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Belgrade Media Report 22 April 2015

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS • Progress in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue (RTS) • Vucic asks to open accession negotiations chapters in June (Tanjug) • Vucic to Tusk: We deserve to open chapters in June (RTS) • Nikolic: Brussels should demonstrate that Serbia’s decisive steps are not futile (RTS) • Djuric: Ready to open chapters in June or September (Tanjug) • Russian Foreign Ministry: 2014 – the year of intensive Russian-Serbian contacts (Tanjug) STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS • KLA claims responsibility for attack on Gosince watchtower (Press24) • Joint statement of six prime ministers of Western Balkans countries (Oslobodjenje) • Zlatko Lagumdzija to visit Azerbaijan (Fena) • Italian support to the B&H reforms (Srna) RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES • Thaci dispute highlights bad will in Serbia relations (EUobserver) • Reform Justice or Lose Funds, EU Tells Bosnia (BIRN)

Belgrade Media Report 21 April 2015

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS • Pavicevic: Thaqi will be arrested (Tanjug/Politika) • Selakovic: Pristina creating tension before every round of talks (Tanjug) • Drecun: Thaqi unacceptable for Belgrade (RTS) STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS • Conclusion of Stabilization and Association Agreement with B&H (Fena) • Bosnian Presidency chairman sees new opportunity for B&H (Dalje/Dnevni avaz) • Expert team formed to represent RS in a hearing before the B&H Constitutional Court (Srna) • FYROM Ministry of Interior: State institutions target of terrorists in the KLA uniforms (Kurir) RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES • Kosovo FM Thaci’s Belgrade Visit Cancelled (BIRN) • UNMIK refuses compensation for victims (Sputnik) • Serbia’s Neglected War Victims Hope for Legal Change (BIRN) • Gunmen take police hostage in Macedonia, call for Albanian state (Reuters) • EU Is Unfreezing the SAA with Bosnia and Herzegovina (Euinside)

Belgrade Media Report 20 April 2015

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS • Serbian government officially tells Thaqi: You will be arrested (Beta) • Vucic: We will act according to the law in case of Thaqi’s arrival (RTS/Tanjug) • Djuric: Another Albanian provocation (RTS) • Topic of “Berlin conditions” opened on the eve of Belgrade-Pristina negotiations (Danas) • Francken: Chapter 24 to be opened as soon as possible (Radio Belgrade) STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS • Kosarac: OHR is in the service of Bosniak politics (Srna) • The decision on the activation of SAA on Tuesday? (Srna/Dnevni avaz) • Dzaferovic: After SAA enters into force, numerous obligations await B&H (Oslobodjenje) • Washington visit successful - talks to continue in B&H (Srna) • Announcements from B&H concern Croatian generals (Fena) RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES • IOC President Thomas Bach visits NOCs of Serbia and Kosovo (Olympic.org) • Montenegro to Chair OSCE Security Cooperation Forum (BIRN) • Montenegro Police Urged to Solve Ex-MP's Murder (BIRN)

Belgrade Media Report 17 April 2015

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS • Stefanovic: If Thaqi comes to Belgrade, we will arrest him (RTS) • EU: New round of dialogue on 21 April (Tanjug) • Djuric: Pristina seriously lagging behind schedule (Novosti) • Djordjevic, Bartels: Goal of Serbia and NATO preservation of peace and stability (Beta) • Selakovic for higher level of cooperation with Brussels (Tanjug) • Nikolic’s plane breaks down, visit to Vatican canceled (Tanjug) STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS • Radoncic: Izetbegovic wants to govern the Serbs and Croats (Srna) • Republic Day being defended by referendum, Assembly invited to take the position on all who violate the constitutional status of RS (Nezavisne) • The sentencing of the B&H criminal organization (Fena) • Moore: Achieved level of consensus must be maintained (Fena) • Cormack: Potential untapped due to political corruption (Oslobodjenje) RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES • Serbia will arrest Thaçi if he attends Belgrade conference (EurActiv/Reuters) • Rights group accuses Serbia of harassing migrants (AP) • Bosnian Serb Leader Pays ‘Historic’ Visit to Srebrenica (BIRN) • Macedonia Steps Backward (The New York Times)

Belgrade Media Report 16 April

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS • Office for Kosovo and Metohija: Pristina politicizes air traffic issues (Tanjug) • Dacic thanks Zambia for not recognizing Kosovo (Beta/Tanjug) • B&H Foreign Minister:The aim is to further improve relations with Serbia (Tanjug) • Mihajlovic: Thaqi acceptable in Brussels, but not in Belgrade (B92) • Vukcevic: If Thaqi comes, he will be arrested (Blic) • Seselj files complaint against Brammertz (Tanjug) • Russian Foreign Ministry: “Pan-Albanian” rhetoric will not contribute to preservation of climate of stability in Balkans (Tanjug) STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS • Zvizdic, Pusic meet: B&H Council of Ministers focused on socio-economic reforms (Oslobodjenje) • Cvijanovic at a working lunch with Michelle Obama (Srna) • Head of the EU Delegation: True progress in sphere of social and economic reforms needed (Srna) • U.S. Embassy urges NSRS delegates to respect Dayton Accord, Inzko sending warnings (Patria) RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES • Expert slams EU’s handling of Kosovo corruption case (EurActiv/Reuters) • Eulex report exposes EU failure in Kosovo (EUobserver) • Serbia is interested in the South gas corridor (Azertac) • ‘Albanian Paramilitaries’ Claim Macedonia Govt Attack (BIRN) • It’s not just Iraq that has been destroyed by Western intervention (Spiked)