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“No carrots more neither for Belgrade nor Pristina (B92, Prva TV)

The international community has no more carrots it can offer to Belgrade and Pristina, while the Special Court for KLA crimes would be the pressure to move the dialogue ahead, Nebojsa Covic told Prva TV. Former head of the Coordination Centre for Kosovo and Metohija, Covic added that regardless to the number of murdered witnesses, NATO and KFOR have voluminous sufficient to prosecute KLA crimes. Speaking about the departure of former KLA members to The Hague, he recalled “pompous departure” of Ramush Haradinaj to The Hague, with “lots of noise” but at the end he got acquitted. And also many

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"Serbia-NATO action plan to be supplemented" (Tanjug, European Western Balkans)

The final stage of preparation is currently under way to adopt the second cycle of the Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP) between Serbia and NATO, Tanjug news agency reports. It is the highest mechanism of NATO cooperation with partner countries, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia in charge of security issues Branimir Filipovic said. Filipovic told the European Western Balkans that the main priorities of partner cooperation remain unchanged, and that the new three-year IPAP will be supplemented with new activities, both in the areas of military cooperation, as well as in

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Vucic: "Rosu can go to North under two conditions; rest are lies" (B92, Tanjug, TV Pink)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told on Tuesday  the pro-government TV Pink that "the only and real truth" is that Pristina's Rosu units can enter the north of Kosovo only under two conditions.

And these are KFOR's permission, and the consent of the Serb community, Vucic said.

"That's the whole truth, the only truth. Whoever says otherwise, is the worst kind of liar," the president said.

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New KFOR Commander: We are ready to intervene if stability is endangered (Tanjug, B92, Pobjeda)

Newly appointed KFOR Commander Major General Lorenzo D’Addario said KFOR is ready to intervene in Kosovo if stability is endangered, Tanjug news agency reported. General D’Addario told Podgorica-based daily Pobjeda that decision on transformation of Kosovo Security Forces into armed forces is ill-timed. He added, the North-Atlantic Organization would now have to re-examine its level of engagement with Kosovo Security Forces. “What remains certain is that NATO with its KFOR Mission remains committed to ensuring a safe environment in Kosovo, but also stability of the Western Balkans,” he unde

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Statement by the NATO Secretary General on the adoption of the laws on the transition of the Kosovo Security Force (NATO website)

Today, the Institutions in Kosovo have announced the adoption of the three laws initiating the process of transition of the Kosovo Security Force. I regret that this decision was made despite the concerns expressed by NATO. While the transition of the Kosovo Security Force is in principle a matter for Kosovo to decide, we have made clear that this move is ill-timed. NATO supports the development of the Kosovo Security Force under its current mandate.

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Belgrade calls on 53 states to prevent creation of Kosovo army (TV N1)

Serbian Defense Minister Aleksandar Vulin wrote a letter to his counterparts in 53 states asking them to prevent Kosovo from forming its army, TV N1 reports. A statement from his office said Vulin sent those letters "so that no one could claim one day they did not know what was happening in Kosovo.” “What is worrying is the news on Kosovo army being formed, which is an attempt to create yet another paramilitary unit in Kosovo,” the statement quoted Vulin as saying. He added “the unpunished war criminals want to have their army to repeat all the crimes they have not been prosecuted for.

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Drecun: Kosovo army can seriously endanger Serbian people (RTS)

Serbian Assembly Committee for Kosovo and Metohija Chairman, Milovan Drecun told RTS Albanians in Kosovo are creating an army with the help of some NATO member states. He added, that the so-called army already exists, it is armed and organized in a military manner. Speaking for RTS morning news edition Drecun said that this army, announced to be established on December 14, opens the room for misuse of it by the civil sector. “It would be a formation that could be some actor in these areas.

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Lavrov: Kosovo - a question mark of the EU's reputation (B92, Sputnik, www.efsyn.gr)

The strengthening of the presence of NATO and the EU in the Balkans leads to a deeper destabilization of Europe, Sergei Lavrov has said to the Greek daily Efimerida Syntakton, quotes portal B92.

The Russian foreign minister pointed out that Moscow is concerned about these aspirations.

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Daily contacts agreed between the Army of Serbia and KFOR (RTS)

President of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg agreed in today's telephone conversation that the preservation of peace and stability is of the utmost interest to Serbia and the entire region, says the Serbian Presidency, reports Radio Television of Serbia (RTS).

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Vucic: I'm convinced there'll be no war (B92, TV Pink)

Speaking about tensions in Kosovo and Metohija after introduction of 100% taxes on goods from Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic says he's convinced there will be no war. "I do not like to even use that word, it seems to me that people in Pristina today don't understand the scope of the disaster they can cause, and I plead with them try to understand that," the president told TV Pink, and added: "We are in a situation not to play chess with someone who has the help of ten onlookers, but we need to think about whether one of them will get up and hit both us and them on the head with the board.

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