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Kosovo Press Review - July 2
Pristina | 02 July 2009 |
Here are the top stories in Kosovo’s main newspapers. Balkan Insight has not verified the reports and cannot vouch for their accuracy.
KOSOVA SOT
-Government reacts: Belgrade interferes with integration. Kosovo’s institutions have called Serb President Boris Tadic’s message Kosovo Serbs to boycott local elections very negative.
KOHA DITORE
- UNMIK transforms into a mission for the communities. The UN mission in Kosovo has opened an office to create facilities and support for communities, which will now be the mission’s exclusive task.
EXPRESS
- Five Hectares for America. The municipality of Prishtina has given the US Embassy five hectares of land in the neighborhood of Dragodan for the construction of their new embassy.
LAJM
- Baseless accusations failed. Former Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku finds the accusations Serbia submitted to Interpol about him comic, after his arrest in Bulgaria last week.
ZERI
-Pristina contradicts Tadic, invites Serbs to be part of the elections. Kosovo’s President Fatmir Sejdiu invited all Kosovo Serbs to take part in the November 15 local elections, despite a call to boycott them made by Serbia’s president Tadic.
-Government reacts: Belgrade interferes with integration. Kosovo’s institutions have called Serb President Boris Tadic’s message Kosovo Serbs to boycott local elections very negative.
KOHA DITORE
- UNMIK transforms into a mission for the communities. The UN mission in Kosovo has opened an office to create facilities and support for communities, which will now be the mission’s exclusive task.
EXPRESS
- Five Hectares for America. The municipality of Prishtina has given the US Embassy five hectares of land in the neighborhood of Dragodan for the construction of their new embassy.
LAJM
- Baseless accusations failed. Former Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku finds the accusations Serbia submitted to Interpol about him comic, after his arrest in Bulgaria last week.
ZERI
-Pristina contradicts Tadic, invites Serbs to be part of the elections. Kosovo’s President Fatmir Sejdiu invited all Kosovo Serbs to take part in the November 15 local elections, despite a call to boycott them made by Serbia’s president Tadic.
