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Belgrade Media Report 5 February 2024

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Daily Media Highlights

Monday 5 February 2024

LOCAL PRESS

• Brnabic: Now right time to request urgent UNSC session (TV Pink)
• Petkovic: Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija in a very difficult satiation, we will fight for an urgent session of the SC (RTS)
• Dacic: Kosovo issue of highest national and state interest (Tanjug)
• More concrete cooperation with Gambia in many fields (Tanjug)
• An introduction to a total exodus of the Serbian people? (Tanjug/B92)
• EU concerned over sudden closure of Serbia-run institutions in Kosovo (N1)
• France calls for immediate suspension of decision to ban dinar in Kosovo (N1/Politika)
• Zakharova: By protecting Kosovo, Serbia is protecting the center of Europe from total devastation (Beta/Politika)
• Brussels formally proposes including obligations from Ohrid in accession talks with Serbia (RFE/Beta/Novosti)
• Li Ming: Position of the Chinese side on Kosovo issue is consistent and clear. We firmly support Serbia’s efforts to protect its national sovereignty and territorial integrity (Politika)
• Former diplomat: No one believes Vucic anymore (Beta)
• Displaced Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija announce three-hour blockades (RTS)

REGIONAL PRESS

Bosnia & Herzegovina
• O’Brien delivers lecture at Sarajevo University, promising that USA will respond to any unconstitutional actions and will not allow malign actors to divide B&H; Expresses strong support for Schmidt, criticizes Dodik, Izetbegovic and Covic (O Kanal)
• O’Brien: We will respond to anti-Dayton and unconstitutional actions and will not allow malignant actors to divide this country (O Kanal)
• Dodik: Everything that O’Brien said in Sarajevo confirmed his subservience to Bosniaks in B&H and politics advocated by Sarajevo (RTRS)
• Dodik: O’Brien’s performance in Sarajevo is demonstration of arrogance and lack of ideas (ATV)
• RS politicians criticize O’Brien’s statements during visit to B&H (ATV)
• Niksic: There is no alternative to put policy of dialogue and agreement; O’Brien’s message demonstrates support to policy we have been advocating (Dnevni avaz)
• Parties of ‘Troika’ believe that highest officials of NATO and US recognized that there are pro-state forces in B&H that very responsibly and in no way populist lead key processes at different authority levels despite so many obstructions (Hayat)
• SDA reacts to O’Brien’s statements, criticizes Troika (FTV)
• Sebija Izetbegovic: Those informing O’Brien should have devised more convincing arguments against me (Dnevni avaz)
• EU approves funds for Western Balkans and its southern neighbors for safety of EU borders and solving of problem of illegal migrations; Minister Nesic says everything can be solved in line with constitutional competencies of B&H and entities (Nezavisne)
Montenegro
• We expect that the US will dedicate special attention to Montenegro, Zivkovic says (VoA/CdM)
• Ivanovic at the State Department: Strong US support for reforms on the European path (CdM)
• If strikes happen, state to face collapse (RTCG)
Republic of North Macedonia
• Action Plan draft sent to Brussels, roadmaps to be adopted once conditions in place: Deputy PM (MIA)
• Kovachevski: Political parties belong to coalitions sharing same values (MIA)
• Leader wants AA to join opposition of ethnic Albanians, secretary-general says party has decided to run alone (MIA)
• Marichikj says no problems in functioning of caretaker government (MIA)
Albania
• Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Tajani gathers the heads of diplomacy of the Western Balkans in Rome (Radio Tirana)

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UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, February 5, 2024

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UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, February 5, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

