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German MPs proud of 13 withdrawn recognitions of Kosovo independence (B92, Tanjug)

Armin Paulus Hampel is proud of the authorities in Serbia which have succeeded in persuading as many as 13 states to revoke recognition of Kosovo independence, Tanjug news agency reports today. Head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD) in the Bundestag, Hampel, also emphasized the fact that today there are also Nobel Prize winners supporting Serbia. "We remain firm as a party and a parliamentary group in the Bundestag in our position that Kosovo independence is as illegal as NATO's intervention", Hampel said after speaking with Vi

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Danas: Talks on Kosovo in the future in ‘troika’ form

Negotiations on Kosovo in the future "likely to be in troika form" in Brussels, diplomats from EU headquarters told Belgrade based daily Danas.

As they explain, this implies that "in addition to representatives of Belgrade and Pristina, the United States Special Envoy for the Western Balkans, Matthew Palmer, the EU Special Envoy for those negotiations, and one of the OSCE-like representatives would be found at the negotiating table."

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Drecun: Kosovo Albanians not ready to sit at the negotiating table (RTS)

Chairman of the Serbian Assembly Committee for KiM Milovan Drecun told Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) that the purpose of the elections in Kosovo is to stabilize the Albanian political scene, to build an executive that will be more unified on key political issues and have a firmer position for talks with Belgrade. Drecun adds that one cannot see willingness among existing Albanian leaders to sit at the negotiating table and seriously engage in talks with Serbia. Milovan Drecun, a guest on RTS's Morning News, stated that there were no new political actors in the Kosovo's upcoming elections.

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Merkel on resolving Kosovo issue, Brnabic on the only point of disagreement (B92, Tanjug)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomes Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic in Berlin today with state honours.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said today after meeting with Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic that the process of solving the problems of Kosovo and Metohija should be continued and further improved in order to reach a solution.

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"For 20 years German governments have worked to dismember Yugoslavia, the attitude about Kosovo is hypocritical" (B92, Vecernje Novosti)

Germany's stance that Kosovo's independence is a done thing, as well as opposition to border adjustments or division, are hypocritical and arrogant, the Left MP said.

"These messages about the 'finished thing' are hypocritical. For 20 years, the German governments have worked one after the other to split Yugoslavia along ethnic lines, despite EU and UN recommendations not to do so," said German parliamentarian Zaklin Nastic.

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Russia is getting involved in the resolve of Kosovo issue? (Politika, Tanjug, B92)

Dusan Janjic from the Forum for Ethnic Relations says a new format of Belgrade-Pristina dialogue is likely to be created to include new players

Among others, it will include Russia.

In a statement given to Belgrade based daily Politika, he said that in addition to US Envoy Matthew Palmer, it is possible that Germany and France would appoint a joint representative, or that each of these countries has a representative.

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German Special Envoy to the Balkans: "The road-map is clear, only that Serbia and Kosovo will not be eventually united" (Blic)

Belgrade based daily Blic writes today that the great American diplomatic return to the Balkans, obviously initiated by the EU’s inability to unravel the Kosovo knot, has sparked nervousness in the EU, and emissaries come to see what can be done after Mogherini's diplomatic collapse.

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Merkel: Dark clouds lean over Belgrade-Pristina dialogue (Tanjug, B92)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the dark clouds lean over Belgrade-Pristina dialogue after Kosovo introduced tariffs on the Serbian goods, Tanjug news agency reports. Talking to news correspondents in Berlin, Merkel emphasized that Germany has a major interest for European integration “of Serbia and Kosovo” there is a progress on that way, but as she underlined, it is necessary to restore the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina. Tariffs lead to regression, and not to the progress, Merkel said, recalling that she spoke about that with Belgrade and Pristina leaders at the meeting in Be

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Heldt: Site in Novo Brdo only preserved, there would be no further works (KoSSev, Radio Gorazdevac)

German Ambassador in Pristina Christian Heldt commented on recent controversy related to changing the history that occurred after the Kosovo Ministry of Culture restoration of Saint Nikola Church in Novo Brdo, for which Serbian Orthodox Church and the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts said it is a part of the Orthodox heritage, represented as Catholic cathedral, KoSSev portal reported. The German Government paid for the works on the preservation of the site, while the German Ambassador said the project only preserved what was on the site and did not comment on how the Kosovo Ministry of Cul

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German ambassador to Serbia: Brussels dialogue isn’t dead; it’s just not happening right now (Serbian media)

German ambassador to Serbia Thomas Schieb says that the Belgrade - Pristina dialogue is not dead even after the cancellation of the Paris meeting. According to Schieb, the idea was not to change the role of the EU and the format of the talks, but to support the current framework of the dialogue. “The dialogue is not dead, it is just not happening at the moment,” the ambassador told the state Radio and Television of Vojvodina (RTV). The talks have been on hold since last November after Pristina introduced the 100 percent import tax on goods from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina and had been

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