UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, February 10, 2022

Albanian Language Media:

• Kosovo PM Kurti meets UK envoy, Sir Stuart Peach (media)
• Osmani: United Kingdom, among Kosovo's key allies (media)
• British Embassy: Sir Stuart's priority support for Kosovo-Serbia dialogue (RTK)
• AAK calls on Government to repeal energy price decision (media)
• Vetevendosje pays tribute to its activists on anniversary of their killing (media)
• Albania’s Peleshi warns Ukraine’s invasion could affect Kosovo-Serbia relations (Klan)
• COVID-19: 717 new cases, four deaths (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• 54 newly infected in Serbian areas in Kosovo (Radio Mitrovica sever)
• US Ambassador releases memory video before leaving Serbia (N1)
• Ambassador Godfrey in interview with Nedeljnik talks on media freedom, Open Balkans, EU (N1, Nedeljnik)
• COM KFOR visits Visoki Decani Monastery (Kosovo-online)
• Serbian Parliament approves constitutional amendments (Tanjug)
• Russian envoy to Serbia: Pristina should implement all agreements, including CSM (N1, Politika)
• Zuroff said he was proud to help the project of restoration of Deva's house to stop (KoSSev)
• Mihajlovic: It was mistake Belgrade didn’t insist upon return of displaced persons (Radio KIM)

International:

• Publication of MPs Costly Travel Expenses Draws Fury (Prishtina Insight)

• UK envoy to the Balkans, Sir Stuart Peach, visits Kosovo (media)
• U.S. dedicated to help Kosovo in the long-term energy plan (media)
• No quorum to vote opposition's draft resolution against energy price increase (media)
• Who and how much will pay more for electricity? (RFE)
• Kosovo’s Kurti Gives Signs of Softening on Serb ‘Association’ (BIRN)
• Cingel: Slovakia paying the price for non-recognition of Kosovo (RFE/Koha)
• Vehicles without license plates obstructed the police near Lake Ujman (media)
• The missing persons issue remains an unhealed wound (RTK)
• Sadriu: My statement intentionally misinterpreted, I support free speech (Koha)
• The 'Ghost Hotels' Of A Kosovo Ski Resort (RFE)
• COVID-19: 1,140 new cases, five deaths (media)

Albanian Language Media:

• Opposition calls Assembly session in light of energy price increase decision (media)
• Kosovo President's Office: Our comments partially considered by ERO (media)
• Kurti: All families will be subsidised for first 800 kilowatts (Kallxo)
• EU comments on the next Kosovo-Serbia meeting in Brussels (Kallxo)
• Ceku: Xhafer Deva's house needs to be restored, debate on it originates in Serbia (Klan)
• PAK instructed not to put up for sale assets transferable to Sovereign Fund (Koha)
• Kosovo sanctions Belarus individuals and entities (RFE)
• Osmani expresses institutional engagement for addressing Presevo Valley problems (RTK)
• COVID-19: 1,140 new cases, five deaths (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Stano on dialogue: Readiness of both sides needed for concrete progress (KiM radio, Tanjug)
• Petkovic with Peach: International community to enable Serbs in Kosovo to vote in elections (Kosovo-online)
• Stoltenberg: NATO has crucial role in maintaining peace in Kosovo, supports Belgrade-Pristina dialogue (Kosovo-online)
• KFOR: Close cooperation key to stability in Kosovo (Kontakt plus radio, RTK2, Blic)
• Trajkovic: I thought at least our common history of the fight against Nazism could bring Serbs and Albanians together in Kosovo (Kosovo Online)
• Stano: Serbia free to conclude an agreement with China, but must withdraw from it when joining the EU (Beta, NMagazin)
• Petkovic: Important that EU and UNDP have given up restoration of Xhafer Deva’s house (TV Most)

International:

• Renovation of Nazi Ally’s House in Kosovo Halted After Outcry (Balkan Insight)

Humanitarian/Development:

• Pipe Dreams: Much of Kosovo Still Waiting for Proper Sewage System (Balkan Insight)
• EU’s carbon border tax must become mainstream topic in Western Balkans (balkangreenenergynews.com)

