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DS for loose Western Balkan confederation (Tanjug)

BELGRADE - Head of the opposition Democratic Party (DS) group in the Serbian parliament Borislav Stefanovic said that a new political community should be formed in Western Balkans, organized as a loose confederation with a minimum of common bodies, which would enhance the EU accession prospects for countries in the region. The new political community in Western Balkans should include Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH), Macedonia, perhaps even Montenegro.

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A Serb beaten in Pec/Peja (Tanjug, Politika)

A group of ethnic Albanians attacked Pavic Gojkovic, a 61-year-old Serb, on Wednesday in Pec/Peja, northwestern Kosovo, and members of the Kosovo police saved him from being lynched. Gojkovic told Tanjug that a group of Albanians attacked him after he walked out of a lawyer's office onto the street, together with his mother and a close friend who drove them to Pec/Peja. As he explained, he and his mother went to see a lawyer in order to settle a dispute with a Kosovo Albanian over their land.

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Strategy for return of displaced should undergo significant changes (NSPM/Tanjug)

Minister for Communities and Return in the Kosovo government, Aleksandar Jablanovic, says that more than 2000 displaced from Kosovo wish to return and that strategy for return should be significantly amended. Jabalnovic said to Radio Kosovo program in Serbian language that current strategy should undergo changes in order to enable sustainable return and that returnees could return to settlements with developed institutions. Jablanovic stressed that 16 years after the conflict is a long period and that most of displaced families have already settled themselves

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Albanian boys rang the church bells in Orahovac? (NSPM/Tanjug)

Unknown boys, for whom Serbs suppose are of Albanian nationality, have entered the Holy Virgin Mary Church in Orahovac/Rahovec and rang the church bells. Monks from Zočište Monastery have also reported that their property has been jeopardized. Local Serbs in Orahovac/Rahovec were surprised to hear church bells at 14:25 on Monday and reported that boys who rang bells ran away in direction of the Albanian part of Orahovac/Rahovec.

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EU ministers: Serbia made progress, more work ahead (Tanjug)

BRUSSELS - The Council of the European Union commended on Tuesday the progress Serbia made in internal reforms and in the normalization of Belgrade-Pristina relations, noting, however, that there is still work to be done. “The Council welcomes the progress made by Serbia in the past year, including in public administration reform, judicial reform and the fight against corruption and organized crime,” reads the document adopted on Tuesday at the meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels. The Council welcomes the launch of accession negotiations with Serbia and commends the high level of pre

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ZSO cannot survive without property (Tanjug)

GRACANICA – The Association/Community of Serb municipalities (ZSO) cannot survive without property and it is therefore necessary to revise privatization in Kosovo, Ljubomir Maric, Minister of Administration and Local Government in the new Kosovo government, has said. “Privatization is the most important issue for the Serb community, because it cannot develop if it cannot use its property,” Maric told Tanjug. “For this very reason, the representatives of the Srpska list insist that all privatizations that have been done so far be review

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Djuric: Constitution of ZSO priority (Tanjug)

BELGRADE - The constitution of the community of Serb municipalities (ZSO) is a priority, Director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric said in the talks with Ambassador of Britain Denis Keefe on Thursday and added that other priorities are embodied in ensuring the conditions for sustainable return of Serbs, protection of property, economic development and better living standards in the province. Djuric and Keefe discussed the European integration process and pointed to the exceptional importance of constitution of the provincial gov

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OKS condemns IOC decision (Tanjug)

BELGRADE - The Olympic Committee of Serbia (OKS) on Thursday condemned in the strongest terms the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to grant full membership to the unilaterally declared Republic of Kosovo, thus setting a precedent as this is not a member of the United Nations. Members of the OKS Executive Board concluded that the OKS has done everything within its power and in due time and successfully blocked Kosovo's IOC membership over the past five years, protecting the provisions of the Olympic Charter. "From 1996 to this da

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Germany: First obligations from agreement, then Chapter 35 (Tanjug)

BELGRADE - Germany will give its consent for the opening of Chapter 35 only after the obligations deriving from the Brussels agreement are fulfilled and after Serbia clearly demonstrates its willingness to continue the dialogue with Pristina, the German Embassy in Belgrade released on Thursday. The Serbian government has been well-aware of these expectations for a good while now, states the Embassy's release filed to Tanjug. Now that the Kosovo government has finally been set up, it is important to continue a high-level political dialogue as soon as possible and contribute to faster closing

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