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Belgrade Media Report December 7, 2022

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Daily Media Highlights

Wednesday 7 December 2022

LOCAL PRESS

• Vucic: It is good that Serbia participated in summit; Discussions we had on Tuesday were never more open and honest (RTS)
• Vucic: We know what happened in Kosovo and Metohija, we’ll wait for the report (B92)
• Vucic meets with a number of officials at the EU-Western Balkans Summit in Tirana (Novosti)
• Dacic says it was good decision to have Serbia participate in EU-Western Balkans Summit in Tirana (TV Prva/Politika)
• Vucevic: A single spark is enough to provoke clashes (TV Prva)
Increased presence of EULEX and KFOR (Kosovo Online/B92)
• Validity of vehicle registration with license plates of Serbian cities in Kosovo and Metohija extended (RTS)
• Ristic: I didn’t take a single Euro from Pristina (Danas/Beta)

REGIONAL PRESS

Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Von der Leyen: We are the union of prosperity, but we are essentially the union of values; Von der Leyen hopes that B&H will get EU candidate status (N1)
• Michel: I think the integration process is key to stability (N1)
• Cvijanovic comments on EU-Western Balkans Summit: I am more optimistic that B&H will be granted EU candidate status mid-December (RTRS)
• Cvijanovic discusses B&H’s EU path with Nehammer, Borrell (N1)
• Becirovic, Sattler meet, discuss EU path, candidate status of B&H (Dnevni avaz)
• EC: Western Balkans countries to introduce visas for citizens of third countries (Dnevni avaz)
Croatia
• Plenkovic: EU leaders are calling on Vucic to join sanctions against Russia (Hina)
• Plenkovic: Croatia supports approving status of EU candidate to B&H as soon as possible (HRT1)
Montenegro
• Picula categorical: Varhelyi partial to Serbia, country not respecting some of fundamental EU values (CdM)
• DPS calls on meeting to discuss election of Constitutional Court judges (CdM)
• Djukanovic: Maybe now we can vote for the election of one judge of the Constitutional Court (CdM)
• Nikolic: Prosecutor’s office started political persecution upon the order of Dritan Abazovic (CdM)
Republic of North Macedonia
• EU-Western Balkans Summit: Joint management of energy crisis effects (MIA)
• Kovachevski says country committed to screening process, expects constitutional changes soon (TV Sitel)
Albania
• EU-Western Balkans Summit Tirana Declaration, 6 December 2022 (Radio Tirana)
• Rama: These days, EU needs Western Balkans as much Western Balkans needs EU (Radio Tirana)
• Albanian opposition political parties organize protest during EU-Western Balkans summit in Tirana (N1)

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UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, December 7, 2022

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UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, December 7, 2022

Albanian Language Media:

• U.S.: Conditions not in place at this time for elections in the north (media)
• Government: Waiting for assessment of situation in north for further steps (media)
• EULEX says protests should be peaceful; calls for calm and restraint (media)
• Rohde: Full support for peaceful demonstrations; zero tolerance for violence (media)
• Guerot: Acts of intimidation very concerning; dialogue only way forward (media)
• Kusari-Lila: Milosevic’s Serbia still functions with Vucic at the helm (Klan)
• Gjoshi: Postponing elections is Vucic’s request; shouldn’t be accepted (Nacionale)
• Abazi: Wouldn’t be the end of the world to postpone elections in north (T7)
• Bislimi to travel to Brussels tomorrow; to meet Varhelyi and Jourova (Express)
• Ceku: Kosovo will apply for UNESCO membership next year (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Vucic: New French-German proposal no improvement for us (Tanjug)
• Vucevic: Situation in Kosovo flammable (Kosovo Online, media)
• Vulovic says Pristina officials “acted arrogantly and unprofessionally” (Kosovo Online)
• Trajkovic: They came with automatic weapons, detonations were heard (Kosovo Online)
• After incidents in north, Belgrade and Pristina hurl accusations against one another (KoSSev)
• New manifestation of an old crisis and lack of understanding (Radio KIM)
• Wigemark concerned with incidents in north, says any protests should be peaceful (Kosovo Online)
• EU, W. Balkan mobile operators sign declaration on reduction of roaming charges (Tanjug)
• Doderovic: Dismayed by appointment of Radulovic, we support Serbian List (Kosovo Online)
• EULEX monitors the situation in the north of Kosovo; Kurti increases the presence of the police (Beta, NMagazin, KoSSev)

Opinion:

• Failure to Protect Murdered 35-year-old Was Result of Catalogue of Errors (BIRN)
• Cooper: Belgrade and Pristina enjoy media attention (VoA, Beta, KiM radio)

International:

• Kosovo PM Announces More Police Presence in North Following Attacks (BIRN)
• Explosions, Attacks in North Put Elections in Question (Prishtina Insight)
• Leaders sign the Declaration of the EU-Western Balkans Summit in Tirana (EWB)
• Kosovo Activist Threatened After Criticising Football Player’s ‘Thuggish’ Gestures (Balkan Insight)

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UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, December 7, 2022

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• Osmani: Criminal gangs trying to destabilise Kosovo (media)
• Kurti: Kosovo government doesn’t bargain or tolerate criminal gangs (media)
• Svecla: Election officials and police were attacked with shock bombs (media)
• Police: No one injured during incidents; election offices demolished (media)
• Explosions heard in Serb majority areas in Kosovo, no injuries reported (Reuters)
• Citaku about developments in north: Govt keeping us in the dark (media)
• Haradinaj to Kurti: Do you want to endanger the north at any cost? (media)
• Radoniqi: Elections cannot be held by force (media)
• PDK candidate for Zubin Potok says he received threat in Serbian (T7)
• EU drafts new proposal for Kosovo-Serbia ties – senior EU diplomat (Reuters)
• US Special Envoy Escobar to visit Kosovo on Monday (Kosovapress)
• State Department Counselor to visit Kosovo this week, sources say (Nacionale)
• “One sentence” is blocking resolution of fate of forcibly disappeared (AP)
• European Commission admits mistakenly asking Montenegro and North Macedonia to issue visas to Kosovo (Prishtina Insight)
• Heritage heist: Kosovo, Serbia fight over ‘loaned’ museum exhibits (BIRN)
• Solidarity Stories #6: Serb Monastery Shelters Kosovo Albanians (BIRN)
• Love divided: Kosovar-Serbian Couple Struggle to Build a Home in Disapproving Society (Prishtina Insight)

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