• German Defense Minister arrives in Kosovo (media)
• Osmani: CBK regulation is not against dinar and it does not mention it (media)
• Hovenier insists on postponing implementation of CBK regulation (media)
• Muja: No one is fueling the fire; some statements can be used for tensions (media)
• Kosovo citizens advised not to travel through Merdare (media)
• Feith: Kosovo should be careful, don’t make mistakes (Reporteri)
• Konjufca: Serbia poses a danger to our region and beyond (media)
• Gervalla in Rome with Western Balkans foreign ministers (Albanian Post)
• Zlatan Arsic acquitted of war crime charges (Koha)
• Gervalla meets Belgian Ambassador, focus on political situation (media)
• CEC: Signatures for dismissal of mayors in the north are being verified (Koha)
• Police begin investigations into posters with Radoicic in the north (media)
• Serbian police continue to mistreat Nikola Sandulovic’s family (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Stano: Concern growing in EU due to decision of CBK and police operations against Serbian entities (N1)
• Brnabic on request for extraordinary session of UN SC: We will fight with all diplomatic means (Beta, NMagazin, TV Pink)
• Dacic: Kosovo and Metohija issue of paramount state and national interest of Serbia (Tanjug)
• Hovenier after meeting Kurti: We hope to see postponement of Central Bank decision (Kosovo Online)
• China: Unilateral Pristina’s actions do not lead toward resolution of Kosovo issue (Tanjug)
• Self-determination Movement lists their January successes including ban on dinar (KoSSev)
• Zlatan Arsic acquitted (RTS, N1)
• Lawyers: Zlatan Arsic is a free man (Kosovo Online)
• OSCE: It is of crucial importance that rights of Kosovo Serbs are fully respected (Kosovo Online, media)
• Rohde: Unilateral measures only add fuel to fire, opposite of reducing tensions (Kosovo Online, KoSSev, social media)
• Simic: Serbs in Kosovo frightened by silence of international community, statements are not enough (Beta, Danas, TV Pink)
• Grenell on German officials’ reactions to latest Pristina authorities acts (Kosovo Online, social media)
• Chinese Ambassador to Belgrade: Solve Kosovo issue without double standards (Beta, NMagazin, Politika, KiM radio)
• Haziri: Government increased national sentiment, reduced European one among citizens (Kosovo Online, VoA)

Opinion:

• Palokaj: Kosovo is asked not to do what it has the right to do (Koha)
• Serwer: How to counter the Serbian world (media)

International:

• Kosovo Euro Rule, Closure of Belgrade-Run Offices, Draw International Criticism (Balkan Insight)

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UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, February 5, 2024

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Albanian Language Media:

• U.S., EU react to latest decisions by Kosovo authorities (media)
• Governor: This is a fight against money laundering and terrorism (Kallxo)
• German Defense Minister to visit Kosovo today (media)
• Kurti remembers Albanian civilians killed in Mitrovica North in 2000 (media)
• “Association current draft status creates room for Republika Srpska” (media)
• Kurti: First 100MW solar auction bidding process successful conclusion (media)
Serbian Language Media:
• Displaced Serbs from Kosovo announced a three-hour blockade of the road in Rudare on Monday (euronews.rs, Kosovo Online)
• Petkovic: Serbs in Kosovo in a difficult situation; we ask for an urgent session of the UN SC (NMagazin, RTS, media)
• Tabakovic: Serbia cannot renounce the use of the dinar in Kosovo (Kosovo Online, Vecernje Novosti, Blic)
• Serbian List: The Quint countries responsible for the moves that Albin Kurti makes without bearing the consequences (RTS)
• SNV again sent a request to Bishop Teodosije to schedule a national assembly (Danas, KiM radio, KoSSev)
• The Bishop of Raska-Prizren visited the Serbian people in Osojane to encourage them to stay (Tanjug, KiM radio)
• Dimitrijevic: The Pristina government destroying one of the last positive examples of coexistence (KoSSev)
• The new DSS adopts the Declaration on Kosovo, requests the state to declare the occupation of that part of the territory (Beta, NMagazin, RTS)
• Surlic: Amendments to Chapter 35 call dialogue and European integration into question (Tanjug)
• Office for KiM : “Post” workers detained in Gorazdevac, Kurti’s terror against Serbs continues (Kosovo Online)
• Post of Serbia: The arrest of our workers in Kosovo another in a series of attacks on Serbs (NMagazin, Beta)
• KP: Seized 4,000,000 dinars from the Post of Serbia pending the decision of the CBK (Kosovo Online)
• The Post Office in Ugljare robbed (KiM radio)
• HLC: Arsic found guilty of expulsion, robbery, burning property, and no direct evidence was provided (KoSSev)
• Serbian List: Radoica Radomirovic placed posters (KiM radio)
• Posters against Radoicic and the SL in the north of Kosovo (Danas, KoSSev)
• Reactions to acquittals in Slavko Curuvija case (Beta, N1, nova.rs)
International Media:
• US Slams Kosovo for Unnecessarily Raising Ethnic Tensions (Bloomberg)
• EU Council Formally Asked To Insert Recent Kosovo Commitments Into Serbia’s Accession Talks (RFE)
• ‘They hit me so hard I lost consciousness’: Serbian opposition politician tells of secret service ordeal (The Guardian)
• Rights Groups, U.S. Assail Serbian Court’s Acquittal Of Ex-Intelligence Officers In 1999 Murder Of Journalist (RFE)

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