UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 21, 2020

Albanian Language Media:

• Kosnett: President Trump has worked hard for agreement to restore Pristina-Belgrade flights (media)
• Veseli: Kosovo on the right track when it has U.S. support (media)
• Veliu: LDK has no other offer for LVV (RTK)
• British Ambassador visits Mustafa prior to LDK’s leadership meeting (Express)
• Mustafa confirms diplomatic pressure for the formation of the government (Express)
• In Davos, Thaci meets Croatian PM Plenkovic (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• US, Serbian presidents welcome Belgrade-Pristina flights agreement (N1)
• Serwer comments on Belgrade-Pristina flight, role of US (B92, Tanjug)
• O'Brien retweeted Vucic (BETA, B92)
• Agreement on airline unclear, however, the influence of the US is clear (Radio KIM)
• Vucic to participate with Thaci in a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos (Tanjug, B92)
• Serbian president Vucic meets Croatian prime minister Plenkovic in Davos (FoNet, BETA, N1)

Opinion:

• Buckle up, we are in for a bumpy ride (Prishtina Insight)
• EU Has Turned Enlargement into a Hamster Wheel (Balkan Insight)

International:

• Serbia-Kosovo Flights to Resume Under U.S.-Brokered Deal (The New York Times)
• Serb Policemen Plead Not Guilty to Kosovo War Crimes (Balkan Insight)

Humanitarian/Development:

• Construction on the shore of Badovac Lake a potential environmental problem (Kosovo online)
• A family denied (Prishtina Insight)
• Wounds that don’t heal (Prishtina Insight)
• The World Health Organization to hold an emergency meeting on China coronavirus (B92, Tanjug)

• 15-day countdown for Kurti begins (media)
• Reintroduction of Pristina-Belgrade air route facilitated by the U.S. (Koha)
• Kosovo leaders hail Pristina-Belgrade flight agreement (media)
• KDI seeks transparency on Pristina-Belgrade flight agreement (Zeri)
• British Embassy calls for swift formation of government (media)
• LDK to hold meeting of presidency today (media)
• Nagavci: Together with LDK, we should fulfill hopes for change (media)
• PDK: LVV responsible for current crisis (media)
• LDK nominates Abdullah Hoti caucus, LVV has not made a proposal yet (RTK)
• Thaci to participate at Davos World Economic Forum (media)
• Apostolova: EU remains committed to help Kosovo’s path towards EU (media)

Albanian Language Media:

• Vetevendosje proposes Albin Kurti as Prime Minister nominee (Klan Kosova)
• President Thaci invites Kurti to give him PM mandate (media)
• Kurti: LDK’s message ‘take it or leave it’, means leave it (media)
• Kurti needs to form a new government by February 4 (Indeksonline)
• Haxhiu: Time for LDK to prove it wants the change (media)
• LDK: Despite unilateral moves by LVV, we are open to agreement (Telegrafi)
• Pristina-Belgrade air route to be launched in the near future (Gazeta Express)
• Thaci hails initiative for launch of Pristina-Belgrade flights (Kallxo)
• Stoltenberg: KFOR retains authority over Kosovo airspace (Koha)
• Osmani claims will for reach of the agreement with LVV exists (RTK)

Serbian Language Media:

• Worrying data, but for whom - Serbia or the EU? (B92, Blic)
• Russian MFA: Post-election chaos and struggle for power continue in Kosovo (KoSSev)
• Saturday protest devoted to slain Kosovo Serb leader (Beta, N1)
• Serbian trade minister says Kosovo tariffs cause one million-euro daily damages (N1, Novosti)
• Belgrade-Pristina flight to be reinstated? (B92, RTS)

International:

• Engel Presses Top Navy Admiral on United States Policy on Serbia (foreign affairs.house.gov)
• Kosovo's Vetevendosje Party Nominates Leader Kurti For PM (RFE)
• Serbs Say Air Link May Reopen With Kosovo Two Decades After War (Bloomberg)
• Statement by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on direct flights between Belgrade and Pristina (nato.int)
• US brokers prospective flights between Serbia, Kosovo (The Washington Post)

Humanitarian/Development:

• BIRN Fact-check: The Air We Breathe (Balkan Insight)
• The World’s 2,153 Billionaires Are Richer Than 4.6 Billion People, Says Oxfam (Bloomberg)

• Thaci: Kurti should either accept or refuse nomination (media)
• Mustafa calls on LVV to show readiness for coalition agreement (Zeri)
• Osmani: No path is more righteous than people’s voice for change (media)
• Palokaj: Government to be formed for Kosovo’s needs (Koha)
• Der Standard: Kosovo towards elections if government not formed by February 24
• Engel: Serbia’s integration road closed until it recognises Kosovo (media)
• Konjufca calls meeting of Assembly presidency (media)
• Vetevendosje denies reports about Konjufca’s possible resignation (Express)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 17, 2020

Albanian Language Media:

Thaci: Kosovo has met visa liberalisation criteria (RTK)
Daut Haradinaj asks LVV: Do you want to go to elections? (Express)
Nagavci: Vjosa Osmani wanted to co-govern with Vetevnedosje (KTV)
Osmani: LDK does not initiate Konjufca’s dismissal, I believe in agreement (RTK)

