Serbia wants special status for Kosovo north

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BORIS TADIC AT UN SESSION IN NEW YORK

Tamara Spaić

22. 09. 2011. - 02:02h
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Serbia President Boris Tadic shall try at meetings with world leaders in New York to get their support for the settlement of the current crisis at customs checkpoints with implementation of Ban-Ki-Moon’s plan from 2008, as sources close to Tadic confirmed to ‘Blic’. It is believed that would be just a beginning for the international community to recognize ‘the north as something special’ and an introduction to autonomy or even partition....more...
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http://english.blic.rs/News/8027/Serbia-wants-special-status-for-Kosovo-north

Serbia Takes Kosovo Border Row to New York

balkan insight
21 SEP 2011 / 09:51

As tensions fizz in the Serb-run sliver of North Kosovo, Belgrade has launched a diplomatic push aimed at forcing Kosovo to withdraw its customs officials from northern border crossings.

Bojana Barlovac Belgrade

Not even pouring rain has stopped local Serbs from manning barricades in the Serb-run north of Kosovo for the fifth day in a row, following last Friday's deployment of EU police and Kosovo customs officials on border crossings with Serbia....more...
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http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/belgrade-launches-diplomatic-action-over-kosovo-north

A coffee with Serbian vice prime minister Bozidar Djelic -video-

waz.eu.observer.com
TODAY @ 08:17

The EU is examining Serbian-backed proposals to break the deadlock in Northern Kosovo. In this video Serbian deputy prime minister Bozidar Djelic talks about the solution that Serbia has proposed to EU foreign chief Catherine Ashton to solve the problem....more...
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http://euobserver.com/1015/113683

Bare-Handed Kosovo Serbs Battle NATO

serbianna
Sep 20, 2011
Bare-Handed Kosovo Serbs Battle NATO
By Vojin Joksimovich, Ph.D.
On September the 16th NATO forces, overstepping their UN Security Council (UNSC) mandates, amid tensions on the administrative border between Serbia and the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo, have fired the first shots at bare-handed Kosovo Serbs in the village of Zupce. The Kosovo Serbs have erected barricades, in a life or death situation, to defend themselves against the Muslim Albanian onslaughts which desire to forcefully incorporate northern Kosovo into the US/EU created Republic of Kosovo, an amputated province from the Republic of Serbia. The Albanian police, aided and assisted by NATO’s KFOR, have taken over two border crossings: Jarinje and Brnjak. The Albanian customs officers, aided and abetted by EU’s EULEX mission in Kosovo, have established their control over the border crossings....more...
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http://serbianna.com/analysis/archives/993

Kosovo Showdown: NATO, Serbs Set Up Competing Checkpoints

serbianna
September 16, 2011 – 1:25 am

B92/Beta News Agency

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA: NATO troops in Kosovo, KFOR, tonight used barbed wire to shut down the Jarinje administrative line checkpoint
between Kosovo and central Serbia.
As a consequence of this, the traffic at the checkpoint has come to a complete halt.
A little after 19:00 CET,, local Serbs in northern Kosovo used trucks to block the second administrative crossing, Brnjak.
The trucks are placed on both sides of the administrative line.
Serbs also blocked access to Jarinje with one truck. ...more...
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http://serbianna.com/blogs/michaletos/archives/1084

Kosovo Accuses Serbia of Renewing Trade Embargo

balkan insight
20 SEP 2011 / 12:23

In a letter to Brussels, Pristina warns that it will reactivate its trade ban with Serbia if Belgrade fails to honour the September 2 deal.

Fatmir Aliu Pristina

Kosovo’s government on Monday sent a letter to the European Union, calling on Brussels to get Serbia to honour a September 2 agreement about the free movement of goods between the two countries....more...
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http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/kosovo-accuses-serbia-of-renewing-trade-embargo

Quiet, for now - The latest from Kosovo

the economist
Sep 18th 2011, 14:12 by T.J.

BELGRADE
AN UPDATE on the situation in northern Kosovo. On Wednesday, after visiting Kosovo, I wrote that it looked set for a "major clash". Indeed, a day later, at the Belgrade Security Forum, Boris Tadic, Serbia's president, said that “unilateral actions”—by which he meant anything done by the authorities in Pristina—could seriously endanger the peace and security of the whole region. That sounded pretty tough, but on Friday morning his bluff was called....more...
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http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2011/09/latest-kosovo

Everything ends by exchange of words over barbwire

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SERBS READY TO BE ALL ON BARRICADES IN TEN MINUTES

Ivana Mastilović-Jasnić

19. 09. 2011. - 00:02h
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Yesterday was a peaceful day on the barricades. Citizens, in three shifts of eight hours each are on barricades to prevent anyone of the EULEX, KFOR or Kosovo police approach checkpoints by ground roads. At some roads, barricades are several meters high. Shortage of food is felt in all towns. The same case is with petrol. At all locations where Serbian population is neighboring with Albanians citizens are on guard 24 hours a day....more....
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http://english.blic.rs/News/8015/Everything-ends-by-exchange-of-words-over-barbwire

Roads in Northern Kosovo Still Blocked

balkan insight
19 SEP 2011 / 09:55
All major roads in northern Kosovo remain blocked but the situation remains calm following the deployment of EU police and Kosovo customs officials to border crossings with Serbia last Friday.
Bojana Barlovac Belgrade

Serbs in northern Kosovo have strengthened barricades on major roads and are reportedly refusing to remove them until Kosovo police and customs officers withdraw from two checkpoints. ...more...
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http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/roads-in-kosovo-north-remain-blocked

Kosovo Serbs Man Barricades But Stay Calm

balkan insight
17 SEP 2011 / 13:11

As Serbs in northern Kosovo continue strengthening roadblocks, Belgrade has undertaken diplomatic action to resolve tensions on the ground.

