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Ban, Dacic agree on need for peaceful solution in Ukraine (Tanjug, RTS,IRS)

BELGRADE - Cooperation between the OSCE and the UN, situation in Ukraine and the OSCE's role in solving that crisis were the topics of a meeting between OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. The meeting, also attended by OSCE Secretary General Lambero Zannier, was held ahead of a briefing Dacic is scheduled to hold before the UN Security Council concerning cooperation between the UN and the OSCE, the Serbian Foreign Ministry has stated. Ban and Dacic agreed on the need to reach a peaceful solution to the crisis in Ukraine,

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Dacic: Serbia supports strengthening of UN role (Tanjug)

NEW YORK - Serbia advocates reinforcement of the UN role in the preservation of peace and security and respect of international law, Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs and OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Ivica Dacic stated in New York on Monday. The foundations of respect for international law and rule of law primarily rest on respect of sovereignty and territorial integrity of any country, and the solution to any crisis can only be found through a dialogue and not through a military intervention, Dacic said during an open debate of the UN Security Council on the reflection on history, affirmatio

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OSCE calls for full protection of property rights in Kosovo (Tanjug)

PRISTINA - The continued presence of illegal re-occupation of properties gives a cause for concern and calls for a determined response by Kosovo institutions that should guarantee the full protection of the property rights of all communities in Kosovo, reads an OSCE Mission report launched on Thursday. Between 2008 and 2013, the Kosovo Property Agency (KPA) referred 326 such cases to the prosecutors, a large majority of which involved property owned by members of the Kosovo Serb community, the report says. “The continued presence of illegal occupation in Kosovo is concern

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OSCE presents report on illegal re-occupation of property in Kosovo (Koha)

The OSCE Mission in Kosovo on Thursday presented a report on illegal re-occupation of properties under the administration of the Kosovo Property Agency (KPA). The report assesses the response of Kosovo institutions to these cases and gives recommendations on ways to enhance the institutional response when re-occupation occurs. According to this report, in which are included only cases submitted to KPA and not north of Kosovo, 95 percent of re-occupations are made by members of the Albanian community that have reoccupied the properties of Serbs.

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OSCE condemned attacks on journalists in Pristina (Tanjug, RTS)

VIENNA - OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic condemned on Monday the attacks on journalists reporting from the protests in Pristina last weekend. In its release, OSCE said that on January 24, unidentified individuals attacked and abused journalist Aleksandra Jovanovic and cameraman Bojan Kosanin employed in the Radio Television of Kosovo (RTK), as well as Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) correspondent Vladimir Milic, who were reporting from the protest in Pristina. According to media reports, the attackers attacked the journalists with sticks and s

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I share Nikolic’s concern (Politika)

We have a president with the same constitutional authority that had Milosevic and Tadic. Nikolic's position in the political relations is weaker because he is not head of the largest party, while Milosevic and Tadic were. I do not know what is the idea of President Nikolic and on what refers a new platform on Kosovo. As the Prime Minister told me, so far he and the president did not discuss about what is actually meant when it comes to this platform. There is no dispute about that in Serbia there are talks about it.

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Dacic in Pristina without Serbian flag (Vecernje Novosti)

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ivica Dacic will go in March in Pristina, where he will participate in the continuation of the ministerial summit of the Western Balkans, whose first meeting was held in Belgrade, at the end of October.  Serbian authorities require status neutral format of the meeting i.e.

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Families of kidnapped send letter to OSCE (Kontakt plus, Tanjug)

BELGRADE - The Association of the Families of the Kidnapped and Murdered in Kosovo and Metohija has sent an open letter to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), asking for assistance in ensuring the release of the kidnapped Serbs in Kosovo. We are forced to address you with a request for help in ensuring that members of our families who were kidnapped in 1998, 1999, 2000, in Kosovo are released and allowed to go back to their families and children.

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Dacic: Kosovo in OSCE? No chance!

Foreign Minister of Serbia, Ivica Dacic, stated that Kosovo has no chance to be accepted at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE,) prior to reaching some kind of a political agreement, which will not be reached in Vienna. Speaking at a press conference, Dacic said that Kosovo’s demands to become member of OSCE are not new. “Decisions at the OSCE are reached by consensus. It is well known how difficult it is to reach a consensus,” said Dacic on Thursday while receiving officially Serbia’s presiding of this Organization.

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