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James Ker-Lindsay: Serbia is not a Trojan horse of Russia (Vecernje Novosti)

James Ker-Lindsay, director of the Centre for Southeast Europe of a London School of Economics says that Belgrade must take into account its relations with Moscow until a final solution for Kosovo and Metohija  In the West, it is often represented that the countries in the Western Balkans are more inclined to Russia, but we who follow Balkan region we know that this is not true, that the loyalty of the countries is much more on the side of the West.

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"The condition of the Serbian list is community of Serbian municipalities" (Blic, Vecernje Novosti, B92)

A condition for the return of Serb representatives to the Kosovo institutions is the formation of a Community/Association of Serb municipalities (ZSO) in Kosovo. The Belgrade-based daily, Vecernje Novosti further writes that this will be "one of the main conclusions" of the upcoming joint session of all Serb municipalities in Kosovo. Another daily, Blic, writes that Serbian officials will once again ask Pristina to fulfil its part of the obligations stemming from the Brussels agreement during the next negotiating round at the EU seat. According to this, PM Aleksandar Vucic will "insist" tha

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Vukcevic: No evidence against Stojanovic (Vecernje Novosti)

Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic speaks to ‘Novosti’ about the investigation against the former director of the Military-Security Agency and accusations against the Chief of the General Staff of Serbian Armed Forces. Our prosecution also deals with the crime in Meje near Djakovica/Gjakovë, and we have some findings and possible perpetrators.

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Mitrovica: Work place for all police officers (Vecernje Novosti)

Former employees of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs from North Mitrovica request a meeting with the Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic. No one replied so far on their request to be redeployed in MIA or in the Kosovo Police. Unsatisfied due to their current status, former employees of the Police Department in North Mitrovica who were not integrated into Kosovo Police, and who staged protest last week in front of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija’s premises, request a meeting with the Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic.

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Isa lining up army without Serbs (Vecernje Novosti)

Pristina has launched a procedure for creation of army of Kosovo, exactly at the moment when Serbian ministers have frozen their participation in the government! Draft law on transformation of the Kosovo Security Forces (KSF) is ready and next week it will be forwarded to the government, announced Minister for Kosovo Security Forces Haki Demolli and added that before the adoption of this law the Constitution should be amended.

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EULEX chief: 20 suspects in war crimes case (Vecernje Novosti, Blic, B92)

Gabriele Meucci says that so far about 20 suspects have been identified who may be subject to an indictment for war crimes committed in 1999 in Gjakova/Djakovica. The head of the EU mission in Kosovo, EULEX, told the Belgrade-based Vecernje Novosti daily that he did not wish to reveal their names.

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Chauprade: Recognition of Kosovo - historic mistake (Blic, RTK2,Tanjug, Vecernje Novosti)

BELGRADE - Paris has made a historic mistake by recognizing Kosovo's independence, Aymeric Chauprade, European parliamentarian from France, has said, stressing that the 1999 NATO war against Serbia assisted the separatist tendencies of the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, and the European Union (EU) followed the policy pursued by the United States. Kosovo can never join the EU because it is a hotbed of crime and is responsible for ethnic cleansing of Serbs and other non-Albanians, Chauprade said in an interview for Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti. Unfortunately, everything seems to be a con

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Attempt of suing Serbia is futile (Vecernje Novosti)

Pristina cannot sue Serbia for alleged genocide against Albanians in 1999, because Kosovo is not a member of the United Nations.  As a professor of international law Tibor Varadi explained, in order to initiate the case there must be consent of the opposite party, or an international treaty, or convention signed by both parties: “Without it, the jurisdiction of the Court cannot be determined.

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Dusan Spasojevic: Hahim Thaci is cynical (Vecernje Novosti)

By normalization of relations Pristina implies that they will submit a lawsuit for genocide against Serbia, while in the same time they expect from Belgrade to enable it through recognizing  ‘Republic of Kosovo’ at the United Nations. It could be said that Hashim Thaci’s announcement is highly cynical since Kosovo is not entitled formally to submit lawsuit in front of the International Court of Justice since it is not a UN member state.

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