UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 11, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• President Osmani meets with the U.S. Senior Official, Derek Chollet (media)
• Rizvanolli: Electricity payment for northern municipalities cannot continue indefinitely (Klan)
• Ambassador Bajrami refutes Vucic: Relations with Libya are deepening (media)
• LDK: LVV trying to hide failures through propaganda (media)
• Citaku: Ambassador Martin Berishaj should be dismissed (media)
• Xhafer Deva’s successor files lawsuit against German ambassador Rohde (express)

Serbian Language Media:

• Jevtic asks for reinforced presence of KFOR in Strpce (Tanjug)
• Vucic says he will meet four international envoys by January 20 (media)
• Vucevic: Strong military helped resolve Kosovo crisis peacefully (BETA, N1)
• Petkovic says Kurti is one moving away from normality (Kosovo Online)
• Brnabic: No expectations from Chollet visit expect formation of Community (Tanjug)
• Brnabic says she received assurances – INTERPOL closed to Kosovo (N1, FoNet)

• Kurti: We want to achieve normalization of relations with Serbia (media)
• Chollet to visit Kosovo today; will meet Osmani and Kurti (media)
• Lajcak meets with Varhelyi, Escobar, discuss about dialogue (RTK)
• Hovenier: U.S. is committed to a sustainable partnership with Kosovo (RTK)
• Kosovo: More pressure on Serbia to accept French-German proposal (AA)
• The real face of Serbia: A Response to Djuric (Prishtina Insight)
• Minuto-Rizzo: Historic engagement of NATO in Balkans will continue (EWB)
• Hungary to veto Kosovo's applications to EU bodies: Foreign minister (AA)
• Opposition parties reacts to LVV’s video (Kallxo)
• Rasic doesn’t believe he said youths in Shterpce were shot to be killed (Klan)
• Kosovo Awaits Supply of Material for Personal Documents (Prishtina Insight)
• Impact of COVID-19 on Poverty in Kosovo (Borgen Magazine)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 10, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti: Serbia has unanimously rejected the Franco-German plan (Ekonomia Online)
• Kurti to mayors: Focus on budget expenditures to be transparent (Express)
• Tahiri: Kurti is appropriating merits of independent institutions (media)
• Gashi: Main responsibility for wounding in Shterpce falls on security institutions for not stepping up police presence (Kallxo)
• Hamiti: Any attempt to diminish independence must be strongly rejected (Nacionale)
• Somalia refutes Vucic, the African state wants to deepen relations with Kosovo (RTK)

Serbian Language Media:

• Djuric: Kurti has no carte blanche support from US (Tanjug)
• Borko Stefanovic: “Perfidious ethnic cleansing, Kurti wishes to push Serbs to Raska” (N1, FoNet, Nova S)
• Hungary to vote against Kosovo membership in European bodies (RTV, Kosovo Online)
• Vorgucic: Incident near Strpce shows situation in enclaves (KoSSev, N1)
• Dacic: Serbia-Hungary relations at highest level in decade (Tanjug)
• Dacic: Three red lines for Serbia regarding Kosovo (Tanjug, media)
• Brnabic: Free trade agreement with UAE (FoNet)

• Kurti: Drug labs in north were worth more than €100 million (media)
• NATO, EU, US consult on developments in Kosovo, Western Balkans (NATO)
• Lajcak on the U.S., NATO and EU meeting: Useful and timely (Klan)
• Smith: U.S. fully supports EU-facilitated dialogue (media)
• Visa liberalization Thursday on the agenda in Brussels (Zeri)
• EU membership, consultations with non-recognising countries a priority (Koha)
• Kurti and Rizvanolli ask citizens to save electricity (media)
• MFA reacts to attack on Kosovo bus traveling through Serbia (Reporteri)
• State Department criticises Vucic’s accusations against Joseph (RFE)
• Serbs in North and in Shterpce Stage Protests (Prishtina Insight)
• Rasic says KSF soldier tried to kill two Serb youths near Shterpce (Koha)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 9, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• Prime Minister Kurti to visit Austria this week (RTK)
• Sweden’s EU Presidency has started consultations for Kosovo’s bid (RFE)
• Schmitt: In Balkans only one country causes problems, Serbia (Der Standard/Koha)
• Analysts: Serbia is trying to refuse European plan; Kosovo to clarify its position (EO)
• Reka: Some wrongly hope that peace can be reached with Vucic (Nacionale)
• Serb reporter: Wounded in Strpce are misused by Vucic and Serbian List (Klan)

Serbian Language Media:

• Thousands protest over armed attack on two Serb youngsters in Strpce (N1)
• Reactions to armed attack on two Serb youngsters near Strpce (RTV, Tanjug, Kosovo Online)
• Serb young man beaten while returning from midnight Christmas liturgy in Klokot (N1)
• SOC: Patriarch will visit Pec Patriarchate in line with his program and discretion (Radio kontakt plus)
• Pristina extends house arrest of Pantic for two more months (Tanjug)
• A rally held in North Mitrovica against Serbia List and Serbian President (KoSSev)
• Vukasin Obradovic to his Albanian friends: Do what Suroi did in ’99 (KoSSev)
• Brnabic: We will request additional guarantees for Serbs in Kosovo (N1, RTS)
• US State Department: Chollet due in Belgrade on Thursday (BETA, N1)

