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UNSC backs war crimes court for Kosovo (B92)

A UN Security Council meeting to present UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s regular quarterly report on the situation in Kosovo was held late on Friday. An agreement was reached that a special court for war crimes committed in KiM should be set up as soon as possible, Tanjug reported. Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić said that Serbia expects a special court to be set up as soon as possible, by the beginning of the next year at the latest, before which indictments will be raised against leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) suspected of crimes against humanity and war crimes. Dačić

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Serbia can be neutral mediator in crisis (B92, Tanjug)

 Lamberto Zannier believes that Serbia, as the next chairman of the OSCE, "will be able to continue Switzerland's efforts to resolve the crisis in Ukraine." "Neutral Switzerland chairs the OSCE this year, and Serbia - an official candidate for membership in the EU - will replace it during 2015," reports the Russian news agency RIA Novosti. "Serbia is in a good position to play the role of an honest broker under the difficult conditions of a rift between East and West. It is what this organization needs - neutral leadership that keeps open all channels of communication with all parties.

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16 years on, kidnappers of Serb journalists still not found (B92, Tanjug)

August 21 marks the 16th anniversary since the kidnapping in 1998 of two Serb journalists near Orahovac, in Kosovo.  The Serbian Government Office for Kosovo issued a statement on this occasion to warn that the kidnappers of Radio Priština's Đuro Slavuj and Ranko Pereneć have not been found yet. Those who, for the second consecutive year, removed a memorial set up by the Association of Journalists of Serbia (UNS) and the Association of Journalists of Kosovo and Metohija (DNKiM) for their missing colleagues, have not been found either, the office said on Wednesday. The memorial was erec

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Nikolic: We would lose friends by taking sides (B92, Tanjug)

 Tomislav Nikolić says he wishes to see an end to hostilities in Ukraine, "not only because of Serbia's specific position - but for the sake of people there."  "If they reach an agreement, it will be for the good of the people. If not, then it will be bad for the people, people in eastern Ukraine will suffer, it's obvious.

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International administration to be blamed (B92)

Milivoje Mihajlovic stated that international administration, which is administering Kosovo and Metohija, is the main one to be blamed for the crime in Gorazdevac. The director of the Serbian government’s Media Office said that almost for all crimes, which led to ethnic cleansing in Metohija and good portion of Kosovo, so far there were neither responsible ones nor the court proceedings, and that the main one to be blamed is the oversized and corrupt international administration.

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Government "ready to provide legal guarantees" (Tanjug/B92)

BELGRADE -- Serbia is ready to provide all legal guarantees for the defense of Oliver Ivanović, Serbian Government Office for Kosovo Director Marko Đurić has told Tanjug. "Our position on the inadmissibility and the harmfulness of the six months of baseless custody for Ivanović without charge is known, and on the fact that previous guarantees of the government of the Republic of Serbia were ignored," Đurić said. It was reported late on Tuesday that Ivanović, a political leader of Serbs in northern Kosovo who was arrested in January, has now been indicted. "Off

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