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NATO bombing consequences commission to visit Kosovo as well (Tanjug, B92)

Vranje will be the first location visited by a Serbian National Assembly commission whose job is to determine the consequences of NATO's 1999 bombing of Serbia. The commission's chairman, Darko Laketic, announced this after the Assembly voted to establish the body. Laketic said that the commission will start work once the Assembly confirms its composition, and explained that proposed members come from the ruling SNS and SPS parties, and opposition DS, Dveri, and SRS. Once the commission has been formed, a meeting will be held with representatives of relevant institutions, he told RTS. Then

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Milic: West to think about division of Kosovo (Tanjug, Radio kontakt plus)

The western international community should think about division of Kosovo as least bad solution, treating it as a unique case, Centre for Euro-Atlantic Studies (CEAS) Director, Jelena Milic said, Serbian media reported. Milic told Tanjug news agency if the West is that much afraid of Russian influence, then unresolved Belgrade-Pristina issue “is one of the great channels of influence Russia could use.” She also added, she expected that once Serbia signed Brussels agreement, EU and NATO members state that have not recognized Kosovo, would do so, however it did not happen. “I can understand i

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“NATO does not decide on Kosovo Security Forces” (Tanjug, RTS, Radio Free Europe)

NATO supports development of the Kosovo Security Forces within the mandate they were established upon, and if it changes the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would reconsider the level of its engagement in Kosovo, NATO said, Serbian media reported. “NATO does not decide on the structure, mandate and mission of the Kosovo Security Forces.

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Serbian Parliament Speaker Gojkovic: Probe into NATO 1999 bombing consequences (TV N1)

Serbian Parliament Speaker Maja Gojkovic said on Friday she has submitted to the Assembly a proposal for forming a commission tasked to investigate the environmental and health consequences of the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia, TV N1 reported. The proposal said, it was necessary to especially assess the effects of the depleted uranium ingredient allegedly used in some bombs NATO was dropping from March 24 to June 10, 1999. “The main task of this commission would be to establish the link between the bombing and a large number of heavy diseases found among the population… a significant incr

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Janjic: Goals of “platform” – seat in UN and mutual recognitions with Serbia (KIM Radio)

Forum for Ethnic Relations Director, Dusan Janjic thinks that after adoption of the platform “for final phase of dialogue with Serbia,” in the Kosovo Government, Serbia should also establish its own platform to respond to “the two strongest political and historical provocations,” KIM Radio reported.

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Norwegian Ambassador: Grasping Presevo is same as laying hold of Kosovo (TV N1, Blic)

Arne Sannes Bjørnstad, the Norwegian Ambassador to Belgrade, said that calling Presevo and Bujanovac “the eastern Kosovo” was the same as calling Kosovo Serbia, adding such statements were not helpful, TV N1 reported. He commented on the Kosovo PM Ramush Haradinaj’s remark about the two southern regions in Serbia with predominantly ethnic Albanian population describing them as a part of Kosovo. In an interview to Belgrade-based Blic daily, the Ambassador said that “those who speak about Kosovo as an integral part of Serbia should not be surprised when the others call parts of Serbia the east

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NATO officially on Djuric’s arrest (RTS)

“The March 26 incident in northern Kosovo points to the need to continue the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue in order to solve the problems in a constructive way,” said Piers Cazalet, NATO Deputy Spokesperson, denying that NATO “assessed” the procedure of Djuric’s visit to Mitrovica North, RTS reported. RTS reported that certain local media outlets have published earlier reaction of NATO to the March events in Kosovo, when Pristina special police forces intervened in Mitrovica North, citing anonymous NATO sources, who said Djuric did not comply with the regulations when he entered northern Kosovo

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Dacic: East Kosovo - goals from the time of the Prizren League (Kontakt plus radio, Tanjug, Vecernje Novosti)

First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic emphasizes today that it is not the first time that some Kosovo officials called Presevo and Bujanovac, eastern Kosovo, reminding that these are the goals since the Prizren League to the present day, report Serbian media.

Dacic was asked to comment Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj's statement on eastern Kosovo, and said that he does not know exactly what he said in Albanian but that he has no dilemma about it.

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