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BiH Presidency Member from Republika Srpska Mladen Ivanic: I'm pleased that Pacolli did not come to Banja Luka (Serbian media)

BiH Presidency Member from Republika Srpska (RS) Mladen Ivanic says today that that he is not dissatisfied at all, as far as he is concerned, that Kosovo Foreign Minister Behgjet Pacolli did not come to Banja Luka to an informal meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the South East European Cooperation Process (SEECP), reports Serbian media. Participants in the process of co-operation have been identified by members of the SEECP, and adds that Pristina has been a member of this process since 2014, along with, as he points out, the consent of all. "The fact that the two acquaintances,

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Vecernje Novosti: And Paris against delimitation?

France, like Germany, is against the "delimitation" between Belgrade and Pristina, reports today Belgrade based daily Vecernje Novosti.

Vecernje Novosti sources point out that the opposition was expressed to any change in borders or administrative lines in the region during a conference of ambassadors held last week, which was attended by French President Emmanuel Macron. Paris's position is even tougher than Berlin's position, the daily reports.

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Drecun on President Vucic’s visit to Kosovo (RTS, BETA)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic during his visit to Kosovo on 8 and 9 September would inform people there how the dialogue with Albanians is ongoing and offer a framework of solution to the Kosovo issue, Chairperson of the Serbian Assembly Committee for Kosovo and Metohija, Milovan Drecun told RTS. “He would, the most probably, offer a framework of the solution the way he sees it and listen to the opinion of Serb representatives there, to open a discussion in order to know how to move forward,” Drecun added. According to him, there is an initiative in Washington to reach an agreement betw

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"Vucic, Thaci to face most contentious, disruptive topics" (Stratfor, Tanjug, B92)

"Ethnic tensions and nationalistic fervor" continue "just under the surface of the relative calm that has endured in the Western Balkans over the past decade." The Stratfor organization, which Tanjug quoted in a a report and described as dealing with geopolitical analyses, also states "one of the most contentious topics on the agenda of the coming negotiations is the creation of a Community of Serb Municipalities," known in Serbian by its "ZSO" acronym. The ZSO, Stratfor continues, is an idea "broached in 2013, but little progress in implementing it has been made since." Another, "potential

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Deadline of all deadlines - May 2019? (B92)

Untying the "Kosovo knot" has been the focus of attention domestically for months, and it seems a final deadline for a final agreement has come from Brussels, B92 reports. Although political figures in high-ranking state posts often mentioned various deadlines and suggested dates for a final solution, given the current situation in both Belgrade and Pristina, their eyes are more than ever on the EU. On the one hand, the Serbian political leadership faces, probably unexpected to them, resistance in an attempt to find a solution to the Kosovo problem, while the proclaimed idea - whether referr

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Exchange of territories is wrong idea (KIM Radio)

Rada Trajkovic and Nexhmedin Spahiu took part in the RTV Kim talk show Sporazum. During the show Spahiu said “it’s a high time for an agreement between Belgrade and Pristina to be reached, while Trajkovic opined that in her view “the solution is the continuation of negotiations, elections and a new team that would not offer delimitation as an option”. Although the topics that would be discussed at the upcoming meeting of the Presidents of Serbia and Kosovo are unknown, Nexhmedin Spahiu thinks that they would reach some sort of compromise.

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Joksimovic: If there is no solution, there would be no status quo (Tanjug)

Director of the Centre for Foreign Policy, Aleksandra Joksimovic told Tanjug news agency that Belgrade-Pristina negotiations are entering the final phase and the picture would be clearer in September whether there would be a legally binding agreement on normalization of relations between the two sides. According to Joksimovic it goes in no one’s favour to prolong the resolution of the Kosovo issue. “It seems to me that if there is no solution reached at this moment, there would be no status quo as it was until now, but the situation would get significantly complicated,” Jankovic believes. S

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Hahn without answer on "territory exchange", but mentions new deadline (B92, RFE)

EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn did not directly reply to RFE's question regarding the idea of "delimitation" to solve the Kosovo issue.

B92 reported, quoting RFE, that he stressed that in order to resolve any bilateral conflict, any possible solution must contribute to the wider stability of the region and should  not be at the expense of others in the region.

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Kosovo Serbs Complain of 'Pressure' to Attend Vucic Rally (Balkan Insight)

Ahead of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s Kosovo visit, there are reports of Kosovo Serbs who work for Belgrade-funded institutions being compelled to attend his rally. Some Kosovo Serb representatives say that employees of institutions funded by Serbia in Kosovo are being pressured to attend a rally in support of President Aleksandar Vucic, and fear reprisals if they do not show up. “Everyone in education has been called on to declare [whether they will go] – in the university and the elementary and high schools,” Ksenija Bozovic, from the Freedom, Democracy, Justice Party, based in the

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