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Marko Djuric to visit Brussels Monday (Tanjug, Akter)

BELGRADE - The head of the Office for Kosovo-Metohija Marko Djuric will meet with European Commission officials in Brussels on Monday to discuss topics relevant to the situation in Kosovo-Metohija following the recent elections there. Djuric will discuss matters related to the implementation of the Brussels Agreement and the continuation of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, the Office for Kosovo-Metohija has announced. The Serbian government has appointed Marko Djuric as the head of the Serbian part of the committee for implementing the Brussels Agreement, as well as the head of the task force

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Die Presse: Thousand victims and allegedly not a single criminal in Kosovo (International Radio Serbia)

Vienna daily „Die Presse“ assessed that, even 15 years after conflicts in Kosovo, no crimes have been resolved, witnesses are being intimidated and only ordinary soldiers are convicted. It is difficult to bring the culprits to justice, especially when those culprits are members of the former Kosovo Liberation Army, the daily writes.

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OSCE on freedom of media and hate speech in Kosovo (Tanjug)

PRISTINA - Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo Jean-Claude Schlumberger and OSCE Representative for Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic opened in Pristina on Friday the regional conference on the ways to respond to instances of hate speech without violating the freedom of expression. The OSCE one-day conference was attended by over 50 reporters, lawyers, representatives of civil society and institutions from the Western Balkans who discussed legal regulations and experiences from the region in an effort to counter hate speech. According to an OSCE release, they underscored that active partic

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A meeting between Vucic and the Serbian List by Monday (Blic)

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said today that until Monday he will meet with representatives of the Serbian List, adding that it turned out that it was good that the Serbian government urged Kosovo Serbs to vote on June 8. Vucic said at the press conference that until Monday he will meet with them. - By it you see that it was a smart call that we made before the election, because it is becoming increasingly clear that the Serbian deputies will be a decisive factor - Vucic said in response to reporters' questions in the Government of Serbia. A few days ago the leader of the Serbian

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Restlessness and anxiety due to Haradinaj’s candidacy (Kontakt plus radio)

Association of Relatives of the victims in Kosovo since 1998 warned that if Ramush Haradinaj is president of the new Kosovo government, the process of finding out the truth about the fate of more than 520 kidnapped Serbs will stop and the prosecution of war crimes will be completely halted. The press release of the association stated that the life and safety of Kosovo Serbs probably will not be easier than it is today, and "certainly there will be no return of displaced Serbs to their ancestral homes." "The helpless as we were in the past 16 years, we publicly ask Kosovo and international pu

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Rakočević: Thaçi has an offer for his former combatants (Kontakt Plus radio)

Political analyst and journalist Živojin Rakočević said to Kontakt Plus radio that the so far prime minister of Kosovo Hashim Thaçi is too powerful to stay out of the system, and that Thaçi is still in absolute control of the political scene of Kosovo. “Americans deem Rugova’s heirs, that is, the Democratic League of Kosovo, unreliable allies and very often the communists’ heirs.

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Thaci and Haradinaj together? (Danas)

Post-election coalition combinations in Kosovo Pristina, Belgrade - Regardless of the media post-election coalition combinations among the Kosovo Albanian parties, diplomatic sources in Pristina, by the knowledge of Danas, speculate that the new ruling coalition in Kosovo should form the Democratic Party of Kosovo of Hashim Thaci, the Democratic League of Kosovo of Isa Mustafa and Alliance for the Future of Kosovo Ramush Haradinaj. Unofficial sources of Danas claim that it is not known who will be the prime minister, as Western powers have not agreed on it so far.

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No clashes between police officers in the north (Kontakt Plus radio)

The news agency Kosovapress carried that two police officers clashed on Tuesday in the police station in Mitrovica North. Kosovapress reported that the clash broke out between a former Serbian MUP member integrated into Kosovo police and his colleague from the Kosovo police, and that there are tensions between those two groups of police officers in the north. However, regional head of operations of Kosovo police Željko Bojić denied the writing of Kosovapress.

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Dacic expects more understanding for Serbian govt's policy (Tanjug)

BELGRADE - Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Wednesday he expected more understanding from the German parliament in the future, especially the members of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), for the Serbian government's policies regarding the accession talks with the EU and normalisation of the relations with Pristina. Dacic and German parliament member from the CDU Thorsten Frei agreed that it was important to improve the cooperation between the two countries and that the visit by Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic to Berlin was very significant f

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Kosovo, member of Venice Commission (Tribuna)

Kosovo has on Wednesday been admitted as a member to the Venice Commission which the paper says is a step forward in gaining membership in the Council of Europe. A statement issued by the Kosovo Foreign Ministry stated that 35 countries voted in favour of Kosovo’s membership in one of the most important institutions of the Council of Europe. Kosovo is expected to benefit directly from membership in the field of strengthening democracy as well as constitutional and election reforms.

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