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Belgrade Media Report 5 April

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LOCAL PRESS

• Vucic with Schimdt: Serbia strongly advocating cooperation, stability (Tanjug/RTS/RTV)
• Brnabic: We will respect opposition’s decision if it chooses to boycott elections, but we will not allow riots (TV Happy)
• Brnabic meets with Braathu (Tanjug/RTV)
• Dacic on Pristina’s admission to the CoE: Here it will not be declared on justice and law, but on force (RTS)
• Pantic Pilja: CoE membership for so-called Kosovo would violate international law (Tanjug/RTV)
• Serbia to send non-paper to all CoE member states (Novosti)
• Varhelyi, Vucic welcome approval of Growth Facility (N1)
• Lajcak: Some gaps bridged, discussions to be continued soon (Tanjug)
• Borrell: EU concerned over Dinar ban’s consequences on Kosovo Serbs (Beta)
• SSP: Government accepted opposition’s request for talks to buy time (Beta)
• Serb List: Serbs will not take part in Kosovo census (FoNet)

REGIONAL PRESS

Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Dodik: Everything Schmidt tells Vucic about property is lie (ATV)
• Other RS officials comment on state property issue and HR’s stance on it (RTRS)
• Radoncic comments Schmidt, Vucic meeting underlining its importance (Dnevni avaz)
• Dodik announces resolution of issue of banks for RS officials that are under US sanctions (RTRS)
• Orban meets Kristo; Kristo thanks Orban for Hungary’s support on EU path of B&H (BHT1/RTRS)
• Delegation of Hungarian government led by Orban arrives to Banja Luka (ATV)
• Corrigenda of HR’s decision enacting Law on Amendments to Election Law of B&H (Slobodna Bosna)
• Dodik: RS will adopt its election law by 20 April; Schmidt gave CEC the right to appoint all presidents of polling station committees and to transfer them to the status of professional civil servants; That will never happen (RTRS)
• Cvijanovic: Schmidt’s intention is to control CEC and influence election results (RTRS)
• HR Schmidt rules out possibility of removal of politicians, says he would rather work through dialogue (N1/Dnevni list)
• Izetbegovic: Until party embodied by Dodik changes its attitude towards state of B&H and its Euro-Atlantic aspirations, there will be no improvement for country (FTV)
• Radoncic comments current political developments: Dodik should not be underestimated, he is very serious, but not consistent (Dnevni avaz)
• MEP Strik visits B&H, meets Becirovic and representatives of B&H parliament (Oslobodjenje)
• Cvijanovic sends letter to Guterres, Francis and heads of missions of UN member states about recent actions of Lagumdzija (RTRS)
Montenegro
• Paris: Krapovic discussed with Lekorni the modalities of development of defense cooperation between Montenegro and France (CdM)
• Raspopovic-Edtstadler: EU is not complete without the Western Balkans, Montenegro has a chance to become the next member (CdM)
• Gorcevic: We are determined to deliver the results we set with our partners from the EC within the given deadlines (CdM)
Republic of North Macedonia
• US military exercise in North Macedonia from 12 April to 19 July (MIA)
Albania
• NATO’s 75th anniversary, Begaj: Without the Alliance, there would be no global security (Radio Tirana)
• The Innovation Center is inaugurated. Rama: Strengthening national capacities in the field of security and defense (CdM)

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UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, 5 April, 2024

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Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti: Population data helps us guide policies (Koha)
• Kurti: I call on international community to demand from Serbia to clarify fate of those who disappeared during war (Reporteri)
• Svecla and Haxhiu go to Radoicic’s villa, announce security cameras have been installed (Klan)
• Krasniqi: Serbian List has lost its influence in the North (A2 CNN)
• Serbian List: Serbs will not participate in population census in Kosovo (RFE)
• Census – Most Serb enumerators in Zubin Potok withdraw (Koha)
• Hamza: Current draft of Association, poorest offer that Kosovo has had on table (ekonomia)
• Lajcak informed of challenges faced by Albanians of the Valley (RTK)

Serbian Language Media:

• Vucic: Serbia will oppose the humiliations that have been prepared for it in the Council of Europe and the UN (Kosovo Online)
• Serbian parties from Kosovo against the participation of Serbs in the population census (Kosovo Online, Tanjug, RTS)
• Kurti with the presidents of Kosovo municipalities without translation into Serbian language; The UNS protests (KiM radio, Medija Centar Caglavica)
• Blakaj: Recording of war damage within the census is problematic; it may result in a distorted picture (Kosovo Online)
• Raska-Prizren Diocese reacts to accusations by Elonora Visoka Weller against SOC, says they indirectly foster ethnic and religious intolerance (Raska-Prizren Eparchy, media, social media)
• Dacic: Today the government meeting on a team to fight against the Pristina admission into the CoE (NMagazin, media)
• Sarovic: Pristina membership to Council of Europe, consequence of Vucic’s Kosovo policy (KoSSev)
• North: Names of places in the Albanian language covered with Cyrillic stickers, then taken off (Kontakt plus radio, media)

Opinion:

• Serbian Coordination Directorate passport holders the only people in Western Balkans not allowed free travel to Europe (Kosovo Online, EWB)

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UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, April 5, 2024

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Albanian Language Media:

• Osmani says the future of Kosovo is in NATO (media)
• Osmani meets Hovenier, talk about elections in the north and CoE (Klan)
• Lajcak: I plan to continue discussions for compromise on dinar issue (Klan)
• Bislimi: We agreed with EU proposal, Serbia asked for additional time (RTK)
• COMKFOR meets British emissary, discuss security in Kosovo (RTK)
• Kosovo authorities confiscate properties belonging to Milan Radoicic (media)
• Population census in Kosovo starts today (Telegrafi)

Serbian Language Media:
• Lajcak: Some gaps bridged, discussions to be continued soon (Tanjug)
• Varhelyi, Vucic welcome approval of Growth Facility (N1)
• Vucic: Serbia strongly advocating cooperation, stability (Tanjug, media)
• Referendum on dismissal of mayors and hassles for voters outside of Kosovo (Kosovo Online)
• Party of Kosovo Serbs calls for boycotting census, says it comes at unfavorable moments for Serbs (KoSSev)
• Kosovo police confiscate Radoicic’s properties (N1, KoSSev)
• Serbian List: The home of Milan Radoicic’s children was unjustifiably seized (KoSSev, media)
• Forest fires in Osojane valley again, firefighters on the ground upon call from Radio Gorazdevac (Radio Gorazdevac, media)
International Media:
• Kosovo Seizes Property of Northern Serb Kingpin Radoicic (Balkan Insight)

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