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Haradinaj: United Nations' role, irreplaceable (media)

Prime Minister of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, met the UN Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Bintou Keita, and discussed important issues Kosovo is facing and the progress achieved in the last two decades. Haradinaj thanked the UN for its contribution and said: “The role of the United Nations has been irreplaceable in the first stages of state-building and peace restoration.

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UN Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations met Serbian officials (Serbian media)

The UN Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Bintou Keita had separate meetings on Monday with Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic, Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director Marko Djuric and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic. Serbian officials told her that Serbia is committed to finding a compromise solution for Kosovo and warned of increasingly frequent incidents. Dacic told Keita that the UNMIK mission needs to remain in place unchanged as a guarantee of status neutrality and expressed Serbia’s readiness to continue its engagement in peace operations and to further promo

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Kosovo received “yellow light” from US to act stubborn (Danas)

Pristina received some sort of “yellow light” from Washington to “act stubborn” before the next phase of negations in Brussels on resolving the Kosovo issue, which is shown by the refusal of Kosovo representatives to take part in a new round of technical dialogue, Danas daily reports referring to unofficial diplomatic sources. According to Danas interlocutors, Pristina’s message that “technical dialogue is senseless unless energy is the first topic” indirectly shows “USA are displeased because Belgrade does not accept a plan for resolving the Kosovo issue that would enable Kosovo membership i

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Vecernje Novosti: Vucic rejected "US package" for Kosovo (RTS, Vecernje Novosti)

Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) reports, quoting Belgrade based daily Vecernje Novosti, that the president of Serbia allegedly did not want to introduce the public with a working document related to resolving the Kosovo problem, assessing it as "unworthy of attention and unacceptable for Serbia".

According to Novosti, representatives of Kosovo and Serbia were presented with four pillars of the historic agreement:

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Drecun: Huge gap between Serbs and Albanians (Tanjug, B92, TV Pink)

Chairperson of the Serbian Assembly Committee for Kosovo and Metohija, Milovan Drecun told Serbian media there is a huge gap between Serbs and Albanians and people alike Ramush Haradinaj cannot build a reconciliation. He added, Haradinaj’s remarks on reconciliation are “cynical” and the biggest contribution (to the reconciliation) would be if he would be held responsible before the judiciary for committed crimes. Commenting on the new plan, alleging that USA requests Serbia to recognize self-declared Kosovo and do not prevent its membership in the UN, Drecun said it is nothing new, however S

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Jeremic: Vucic would not stop after surrendering Kosovo (TV Nasa, Danas)

Leader of Peoples’ Party Vuk Jeremic told TV Nasa, Serbian President and SNS leader Aleksandar Vucic by surrendering to the West vital Serbian national interests pays for his remain in power, acts humbly towards internationals in order to do “whatever he wants” in Serbia. Jeremic went on saying Vucic intends to give Pristina a seat in the UN this year, then to accept to disenfranchise Republic of Srpska, bring Serbia into NATO, but would request from internationals not to criticize him during that period “over small matters” such as rule of law issues and media control. He added, Vucic

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Belgrade will continue to balance between the West and Russia (Danas)

Diplomatic sources of Danas and international relations experts do not exclude completely the possibility of Serbia changing the foreign policy course, but they assess that Belgrade will endeavour in maintaining the current position of balancing between the West and Russia.

According to interlocutors of Danas, any changes in foreign policy will depend largely on the next phase of resolving the Kosovo issue.

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