UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, 8 April, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

• Kastrati: Serb community must understand that population census does not return (Klan)
• Serbian List members resign from municipal election commissions in the north (media)
• Knaus: EU's current strategy for Kosovo-Serbia dialogue has collapsed (RTK)
• Petritsch: The Kurti-Vucic agreement has international validity (RTK)
• LDK: Claims that Kosovo has progressed in international indexes is government propaganda (media)
• Osmani: The Roma community is an integral part of our society (media)
• Tahiri: What is this silence in LVV about samples from Dehari case? (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Radosavljevic: Boycott of referendum does not come as surprise, Serbs do not feel safe (Euronews, Kosovo Online)
• Russian MFA: Attempts for Kosovo to become CoE member witness to degradation of this organization (N1, FoNet)
• Pristina: Little willingness of Serbs in the north of Kosovo to register (KiM radio, RTS)
• Kastrati: The census mandatory for everyone, no one has the right to call for a boycott (KiM radio, Slobodno Srpski, Kosovo Online)
• What questions are being asked at the census, who is “Woman with Crown” and “Woman without Crown”, and what period “War Damage” entails? (KoSSev)
• World Roma Day (KiM radio)
• Vucic lays wreath in Paris, due to meet Macron (N1, Tanjug)
• Swedish ambassador says Serbia gets second highest EU fund payouts (N1, FoNet)
• Vucevic, Brnabic met Peach: Commitment to preserving peace and stability in the region (Tanjug, RTS)

International:

• It is in the interest of the EU that Enlargement takes place soon, Varhelyi says (Sarajevo Times)

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti: Population data helps us guide policies (Koha)
• Kurti: I call on international community to demand from Serbia to clarify fate of those who disappeared during war (Reporteri)
• Svecla and Haxhiu go to Radoicic's villa, announce security cameras have been installed (Klan)
• Krasniqi: Serbian List has lost its influence in the North (A2 CNN)
• Serbian List: Serbs will not participate in population census in Kosovo (RFE)
• Census - Most Serb enumerators in Zubin Potok withdraw (Koha)
• Hamza: Current draft of Association, poorest offer that Kosovo has had on table (ekonomia)
• Lajcak informed of challenges faced by Albanians of the Valley (RTK)

Serbian Language Media:

• Vucic: Serbia will oppose the humiliations that have been prepared for it in the Council of Europe and the UN (Kosovo Online)
• Serbian parties from Kosovo against the participation of Serbs in the population census (Kosovo Online, Tanjug, RTS)
• Kurti with the presidents of Kosovo municipalities without translation into Serbian language; The UNS protests (KiM radio, Medija Centar Caglavica)
• Blakaj: Recording of war damage within the census is problematic; it may result in a distorted picture (Kosovo Online)
• Raska-Prizren Diocese reacts to accusations by Elonora Visoka Weller against SOC, says they indirectly foster ethnic and religious intolerance (Raska-Prizren Eparchy, media, social media)
• Dacic: Today the government meeting on a team to fight against the Pristina admission into the CoE (NMagazin, media)
• Sarovic: Pristina membership to Council of Europe, consequence of Vucic’s Kosovo policy (KoSSev)
• North: Names of places in the Albanian language covered with Cyrillic stickers, then taken off (Kontakt plus radio, media)

Opinion:

• Serbian Coordination Directorate passport holders the only people in Western Balkans not allowed free travel to Europe (Kosovo Online, EWB)

Albanian Language Media:

• Kosovo and Serbia without an agreement on the dinar in Brussels (RFE)
• Kurti met British emissary Stuart Peach, discuss developments in Kosovo (media)
• Gervalla meets Japan’s Speaker of Parliament, bilateral relations highly valued (Klan)
• Haxhiu: 31 vehicles of "Banjska" case have been given to police for use - court's decision must be waited for the villa (Klan)
• Weller: Lands of Serb churches in Kosovo should be managed by institutions (RTK)
• German MEP: I hope Lajcak will not cloud EU-Swiss relations as well (Reporteri)
• EULEX's donation helps reactivate KP substation in Suhodoll (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Vucic from the Government extraordinary session (RTS, Tanjug)
• Belgrade-Pristina dialogue – trilateral meeting started in Brussels (RTS)
• Petkovic: We reiterated our proposal, Pristina not ready for compromise (Tanjug, Kosovo Online)
• Bouyx visited Visoki Decani Monastery, Father Petar says Serbs currently experience most severe form of ethnic repression (Kosovo Online, KoSSev, social media)
• Pantic Pilja: Admission of Kosovo to Council of Europe would represent violation of international law (Tanjug)
• UNS: Inaccurate information about March violence against Serbs for longer than two weeks on RTK2 website (Radio KIM, media)
• Andric Rakic: Voting by mail is problematic, it can call into question impeachment of mayors (Kosovo Online)
• KFOR: We are ready to take all necessary measures for safety, regardless of where danger comes from (Kosovo Online, social media)
• EULEX: Kurti's visit to the municipalities in the north was not announced to us (Tanjug, Kosovo Online)

International:

• Bridging Borders: Roma NGOs Unite For Peace And Inclusion In Serbia And Kosovo (Balkan Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, 3 April, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti visits north, participates in inauguration of memorial plaque for Enver Zymberi (Reporteri)
• Gervalla in Tokyo talks about new Japanese projects and investments in Kosovo (media)
• LVV asks US and EU to be more rational in their demands towards Kosovo (ekonomia)
• General Bernacca: Who messes with our people, faces most powerful military organization in world (Reporteri)
• Vehicle of Serb police officer in the north set on fire, prosecution suspects deliberate act (Reporteri)
• LVV officially enters competition in North Macedonia’s elections, competes with three candidates for MP (Reporteri)

Serbian Language Media:

• Petkovic reacts to Kurti’s visit to the north (Kosovo Online, media)
• Serbian List: Kurti’s visit to the north aims at destabilization and inciting tensions (Kosovo Online, media)
• Vucic: Discussion with Hill open, substantial (Tanjug, media)
• Dacic meets with Bouyx (Tanjug)
• Mojsilovic visits Cyprus (Tanjug)
• “No one has informed us” – Non-majority community uninformed about census (Radio Free Europe)
• Fatherland: Census in Kosovo starts in two days, and “kitty has got Belgrade’s tongue” (KoSSev)
• Brnabic to call Belgrade local elections for June 2 on Wednesday (Tanjug)

International:

• One Year into Kosovo War Leaders’ Trial, Much Remains Unclear (Balkan Insight)
• Prosecution Probes Allegations of Grant Misappropriation in Kosovo’s Community Programs (Prishtina Insight)

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti reveals the achievements for the support of non-majority communities (RTK)
• Stano: Association establishment, a long-standing requirement and obligation (media)
• Osmani: Burning the children of Kosovo alive, the truth of Serbia (RTK)
• Kurti pays tribute in Gjakova: Killing of children and elderly proves Serbian genocide (media)
• KFOR talks about the security situation in Kosovo (Kallxo)
• Krasniqi on KLA leaders: You can imprison them, but you cannot deny their presence (media)
• Abazovic: EU should be more concrete in Kosovo-Serbia dialogue (RTK)

Serbian Language Media:

• Stano: Urgently form the A/CSM, that is one of the conditions and topics of every meeting (Radio Mitrovica sever, Tanjug)
• The UNSC session, addressing the UNMIK report, scheduled for April 22 (Tanjug, Kosovo Online, RTS)
• Deadline for registration of voters outside Kosovo until April 3, complicated CEC procedure in Pristina (Tanjug)
• Gasic to Svecla: Whatever you say is a lie, the attack on Vucic announces new violence and pressure on Serbs (KoSSev, media)
• O’Brien to Osmani: Important to form CSM, it is a dialogue commitment (N1)
• Danijela Vujicic at the head of the Parliamentary Committee for Kosovo and Metohija (KoSSev)
• Anatomy of a bot campaign (KoSSev)