UN Security Council discusses report on Kosovo (media)
Kurti: Serbia is not constructive; internationals must apply pressure on it (KSP)
Kosovo remembers the forcibly disappeared of the 1990s war (BIRN)
U.S. Embassy message on National Day of Missing Persons (media)
Abbott urges governments to do all they can to resolve fate of missing (media)
Lajcak: Important to start defining status, competencies of Association (media)
Abdixhiku: We can’t be with Kurti in government, he represents the past (T7)
Kosovo’s CoE membership may take up to two years (Albanian Daily News)
Kosovo Supreme Court upholds ex-policeman’s war crimes sentence (BIRN)
Chollet talks with Vucic; “we expect constructive meeting on May 2” (media)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, April 27, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• A new report on Kosovo at the UN Security Council (RFE)
• Kurti expects May 2 meeting to treat missing persons issue with urgency (Telegrafi)
• Kosovo marks National Missing Persons Day (RFE)
• Germany: We expect unconditional implementation of Kosovo-Serbia agreement (RTK)
• Krasniqi: Management Team didn’t respond to invitation for meeting (RFE)
• Vela: Meja massacre, a crime that Serbia cannot deny! (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Dacic meets with US ambassador to UN (Tanjug)
• 15-year prison verdict to Goran Stanisic upheld (Radio KIM)
• Dacic thanks Greece's Syriza party for supporting Serbia, Vucic thanks Azerbaijan (Politika, Tanjug, media)
• SNS to hold extraordinary assembly session on May 27 (Tanjug, media)
• Post of Serbia employees released after being apprehended by police in northern Kosovo (RTS)
• Another Serb from Kosovo arrested for undermining the constitutional order of Serbia (KoSSev, Kontakt plus radio, KiM radio)

International:

• Inadequate State of Social Services in Kosovo, Analysis Shows (Prishtina Insight)

• Kurti seeks support from France, Italy and Germany (Koha)
• EU won’t allow conditioning of implementation of agreements (Koha)
• Gervalla and Greenfield talked about the UN role in Kosovo (RTK)
• Osmani in Skopje: Albanian language law should be implemented (Euronews)
• Kosovo demands EU condemn Serbia's 'breach' of intl agreement (Euronews)
• Ruling party, opposition, trade blame about crisis in KEK (Prishtina Insight)
• Members of European Parliament adopt report on Kosovo (media)
• COMKFOR briefs representatives of contributing countries on situation (media)
• Police stops two Serbia Post vehicles, finds large amount of money (Kallxo)
• Serb Orthodox Church thanks Kosovo Police for swift reaction (Koha Ditore)
• Report: Serbia's EU membership depends on normalization of relations with Kosovo (Telegrafi)

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti: Visa liberalisation and CoE application confirm we are on right track (media)
• Osmani in Skopje: Future of our countries is in Euro-Atlantic family (media)
• U.S. representative to UN meets Kosovo Foreign Minister (media)
• Very slim to no chances to agree on statute of Association (Radio Free Europe)
• Kurti, Vucic “out of the game”: U.S. and EU preparing Association statute (Nacionale)
• Rasic: A temporary solution was made in the north (Express)
• Kosovo initiates procedures to join International Commission on Missing Persons (RFE)
• Muja: We should’ve protected Nagip Krasniqi even more (Gazeta Metro/TeVe1)

Serbian Language Media:

• Dacic: Fight for Kosovo and territorial integrity of Serbia was and will be diplomatic priority (Tanjug)
• Serb officials warn of consequences of new expropriation law prepared by Pristina (Kosovo Online)
• Guterres welcomes normalisation deal, voices concern over regression (Tanjug, media)
• Jeremic: Vucic to go to UNSC session and demand Russia and China use veto on possible Pristina’s membership request of (Danas, BETA, RTV)
• Brnabic to Stano: Serbia takes note that EU violated Brussels Agreement (N1)
• Serbian Government confirms working on new foreign policy strategy (N1)
• Petkovic: The draft of the statute of the CSM (ZSO), a job for the Management Team (RTS)
• Office of Saint Nikola Church in Strpce robbed (Radio KIM)
• Party of Kosovo Serbs: Serbs who won one vote each received mandates (N1)

Opinion:

• A deal or a trap? (Kosovo 2.0)
• Radosavljevic: The elections in the north of Kosovo are illegitimate, the legality questionable (KiM radio, Insajder)

International:

