UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, March 18, 2024
Albanian Language Media:
• Borrell’s statement on anniversary of agreement on path to normalization, and the implementation annex (media)
• Blinken calls on Kosovo and Serbia to implement all agreements (media)
• Roth on new U.S. extra conditions for Kosovo at CoE: Unfair and unjust (media)
• Kurti’s message on 20th anniversary of March 17 riots (media)
• Government: Placing of signs in north in line with the constitution (Koha)
• Police arrest Serbian national for damaging traffic signs in Leposavic (media)
• COMKFOR: KFOR continues efforts to prevent any escalation (VoA in Albanian)
• Pacolli: Delays in meeting obligations lead to pressure and damage (media)
• Tahiri: Two important moments this week for CoE membership (media)
• Historians’ League wants Kurti to resign over Decani Monastery decision (media)
• CAA: U.S. must remain engaged in the Western Balkans (VoA in Albanian)
Serbian Language Media:
• Vucic: We will change our approach to the Kosovo issue; Serbia will no longer be subjected to a fait accompli (Kosovo Online)
• Borrell: It is high time for Kosovo and Serbia to break current vicious cycle of crises and tensions (N1)
• 20th anniversary of the March pogrom (KoSSev)
• Diocese on who paid the restoration of holy sites destroyed in the March pogrom (KoSSev)
• Kurti from Cabra: Children jumped into Ibar to avoid the escort of Serbian youths; unclear who then directed the demonstrators towards the Serbs (KoSSev)
• The SL: Self-Determination’s brutal lies – a continuation of a dangerous policy of hatred towards the Serbs (Kosovo Online)
• Self-Determination ahead of March 17: 3 children were killed in Cabra, peaceful Albanian demonstrators were shot by Serbian criminals, justice was not served (KoSSev)
• First referendum then elections: Four municipalities in north of Kosovo still without mayors (N1)
• Blinken: We need to see both Kosovo and Serbia keep tensions low (KoSSev, N1)
UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, March 15, 2024
Albanian Language Media:
Escobar: U.S. has worked in favor of Kosovo, we hope Kosovo will listen to our concerns (media)
Kurti to Escobar: It is necessary that Serbia be held accountable for attack in Banjska (Koha)
EU announces meeting at level of chief negotiators in Brussels on March 19 (RTK)
NATO presence in Kosovo necessary for maintaining peace (media)
Escobar: We will hold government responsible for security of Serbs in Kosovo (Koha)
QUINT welcomes implementation of decision to register the lands of Monastery (RTK)
U.S. Ambassador to Serbia: Establishment of Association is a matter of time (media)
Maqedonci meets the British ambassador, discuss security in Kosovo (RTK)
Serbian Language Media:
Escobar after meeting Kurti: Emergent humanitarian issue, Pristina to be flexible on Tuesday (KoSSev, media)
Kurti after meeting Escobar: I stressed need to hold Serbia accountable for attack in Banjska (KoSSev)
Serbian List on changed signboards: They installed Albanized names of Serbian places (Radio KIM, media)
Language Commissioner: The order of languages on signboards had to be reversed (Radio KIM)
Pantic Pilja: Emergency meeting at Council of Europe on March 27, voting on Bakoyannis report (Kosovo Online)
Dacic meets with HCCH Secretary General (Tanjug)
Stoltenberg’s report says NATO crucial to Western Balkan stability (N1)
Association of Families of Kidnapped and Missing Persons: International community respects Albanian victims more than Serbian ones (Kosovo Online)
UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, March 14, 2024
Albanian Language Media:
Ziadeh notes with appreciation Kosovo govt’s announcement on Decani Monastery (media)
EULEX chief welcomes decision on Decan Monastery land (media)
Von Cramon welcomes decision to implement ruling on Decani Monastery (media)
Escobar meets opposition leaders in Pristina (media)
Escobar discusses Dinar with Serb politicians in Kosovo (RFE)
EU agrees with Escobar on communication problems with Kurti (Koha)
Kurti and Maqedonci meet COMKFOR, discuss security situation (media)
COMKFOR Ulutas meets Escobar and Hovenier (media)
COMKFOR: We increased presence, aim is to prevent violence (Telegrafi)
Serbian Language Media:
Serbian List after the meeting with Escobar: Urgent and decisive reactions are needed (KiM radio, KoSSev)
Escobar with representatives of Serbian non-parliamentary parties from Kosovo (KiM radio, KoSSev)
