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UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, February 20, 2023

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, February 20, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti talks about meetings he held in Munich (Reporteri)
• Kearns: Britain will not support the formation of Republika Srpska in Kosovo (RTK)
• Rohde: Kosovo and Germany are connected by partnership and common values (media)
• Buhler: Kosovo's membership in NATO, after final political solution (media)
• “Only Kurti knows how he brought Kosovo to this state, he was badly ignored by Blinken” (media)
• PDK: Prosecution should interview Kurti and Haxhiu about the Dehari case (media)
• Tahiri: There is a risk that Serbia will keep Kosovo in a frozen conflict (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Vucic: We will invest heavily in the defence industry, military (N1, Beta)
• Podcast: Nenezic on expropriation: In a perfect world, these decisions would be rejected, bases demolished, and works suspended (KoSSev)
• Vucic discusses Kosovo with Blinken, Scholz, Macron (N1, BETA)
• US State Secretary: Productive conversation with Vucic (N1, social media)
• Lajcak on CSM: Assumed obligations must be fulfilled (Politika, BETA)
• Dveri calls on patriots to unite on Kosovo, Russia issues (media)
• Vucic: We have new note of Kosovo derecognition (Tanjug)
• Trajkovic, Jovic and Ristic sent joint letter to Patriarch (KoSSev, N1)
• Marinkovic: About 40,000 Serbs left Kosovo in the last ten years (NMagazin, N1, KiM radio, Beta)

International:

• Putin is attempting to destabilise European countries to divert attention from Ukraine, warns Kosovo's president (Sky News)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, February 20, 2023

• Kurti for Le Monde: EU plan enables the de-facto recognition (media)
• Kurti meets Borrell, Lajcak; talk EU proposal and meet with Vucic (Telegrafi)
• Borrell optimistic for February 27 meeting, hopes parties will accept plan (DW)
• Osmani: Peace and security sustainable only when women included in all decision-making and policy-making processes (media)
• Blinken: Normalisation of Kosovo-Serbia relations essential to strengthen security in the Balkans (RFE)
• Osmani meets Admiral Munch at Munich Security Conference (media)
• Kurti meets INTERPOL Secretary General: Kosovo is a reliable partner (media)
• Gervalla: All countries to seriously address threats to international order (media)
• Lekaj: Kurti must not accept Association with executive competencies (Nacionale)
• Newborn monument dedicated to threat to Republic’s future (BIRN)
• Djuric’s statement triggers reactions in Kosovo (Koha)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, February 17, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti: Kosovo is a good example of democracy (RFE)
• Blinken congratulates people of Kosovo on 15th anniversary of independence (media)
• EU: Kurti and Vucic will meet in Brussels on February 27 (media)
• Hovenier congratulates Kosovo on 15th anniversary of independence (media)
• Sandulovic: On behalf of Serbia, I apologise for the crimes against you (Kosovapress)
• Germans imply talks on French-German plan at Munich Security Conference (Express)

Serbian Language Media:

• EC says Vucic, Kurti confirmed meeting in Brussels next week on 27 February (N1)
• Vucic: We will announce good news on Kosovo-Metohija today and in seven days (Tanjug)
• Pristina authorities marked the 15th anniversary of the unilateral declaration of independence (N1)
• Dalibor Jevtic: The position of Serbs in Kosovo has never been worse (RTS, KiM radio, Kontakt plus radio)
• Rasic: Agreement soon, Belgrade and Pristina have little room for "no" (N1, KoSSev, KiM radio)
• Amendment by the Greens: EULEX to become a response unit in the north of Kosovo (KoSSev, N1)
• Rama: Kurti and I have the same goal - for the Albanians to unite and they must, but we have different approaches to get there (KoSSev, Danas, Blic)

International:

• It’s Official: One Serbian diplomat per year to join the State Department for up to 12 months (thepavlovictoday.com)
• Week in Review: Spies, Coups and Earthquakes (Balkan Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, February 17, 2023

• Kurti: There is work to turn EU proposal into an agreement (DW, media)
• Biden congratulates on 15th anniversary of Independence, mentions mutual recognition with Serbia (media)
• European leaders congratulate Osmani on Independence Day (Koha)
• Kurti hosted candidate for president of Serbia, Nikola Sandulovic (RTK)
• Sandulovic: I came to offer historic solutions (RTK)
• Kurti: Kosovo, common state of all (media)
• Independent Kosovo is a success story. Now we need a European epilogue (Politico.eu)
• Kosovo marks 15 uneasy years of independence from Serbia (The Independent)
• North Kosovo won’t be stable while Belgrade and Pristina are at loggerheads (BIRN)
• Kosovo: How football helps build bridges (Deutsche Welle)
• Kosovo Women’s 1990s Fight for Freedom Documented on Film (BIRN)
• Study Shows Therapy Benefits Mothers Exposed to Violence in Kosovo War (BIRN)
• Serbian nationalists protest against Western plan to normalise ties with breakaway Kosovo (euronews.com)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, February 16, 2023

