UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, October 4, 2022

Albanian Language Media:

• Nagavci on teachers’ salaries: Compensation only for the work done (Koha)
• Government reiterates: No salaries for those who were on strike (Gazeta Express)
• Jasharaj: Only teachers are not paid; Kurti is trying to ruin SBASHK (T7)
• Parents’ Council: We will raise funds to financially aid the teachers (Nacionale)
• Poll: Over 3,000 respondents say teachers who were on strike shouldn’t get paid (Klan)
• Osmani received outgoing COMKFOR Kajari in farewell meeting (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Serbia in the midst of the raging gas war between Russia EU and US (serbianmonitor.com)
• Radojevic: By small turnout Serbs showed re-registration process is doomed to fail (Kosovo Online)
• Vucic, Vulin on Ukrainian Ambassador’s statement (N1)
• Ukrainian Embassy: We support sovereignty and European aspiration of Serbia (N1)
• Manojlovic (DS): With the land exchange in Gracanica, citizens at lost, Serbian List silent (Danas, KiM radio)
• Protest over land swap in Gracanica (Radio KIM)
• Jeremic: American measure of retortion - encouraging Pristina's membership in the CoE (Danas, TV Nova S)
• Eurojust: Serbia reliable partner in fight against organised crime (N1)
• Opposition leader: EU stand on Serbia hypocritical in many cases (N1)
• Vucic meets Giaufret (Tanjug)

International:

• Bosnia Elections: One Loser, no Clear Winners – Uncertain Prospects (Balkan Insight)
• Hungary, Austria and Serbia leaders outline plan to curb migration (euronews.com)
• Putin Is Pushing Serbia and Bosnia to Back His Ukraine War (The Washington Post)
• Orthodox Christians to Rally Against LGBT Pride March in Montenegro (Balkan Insight)

Humanitarian/Development:

School Strike Suspended but Not Over, Union Warns (Prishtina Insight)
Eight young journalists from northern Kosovo and Pristina completed OSCE Media Fellowship program (KoSSev)

• The strike that left the teachers without salaries (Koha Ditore)
• Will Kosovo’s teachers get paid for strike time? (BIRN)
• Osmani to attend European Political Community inaugural meeting (RTK)
• Kosovo visa liberalisation on agenda of EU summit (Exit)
• UNSC to discuss Kosovo (Security Council Report)
• Kurti thanks COMKFOR especially for reducing tensions in north (Koha)
• LVV slams all who governed Kosovo in the past, praises itself (Klan)
• LDK: Vetevendosje should stop the propaganda (Koha)
• Krasniqi: Kurti showed he will never become a leader (media)
• Kurti meets representatives of Goran community (media)
• Musk compares Kosovo with Crimea and Donbass, reactions follow (media)
• Davenport: OSCE will support preservation of rich cultural legacy (media)
• Iranian hackers leak database of Albanian criminal suspects (BIRN)
• US sanctions PM of Bosnia’s Federation for ‘undermining democracy’ (BIRN)

Albanian Language Media:

• Spokesperson: Government won’t pay September salaries for teachers (Klan Kosova)
• Delays in payments; Kusari: Law is clear – no compensation for strikers (Telegrafi)
• Education Union leader reacts to delay in payment of salaries for teachers (Nacionale)
• Kosovo Assembly to discuss situation in healthcare sector on Friday (EO)
• Qalaj: No Europol or Interpol membership without progress in Brussels dialogue (EO)
• Political discussion in Indonesia on recognition of Kosovo independence (Koha)

Serbian Language Media:

• Serbian List: Pristina implements planned and institutional violence (RTS)
• Vucic to German envoy: There will be no independent Kosovo as Berlin plans (N1)
• Vucic meets Mitsotakis, expresses gratitude for Greece’s understanding of Serbia’s position (RTS)
• Theophylactou: Cyprus maintains position not to recognize Kosovo (Kosovo Online)
• Hill: Putin absolutely does not care about Kosovo (Nova S, KoSSev)
• State Secretary Starovic: EU cannot change rules of game during match (Beta, N1)
• Orban, Nehammer and Vucic met in Budapest (N1)
• Vucic: Serbia to align visa policy with EU by end of year (Tanjug)

International:

• Prosecutors remove one allegation from indictment of Kosovo’s Thaci (BIRN)
• Bosnia Elects New Leaders as OHR Imposes New Election Rules (Balkan Insight)
• Dodik Eyes Victory in Bosnian Serb Entity’s Presidential Race (BIRN)

Humanitarian/Development:

