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Serbs are not returning to Kosovo institutions, while there is pressure (RTS, Blic)

Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric said today that representatives of Serbs will not return into Kosovo institutions until resolution of the problem of political pressure on them. - One of these days we will have a meeting between the Prime Minister and representatives of the Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija and talk about the political pressures on Serbs which continues - Djuric said, adding that the participation of Serbs in Kosovo institutions remain frozen until these issues are resolved. Speaking on the implementation of the agreement on the judiciary and judges

Serbian government adopts Regulation on establishment of the Office for Coordinating Affairs in dialogue with Pristina (Radio Serbia)

The Serbian government has adopted the Regulation on establishing an Office for Coordinating Affairs in the negotiating process with the provisional self-government institutions in Pristina, as well as the Regulation on establishing and regulating the Coordination Body for this negotiating process.

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Vulin: Recognition of Kosovo is not an option (RTS, Blic, Tanjug)

BELGRADE - Serbia will not recognize the independence of Kosovo that was unilaterally proclaimed by ethnic Albanians, Serbian Minister of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Policy Aleksandar Vulin said Monday. “Recognition (independence) of Kosovo is not an option,” Vulin told reporters in his comment on a statement made by Vice-President and Special Rapporteur of the European Parliament on Kosovo Ulrike Lunacek, in which she said that normalization of relations and recognition of Kosovo would be a condition for Serbia’s accession to the European Union (EU). There is no document for some

Interpol issues warrant for arrest of MP Momir Stojanovic (Tanjug, RTS)

BELGRADE - Interpol has issued a red international warrant for the arrest of Momir Stojanovic, aged 57, MP of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) and chair of the Serbian parliament Security Service Control Committee. On its website, Interpol posted a warrant for Stojanovic's arrest because of crimes committed against civilian (Albanian) population in the territory of Djakovica/Gjakova, south-west Kosovo. Stojanovic told Tanjug that a red Interpol warrant was issued for his arrest and expressed the hope that the Serbian government would react adequately. The aim o

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Momir Stojanovic: The warrant aims to intimidate Serbs (RTS, Blic)

SNS MP, Momir Stojanovic said that he had heard that for him was issued "red" Interpol warrant but that he hopes the reaction of the Serbian state. "I hope that I have a state that will decide about such an arrest warrant, because aim of this warrant is to intimidate Serbs to return to Kosovo and Metohija and seize their properties," said Momir Stojanovic, who is the chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for the control of the security services, reports Tanjug. Stojanovic explained that the warrant has to do with the decision of the UN to establish a tribunal for crimes of the KLA in Kosov

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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,

Leaflets reading ‘Stop albaniazation of Niš’ appeared this morning (RTS)

Leaflets reading ‘Stop albanization of Niš’ appeared this morning in Niš (Serbia proper) suburb Crveni Pevac. In an unsigned leaflet author reminds that almost 11.000 Albanians have registered themselves in 2010 on the territory of the biggest municipality Mediana in Niš town, reported Radio Television of Serbia (RTS).

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Agreement on judiciary, implementation more challenging than signature (RTS)

Soon after the Brussels Agreement was signed a question was made whether implementation would be more challenging than its signing. For both, Belgrade and Kosovo Serbs, the agreement is a success in given circumstances, however both claim that there are no staff who could be engaged in the actual work. Three signatures in Brussels have opened many issues on the ground. The first problem identified in Belgrade is that there is no sufficient number of judges and prosecutors, who are supposed to fill out the work places provided by the agreement.

Better conditions for Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija (RTS, Tanjug, Blic, Politika)

BELGRADE - Marko Djuric, head of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija, stated on Wednesday that the agreement on judiciary, which was initialed in Brussels on Tuesday, will bring about better conditions for Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija. Djuric said that for Radio and Television of Serbia that he expects that the agreement will also contribute to the opening of chapters in the EU accession talks. The agreement envisages that aside from the police administration in the north of the province, Serbs will now have a court, whose president will be a Serb, and there will be a sufficient