• Serbia ‘disappointed’ with Ukraine, Greece, Slovakia over CoE Kosovo vote (Euractive.com)
• Serbia Calls on European Commission to Abolish Visa Requirements for Kosovo Serbs (schengenvisainfo.com)

• Kurti: Serbia is saying it will not implement Ohrid Agreement (euronews.al)
• Kurti on Association's draft statute: EU didn't let me do it (Klan)
• Svecla: Vucic threatened northern Serbs with arrest lists (media)
• Ahmeti to Stano: Serbia violated Ohrid agreement, must be punished (RTK)
• Krasniqi at State Department, discusses elections in north (Reporteri)
• Citaku on elections in north: Sovereignty violated, Kurti is guilty (Klan)
• Will Serb rejection of Kosovar passports dissolve now that EU is liberalizing visa regime? (RFE)
• EU expects Serbia, Kosovo to implement deal instead of public exchanges (AA)
• EU deal on Kosovo 'alive' despite Serbian vote (EU Observer)
• Kosovo Power Corporation CEO suspended from duty (media)
• Kosovo Assembly extraordinary session today on developments at KEK (media)
• Serbia to alter foreign policy after EU Kosovo decision: Vucic (Daily Sabah)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, April 25, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• Stano: EU is aware of Serbia’s vote against Kosovo (Radio Free Europe)
• Vela: Serbia’s vote against Kosovo’s CoE application should be penalised (media)
• Serbia violates agreement, threatens countries that support Kosovo (Koha)
• The CEC announces results of extraordinary elections in northern municipalities (Klan)
• Kusari-Lila: End of Serbia’s influence in Kosovo began on Sunday (EO)
• Osmani to visit North Macedonia on Wednesday (Albanian Post)
• Lajcak at Webster Vienna, discussion on normalisation of relations (Nacionale)
• Krasniqi: Monoethnic institutions are not good for us (Kosovapress)
• Delawie: Regrettable, Serbian authorities influenced Serbs to boycott elections (media)
• Details about burning of excavator in Zvecan, belonged to an Albanian (Express)

Serbian Language Media:

• Dacic: President Vucic may attend the UNSC session on Kosovo (Tanjug, RTS)
• Vucic: Foreign policy changes coming (RTS, N1)
• Lajcak: The road to normalisation is mined, we must avoid mines (Kosovo Online, Blic)
• Dacic: CoE's decision was expected, it will be ashamed of this day (Tanjug, media)
• Dodik: "Srpska does not recognize self-proclaimed Kosovo, the ambassador voted outside the procedures" (Tanjug, RTRS)
• PM Brnabic reacts to Von Cramon’s remarks on elections (N1)
• Jablanovic to Viola von Cramon: Blackmail and threats do not pass with us (Politika, KiM radio)
• Petkovic reacts to Osmani’s remarks on agreement violation (Kosovo Online, social media)
• Vasiljevic responds to Vela (social media, Kosovo Online)
• Dacic and Hill: Continuation of dialogue the only path to concrete results (BETA, N1)
• New law on expropriation - Pristina's new plan to seize Serbian property, says Petkovic (Radio Mitrovica sever, KiM radio, RTS)
• Foreign Affairs Committee rejects draft resolution to impose sanctions on Russia (BETA, N1)

Humanitarian/Development:

• Kosovo’s economy shows resilience despite slowing growth (worldbank.org)

• Kosovo passes first step to Council of Europe membership (BIRN)
• Palokaj: If no obstacles, Kosovo can join CoE early next year (KTV)
• Legitimacy of local elections in question after low turnout (Prishtina Insight)
• Von Cramon’s statement on local elections in north of Kosovo (media)
• UK Ambassador comments on the local elections in the north (media)
• KFOR calls for refrain from escalating rhetoric after elections in north (RFE)
• Osmani: Serbia committed two violations of agreement less than 24 hrs (media)
• Kurti: I am ready for May 2 meeting in Brussels (media)
• Limaj: Albin Kurti should give up on north of Kosovo (media)
• Serbian leader lashes out at the West over Kosovo vote (Associated Press)
• Szunyog: No room for attacks on religious sites in multicultural Kosovo (media)

Albanian Language Media:

• Osmani: Serbia’s engagement to obstruct elections is against Ohrid agreement (media)
• Kurti: Low turnout because of intimidation and blackmail by Belgrade (media)
• EU: These elections don’t offer long-term political solution for municipalities (media)
• Kosovo govt statement on April 23 local elections in north (media)
• Kurti and Hovenier expect full implementation of agreement reached in Ohrid (Telegrafi)
• Krasniqi: Govt to enable forming of institutions in four northern municipalities (Kallxo)
• Access to municipal premises, first challenge of the new mayors (RFE)
• Bielamowicz: Lost opportunity for Kosovo Serbs (RTK)
• Why according to Trajkovic, Radoicic called for boycott of elections (Express)
• Kosovo’s application on the agenda of the Council of Europe (RFE)
• PDK calls extraordinary session for Nagip Krasniqi’s arrest (EO)
• Hovenier: We appreciate Iowa’s partnership with KSF (media)
• Osmani: Turkish community enriches mosaic of diversity in Kosovo (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Vucic: What happened yesterday is much more than Albin Kurti’s defeat (Tanjug, media)
• Serb-majority north Kosovo towns get Albanian mayors (N1)
• Elections in northern Kosovo: What Belgrade and Serbs say (N1)
• Petkovic: Empty ballot boxes debacle of Kurti and international community (RTS)
• Jablanovic expects elections to be annulled (DW, Kosovo Online)
• Arsenijevic: If the new mayor works against the interests of the Serbs, we can hold a referendum (KoSSev, N1)
• Bisevac: If elections are not annulled and Albanians really take over, many people will move away (Danas)
• Civil sector: The elections in the north improvised, the Serbs boycotted them (KiM radio)
• Memorial service for RTS workers killed in the NATO bombing (RTS, BETA, N1)
• Hill: Dialogue needs "new momentum", it is time for CSM (ZSO) (N1, Beta)

Opinion:

• A debacle of half a million euros (KiM radio)

International:

• North Kosovo elections trigger harsh words, criticisms from Belgrade (Euractive)
• Kosovo Dreams of Turning Mining Heritage into Tourist Trail (Prishtina Insight)

• Serbs in north of Kosovo boycott local snap elections (media)
• “Kosovo’s application for CoE membership on agenda for Monday” (media)
• Lajcak: Time of intense preparation for next high-level meeting (media)
• Escobar: We expect concrete proposal on Association from Kosovo (media)
• Kurti reacts to Serbian armed forces’ exercise in Batajnica (media)
• 25 years after Kosovo war, rape victims find the courage to heal (RFE)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, April 20, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti: There’s a negative mood in the State Prosecution against our government (KSP)
• PDK’s Tahiri calls on Kurti to dismiss KEK Board and CEO (Indeksonline)
• Rizvanolli on arrest of KEK CEO: We will wait for the facts (media)
• Escobar: Waiting for concrete proposal from Kosovo for Association by May 2 (RTK)
• Konjufca: Can’t accept Association without de facto recognition from Serbia (media)
• “Kurti govt’s seriousness prevented further conditioning of visa liberalisation” (Kallxo)
• Government with €3 million aid package for non-majority communities (Klan)
• Election commission accredits around 360 observers for elections in north (Kallxo)

Serbian Language Media:

• Milatovic: Open Balkans better than closed Balkans (Beta, NIN, N1)
• Dacic: We have returned to the pre-Brussels era (NMagazin, Politika, RTV)
• Escobar: US will recognize Kosovo election results (Tanjug, N1)
• Botsan-Kharchenko on Community of Serb Municipalities (Danas)
• KP: Three minors admitted that they damaged the door of the church in Prizren (KiM radio)
• Ponos: Ten years after Brussels Agreement, Kosovo further from Serbia (N1, Danas)
• No visa liberalisation for Serbian passport holders in Kosovo (N1, media)
• Petkovic reacts to von Cramon statement, says make Pristina establish ZSO (Radio KIM)
• Court of Appeals increases sentence to Vukotic, lawyer announces complaint to Supreme Court (KoSSev, media)
• Dacic: Pristina has almost no chance of becoming a UNESCO member (Tanjug)
• US ambassadors discuss regional stability with Vucic (N1, social media)

Opinion:

• Editor of RTV KiM: Serbs got a one-way ticket, Albanians an unsettled situation (Danas, Insajder)
• “Serbs from Kosovo humiliated, term Kosovar insulting” (N1)

International:

• Kosovo Parties Split Over Energy Corporation Head’s Arrest (BIRN)
• Serbia, Kosovo, Take First Steps To Implement EU Ohrid Deal (BIRN)