• Energy Regulatory Office approves plan for energy price hike (media)
• Krasniqi: PDK will oppose electricity price increase (RTK)
• LDK gathering support to call special session on energy price increase (Kallxo)
• Prime Minister Kurti holds virtual meeting with Baroness Arminka Helic (media)
• UNDP and EU put on hold restoration work at Xhafer Deva’s house (media)
• Von Cramon: The case of Xhafer Deva's house worries me (media)
• Weller: Reactions to restoration of Xhafer Deva's house, unreasonable (Koha)
• Mitrovica historians support restoration of Xhafer Deva's house (Telegrafi)
• MD denies reports that hundreds of soldiers are applying for visa to Germany (media)
• Quint welcomes Kosovo’s Representative for Contact with Vatican (Express)
• COVID-19: 787 new cases, two deaths (media)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, February 8, 2022

Albanian Language Media:

• The price of electricity increases for those who exceed 800 kilowatts (Klan)
• Opposition requests annulment of ERO decision and dismissal of the board (media)
• Biden talks with German Chancellor on Western Balkans, vows for its EU integration (Klan)
• Six candidates for the position of Chief State Prosecutor are confirmed (media)
• Minister Ceku responds to the German Ambassador: Xhafer Deva's house has aesthetic values, we are not rehabilitating his figure (media)
• COVID-19: 787 new cases, two deaths (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Stano denies that Pristina handed Lajcak a proposal to hold elections (Kosovo Online, media)
• Petkovic with Botsan-Kharchenko on situation in Kosovo and dialogue (RTS)
• Vucic and Peach: UK with EU and US supports Belgrade-Pristina dialogue (Tanjug)
• Serbian PM: World Economic Forum centre opening in Serbia (N1)
• Vucic always ready to talk to Kurti (media)
• Rakic with Arduk: Returns process in stagnation (Kosovo-online)
• ‘Stealth Omicron’ coronavirus subvariant confirmed in Serbia (N1, RTS)

• Institutional leaders meet to discuss international empowerment of Kosovo (media)
• Blinken meets Borrell, Western Balkans among issues discussed (media)
• President Osmani met with Austrian MEP Sagartz (RTK)
• Energy office board to review tariff proposals (media)
• German diplomat criticises renovation of Nazi ally’s house in Kosovo (BIRN)
• RTK board dismisses director of Radio Kosovo (media)
• Kosovo charges two company officials over water poisoning case (BIRN)
• Serb forces alleged to have raped Albanian women in UP campus, authorities have no information (Reporteri.net)
• Police confiscates money in a raid in Mitrovica North (Kallxo)
• COVID-19: 754 new cases, eight deaths (media)

Albanian Language Media:

• COVID-19: 754 new cases, eight deaths (media)
• Prosecution files charges against two officers related to poisoning in Decan (RTK)
• Assembly presidency meeting interrupted due to a dispute (media)
• ERO to review comments on new energy tariffs this week (Koha)
• Scandalous: Hundreds of KSF soldiers apply for work visas at the German embassy (Albanian Post)
• "The entire Bar will be blown up" threat raises concern in Montengrin city (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Covid-19: 79 new cases, two deaths registered in Serbian areas (KoSSev)
• Diocese: Campaign against decision on Visoki Decani land ongoing, prevent discrimination (KoSSev, Radio KIM)
• Djuric to US congressmen: Thank you for supporting my country (N1)
• Vucic discusses free trade agreement, Kosovo issue with President Xi (N1, media)
• Fatherland Movement from Kosovo supports Ponos and United Serbia opposition at upcoming elections (N1)
• Vucic to meet UK envoy Stuart Peach tomorrow (Kosovo-online)
• Serbian Culture and Information Minister Gojkovic urge EU, UNDP to give up the Deva's house renovation project (Kosovo Online, media)

Opinion:

• Lajcak should say the same things both in Pristina and Belgrade (Koha)

Humanitarian/Development:

• Difficult journey of returnees in Kosovo – story of Marija Novakovic (Radio KIM, Voice of America)
• Specialist Chambers Criticized Over Closing Hearings and Edited Testimonies (Prishtina Insight)
• Millions of euros spent, and the projects did not come to life (Kontakt plus radio)