Escobar spoke with representatives of Serbian NGOs (Kosovo Online)
Stano: The EU and the USA demand that Pristina establish A/CSM, which also solves the dinar issue (Beta, NMagazin)
Lawyer Miljkovic: Milun Milenkovic Lune’s detention extended for another two months (Kosovo Online)
Dacic received Roquefeil (Tanjug)
UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, March 13, 2024
Albanian Language Media:
Escobar: Decision on dinar uncoordinated, will discuss it in Kosovo (media)
Osmani and Kurti meet with QUINT (media)
Kurti discusses with ministers elections in north (Koha)
Lajcak in Berlin talks about dialogue (Koha)
Szunyog on “government draft statute”: We welcome any proposal (KTV)
Hargreaves: Britain will cooperate with Kosovo in cyber security (RTK)
Secretary of Kosovo Office in Belgrade claims he was provoked by Serbian police (media)
Rohde: Preparing ground for new German contingent in Kosovo (RTK)
Szunyog and Haxhiu talk about gender equality and justice reforms (RTK)
Hoti: Government illegally forced CBK to engage in dialogue (RTK)
Serbian Language Media:
Escobar: It took France almost a year to implement euro, Pristina wanted to do this in northern Kosovo in less than three weeks (KoSSev)
Pristina has problem in communication with West, it refuses to hear our offer for faster integration (KoSSev)
Petkovic: Ultimate goal of abolishing dinar is final expulsion of Serbs from Kosovo (Kosovo Online)
Petkovic: Kurti main threat to regional stability (Tanjug, media)
Municipal Security Committee meeting held in Strpce, stronger presence of police and KFOR requested (KoSSev, Kosovo Online)
Trial of Sladjan Trajkovic continues (Radio KIM)
Dacic receives Spanish Ambassador (media)
Zeman: Bombing of FR Yugoslavia one of NATO’s two fundamental mistakes (media)
International Media:
Kosovo Citizens Unfairly Charged for Serb Municipalities’ Electricity: Court (Balkan Insight)
Read More →UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, March 12, 2024
Albanian Language Media:
• For six-billion plan, EU conditions Kosovo and Serbia with normalization (Koha)
• Escobar to visit Kosovo this week to discuss dialogue and Serbian Dinar (media)
• State Department: Radoicic is a criminal that needs to be held accountable (RFE)
• Bank branches and ATMs opened for Kosovo Serbs near border crossings (RFE)
• CEC adopts budget to organize voting in north on April 21 (Koha)
• Rohde: Kosovo can’t join CoE without respecting court decisions (media)
• Shea: EU to lift measures against Kosovo as soon as possible (media)
Serbian Language Media:
• Two days campaign period for the removal of mayors in the north municipalities (KiM Radio)
• Vucic met US ambassador (N1, Tanjug, RTS)
• Dacic met Botsan-Kharchenko (Tanjug, RTS)
• Stano: Implementation of commitments by Belgrade, Pristina a priority (Tanjug)
• Serbia’s Postal Savings Bank opens improvised branches at crossings with Kosovo (KoSSev, N1)
• Telegrafi Editor in chief the opening of the Postal Savings Bank branches at the crossing sees as a “provocation” (KoSSev)
• Jevtic: Serbs in Kosovo expect the international community to prevent a humanitarian crisis (RTS)
• Photo of Ambassador Djuric with Radoicic draws reactions (N1)
• After Bojovic, Maliqi targeted by “sophisticated bot network” (KoSSev)
• An Albanian man shot in Donja Bitinja and left a wreath on a Serb’s house, afterwards, he was arrested (Kosovo Online, KiM radio)
• US estimates: Increased risk for inter-ethnic violence in the Western Balkans (Kosovo Online)
UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, March 8, 2024
Albanian Language Media:
• Krasniqi: No space for decisions from Milosevic period In Kosovo (Koha)
• CEC to discuss today verification of signatures for dismissal of mayors (Koha)
• Szunyog: KPC bill to be in line with Venice Commission recommendations (media)
• KFOR examines RPGs found in Banjska: We are securing the area (RTK)
• Nemec: Visa procedures for Kosovo Serbs will be completed in spring (media)
• Konjufca: Lithuania can contribute to Kosovo’s international subjectivity (media)
• Bislimi welcomes new UK ambassador: Kosovo on development trajectory (RTK)
• Elektrosever invites citizens to sign contracts with it (Klan)
Serbian Language Media:
• Education workers in Silovo concerned over CBK’s decision (Kosovo Online, RTV Puls)
• Conflicting opinions on petitions in north: Krasniqi convinced elections will soon be held, Uglanin skeptical (Kosovo Online)