• New academic year starts today, around 1.000 freshmen at University in Mitrovica North (KoSSev)
• People gather in Belgrade to show support for Iranian women (N1)

• Education Union suspends strike until January 2023 (media)
• Krasniqi: Government made teachers start school year with heads down (media)
• Kosovo to participate for in inaugural meeting of new European forum (RTK)
• Svecla calls on Serbs to change plates to RKS, highlights benefits (media)
• Petkovic: Kurti, Svecla videos about license plates do not scare Serbs (Koha)
• Kurti invites Albanians living in Serbia to participate in census (RTK)
• Sarrazin: We won’t accept creation of a “Republika Srpska” in Kosovo (media)
• Konrad: Ukraine and Kosovo, two completely different situations (media)
• “If visa liberalisation happens, a merit of all citizens and govts” (Indeksonline)
• Serbs in the north also part of the population census in 2023 (Klan)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, September 30, 2022

Albanian Language Media:

• Official confirmation: Visa liberalisation on EU agenda on Oct 13 (Koha)
• Decision on strike suspension will be made today, announced on Saturday (Koha)
• UNICEF expresses concern over delayed start of the school year (media)
• Parents Council: If classes don’t start on Oct 3, mass deregistration (Indeksonline)
• Kurti: Kosovo and Germany have special friendship (media)
• Osmani receives credentials of new French Ambassador Guerot (media)
• Osmani meets FIFA President Gianni Infantino (media)
• Haxhiu: Info that cameras in Dehari case were taken by order of former minister (Kallxo)
• LDK leader: Government is strangling businesses, failing to support them (Koha)
• Mustafi wants Presevo Valley to be included in Kosovo-Serbia agreement (RTK)

Serbian Language Media:

• Vucic: Serbia to remain on European path, as independent and sovereign state (N1)
• Vucic, Sarrazin discuss Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, situation in region (Tanjug)
• Bo: Serbia, China example of mutual respect, cooperation (Tanjug)
• RFE: The EU's latest package of sanctions foresees an exemption for the Western Balkans (Kontakt plus radio, Danas)
• The Management Team, the only one responsible for drafting the ZSO statute, completed the work in August 2018 (Kosovo Online)
• Vulin: Serbia is not a reserve, we make our own decisions (N1)
• Gracanica Mayor statement on the municipality decision to exchange land (Kosovo Online)

Opinion:

• A text the author will never read – on the mad race between the government and the unions over the teachers’ strike (KoSSev)

International:

• Coffee Festival Helps Bridge Divide in City of Mitrovica (Prishtina Insight)
• Serbia’s Minorities Hope for Better Results in 2022 Census (BIRN)
• Montenegro Launches Probe Into Suspected Russian Spies (BIRN)
• North Macedonia Opposition Stalls ‘Open Balkan’ Free Flow of Workers (Balkan Insight)

Humanitarian/Development:

• PriFilm Fest’s Controversial Prizes Spark Gender Debate (Prishtina Insight)
• Serbian Government allows some higher food prices (N1)
• Former SFRY New York mansion sold for $50 million (N1)

• Kurti thanks Lipavsky for Czech Republic’s visa liberalisation support (RTK)
• Von Cramon: France, Netherlands will not block visa liberalisation (T7)
• Osmani to attend inaugural meeting of European Political Community (media)
• Osmani meets Abbott and Knox, discuss political developments (RTK)
• Kurti calls on Serbs to register Kosovo license plates, gives Incentive (Exit)
• Lajcak meets Chancellor Scholz's advisor, discuss next steps in dialogue (Koha)
• SBASHK to announce vote results on strike suspension during weekend (Koha)
• Abdixhiku accuses government of arrogance and undemocratic behavior (media)
• Albania and Russia clash over Kosovo, PM welcomes fleeing Russians (Exit)
• How One Gesture Curbed Ethnic Discrimination (Prishtina Insight)

Albanian Language Media:

• Czech Foreign Minister: I have high expectations for visa liberalisation (media)
• Osmani: Crucial for visa liberalisation to conclude during Czech EU Presidency (media)
• FES: It’s not true EU engaged us to draft Association statute (Albanian Post)
• Assembly lacks quorum to extend energy emergency measures (media)
• Central Bank Governor refuses invitation to summit because of footnote (RTK)

Serbian Language Media:

