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OSCE concerned about the safety of journalists in Kosovska Mitrovica (Blic)

OSCE representative for media freedom Dunja Mijatovic condemned the attack on journalists, during demonstrations in Kosovska Mitrovica, and expressed concern for their safety. She also requested guaranteed security for the journalists who report from the demonstrations.  In the statement, which refer to the media reports, was stated that journalists Behar Mustafa (BIRN), Faton Ismajli (Online Express) and Kajtaz Gecaj (Zeri) were attacked while they were reporting from the demonstrations in Kosovska Mitrovica, and that they were attacked by protesters.

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ISIL threatens Balkans: Attack on those who are against Allah’s will (Blic)

Kosovo's government, its institutions, as well as some states in the Balkans, could be the target of terrorist attacks, of the organization called the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, known as ISIL, writes Slobodna Dalmacija daily. Kosovo’s portal Lajmet.net reports based on "reliable international sources", which claim that Western intelligence services have informed the Kosovo intelligence service about the threats, and recommended an improvement of alertness due to alleged communications of ISIL in Syria and Iraq with their cells in the Balkans. These cells, according to the Kosovo’s

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American journalists: Albanians have extracted the organs (Blic)

American journalists, Michael Montgomery and Steven Smith, who investigated the human organ trafficking in Kosovo, claim that they have reached the witness and evidence that organs of Serbs have been extracted in the ‘yellow house’. The ‘Yellow house’ is located in village Ribe in vicinity of the town Burel in northern Albania. The house, populated with family Katuci, is today painted in white. Montgomery and Smith are the first ones who revealed the ‘yellow house’.

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Djuric visited displaced in Hotel Junior in Štrpce/Shtërpcë (Blic)

The Director of the Serbia’s government Office for Kosovo said to yesterday to displaced persons sheltered in Hotel Junior in Štrpce/Shtërpcë that state has a duty to be with them and that ‘as long as there is state of Serbia they won’t remain homeless and without a bread in the plate’. Few days ago Kosovo Privatization Agency (KPA) took over the management over the Hotel and deployed its security guards. Djuric said that those who decided so obviously have no empathies toward those who lost their own properties and suffered a lot during the conflict, but that

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Vucic: Talks with Kosovo Serbs next week (Blic)

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic stated today that he will confer with Kosovo Serbs in the course of next week in order to talk about their future and to hear their wishes. “Today, I will talk with the President of Serbia Tomislav Nikolic about inviting Kosovo Serbs next week in order to hear from them how they see their future, and in order to try to find the common denominator. However, their wishes will prevail,” said Vucic to journalists in the Serbian government building.

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German MP: Serbia has not met the requirements (Blic)

MP of Christian Democrats (CDU) in the Bundestag Johan Vadepul said that Serbia has not fulfilled the conditions of the road to the EU. In order to open the first chapter, it is important to complete the process of normalizing relations with Kosovo.  Vadepul said that his parliamentary group CDU CSU is not completely happy with fulfillment of the requirements that were set before the Serbian government, among other things, the relationship with Kosovo and the attack on the embassy of Germany (2008).

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A meeting between Vucic and the Serbian List by Monday (Blic)

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said today that until Monday he will meet with representatives of the Serbian List, adding that it turned out that it was good that the Serbian government urged Kosovo Serbs to vote on June 8. Vucic said at the press conference that until Monday he will meet with them. - By it you see that it was a smart call that we made before the election, because it is becoming increasingly clear that the Serbian deputies will be a decisive factor - Vucic said in response to reporters' questions in the Government of Serbia. A few days ago the leader of the Serbian

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Djuric: A political isolation threatens Serbs in Kosovo (Blic)

Director of the Office for Kosovo Marko Djuric met today with member of the German parliament, Torsten Frey. In addition to the German MP, who is in Bundestag a member of the Committee on Foreign Relations and the European Union (EU), the meeting attended German Ambassador Wilhelm Heinz and director of the Belgrade Office of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Henri Bonet.  "In order to build trust, it is essential adequate representation and equal participation in the political life of the Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija.

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In Serbia Haradinaj charged with at least 60 murders (Blic)

A year and a half after the Hague Tribunal has released him from war crimes charges for the second time Ramus Haradinaj has the opportunity to sit again in the seat of Kosovo Prime Minister.  In 2005 Haradinaj was occupying the post of Kosovo Prime Minister but left it only a hundred days later after the charges for war crimes had been raised against him. “I will work for European and economically developed Kosovo in which law and order shall rule. I undertake the obligation that every citizen of Kosovo feel free,” Haradinaj told the Express daily in Pristina.

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Janjic: Request of the Self-Determination movement is marketing ploy (Blic)

Analyst Dusan Janjic said that the request of the Albanian opposition party Self-determination, on the termination of the dialogue with Belgrade, is unrealistic.  Representatives of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK), the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) and Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA) agreed in Pristina to propose the leader of the Alliance, Ramush Haradinaj for the position of the Prime Minister.

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