Albanian Language Media:
• Media: Kosovo Assembly meets on 25th anniversary of liberation
• Clinton: Today I give thanks for 25 years of peace in Kosovo (media)
• Solana: Kosovo must be transformed into a strong state (RTK)
• Robertson: Inaction would allow continuation of ethnic cleansing of Albanians by Milosevic (Klan)
• Robertson: Kurti, Vucic to find agreement, or we could face a situation like 90s (media)
• Hovenier: What Kosovo has achieved is remarkable (media)
• British Ambassador: We remember and mourn all human suffering that happened in Kosovo (Klan)
• Kurti: Kosovo army has never been bigger and better armed (media)
• Haradinaj: In one week, Serbia humiliated intl community and QUINT twice (media)
• EU: Borrell’s report on Kosovo measures hasn’t been submitted yet (media)
• Ex-NATO Commander comments on Kushner real estate project in Serbia (media)
Serbian Language Media:
• 25 years after the end of conflict Serbs have no reasons to celebrate (Radio KIM)
• Was the Declaration of the All-Serbian Assembly necessary? (KoSSev, Danas)
• The State Department calls for stability and reconciliation in a comment on the Declaration of the All-Serbian Assembly (RFE, N1, media)
• Vucevic: If Kosovo issue is closed, why is there pressure on Serbia? (RTS)nb
• Serbian Justice Minister: Serbia not denying crimes or glorifying criminals (N1, FoNet)
• Vucic: I congratulated Orban on another victory, we continue friendly cooperation (Tanjug)
Opinion:
• Mjeku: Kosovo has many reasons to celebrate its Liberation Day (Arab News)
International:
• War stories: Exhibition recalls coverage of Kosovo conflict, 25 years later (BIRN)
• From war to peace: Before and after photos of Kosovo’s transformation (RFE)
• British brigadier recalls ‘World War Three’ moment in Kosovo (BIRN)
• Kosovo special prosecution indicts eight for abuse of office after Kallxo.com investigation (Prishtina Insight)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, June 12, 2024
UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, June 12, 2024
Albanian Language Media:
• U.S. calls for stability, reconciliation in Balkans, after All-Serbian Assembly (RFE)
• Rohde: We are not here to punish but to support (media)
• Kurti hosts Walker, Robertson, Begaj and Mesic for dinner (media)
• Lajcak briefs Council of Europe members on state of dialogue (media)
• Osmani attends opening of Reporting House exhibition by BIRN (media)
• Kurti meets representatives of “Yes-EU” innovation group (media)
Serbian Language Media:
• Djuric speaks by phone with Schallenberg, informs him of difficulties Serbs face in Kosovo (Tanjug, media)
• Djuric: Position of Serbia is such that Kosovo can never be member of UN (Tanjug, RTV)
• Petkovic responds to Hovenier: For Serbia, UN Charter, UNSCR 1244 and international law are power (Tanjug, media)
• Vucevic: Serbia looking after its interests, that’s cooperation with Russia (FoNet, N1)
• Sentic: Law on use of languages is broad in granted rights, but its implementation in practice is problematic (Kosovo Online)
• Serbian List on organized criminal-espionage network being increasingly exposed (Kosovo Online)
• Indictment raised against one more Serb in relation to protest in Zvecan (Kosovo Online)
• Zoran Kostic and Dragan Milovic pleaded not guilty for alleged war crimes in Vucitrn (RTS)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, June 10, 2024
Albanian Language Media:
• Kurti: The history of the war in Kosovo needs to be studied (RTK)
• Tony Blair: I look forward to Kosovo taking its place in the family of nations (RTK)
• Blair: Kosovo is still facing challenges, but it should become part of EU in future (media)
• Rama and D'Alema meet with Osmani (RTK)
• D'Alema: We are far from the Balkan stability that Ibrahim Rugova intended (RTK)
• Rama: Bridges built by late President Rugova should not be destroyed by today’s politicians (media)
• Hovenier on statement of Serbia and Republika Srpska: It is not our position (media)
• Clark: Russian ambitions hinder stability between Kosovo and Serbia (RFE)
