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UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 9, 2024

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UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 9, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

• EU working to condition Serbia’s membership with implementation of agreements with Kosovo (RFE)
• 72 cases of attacks and threats against reporters in Kosovo in 2023 (VoA in Albanian)
• Murati: Capital investments in 2023 increased by 32 percent (media)
• “Possible attacks from Serbia”; Haziri: Leaders’ camouflage to hide failures (EO)
• Musliu: Serbia can use local Serbs; another attack as Banjska not excluded
• Sources: Police raids against several Tax Administration officials (RTK)

Serbian Language Media:

• Vucevic: Time to decide about compulsory military service, debate ahead (Tanjug, TV Pink)
• Kosovo Chamber of Commerce: We lost €300mn to EU sanctions (N1, BETA)
• Hearing in case of Milorad Djokovic from Vitomirica held today (Kosovo Online, media)
• Serbian prosecution still conducts investigation on Banjska case (Radio KIM, Euronews)
• Ponos: New opposition protest on January 16 (N1)

Opinion:

• Dialogue and Kosovo’s European integration in the year of mega-elections (Koha)
• AI’s Arrival in Higher Education in Balkans Has Huge Implications (BIRN)

International:

• Was Kosovo’s First Transitional Justice Strategy Worth the Wait? (BIRN)
• Spanish opposition fears Kosovo passport recognition could set a precedent for Catalonia (Euractiv)

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Belgrade Media Report 9 January 2024

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United Nations Office in Belgrade

Daily Media Highlights

Tuesday 9 January 2024

LOCAL PRESS

• Brnabic wishes happy RS Day (Tanjug/RTV)
• Vucic congratulates Dodik on RS Day (Tanjug/Politika/RTV/RTS)
• Djilas asks Party of Euroepam Socialists to support demands to repeal election results in Serbia (Beta)
• ODIHR spokesperson: Final report on elections expected by end-February (N1)
• Lutovac expecting to take decisive stand on Serbia election irregularities (Beta)
• EU: License plates prove Belgrade-Pristina dialogue possible (Beta)
• Tepic to Stano: Call the situation in Serbia by its proper name (N1)
• Spain to recognize Kosovo passports, not its independence (El Pais/Beta)

REGIONAL PRESS

Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Two US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons fly over B&H as part of bilateral air-to-ground training with JTAC from US Army Special Forces and Armed Forces of B&H (Nova BH)
• Helez meets US military attaché Adams, approves fly-over of US planes (Oslobodjenje)
• Officials and analysts comment on two US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons flying over B&H (Nova BH)
• RS leadership lays wreath at memorials in Banja Luka; Dodik: RS is showing its ability to manage and exist in difficult circumstances in which hybrid war is being waged against RS by individual Western countries (RTRS)
• Formal ceremony and reception on occasion of RS Day held in Banja Luka; Dodik: The goal of Serb people is a Serb state in this area and its freedom (RTRS)
• Dress rehearsal for RS Day parade held in Banja Luka (RTRS)
• War victims’ associations demand that 9 January is proclaimed Day of Mourning; They will visit Potocari on Tuesday (NAP.ba)
• OSCE, OHR’s statements on marking of RS Day (BHT1)
• Leaders of parties gathered around SNSD-led ruling coalition in the RS discuss adoption of RS election law; Stevandic: If this law is adopted, then local elections in the RS in 2024 will be held in line with that law (BNTV)
• RS opposition refuses to attend the RS ruling coalition meeting on RS election law (BNTV)
Montenegro
• Perovic: By congratulating RS Day, Mandic violated all the rules of good neighborly relations (Television E/CdM)
• Knezevic and Asanovic near Dodik at the celebration of the Unconstitutional Day of the RS (CdM)
• Delegation of the New Serbian Democracy at the RS Day celebration (RTCG)
Republic of North Macedonia
• Skopje’s successful OSCE Chairmanship put the city on the world diplomacy radar (Republika)
Albania
• Balluku: We expand the Tirana-Durres axis, we continue the railway network. A NATO naval base in Porto-Romano (Radio Tirana)
• Peleshi: Albania’s unwavering dedication to peace and stability in the region and the world (Radio Tirana)

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UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, January 9, 2023

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Albanian Language Media:

• EU expects Brussels agreement to be implemented this year (Koha)
• Italian KFOR troops patrol Kosovo-Serbia administrative boundary line (media)
• Spain on recognizing Kosovo passport: Doesn’t imply Kosovo recognition (media)
• U.S. approach toward Vucic criticized; Serbia wants Congress to punish Kosovo (Koha)
• Hoxha: Early elections could happen in spring; “no other solution” (Telegrafi)
• Krastev: Kurti could look for compromise before U.S. elections (Express)
• Kosovo leaders’ messages for Orthodox Christmas (media)
Serbian Language Media:
• Stano: High-level dialogue possible when there is willingness, agenda (Tanjug)
• Patriarch Porfirije served liturgy at Pec Patriarchate, met with mayor (KoSSev, social media)
• Visoki Decani Monastery react to Koha article on Holy Virgin of Ljevis Church, say it represents misrepresentation of history (KoSSev, Kosovo Online, social media)
• Vucevic: SNS to request mandate to form next government (TV Pink, Tanjug)
• ODIHR spokesperson: Final report on elections expected by end-February (N1)
• Svecla visits northern Kosovo twice in two days (KoSSev)
• Arsenijevic on Svecla’s visit to northern Kosovo (social media)
• Former KLA member arrested at Merdare last week sent to one-month detention (KoSSev, Klan Kosova)

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