STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Dacic: Important that EU keeps focus on Western Balkans (Tanjug)
• Interpol’s warrants for crimes in Kosovo and Metohija (RTS/Tanjug)
• Odalovic: Crimes committed during KFOR’s presence in Kosovo and Metohija (RTS)
• Pristina preparing new requests ahead of resumption of dialogue (Novosti)
• Hague would like to release seriously ill Seselj (B92/Tanjug)
• Albanians in southern Serbia invocating Rama (Novosti)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• SDA-HDZ B&H meeting concludes: Doors to coalition open to all (Oslobodjenje)
• Karadzic’s daughter MP in RS parliament (Hina)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• EU to name expert to review Kosovo mission corruption charges (EUbusiness)
• Serbia Urged to Speed Up War Crimes Prosecutions (BIRN)
• UN War Crimes Court May Release Ailing Serb (AP)
• Bosniaks, Croats Cement Govt Alliance in Bosnia (BIRN)
• Macedonian opposition determined not to return to parliament (Independent Balkan News Agency)
• Mladic Witness: Serbs ‘Humiliated’ by Bosniaks (BIRN)

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Nikolic congratulated Dodik on his re-election as entity president (RTS)
• Mogherini mediator in Belgrade-Pristina dialogue (RTS)
• Drecun: There is fear of EULEX affairs being relativized and hushed up (Srna)
• Djuric and Janjic thank KFOR for protecting Decani Monastery (Tanjug/Politika)
• Musliu: I will advocate implementation of referendum that envisages annexation of Kosovo (FoNet)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Cavic: NDP delegates rejected SNSD immoral offers to enter government (Oslobodjenje)
• Dodik: SNSD, DNS, SP will form RS government (Oslobodjenje/RTS)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• EU anti-fraud investigators should examine bribery and corruption allegations in Kosovo says S&D (EU Reporter Correspondent)
• With eyes on EU, Albania hopes to draw line under Serbia drone row (Reuters)
• Serbian Province Reshuffles Government (BIRN)
• Serbia Starts IMF Loan Talks to Get Investors’ Confidence (Bloomberg)
• Jailed Bosnian Serb war criminal sues British government for £120,000 for PTSD 'scars' because it failed to protect him from fellow inmates who slashed his throat (Daily Mail)

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Vucic: Serbia promoting stability in the region (Politika/Novosti/Danas)
• Dacic: Important activities of Serbian diplomacy in the region and worldwide (Radio Serbia/Politika)
• Djuric requests protection of Serbs in Metohija (RTS/Tanjug)
• Stoltenberg: KFOR committed to its mandate in Kosovo (Danas/Tanjug)
• Ugljanin: BNV for resolution of Bosniak issue (Tanjug)
• Fehratovic: We request elections to be annulled (RTS)
• “Europe has died in Pristina” (Danas)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Igor Radojicic: As things stand, I will not be Prime Minister (Press)
• Lobbying for power in Banja Luka (Politika’s Sarajevo correspondent)
• Dodik: “South Stream” or total blockage of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Novosti)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Planned western Balkans reconciliation meeting crumbles (Reuters)
• Russia Reduces Gas Flow to Serbia over Unpaid Debt (novinite.com)
• Yugoslavia’s Last Defense Minister Dies in Moscow (AP)
• Ministers from Austria, the Western Balkans and V4 Meet in Slovakia (FriedlNews)
• Post election games have begun in Bosnia (Journal of Turkish Weekly)
• Republika Srpska Opposition Strikes Back at Ruling Party (BIRN)
• FYROM FM says Athens, Skopje ‘nowhere near a solution’ (ekathimerini.com)

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Dacic: Serbia’s foreign policy priority is EU membership (Tanjug)
• Djuric: Ivanovic is victim of “rule of law” in Kosovo (RTS)
• Kerry: U.S. grateful to Serbia for support in battle against Islamists (Novosti/Tanjug)
• What is rotten in EULEX (Politika)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Confirmed alliance between SNSD and HDZ B&H (Danas/BHRT)
• Dodik: Chairman of the Council of Ministers will be a Bosniak (BHRT)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Atifete Jahjaga had been invited to take part in a meeting in Belgrade of the Trilateral Commission, a biannual gathering of influential business leaders, academics and policymakers (World Bulletin)
• Bosnians Punished Parties in Power, Panel Says (BIR)
• The Chance for a Multi-Ethnic Bosnia (Anadolu Agency)
• Mladic Witness: Serb-Run Hospital Helped Bosniaks (BIRN)

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Djuric: Urgent revision of EULEX necessary (Radio Belgrade)
• UK foreign secretary congratulates Serbian PM on reforms (Novosti)
• Dacic: Messages more important than program of Rama’s visit (RTS)
• Dacic receives ambassadors of African Arab countries (Tanjug)
• Jahjaga will not take part in Belgrade gathering (B92)
• Joksimovic: Economy in enlargement policy focus (Tanjug)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• SDA receives nine mandates for B&H House of Representatives, SNSD six (Fena)
• Izetbegovic: The reality is that Bosniaks will not abolish RS, Serbs will not abolish B&H, and the Croats will not get an entity (BHRT)
• Alliance for Change: Everything is in our hands (Oslobodjenje)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Serbian prime minister grilled on press freedom at London event (indexoncensorship.org)
• Serbia Seeks Swift IMF Loan Deal to Lure Investors, Premier Says (Bloomberg)
• European Union lifts freeze on Milosevic family assets (Reuters)
• Mladic Witness: Hunger Deaths Were Propaganda (BIRN)