STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Dacic: Pristina should fulfill its part of the obligations (RTS)
• Patriarch Irinej: Serbs should participate in Kosovo elections (RTS/Tanjug)
• Vulin: Union of Serb Municipalities - a new beginning or end (Tanjug)
• Vulin: Message of peace from Hillandar (Novosti)
• Drecun: Belgrade’s messages yielding result (TV Pink)
• Race against time for registering voters (RTS)
• The Tetovo model for the “Presevo State University” (Politika, by Bojan Bilbija)
• An international conference on reconciliation in the Balkans (Radio Serbia)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• MPs from RS against ratification of border deal with Croatia (Nezavisne Novine)
• RS Office opens in Washington D.C. (RTRS)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Kosovo Drops Fees for South Serbia Albanians (BIRN)
• Serbian-Albanian Leader Claims PM Threatened Him (BIRN)
• Decision To Disqualify Seselj Judge Upheld (Institute for War and Peace Reporting)
• Karadzic Interview Request Denied (Institute for War and Peace Reporting)
• Will Serbia be the Next to Join the EU? (New Europe)
• Bosnia Asks Croatia to Bring Fugitive to Justice (BIRN)
• Bayley, Leko advocate further NATO enlargement (Hina)
• BiH Long-awaited census faces problems (Press TV)
• Bosnian Serb MPs against ratification of border deal with Croatia (Hina)
• EU suspends Bosnia funds over constitution changes (AP)
• Croats And Serbs Make Headway In Improving Relations, Minority Status (SETimes)
• Serbian Inflation Rate Returns to Target, Paving Way to Rate Cut (Bloomberg)

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Nikolic very carefully monitoring election process (Tanjug)
• Zarif: Great efforts needed for ensuring conditions for free elections in north Kosovo (Tanjug)
• Vucic: I will be visiting Kosovo in the coming days (Tanjug)
• Entire government to visit Kosovo (Novosti)
• Mrkic expects positive EC report (Beta)
• Jankovic and Beyani: IDPs to also vote on 3 November (Tanjug)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Dacic to visit Gracanica on 19 October (Politika)
• Dacic: Low number of returnees to Kosovo concerning (Radio Serbia)
• Mrkic: Without elementary conditions for returns to Kosovo (Tanjug)
• Vucic : Serbia respects all agreements (Tanjug)
• Parliamentary Committee for EU Integration (Radio Serbia, by Sandra Pekic)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

B&H political leaders without agreement to travel to Brussels (Politika’s correspondent in Sarajevo)
Dacic: Cooperation with RS remains political priority (Srna)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Serbian police question ex-finance minister over bank sale (Reuters)
• No results after 8 hrs of negotiations among Bosnian politicians (Hina)
• Census irregularities in Bosnia (World Bulletin)
• Bosnia to retry three war crimes convicts after European court ruling (Reuters)
• NATO Parliamentary Assembly Talks Security in Dubrovnik (Balkan Insight)

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Dacic: I am going to Kosovo, but I will not be present at party gatherings (Tanjug)
• Dacic announces visit to Kosovo (Politika)
• Inquiry Board silent on money expenditure in Kosovo and Metohija (Novosti)
• Ruzic, Miscevic: Serbia on good course (Beta)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Radoncic: Proposal of two HDZ parties in principle acceptable (Fena)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Serbia, Kosovo settle local election dispute (EurActi)
• Serbian finance minister says savings needed to avert default (Reuters)
• Croatia Arrests Policeman in Vukovar Serb Signs Row (BIRN)
• Bosnia Unable to Extradite Fugitive War Criminal (BIRN)

STORIES FROM LOCAL PRESS

• Mihajlovic: Brussels can and must intervene (RTS)
• Pantic: Elections – sort of referendum (Tanjug)
• Linkevicius: Kosovo is crucial (Novosti)

STORIES FROM REGIONAL PRESS

• Cooperation of B&H with the ICTY at a high level (Srna)
• Cohen: RS stands coincide with Israeli (Politika)
• New amnesty in B&H (Dnevni Avaz)

RELEVANT ARTICLES FROM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA SOURCES

• Kosovo and Serbia reach deal on local elections (European Voice)
• Serbia Drafts Budget Measures as Cabinet Scraps to Stay Afloat (Bloomberg)
• Montenegro Refugees ‘Suffering Without ID Papers’ (BIRN)
• Bosnia Federation's New Constitution Before Parliament (BIRN)
• Croatia plans to support significant projects in Bosnia (Balkans Business News Correspondent)