• Svecla: Close to 40 members of Serb community joined Kosovo Police (media)
• Rizvanolli: Energy Efficiency Fund opening office in Mitrovica region (media)
Serbian Language Media:
• Greek Ambassador: Our position on non-recognition of Kosovo unchanged (N1, Beta, Politika)
• Vucic: Compromise solution needed, and not that Albanians have it all, and Serbs nothing (Radio KIM)
• Giaufret for N1: EU enlargement key priority regarding Western Balkans
• Petkovic: Resolution 1244 still a valid document, Kurti cannot diminish its importance (KiM radio, Kosovo Online, Radio Mitrovica sever)
• Drecun: NATO did not achieve its goal in Kosovo in 1999, Resolution 1244 is our ownership right (Kosovo Online)
• Celic: Resolution 1244 is Serbia's only legal asset regarding Kosovo territory (Kosovo Online)
• Court in Pristina sentenced Caslav Jolic to eight years in prison (Kosovo Online)
• Conference “Rugova and the West” without translation into Serbian (Radio KIM)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, June 11, 2024
Albanian Language Media:
• Kurti: Our problem is with the Serbian govt, not with Kosovo Serbs (media)
• Vulin reacts to Hovenier and uses derogatory term for Kosovo Albanians (media)
• Hovenier: Dialogue should conclude with recognition (RFE)
• Maqedonci: Kosovo will join coalition for demining of Ukraine (media)
• Kurti: I have good relations with Prime Minister Rama (media)
• Municipality of Mitrovica North continues to free public spaces (media)
• KFOR: Italian soldiers conduct on-foot and motorized patrols along ABL (media)
Serbian Language Media:
• On expropriation first hand: What will happen to the base? (KoSSev)
• Petkovic: Kurti's messages about democracy and the rule of law in Kosovo a joke (Kosovo Online)
• High time to continue the work on finding the missing, families say (Radio Mitrovica sever, RTS)
• Media in Albanian and Serbian – is there enough cooperation? (KoSSev)
• Vucic: US Embassy in Sarajevo to get answer to its claims about All-Serbian Assembly (Tanjug)
• Dacic: Claims Assembly conclusions erode Dayton Agreement are hypocritical (Tanjug, media)
• Djuric: Serbia ready to create network of friends in new EP (Tanjug)
International:
• Digital defence: Kosovo’s newly formed center aims to educate public officials on cyber security (Prishtina Insight)
• Icons of liberation: The interesting ways that Kosovo pays tribute to Clinton, Blair, Albright (RFE)
• Kosovo convicts Serb ex-policeman of war crimes (BIRN)
UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, June 11, 2024
Albanian Language Media:
• Kurti after meeting Blair: I sincerely thanked our friend for his unwavering support (Nacionale)
• Kurti met with Director of Srebrenica Genocide Memorial Center, Emir Suljagic: Serbia must face its past (Telegrafi)
• USA: "All-Serbian" declaration, dangerous attack on Dayton and Bosnian institutions (media)
• Edi Rama, advised Kurti to get out of trap of "cat and mouse" game with Serbia (Telegrafi)
• Szunyog visited "Bllaca 99" memorial center (RTK)
• Municipality of Pristina announces Kouchner's visit has been cancelled (RTK)
• Express: Lord Robertson arrives in Pristina for the 25th anniversary of liberation (Express)
Serbian Language Media:
• Djuric: Solution for Kosovo can be sought only through dialogue within framework of UNSCR 1244 (media, social
media)
• Dacic: UNSCR 1244 still valid, everyone must comply with it (media)
• Vucevic thanks Mexico for abstaining in UNGA vote, stance on Kosovo issue (Tanjug, media)
• US and West do not agree with positions of Declaration of the All-Serbian Assembly (RFE, N1)
• Vulin: Serbia highly appreciates Russia’s consistent support (N1)
• UNS: It is unacceptable to deny translation into Serbian for journalists (Radio KIM, media)
International Media:
• 'I Never Regretted Helping Kosovo', UK's Tony Blair Says (Prishtina Insight)
• BIRN Marks End of Kosovo War with ‘Reporting House’ Exhibition (Prishtina Insight)
UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, June 10, 2024