• COVID-19: 1,283 new cases, six deaths (media)
• Kosovo introduces new COVID-19 measures (media)
• No more mandatory vaccination to enter Kosovo (euronews.al)
• Kurti: We will engage in preserving legitimate rights of Decan Monastery (Koha)
• Serbian Orthodox Church: Kurti and Konjufca not telling the truth (media)
• Kurti received members of German Bundestag (media)
• Kosovo Defence Minister warns EU and NATO of Russian-Serbian influence in the region (media)
• Demokracia: Government of Kosovo has four conditions for Serbian elections in Kosovo (media)
• France's ambassador speaks visa liberalisation, dialogue (Telegrafi)
• Sainovic: If we were offered Resolution 1244 in Rambouillet, there would be no war (media)
• Kosovo War Crime Victims Failing to Get Compensation, Official Warns (BIRN)
• Op-ed: The hypocrisy of Serb Municipality Associations while the Presevo Valley is ethnically cleansed (Exit)
• Belgian constitution interesting for Kosovo, says ambassador (EurActiv)
• Ukraine’s Ambassador to Tirana speaks on war, Albania, and Kosovo (Exit)
• Montenegro’s pro-Serbian governing coalition collapses (AP)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, February 4, 2022

Albanian Language Media:

• COVID-19: 1,853 new cases, one death (media)
• KPI recommends suspension of three border police officers (RTK)
• Scandalous: Cameras did not work when Milan Radoicic escaped from border crossing (Kallxo)
• Status conference on cases of Thaci, Veseli, Selimi and Krasniqi to take place today (media)
• LVV MPs withdraw from travel expenses (media)
• PSD: Dardan Molliqaj was illegally deprived from freedom (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Vucic travels to China for working visit (Tanjug)
• US, EU envoys: All agreed between Belgrade and Pristina must be implemented (N1)
• Escobar meets Serbia’s opposition; US says doesn’t support political parties (Beta, N1)
• Brnabic: Serbia expects formation of ZSO (N1)
• US Embassy: Kosovo Serbs should be allowed to vote in Serbian elections (FoNet, N1)
• Mihajlovic, Besiri on the visit of Lajcak and Escobar (KoSSev, N1)
• Varhelyi: EU ready to work on energy transition in Western Balkans (N1)
• Raska-Prizren Eparchy once again expresses deep concern due to frequent cases of burglaries of its churches in Kosovo (Eparchy website, media)
• Petkovic, Serbian List on Radojicic’s arrest attempt (Kosovo-online)
• Businessmen with Lajcak on the problems of placing goods on the Kosovo's market (Kontakt plus radio)
• Mijacic: Goal of Escobar and Lajcak is to prepare negotiations with Pristina after elections (Radio kontakt plus)

Opinion:

• Serbia can never reverse Kosovo’s Independence (Tirana Times)

International:

• Wanted Kosovo Serb Businessman Escapes Arrest on Border (Balkan Insight)

Humanitarian/Development:

• Nagavci reacts after autistic student was dismissed from school (RTK)

• COVID-19: 2,110 new cases, five deaths (media)
• Kosovo expected to ease COVID-19 measures for visitors (media)
• Kurti: Kosovo the only country in the region not to have used Russian, Chinese vaccines (media)
• EU envoy in Serbia-Kosovo talks optimistic of progress soon (AP)
• Serbia Demands Association of Municipalities and Elections in Kosovo in Meetings with EU, US Envoys (Exit)
• Reeker: U.S. continues to support Kosovo's sovereignty and territorial integrity (Koha/Klan)
• Ambassador Hovenier reaffirms U.S. support for Kosovo Security Force (media)
• Osmani: Ethnic cleansing of Albanians in the north continued post-war (media)
• Dardan Molliqaj released from detention (media)
• Radojicic narrowly avoids arrest at Bernjak border crossing (Kallxo)
• Kosovo arrests, then releases, cameraman recording company eviction (BIRN)
• FAZ reporter: According to a German diplomat, Rugova had no substantial objection to partition of northern Kosovo (Express)
• Teachers' trade union reacts to payment of Serb officials who did not show up for work (media)