the KLA uniforms (Kurir)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Kosovo FM Thaci’s Belgrade Visit Cancelled (BIRN)
• UNMIK refuses compensation for victims (Sputnik)
• Serbia’s Neglected War Victims Hope for Legal Change (BIRN)
• Gunmen take police hostage in Macedonia, call for Albanian state (Reuters)
• EU Is Unfreezing the SAA with Bosnia and Herzegovina (Euinside)

Belgrade Media Report 20 April 2015

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Serbian government officially tells Thaqi: You will be arrested (Beta)
• Vucic: We will act according to the law in case of Thaqi’s arrival (RTS/Tanjug)
• Djuric: Another Albanian provocation (RTS)
• Topic of “Berlin conditions” opened on the eve of Belgrade-Pristina negotiations (Danas)
• Francken: Chapter 24 to be opened as soon as possible (Radio Belgrade)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Kosarac: OHR is in the service of Bosniak politics (Srna)
• The decision on the activation of SAA on Tuesday? (Srna/Dnevni avaz)
• Dzaferovic: After SAA enters into force, numerous obligations await B&H (Oslobodjenje)
• Washington visit successful - talks to continue in B&H (Srna)
• Announcements from B&H concern Croatian generals (Fena)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• IOC President Thomas Bach visits NOCs of Serbia and Kosovo (Olympic.org)
• Montenegro to Chair OSCE Security Cooperation Forum (BIRN)
• Montenegro Police Urged to Solve Ex-MP's Murder (BIRN)

Belgrade Media Report 17 April 2015

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Stefanovic: If Thaqi comes to Belgrade, we will arrest him (RTS)
• EU: New round of dialogue on 21 April (Tanjug)
• Djuric: Pristina seriously lagging behind schedule (Novosti)
• Djordjevic, Bartels: Goal of Serbia and NATO preservation of peace and stability (Beta)
• Selakovic for higher level of cooperation with Brussels (Tanjug)
• Nikolic’s plane breaks down, visit to Vatican canceled (Tanjug)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Radoncic: Izetbegovic wants to govern the Serbs and Croats (Srna)
• Republic Day being defended by referendum, Assembly invited to take the position on all who violate the constitutional status of RS (Nezavisne)
• The sentencing of the B&H criminal organization (Fena)
• Moore: Achieved level of consensus must be maintained (Fena)
• Cormack: Potential untapped due to political corruption (Oslobodjenje)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Serbia will arrest Thaçi if he attends Belgrade conference (EurActiv/Reuters)
• Rights group accuses Serbia of harassing migrants (AP)
• Bosnian Serb Leader Pays ‘Historic’ Visit to Srebrenica (BIRN)
• Macedonia Steps Backward (The New York Times)

Belgrade Media Report 16 April

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Office for Kosovo and Metohija: Pristina politicizes air traffic issues (Tanjug)
• Dacic thanks Zambia for not recognizing Kosovo (Beta/Tanjug)
• B&H Foreign Minister:The aim is to further improve relations with Serbia (Tanjug)
• Mihajlovic: Thaqi acceptable in Brussels, but not in Belgrade (B92)
• Vukcevic: If Thaqi comes, he will be arrested (Blic)
• Seselj files complaint against Brammertz (Tanjug)
• Russian Foreign Ministry: “Pan-Albanian” rhetoric will not contribute to preservation of climate of stability in Balkans (Tanjug)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Zvizdic, Pusic meet: B&H Council of Ministers focused on socio-economic reforms (Oslobodjenje)
• Cvijanovic at a working lunch with Michelle Obama (Srna)
• Head of the EU Delegation: True progress in sphere of social and economic reforms needed (Srna)
• U.S. Embassy urges NSRS delegates to respect Dayton Accord, Inzko sending warnings (Patria)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Expert slams EU’s handling of Kosovo corruption case (EurActiv/Reuters)
• Eulex report exposes EU failure in Kosovo (EUobserver)
• Serbia is interested in the South gas corridor (Azertac)
• ‘Albanian Paramilitaries’ Claim Macedonia Govt Attack (BIRN)
• It’s not just Iraq that has been destroyed by Western intervention (Spiked)