• Thaci agrees with Merkel, seeks recognition from 5 EU countries (RTK)
• Thaci: Referendum on final agreement with Serbia (RTK)
• Thaci: Demarcation/correction in words and peace, far from bullets (media)
• Hoti: LDK welcomes Merkel’s statement on “border adjustments” (Zeri)
• Growing international pressure against talks on “border adjustments” (Koha)
• Ischinger against exchange of territories (RTK)
• OSF report on territorial exchange between Kosovo and Serbia (Zeri)
• Serwer: Partition of Kosovo incites violence (Kosova Sot)
• Presevo Mayor: Status of Presevo Valley must not damage Kosovo (Koha)
• Delawie and PSD leaders discuss dialogue (Zeri)
• Visa liberalisation information campaign gets underway in Kosovo (Epoka)
• Special prosecutor resigns amid threats (media)
UNMIK Headlines 15 August
Headlines - 15.08.2018
UNMIK Headlines 14 August
• Merkel: No change of borders in the Balkans (dailies)
• Thaci continues to promote ‘border adjustment’ idea (media)
• Arifi: Technical dialogue with Serbia ‘clinically dead’ (Telegrafi)
• Kurti: Talk of territory leads closer to war than to peace (VOA/Zeri)
• Ahmeti: Debate on border correction, more imagined than concrete (Epoka)
• Rakic: No one should touch competencies of Serb municipalities (RTK)
• “Mogherini to be dismissed if she participated in partition talks” (RFE/Koha)
• Kosovo’s MFA: Serbia to distance itself from Milosevic’s policies (RTK)
Headlines - 14.08.2018
UNMIK Headlines 13 August
Thaci: Dialogue needs to end in mutual recognition (Epoka e Re)
Halimi: Unification with Kosovo to go through Assembly (Koha Ditore)
Serwer: Partition or exchange of territories lead to destabilization (Koha)
Leigh: EU does not support Kosovo’s change of borders (dailies)
Simic: Kosovo Serbs to agree to partition if they gain more rights (Koha)
Government denies Association/Community having executive powers (Epoka)
Man arrested for threatening President Thaci’s family (Kallxo/Zeri)
Headlines - 13.08.2018
UNMIK Headlines 11 August
• Thaci meets with Ali Ahmeti (media)
• Mustafa: Neither Thaci nor Haradinaj are to be trusted (Koha)
• Haziri: It is our historic duty to unite with Valley, we do not exchange Kosovo north (Koha)
• Thaci’s idea for exchange of territories is being assessed as dangerous (Koha)
• Delawie: U.S.-Kosovo friendship will not change (media)
• Kosovo’s partition is a dangerous solution (media)
Headlines - 11.08.2018
UNMIK Headlines 10 August
PDK leader, Veseli, against border change idea (Koha Ditore)
UK, Germany oppose change of borders (RFE/dailies)
US Ambassador: Kosovo and Serbia to propose solution themselves (RTK)
Vucic: I am engaged for division between Serbs and Albanians (RTK)
Thaci decrees new judges, including Interpol-wanted Laban (dailies)
Government receives reports from Management Team (Koha Ditore)
Djuric: UN seat for Kosovo and nothing for Serbia, a bad idea (RTK)
Austria refuses to provide Green Card coverage for Kosovo (Koha)