Bojana Barlovac, Fatmir Aliu Belgrade, Pristina

Serb-run northern Kosovo remained calm on Saturday, one day after the controversial deployment of EU police and Kosovo customs officials on border crossings with Serbia....more....
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http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/north-kosovo-calm-roads-blocked

Ready for barricades

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‘BLIC’ REPORTER AMONG SERBS IN KOSOVO NORTH

Momčilo Petrović

16. 09. 2011. - 00:02h
Foto: A. Stanković
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Less than a kilometer behind Jarinje checkpoint between Serbia and Kosovo workers were building a Serbian house brick by brick. The KFOR German soldiers were placing barbwire where checkpoint facilities were set on fire this summer. Serbs were on numerous barricades on the road towards Mitrovica. They all are waiting for Pristina to begin with conquering border checkpoints. After that nothing is going to be the same any more....more...
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http://english.blic.rs/News/8011/Ready-for-barricades

Strong rhetoric for defense of Kosovo north

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SERBIA HAS SMALL MANEUVERING SPACE AHEAD OF SEPTEMBER 16

Tamara Spaić, Ivana Mastilović Jasnić

15. 09. 2011. - 00:02h
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With intensive diplomatic engagement and pressure on Brussels and Washington the authorities in Serbia are trying to prevent establishment of the customs control and arrival of Kosovo customs officers to Brnjak and Jarinje checkpoints....more...
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http://english.blic.rs/In-Focus/8008/Strong-rhetoric-for-defense-of-Kosovo-north

Kosovo Serbs Maintain Blockades In Mitrovica

radio free europe
September 17, 2011

Local Serbs are maintaining blockades of two bridges in the city of Mitrovica, in the north of Kosovo.
Overnight, rival groups of young Serbs and Kosovar Albanians threw rocks at each other on a blocked bridge over the Ibar River, which divides the city's two communities....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/kosovo_serbs_maintain_blockades_in_mitrovica/24331437.html

EU and Kosovo police take control of disputed border crossings

deutsche welle
KOSOVO

16.09.2011
Kosovo and European Union police and customs officials have been helicoptered in to two contested crossings on the border between Kosovo and Serbia, raising fears of a fresh wave of ethnic violence.....more...
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http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15391854,00.html

Kosovo Deploys Customs Officials To Disputed Border Crossings With Serbia

radio free europe
Last updated (GMT/UTC): 16.09.2011 11:14

WATCH: Kosovar and EU police and customs officers are deployed at two contested border crossings with Serbia in northern Kosovo on September 16. Meanwhile, some 1,000 Kosovo Serbs gathered in the town of Mitrovica to protest what they called "unilateral action" by Kosovo Albanians. (Reuters video)
By Milos Teodorovic

NORTHERN KOSOVO -- Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaci says Kosovo police and customs officials, together with personnel from the European Union's law enforcement mission, have been deployed at two disputed crossings on the border with Serbia....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/kosovo_deploys_customs_officials_to_disputed_border_crossings/24330516.html

Peacekeepers Take Serbia-Kosovo Border Posts

ny times
By MATTHEW BRUNWASSER

Published: September 16, 2011
RASKA, SERBIA — On the day Kosovo promised that it would take full control of its borders for the first time since its declaration of independence in 2008, an international force instead took over the final two border posts Friday morning, seeking to prevent violence and calm the highly tense atmosphere in the Serb-dominated north of Kosovo....more...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/17/world/europe/17iht-kosovo17.html?_r=1&ref=europe

Rising Kosovo Border Tensions Elicit UN, OSCE Appeals

radio free europe
Last updated (GMT/UTC): 16.09.2011 08:01

By Nikola Krastev
UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) have renewed calls for calm amid growing tensions in northern Kosovo.
Ethnic Serbs in the north of Kosovo oppose plans by Kosovo's mainly ethnic Albanian leaders to deploy police and customs agents there at two border crossings with Serbia....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/un_security_council_discusses_kosovo_tensions/24330055.html

Kosovar Serbs Block Key Bridge On Way To Border

radio free europe
September 15, 2011

MITROVICA -- Serbs have blocked the main bridge connecting the southern (Albanian) and northern (Serb) parts of Kosovo one day before the deployment of Kosovar police and customs officials at two border crossings with Serbia, RFE/RL's Balkan Service reports....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/kosovar_serbs_block_key_bridge_on_way_to_border/24329921.html

Kosovo Set to Take 2 Key Border Posts

ny times
By MATTHEW BRUNWASSER

Published: September 15, 2011
BELGRADE — The Republic of Kosovo is preparing to take control Friday over the last two posts along its border with Serbia that are beyond its authority, an event that threatens to reignite tensions between the two adversaries....more...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/world/europe/16iht-kosovo16.html?_r=3&ref=europe

NATO's Rasmussen Urges Kosovo, Serbia For Calm

radio free europe
September 15, 2011

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says the military alliance will not allow the Balkan region to slip back into violence amid simmering tensions between Kosovo and Serbia over a border dispute.
Rasmussen made the comments during a brief visit to Pristina, a day before Kosovo authorities are to deploy police and customs officials at two disputed border crossings with Serbia....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/nato_rasmussen_urges_kosovo_serbia_calm/24329540.html