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Levi: We didn’t recognize Kosovo’s independence, but we hail Belgrade-Pristina dialogue (Blic)

In the eve of a meeting between the Prime Minister of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, and the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Ambassador to Serbia Josef Levi said to Tanjug that it will be a meeting between two prime ministers who have the same language. Levi stressed that Vucic’s visit is important because it highlights a centuries-long friendship between Jewish and Serbian peoples, along with joint goals and challenges. “We are in front of challenges related with the economic development, trade between Israel and Serbia, marking the anniversa

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Strache: You apply double standards for Kosovo and Crimea (Blic)

The leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPO), Heinz-Christian Strache, accuses Vice-President of the European Parliament, Ulrike Lunacek with regard to Kosovo. He said that Lunacek applies double standards since she called the EU countries to recognize the independence of that Serbian province. As he said, countries that have not recognized the independence of Kosovo are respecting the international law. Heinz-Christian Strache said that the statement of Lunacek is very surprising. “Was referendum on possible independence ever held in Kosovo, as it was in the Crimea?

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Qeku wants the army, but he needs the Serbs (Blic)

Agim Qeku, Kosovo Minister of Security Forces (KSF) announced a rapid transformation of KSF in the Kosovo Armed Forces, immediately after the inauguration of the new Kosovo parliament. However, the Law can be passed only if two-thirds majority in the parliament as well at least two thirds of the members of minorities support it. Half of minority MPs are Serbs, which means that some of them should vote for the proposal. But, Serbian MPs deny such a possibility. “It’s nothing new.

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US government prosecutors in the Balkans (Blic)

US Secretary of Justice Eric Holder announced that the US will send 70 state prosecutors to the countries of the Balkans, the Middle East and North Africa to help in the fight against terrorists. Eric Holder sends 70 state prosecutors to the Balkans, the Middle East and North Africa, with the support of the Bureau for Combating Terrorism of the US Department of State, The Ministry of Justice appointed for the key areas federal prosecutors and state councillors (...) in order to cooperate with countries seeking to improve their capacity in conducting the investigation and bringing foreign

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Serbian municipalities in Kosovo like South Tyrol (Blic)

“In preparing the draft Statute of the Community of Serbian municipalities (ZSO), we used elements of different models of the European regions. The South Tyrol drew the most attention and I can say that it is closest model to the ZSO,” said the coordinator of the management team for establishing the ZSO, Ljubomir Maric. In its structure, the ZSO will have four municipalities in the north and six south of the Ibër/Ibar river, and the plan is the establishment of two more - Gora and Prilužje. Each of them will decide independently on the accession to the ZSO and will have the delegates.

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A historian requests merging of territories populated by Albanians (Blic)

A historian from Albania Koco Danaj, who pledges for the so called ‘natural Albania’, has sent letters to governments of Montenegro, Serbia, Greece and FYR Macedonia requesting them to give parts of their territories for ‘unification of Albanians’. Today’s edition of Podgorica-based daily Dan published that Danaj has sent them a text of the letter where he insists on ‘self-determination’ of Albanians in other states if, as he said, Republic of Srspka separates from Bosnia and Herzegovina and merge with Serbia. According to Danaj, Albania is the only state in E

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