• CEC to discuss verification of signatures to dissolve mayors in northern Kosovo (Radio KIM, media)
• Nemec expects visas for Serbian MIA Coordination Directorate passport holders to be waived by spring (KoSSev)
• KFOR says it is examining grenades found in Banjska, Zvecan (N1, media)
• Vucic: Serbia to chair GPAI (Tanjug)
UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, March 7, 2024
Albanian Language Media:
• Kosovo govt expects implementation of decision on Decani Monastery land (RFE)
• Implementation of decision on Decan Monastery land in exchange for CoE membership (RTK)
• Weapons found near Banjska Monastery (media)
• Kurti: Kosovo and Bulgaria have the same democratic orientations (RTK)
• EULEX reacts to SL which said EU should analyze work of the mission (media)
• Leaders: Kosovo needs Malaysia’s support for membership in intl organizations (media)
• Abdixhiku mentions Serbia threats, wants recognition from non-recognizers (media)
• Haradinaj meets Belgian ambassador, requests EU and NATO membership (RTK)
Serbian Language Media:
• Women dominate in difficult jobs sphere, yet patriarchy still prevails (KoSSev)
• Vucic: We will seek solution to dinar issue until last moment (Kosovo Online)
• Raska-Prizren Diocese: Register land in cadastre and issue cadastre record to Monastery (KoSSev)
• Brnabic attends EPP congress in Bucharest (Tanjug, media)
• Brnabic after meeting Romanian President: We have support of Romania on Kosovo issue, European integration (Tanjug, media)
• Starovic meets with US administration officials in Washington (Tanjug)
• EULEX: We monitor legal cases, including those related to war crimes (Tanjug)
• Vucic says Brnabic to be nominated as parliament speaker (N1)
• Kosovo police said it found five rocket-propelled grenades in Banjska, connected with September events (KoSSev)
UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, March 6, 2024
Albanian Language Media:
• USAID Assistant Administrator McKee visits Kosovo (media)
• Osmani: Impunity for crimes encouraged successors of attack in Banjska (Koha)
• Osmani accepts credentials of new UK ambassador, discuss dialogue (media)
• Kusari-Lila: Conversation between Radoicic, Vucic; plan to attack Kosovo (media)
• Palokaj: EU measures won’t be lifted until elections in north announced (KTV)
• Why does Russia demand the arrest of at least three Kosovar policemen? (RFE)
• AJK reacts to Prosecution’s call to interview journalist (media)
• CoE report: Tensions in north impacted safety of journalists (media)
Serbian Language Media:
• A month detention the Serb arrested two days ago; Lawyer Delevic: One of the many cases where witnesses suddenly appear (KoSSev)
• UNS and DNKiM: Mayor of Gracanica not to discriminate against the media (Radio Mitrovica sever, KiM Radio)
• Bakoyannis: Non-enforcement of the Visoki Decani Monastery judgment a failure to uphold the rule of law, establishing the A/CSM essential (Kosovo Online)
• Rohde: The ESI supported the settlement of the dispute over the Visoki Decani monastery (Kosovo Online, X)
• The Moldovan delegation visited the Visoki Decani monastery (Tanjug)
UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, March 5, 2024
Albanian Language Media:
• Hovenier, Szunyog ask Kosovo to implement dialogue agreements if it wants membership in EU and NATO (RFE)
• Rohde: Kosovo to do its homework for Council of Europe membership (Telegrafi)
• Lajcak and Bislimi to meet in Pristina today (media)
• Maqedonci: NATO base in Albania, message to those that want instability (media)
• Kurti, Aliu visit construction sites of Pristina – Mitrovica road (media)
• Kosovo Police arrest Serb suspected of war crimes in Vushtrri region (media)
• Bieber: Risk of Banjska 2 not over; Serbia wants to test NATO (Telegrafi)
• Central Bank sends SMS notifying citizens about account access and the possibility of receiving funds in their Euro accounts (media)
Serbian Language Media:
• CBK calls for opening bank accounts by sending messages – help, confusion or discrimination? (KoSSev)
• Petkovic: Expulsion of Serbs real reason for Pristina’s dinar ban (Tanjug, media)
• Dacic thanks Mexico for supporting Serbia’s sovereignty, territorial integrity (Tanjug)
• Serb arrested in Mitrovica North over alleged war crimes (Kosovo Online, media)
• Serbian List: Kosovo institutions to stop persecuting Serbs (media)
• Office for KiM: New arrest evidence of legal lynch and intimidation of Serbs in Kosovo (Kosovo Online)