Albanian Language Media:
• Kurti: 2024 is the year of integration (media)
• Borrell’s report expected on Tuesday; govt skeptical of lifting measures (Koha)
• Gervalla: We’ll consider Association draft only if Serbia implements Basic Agreement (media)
• LDK, AAK react to declaration adopted by All-Serbian assembly (media)
• EU spokeswoman in Kosovo: Russia trying to disrupt Western Balkans integration (media)
• Police arrest Russian national in Zvecan for illegal border crossing (RFE)
• Barbano: Banjska aggression proved fragility of the situation in the north (media)
• Kurti: Another successful Pride Parade took place in heart of Pristina (media)
• Surroi: June 8 as a metaphor of two societies (media)
Serbian Language Media:
• Fatherland: The All-Serbian Assembly marginalized Kosovo, served to cover up betrayal (N1, NMagazin, Danas)
• Vucevic on the All-Serb Assembly: A new political reality that everyone will have to get used to (Kosovo Online)
• Djuric: Spreading falsehoods about the character and nature of the All-Serb Assembly is harmful and destructive (Kosovo Online)
• Governments of Serbia and RS adopt Declaration on Protection of National and Political Rights and the Joint Future of the Serb People (N1, Beta, FoNet)
• Petkovic, Djuric met representatives of Kosovo Serbs (Tanjug)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, June 7, 2024
Albanian Language Media:
• Kurti: General elections could be held in autumn or winter (media)
• Osmani supports Kurti government on expropriations in the north (Nacionale)
• Osmani on Kurti's proposal for Lajcak to send the draft to Venice: It has not been formally presented to me yet (Reporteri)
• CAA: “EU to focus on fair dialogue that respects Kosovo independence” (media)
• Lawyer Berisha says espionage suspect is witness in The Hague (RTK)
• Local communities and universities strengthen cooperation with KFOR (RTK)
Serbian Language Media:
• Zubin Potok: Citizens do not know the value of the property seized through the expropriation process; many do not want the money (KiM radio)
• Vucic: All-Serb Assembly to show unity (N1)
• Petkovic and Djuric to meet representatives of the Serbian people from Kosovo (Tanjug, Kim Radio, Radio Mitrovica sever)
• Petkovic and Arlov: The All-Serbian Assembly a confirmation of unity and connection (Tanjug, Kosovo online, KiM radio)
• Radar: Erasing memory of assassinated Kosovo Serb leader (N1)
• Quint, EU, and OSCE urge Pristina to uphold Ahtisaari principles and rule of law on expropriation in Serb-majority areas; Kosovo Government regrets the response (KoSSev)
• Pensions in Kosovo for burek and soup (KiM radio, RFE)
• On Germany's new quotas for workers from the Balkans: All profiles are leaving; Gerxhaliu: It will further motivate young people to leave (Kosovo Online)
• KFOR signs memorandum on local education projects (N1)
• EC: Serbia not only country with lithium deposits (N1)
International:
• Framing suffering: Kosovo war photographer opens his archive (BIRN)
• Dodik: We will hold a Referendum on the independence of RS from BiH (Sarajevo Times)
UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, June 7, 2024
Albanian Language Media:
• Kosovo government rejects criticism over land expropriation in the north (media)
• Kurti: We have many enemies; we’re faced with cyber-attacks (media)
• Kosovo Police question wife of Milan Radoicic (RFE)
• Westerlund: Now is the time to form the Association (media)
• Former UK Prime Minister Blair to address Kosovo Assembly on June 10 (media)
• Kastrati: Serbia training Serbs from the north across the border (Telegrafi)
Serbian Language Media:
• Vucic, Quint ambassadors discuss regional political development (Tanjug)
• Hill: The US is satisfied with Serbia's attitude towards Ukraine and the dialogue with Kosovo (Kosovo Online, VoA)
• Starovic on Quint's attitude: Where does the verbal complaint stop and where the tacit support begins (Tanjug, Kosovo Online)
• Djurdjevic Stamenkovski: The seizure of Serbian property in Kosovo is a continuation of Kurti's terror (Tanjug, Kosovo Online)
