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Belgrade Media Report 29 December 2022

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Daily Media Highlights

Thursday 29 December 2022

LOCAL PRESS

• Vucic: The barricades will be removed, but… (B92)
• Brnabic thanks Vucic, Kosovo Serbs for commitment to peace (Tanjug)
• Petkovic: We have guarantees (Tanjug/RTS)
• EU, US concerned over situation in northern Kosovo, call for restraint (Beta)
• KFOR: Kosovo forces need our permission to enter northern Kosovo (Beta/Politika)
• Djuric: Pristina lost a blank check to the US and the international community for its behavior (RTS)
• Hill: Kosovo crisis requires political solution (Nova.rs)

REGIONAL PRESS

Bosnia & Herzegovina
• RS parliament adopts Proposal of Law on Immovable Property (BHT1)
• Dodik: There will be no discussion about property, it belongs to RS (Hayat)
• RS opposition says RS government harmonized law on property with OHR decisions (BN TV)
• Becirovic: State property belongs to state not entities (Oslobodjenje)
• Other reactions to the RS parliament adoption of the Proposal of Law on Immovable Property (BHT1/FTV)
• Dodik: RS is stable; RS is thankful to the EU for support for some infrastructural projects but the RS will not allow any political blackmails because of that (ATV)
• B&H HoR confirms appointment of Kristo as B&H CoM Chairperson; Kristo presents her exposé: Focus of future work will be on B&H’s EU and NATO path (FTV)
• B&H HoR MPs Mehmedovic, Bosic, Borenovic, Dunovic criticize Kristo’s exposé (Hayat)
• SDP’s Muslic: Kristo is committed to start resolving accumulated issues; Vulic has great expectations from Kristo; Expectations of other B&H HoR MPs from Kristo (Nova BH)
• Covic and Plenkovic discuss stabilization of political situation and authority formation in B&H (Dnevni list)
Croatia
• Croatian Minister: Croatia monitors situation in Kosovo (N1)
• Plenkovic congratulates Kristo (HRT)
Montenegro
• Zivkovic: Voting for amendments to Law on Local Self-Government continues constitutional order collapse (CdM)
• Damjanovic: Those who wanted to provoke snap elections and additional instability won’t succeed in it (CdM)
• SDT: No announcement of Podgorica election results before Constitutional Court’s ruling (CdM)
Republic of North Macedonia
• Kovachevski: 2023 not an election year (MRT)
• VMRO-DPMNE puts forward proposal for early elections in May, party’s position over constitutional revision unchanged (MIA)
• AfA not against early elections, gives priority to Euro-integration process (MIA)
• Parliament adopts amendments to decision on a state of crisis due to migration influx (MIA)
Albania
• Tensions in the north of Kosovo/Xhacka: Barricades, the work of criminal groups, it is time for dialogue (Radio Tirana)
• Tensions in the north of Kosovo, Xhacka: Dialogue with the US and the EU to find a solution (Radio Tirana)

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UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, December 29, 2022

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UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, December 29, 2022

Albanian Language Media:

• Kosovo Police confirms: Merdare crossing opened (media)
• Two trucks set on fire at a barricade in the north of Kosovo (media)
• New effort for final agreement; Scholz and Macron advisors visit Kosovo in Jan (media)
• UNMIK chief welcomes measures to deescalate tensions; calls for return to dialogue (media)
• German MP expects concrete actions from EU about situation in North (Albanian Post)
• The removal of the barricades hasn’t started yet (Paparaci)
• Krasniqi: Kosovo is going through one of the most fragile moments since it was declared an independent and sovereign state (Klan)
• “Those who believed they protected Serbia by setting up barricades, it is a lie directed by SL” (Telegrafi)
• Tahiri: Kurti made compromises with Serbia, this time he accepted Association (Koha)
• Abdixhiku meets head of OSCE in Kosovo, discuss situation in the north (Klan)
• Haradinaj: Thanks to USA and EU, solution from explosive situation in north found (Koha)

Serbian Language Media:

• Vucic: Removal of barricades to start Thursday morning (N1, media)
• Ziadeh (UNMIK) welcomed the removal of barricades and de-escalation (N1, media)
• KFOR: Serbian forces don’t need permission for movements in their territory (N1)
• Two trucks at barricade near Dudin Krs, Mitrovica North burned down (KoSSev)
• Dacic: It depends upon Kurti only if there will be escalation of conflict (Radio KIM)
• Djuric: Pristina lost “blank cheque” support for its behaviour from US and international community (RTS)
• US Ambassador Hill says Kosovo crisis requires political solution (Nova.rs, N1)
• Heightened combat readiness state of Serbian Army revoked (Kosovo Online)
• Petkovic: Trampling US-EU guarantees will not be easy for Pristina (Tanjug, TV Pink)
• Vucic to receive Nedeljkovic tomorrow (Danas)

Opinion:

• “Full escalation in Kosovo only postponed”: What’s next in 2023? (DW, Danas)

International:

• Serbia’s Vucic Says Kosovo Roadblocks To Be Removed (RFE)
• Village’s Xmas Lights Draw Thousands of Kosovars (Prishtina Insight)
• In northern Kosovo, conflict is avoided, for now (emerging-europe.com)

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UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, December 29, 2022

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• Joint Statement on the Escalating Tensions in the North of Kosovo (media)
• Kurti calls on Serbs to apply for jobs in Kosovo public institutions (euronews.al)
• Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani interview with Klan Kosova
• Vucic: Removal of barricades will start on Thursday morning (RFE)
• Serbs in northern Kosovo to start removing barricades from Thursday (Reuters)
• KFOR reacts to tensions: Solution must come through dialogue (media)
• EULEX: We have neither mandate nor capacity to remove barricades (Klan)
• Prosecution: Pantic was sent to house arrest due to his health (media)
• Haxhiu: Special Prosecutor, Court chose to side with criminal groups (Koha)
• JCK and PCK react to Kurti about Pantic (media)
• Graffiti against judge and prosecutor who freed ex-Serb police officer (media)
• Krasniqi: Kurti to clarify if there was secret deal for Pantic release (media)
• Haradinaj: Situation is serious, it requires coordination (media)
• Petkovic: Vucic asked Serbs to withdraw from barricades (media)
• Hill: Patriarch Porfirije must be allowed to visit Kosovo in future (euronews.al)
• Xhacka: Serbia to stop, so-called ‘Kosovo and Metohija’ gone forever (media)
• Tension soars as Kosovo shuts main border crossing with Serbia (AFP, Reuters)
• Why ethnic tensions are flaring again in northern Kosovo (CNN)
• Germany urges Kosovo Serb militants to remove barricades (Deutsche Welle)
• Kosovo-Serbia Crisis Simmers as New Barricade Blocks Border (BIRN)
• Kosovo closes border crossing as tensions with Serbia intensify (FT)
• Kosovo to Host Five Persecuted Afghan Journalists (BIRN)

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