• Bishop Teodosije and Abbot Sava visited archaeological remains of SOC Holy Mother of Hvostan Monastery (KoSSev, social media)
• Vucevic: We informed Vucic we have majority (media)
UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, March 4, 2024
Albanian Language Media:
• Osmani and Erdogan reconfirm deepening of relations (RTK)
• Kurti: We still have problems on the border with Serbia (RTK)
• Kurti participates in opening of PES campaign for European elections (RTK)
• Krasniqi asks Lajcak to play a role in lifting measures against Kosovo (RTK)
• Ukrainian ambassador in Albania: Recognition of Kosovo, a matter of time (media)
• Reuten: EU has surrendered to two destabilizers like Vucic and Dodik (media)
• PDK calls for elections: Government characterized by corrupt affairs (media)
Serbian Language Media:
• Vucic: The situation will be increasingly difficult; we need unity to save Kosovo (Kosovo Online, Tanjug, RTV)
• Elek: Due to the dinar ban, employees at the CHC in Mitrovica North are at risk; a shortage of food for patients (Kosovo Online, KoSSev, RTS)
• SL: Kurti’s attacks are proof that we are working in the interest of the Serbs (Tanjug, Kosovo Online, Radio Mitrovica sever)
• Dacic meets Lavrov in Antalya (N1)
• Peach: Dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina should create a multi-ethnic future (KiM radio, Tanjug)
• National Convention on the EU: Vucic’s claims about conspiracies are a distraction from certain topics (N1)
UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, March 1, 2024
Albanian Language Media:
Kurti on absence in Tirana Summit: Visit to Britain was planned a year ago (Koha)
Kurti meets Northern Ireland’s Secretary of State, discuss cooperation (Reporteri)
European Parliament asks EU to change its approach to dialogue (media)
Hovenier: CBK regulation should be implemented after preparatory process (media)
Bislimi: Discussions with allies, always welcome (RTK)
Xhaferi: Kurti’s intervention in North Macedonia’s elections, damages Kosovo’s image (Reporteri)
Hoti: Lectures in Northern Ireland, just an excuse to avoid Tirana Summit (Reporteri)
Signatures in the north verified, vote to dismiss mayors soon (Koha)
Electricity billing starts in the north (media)
A person arrested in the north for behaving aggressively towards KFOR soldiers with a toy gun (Klan)
Serbian Language Media:
Hovenier: US dissatisfied with quality of partnership with Kurti’s government (N1, BETA, KoSSev)
Petkovic, Kekic met representatives of US Embassy in Belgrade (Kosovo Online)
Serbian Democracy request for referendum against decision to allocate land parcel to Kosovo MIA rejected (KoSSev)
Sadiku: 2.216 citizens who signed petition should be respected (KoSSev)
Koha: CEC completed verification of signatures, 20 percent quote achieved (Kosovo Online)
Serbian List condemns arson of vehicle in Leposavic, demands international involvement in case (Radio Kontakt plus)
Vucic: We extremely appreciate friendship with Central African Republic (Tanjug)
State Department: Serbia should implement ODIHR recommendations without delay (N1)
UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, February 29, 2024
Albanian Language Media:
• Sarrazin: We’ve asked for sanctions on Radoicic, we don’t have quorum (Klan)
• Barbano: Decision on Decani Monastery land is binding (media)
• Osmani meets Zelenskyy: Ukraine’s victory is Europe’s victory (media)
• Osmani meets Albanian PM Rama, “discussions and coordination” (media)
• New KFOR Turkish contingent arrives in Kosovo (media)
• Kurti visits St Matthew School in Belfast (media)
• Kamberi: Vucic won’t meet Albanians’ requests in Valley if no intl pressure (RTK)
Serbian Language Media:
• Vucic: Ukraine a friend of Serbia, does not recognise Kosovo (Tanjug)
• Vucic and Zelenskyy met in Tirana (Kosovo Online, social media)
• Vucic: At our request, Tirana declaration makes no mention of sanctions on Russia (media)
• Barbano: Court’s decision on Visoki Decani land binding to all individuals and institutions in Kosovo (Kosovo Online, social media)
• Vucic: Kurti wants to become a legend by destroying Serbs (Kosovo Online, media)
• Sarrazin: Refusal of Kosovo politicians to participate in meetings discussing dinar indicates less sovereignty (Kosovo Online)
• Brnabic: Serbian Government to continue to cooperate with ODIHR (Tanjug, media)
International Media:
• Both Sides in Serbia Claim Victory Over ODIHR Election Report (Balkan Insight)
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