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)