Serbian Language Media:

• Court for KLA crimes without comment on murder of alleged protected witness (Tanjug)
• "Next months crucial, EU faces risk if it doesn't send a clear signal to region" (TASS, B92)
• Six years since murder of Dimitrije Janicijevic in Mitrovica North (Radio KIM)
• Djuric: Belgrade committed to dialogue, problem is in Pristina (Danas)
• "Major changes" in Serbian government, Vucic says (Prva TV, N1)

International:

• Kosovo PM Dismisses Rama’s Libel Charge as ‘Decoy’ (Balkan Insight)
• Why is Kosovo Taking Home Islamic State Members? (VoA)

• Kurti: Agreement for the government, not “a deal of monarchs” (media)
• Mustafa says Kurti’s letter is unofficial (RTK)
• Mustafa: I cannot say if there is going to be a coalition, we are committed (RTK)
• “It’s good that whole society is involved in debate on new government” (media)
• Konjufca calls the first Assembly session (RTK)
• U.S. Embassy calls for Oliver Ivanovic’s murder to be resolved (RTK)
• Thaci hails agreement on single electoral list of Albanian parties in Serbia (media)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 16, 2020

Albanian Language Media:

• “Bringing PAN back to power, Vetevendosje’s worst gift to the people” (Koha)
• LDK’s Abrashi: We don’t have a name yet for post of Kosovo President (T7)
• Haradinaj receives an invitation to attend National Prayer Breakfast (Telegrafi)

Serbian Language Media:

• “If the killed was protected witness, then this is a rerun of the ‘Haradinaj case’” (Politika, Sputnik, B92)
• Two years ago, Ivanovic was killed; "Serbia will not stop until a killer is found" (Beta, Tanjug, B92)
• Milena Ivanovic: I'm trying to find out the truth on my own, disregarding Pristina (Kosovo-online, B92)
• Milan Ivanovic: Two years is too long, confusing that Belgrade protects Radoicic (N1)
• Memorial gathering to Oliver Ivanovic held in Mitrovica, Srpska Lista attended it (Radio kontakt plus, KoSSev)
• Pantovic: Court proceeding against Darko Tasic unduly prolonged (Radio KIM, Kosovo-online)
• Racak 21 years later: An important event for Pristina, while Belgrade remains silent (KoSSev)
• Two tons of wheat stolen in Novake village (KiM radio, RTS)

Opinion:

• Kelmendi: The (dis)agreement race (Koha Ditore)
• 100 days of nonsense (Prishtina Insight)
• Last Chance Saloon: Can the EU and Balkans be Reconciled in 2020? (Balkan Insight)

International:

• Truth Commission Activists Plan Yugoslav ‘Book of the Dead’ (Balkan Insight)
• Shifting Focus of Kosovo Government Talks Hampers Deal (Balkan Insight)

Humanitarian/Development:

• Health institute warns: Air pollution is threatening people’s health (media)
• Caglavica: It was agreed to increase police patrols (Radio KIM)

• EU High Representative Borrell speaks to Presidents Thaci, Vucic (media)
• Thaci speaks to Borrell, calls for visa liberalisation (media)
• Mustafa: Our structures will not consider LVV’s offer (media)
• Vetevendosje’s Bislimi: We are closer to a solution than elections (Express/T7)
• Vetevendosje turns down LDK offer, calls it “a joke” (media)
• Abdixhiku: LDK will not agree to increased number of ministries (RTK)
• Kurti: We need the government to implement resolution on genocide (Express)
• EU: Miseries in Recak are well documented (RTK)
• Albania’s PM files lawsuit against Ramush Haradinaj (media)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 15, 2020

Albanian Language Media:

• EU’s High Representative Borrell speaks to Presidents Thaci and Vucic (media)
• Thaci speaks to Borrell, requests visa liberalization (media)
• LDK's Veliu: Vetevendosje wants absolute power (media)
• Haxhiu: Additional minority ministry will not belong to the Serbian List (media)
• LDK with the old response to LVV: Requests Assembly Speaker’s post (RTK)
• Kosovo leaders remember Recak victims (media)
• OSCE: 45 innocent Albanians massacred in 1999 in Recak (RTK)

Serbian Language Media:

• Vucic and Borrell spoke about Belgrade-Pristina dialogue (Tanjug, RTS)
• Kosovo police raided house of “Bora Stankovic” school director (RTS, B92)
• Thousands left Kosovo, statistics office says (BETA, N1)
• Archbishop Teodosije: To do all in our power that a neighbour and a brother never turn against one’s own neighbour and brother (KoSSev)
• Serb family in Caglavica robbed (Radio KIM)
• Kabasic: Russian citizens fined 250 euros each (Kosovo-online)

International:

• Kosovo, Serbia Play Blame Game over Ivanovic Assassination (Balkan Insight)
• Kosovo Prosecutor Seeks Fine For Russians Charged With Illegal Border Crossing (RFE)

Humanitarian/Development:

• Initiative for the protection of Lake Gracanica launched (Kontakt plus radio, RTK2)
• Human Rights Progress Faltering in South and Central Europe: HRW (Balkan Insight)