Opinion:

• Kosovo Crisis has Underlined NATO’s Unclear Mandate in Region (BIRN)

International:

• Wider Europe Briefing: Will Kosovo And Serbia Finally Make A Deal? Plus, The Nitty-Gritty Of EU Enlargement (RFE)
• The Guardian view on problems in the western Balkans: Europe should do more
• Roma Tell Long-Neglected Stories of Kosovo War’s Enduring Impact (BIRN)

• NATO declines Serbia's request to deploy its troops in Kosovo (Reuters)
• Two Serbs injured in Christmas Eve shooting, suspect arrested (euronews)
• Kurti strongly condemns attack on two citizens in Shterpce (media)
• EU condemns shooting of two Serbs on Orthodox Christmas Eve (media)
• Hovenier condemns wounding of two young people in Shterpce (RTK)
• UNMIK chief condemns shooting of two Serbs in Shterpce (media)
• One month detention for suspect of wounding two young Serbs (media)
• Protest in Shterpce after the injury of two young Serbs (media)
• Albin Kurti: Can Kosovo bond with its ethnic Serbs? (Al Jazeera)
• Chollet to visit Kosovo on January 11 (media)
• A bus with passengers from Kosovo gets attacked in Serbia (media)
• “Kurti will resign”, analyst gives details of plan for snap elections (euronews.al)
• PDK’s Krasniqi calls Svecla’s request for expired passports shameful (media)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 5, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti agrees to Rasic’s request for Porfirije visit to Kosovo (media)
• Peach starts the series of visits of Western emissaries to Kosovo (Koha)
• Abdixhiku: State leaders owe the people an explanation (media)
• Citaku: Kurti must explain why allies are saying time is not for recognition (media)
• Mitrovica-Jarinje road will be closed for around 2 hrs due to barricades removal (media)
• U.S. Embassy explains “like” on Vucic’s tweet (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• President Vucic in his annual address talks about Kosovo, challenges ahead (N1, media)
• Vucic: Further nine countries revoked recognition of Kosovo (media)
• Zuroff: Honours for Deva an insult to memory of his victims (Tanjug)
• US State Department: No announcements about Escobar visit to Serbia (Tanjug)
• Vasic: Trajkovic’s health deteriorates, we will request house arrest (KoSSev)
• Pristina extends detention of Miljan Adzic (Tanjug)
• Vacancies for police officers in northern Kosovo announced (N1, media)

International:

• Serbian President Claims ‘Nine More Kosovo Recognition Withdrawals’ (BIRN)

• President Osmani decrees the Law on Wages (media)
• Opposition seeks clarification about U.S. ambassador's statement (Nacionale)
• Stano: Kosovo, an example of cooperation between EU and NATO (media)
• Germany: Return of Serbian troops, completely unacceptable (Express)
• “Every mistake can cost Kosovo; should learn from North Macedonia” (media)
• Haziri: Kurti doesn’t have problems with envoys, but with the people (Reporteri)
• Weber skeptical: Unlikely agreement will be reached this year (RFE)
• North Kosovo: time to turn to civil society (Social Europe)
• Vucic: Chollet will visit Belgrade next week (Kallxo)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 4, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• State Department: Kosovo, Serbia should create climate for reconciliation (Reporteri)
• “European” plan to intensify the dialogue in January (Koha)
• Deputy Defence Minister: Serbia’s request to deploy troops in Kosovo is absurd (KP)
• Haxhiu: Mechanism to monitor human rights implementation by Special Court (Koha)
• LDK’s Hoti: Govt to explain why now is not time for mutual recognition? (media)
• Von Cramon on how non-recognising states could vote at PACE (Koha)
• Hoti: We don’t accept Serbia’s added paragraphs in missing persons document (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Recently detained Serbs - Pantic under house arrest, Trajkovic without therapy, and request for extending detention to Adzic (RTS)
• Slovak Ministry: Any change of position to depend on Belgrade-Pristina normalisation (Tanjug)
• Director of Museum of Genocide sent letters to ambassadors over plans to renovate Xhafer Deva’s house (Kosovo Online, N1)
• Quartet of Western envoys to visit Serbia after Orthodox Christmas (Tanjug, Novosti)
• Serbs from northern Kosovo call for protest, dissatisfied with Belgrade’s policy (Danas)

Opinion:

• After barricades: Instead of new Kosovo policy, old problems persevere in new year (KoSSev)

International:

• Soaring Air Pollution in Region Stokes Health Fears (BIRN)
• The DJ and the War Crimes (Rolling Stone)

• EC: Situation in north still very fragile; talks on Association must start (media)
• KFOR: We’re examining Serbia’s request to deploy troops in Kosovo (Express)
• Hungary plays key role in Kosovo peacekeeping (Hungary Today)
• NATO Military Chiefs of Defence Meeting - 18-19 January 2023 (nato.int)
• Will Kosovo’s war ever end? (UnHerd)
• The religious propaganda that threatens Kosovo (Kallxo)
• The Peak of the Balkans Trail: Europe's last true wilderness (BBC)