• USA: Serbia's agreement with Russia surprising and a step in the wrong direction (VoA)
• Vucic and Hill on the details of cooperation between Serbia and the USA (Kosovo Online)
• Djuric met Escobar (Tanjug)
• Bilcik in Belgrade today, tomorrow with Vucic (Politika, Tanjug)
• Dendias talked to Lajcak, Borrell (Kosovo Online)
• Vucic: Serbia, China maintains steely friendship (Tanjug)
• Ziadeh with Von Cramon in Brussels on the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina (Kosovo Online)
• EP to request suspension of EU accession negotiations with Serbia (FoNet, N1)
• Ruling party ally calls for referendum on Russia sanctions (Danas, N1)
• Tadic: Vucic's disastrous failure at the UN regarding Kosovo's membership (KiM radio, N1, NIN, Kosovo Online)
• Petkovic: Tadic hurt by the successes of the Serbian government (Kosovo Online)
• Zubin Potok: A lawyer was hired because of the usurpation of land owned by Serbs (Kosovo Online, Radio Mitrovica sever)
• Gracanica municipality exchanges 17 hectares of municipal land for 18 acres of private land (medijacentar.info, Kontakt plus radio, KoSSev, KiM radio, N1)

Opinion:

• Croatia’s Ethnic Homogenisation Continues as Serb Minority Dwindles (Balkan Insight)

Humanitarian/Development:

• Belgrade's Russian Émigrés Grapple With New Lives In Serbia, The Ukraine War, And What Comes Next (RFE)
• Opening a window on audiovisual archives in the Western Balkans (tech.ebu.ch)

• Czech Foreign Minister to visit Kosovo today (media)
• Kosovo Foreign Minister: EU has no reason to deny visa liberalisation (VoA)
• Deputy Minister of Education believes classes will start on Oct 3 (RTK)
• Rohde: Kosovo and Serbia will have to make difficult decisions (Radio Kosova)
• Two foreign organisations drafting Association statute, Novosti reports (Koha)
• Lajcak and von Cramon discuss state of play in EU-facilitated dialogue (media)
• Chollet and Peach meet, “elevating focus of Serbia-Kosovo dialogue” (media)
• Albanian politicians see jailed Kosovo leaders in Hague (The Washington Post)
• Vucic: International pressure to recognize Kosovo (Albanian Daily News)
• North Macedonia opposition against Open Balkan, blocks laws (RFE)

Albanian Language Media:

• SBASHK: Let’s suspend strike until January, classes to start on Oct 3 (Express)
• SBASHK: Strike may be suspended temporarily but not stopped (Koha)
• Maragos: EU willing to continue support for Kosovo (RTK)
• German MP: Kosovo has deserved visa liberalisation for long now (Telegrafi)
• Vetevendosje MP denies reports he has decided to leave the party (EO)
• Serious violations suspected in Dehari case; Ministry suspends chief inspector (media)
• Police arrest seven people in anti-drug operation in Dukagjin region (Klan Kosova)
• Police arrest Russian national at Kulla crossing, had undeclared money (Express)
• Haradinaj recalls meeting with former U.S. Secretary of Defence (Nacionale)

Serbian Language Media:

• Vucic’s public address on all key issues on October 8 (Tanjug, media)
• Selakovic on Kosovo’s application to the CoE, Consultation plan signed with Lavrov, Vucic’s meetings (NMagazin, Beta, Kosovo Online, TV Happy)
• Russian Embassy: Hill’s statement is inappropriate (N1, FoNet)
• Djilas to US officials: Serbia must align its foreign policy with EU (N1)
• Drecun: Pristina is trying to destabilize the situation in every way (RTS, Kosovo Online)
• Today is the International Day of Bosniaks (KoSSev, Kosovo Online)
• Deputy PM: 700,000 citizens left North Macedonia in eight years (Beta, N1)

International:

• EBRD affirms Kosovo's 2022 economic growth f'cast at 4% (SeeNews)
• ‘This is a War’: Albania Struggles to Keep Lid on Hacked Data (BIRN)
• Two coal plants in Western Balkans go offline due to malfunctions (balkangreenenergynews.com)

• Osmani: Hopes should not be raised high for visa liberalisation (media)
• Czech EU Presidency to discuss free visa for Kosovo (Euractiv)
• Hopes raised; no new requirements for visa liberalisation (Lajmi)
• Osmani meets Under Secretary General of United Nations DiCarlo (media)
• Osmani: Returning to Kosovo, fully confident Kosovo is on right path (media)
• Konjufca to meet Vassilis Maragos today in Prishtina (media)
• Rohde: No threat of war between Kosovo and Serbia (media)
• Kosovo does not approve Petkovic visit; Foreign Ministry tells reasons (media)·
• Italian KFOR removes Serbian flag near Ibar Bridge (media)
• Citaku: Schools remain closed; Kurti wants to make Kosovo unlivable (media)