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, February 16, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti: EU plan for Kosovo-Serbia dialogue includes de facto recognition from Serbia (media)
• President Osmani receives Albania’s President Bajram Begaj (media)
• Kurti: Final agreement with Serbia depends on international pressure on Belgrade (media)
• Abazi claims there are videos that show "who vanished samples of Dehari case" (media)
• LVV dismisses Haki Abazi, replaces him with Arbereshe Kryeziu-Hyseni (media)
• Kurti meets with the former head of the legal team of Kosovo, at the ICJ (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• 22 years since the bomb attack on the bus in Livadice, memorial service today in Laplje Selo (KoSSev)
• Serbian List: Wall of silence when it comes to crimes against Serbs (Radio KIM, media)
• Leposavic residents at the public discussion on expropriation: There’s no life left here; we’ll defend our land (KoSSev)
• Nenezic to the Expropriation Department: You’re misapplying your own law, violating the Constitution and the CoE Convention (KoSSev)
• Civil society: Leposavic locals did not feel unsafe until they were overrun by bases; Central institutions violate the law (KoSSev)
• Vucic holds meeting with police and security chiefs (Tanjug, Insajder, N1)
• President Vucic awards Statehood Day honours (N1, media)
• Grenell thanks Vucic and Serbian people for receiving award (Kosovo Online, social media)
• RFE: US maintains stand on Serbia-Kosovo recognition (N1)

Humanitarian/Development:

• How Serbs live in Kosovo: “We dream of being in Serbia, but reality is different” (N1)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, February 16, 2023

Kurti: No full normalisation of relations without mutual recognition (RFE)
Kurti: French-German plan foresees de facto recognition by Serbia (media)
EU: We are ready to mediate discussions on Association (RFE)
Students march against Association of Serb-majority municipalities (BIRN)
Kosovo government discusses expropriation with local residents in north (RFE)
Abdixhiku lists “Kurti’s failures and deceptions” (Gazeta Express)
Albanian President Begaj to visit Kosovo today (media)
Serwer: Ugly diplomacy in the Balkans (media)
Price talks about the objective of the U.S. in Kosovo and Serbia (media)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, February 15, 2023

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, February 15, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• Prosecution: Over 300 witnesses in trial against former KLA leaders (RFE)
• Heusgen: Association of Serb municipalities must be implemented (Deutsche Welle)
• Beka on students’ march: We are not pushed by any political party (Albanian Post)
• Judicial Council submits request to send law on wages to Constitutional Court (media)
• Kurti thanks UK MP for speaking about situation in Kosovo (RTK)

Serbian Language Media:

• Petkovic: Pristina’s refusal to establish CSM creating a frozen conflict (Politika, BETA, N1)
• Todic writes to Quint, heads of international organisations over expropriation in north (Kosovo Online)
• Public discussion on expropriation held in Leposavic, residents demand decisions to be annulled (KoSSev, Radio KIM, Kosovo Online)
• Blinken congratulates the Statehood Day: Serbian and Kosovo leaders will make difficult compromises (Beta, N1)
• Biden congratulates Vucic on Statehood Day (N1, FoNet)
• Putin to Vucic: Moscow supports Belgrade (FoNet, N1)
• Varhelyi: Failure to impose sanctions should not affect Serbia’s EU negotiations (N1)
• Public invitations in the municipality of Orahovac only in the Albanian language (KiM radio, Radio Gorazdevac, Kontakt plus radio, KoSSev)

International:

• Inside global diplomacy with Baroness Catherine Ashton, former European Commission vice president — "Intelligence Matters" (cbsnews.com)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, February 15, 2023

• Varhelyi: EC ready to work on Kosovo's application for membership (media)
• Colomina meets Kurti: NATO supports plan proposed by the EU (media)
• Colomina: NATO Strategic Concept reaffirmed WB strategic importance (EWB)
• The implementation plan of the European plan (Dukagjini)
• Lehne: I’m not optimistic about EU plan for Kosovo and Serbia (RFE)
• Mehaj: Kosovo ready to host 5,000 Ukrainian refugees (media)
• Pristina University students to march against Association today (Kosovapress)
• Gap between debt and surplus fuels suspicions about health fund mismanagement (BIRN)
• Biden writes to Vucic: Good that you supported the European proposal (media)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, February 14, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• Osmani thanks KSF teams helping save lives after Turkey earthquake (media)
• Rizvanolli: Fight against organised crime pays off in multiple ways! (media)
• Over 140 candidates to replace 500 police officers in the north (Koha)
• Beslin: Serbia and Kosovo will accept the French-German plan (RTK)
• Kosovo hosts another Afghan journalist (Radio Free Europe)

Serbian Language Media:

• Vucic: Serbia greatly dependent on EU, cannot move forward without it (Tanjug)
• Von Cramon's speech before the EP's Foreign Affairs Committee on the Kosovo 2022 report (KoSSev)
• Lawyer: Entire Serb community damaged by decision on expropriation (Kosovo Online)
• Lavrov to Dacic: Russia ready for further development of relations with Serbia (N1, BETA)
• Vucic: KFOR contributing to peace, stability in Kosovo-Metohija (Tanjug)
• PM Brnabic: CSM and only then resumption of negotiations (Beta, N1)
• Xi to Vucic: Joint effort to defend international law (FoNet, N1)
• Last week review: Principled acceptance of EU proposals, through mutual accusations on energy, to the discovery of drug labs in the north (KoSSev)
• UNS protest over airing Assembly session in Albanian language only (Radio KIM)

Opinion:

• The Desperate Desire to be ‘European’ (K2.0)

International:

• 'Quietly endure': north Kosovo braves security vacuum after resignations (AFP)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, February 14, 2023

• US hopeful over Kosovo-Serbia agreement, Vucic not convinced (Euractiv)
• Why Kosovo's stand-off with Serbs goes on 15 years after statehood (Reuters)
• Kurti: Destruction of illegal drug labs, clear victory for rule of law (media)
• Kurti and Guerot discuss French-German proposal (media)
• Osmani and Wigemark discuss recent developments in north of Kosovo (media)
• Kurti: KSF search and rescue team saved three people in Turkey so far (media)
• Serbian products faced with boycott in Kosovo (Radio Free Europe)
• COMKFOR Ristuccia meets Kosovo’s religious leaders (media)
• An accord would close down the Balkan issue (Albanian Daily News)