• Defense of Dragisa Milenkovic: Contradictory witness statements (KiM radio, Kosovo Online)
• Pristina "regrets" the reaction of Quint, OSCE, EU on expropriation - infrastructure projects and police stations for the safety of citizens (KoSSev)
• Milan Radoicic's wife questioned, then released (Kontakt plus radio, KiM radio, KoSSev)
• Joseph: It is in the strategic interest of Kosovo to treat the Serbs in accordance with the law (Kosovo Online, X)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, June 6, 2024
Albanian Language Media:
• Kurti: I don’t believe they can repeat Banjska; they’ll try something else (media)
• Osmani: We protect and keep Kosovo safe together with our allies (media)
• Konjufca: EU wants to forcefully take competencies from Kosovo on Association (Koha)
• QUINT, EU and OSCE react to government for expropriations in the north (media)
• Rohde: Soon there will be decisions to unblock the situation (media)
• Korenica denies group of VV MPs planning to form a new party (media)
• Police report on findings at houses of two arrested for espionage (media)
• Konjufca on espionage arrests: I’m sure there are more similar cases (media)
• “The two arrested, part of agenda to deny the Recak massacre and fabricate a Yellow House” (Gazeta Express)
• Gjini: Serbia doesn’t want Association, but a border on Iber (media)
• Catalonian party calls on Spain to recognize Kosovo (RFE)
• Guillou resigns as judge at Kosovo Specialist Chambers (media)
Serbian Language Media:
• Quint, EU and OSCE: We regret the decision of the Government of Kosovo to finalize the expropriation in the north (Kosovo Online, KiM radio)
• Under the pretext of preventing smuggling, the KP destroy the property of Serbs in the village of Banje (KiM radio)
• Caslav Jolic's defense attorney an optimist, if tried based on the evidence (KiM radio)
• Petkovic: Kurti is only ready to terrorize the Serbian people (RTV, Tanjug, Kosovo Online)
• UN Security Council Resolution 1244 is a key document for Serbia in maintaining its territorial integrity (Kosovo Online)
• Gerxhaliu: If I didn't know that the IMF report was about Kosovo, I would have thought that it was about Japan or Switzerland (Kosovo Online)
International:
• Kosovo’s judiciary to treat organized crime and corruption cases more vigorously, OSCE Mission report says (osce.org)
• OSCE questions efficiency, quality of Balkan organised crime, graft trials (BIRN)
• “We were here and we will always be here” (Kosovo 2.0)
• Seminar on Advancing the Rights of the Roma and Ashkali Communities in Kosovo held in Pristina (eeas.europa.eu)
• As Palestine recognitions grow, Balkan states’ stances shaped by geopolitics (BIRN)
UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, June 6, 2024
Albanian Language Media:
• Kurti: I cannot make any mistake with the Association (media)
• Osmani: I didn’t say Association draft in line with Constitution (Albanian Post)
• Lajcak informs CoE member states about challenges in dialogue (Express)
• Two arrested for espionage detained for 48 hours (Express)
• Kosovo government excludes some properties from expropriation in north (RFE)
• Surroi: Association is not biggest problem of Kosovo; it dates before 1999 (media)
• Tony Blair to visit Kosovo (Koha)
• Three agreements on legal cooperation with Sweden are finalized (Express)
Serbian Language Media:
• Lajcak in the CoE: I informed the countries about the challenges in the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina (RTS)
• Bilcik: Community of Serbian municipalities an absolute priority (Tanjug)
• BIA denies connection with persons arrested in Urosevac suspected of espionage (N1, NMagazin, KoSSev, media)
• Certain private plots exempted from the decision on expropriation in the north of Kosovo (RFE)
• Roads are being dug again in the North; KP: We prevent smuggling; Bisevac: They prevent locals from accessing properties (KoSSev)
• European elections and the Brussels dialogue: Disappointed expectations and new calculations (Kosovo Online)