Headlines - 22.01.2019
UNMIK Headlines 21 January
• Thaci confirms agreement with Serbia will involve border correction (dailies)
• Thaci to meet Kosovo negotiating team today (dailies)
• Prime Minister’s Office: We have consensus in government, tax remains (Koha)
• Veseli to meet Haradinaj and Kosnett to discuss suspension of tax (Zeri)
• Maliqi: Tax suspension, necessary step (Epoka e Re)
• President Thaci meets Albanian PM Rama in Tirana (media)
• UN Security Council to hold session on Kosovo in February (dailies)
• Official launch of KSF transition into army (RTK)
• Teachers union rejects PM Haradinaj’s offer for pay raise (media)
• Serbian police interview two Bosniak members of KSF (media)
Headlines - 21.01.2019
UNMIK Headlines 19 January
• Haradinaj reacts to Serbian authorities detaining two KSF members (RTK)
• Veseli, Haradinaj, Kosnett to discuss tax next week (Zeri)
• Vucic: EU to step up pressure on Kosovo to suspend tax (RFE/Koha)
• Kosovo denies reports Palau has revoked recognition (Klan Kosova)
• Serbian authorities reply to Kosovo prosecution’s request (media)
Headlines - 19.01.2019
UNMIK Headlines 18 January
• Haradinaj and Hahn focus on EU agenda, do not mention tax (dailies)
• Thaci: There is no signed agreement with Serbia (RFE)
• Haradinaj reiterates: No one can take land from Kosovo (media)
• In Belgrade, Putin accuses Kosovo of stirring tensions (dailies)
• Ahmeti: Putin’s visit shows urgent need for region’s democratization (Bota Sot)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina expect Kosovo to lift import tax (Koha/Zeri)
• Government denies it is negotiating tax removal with Bosnia (Koha)
• Shala: Tax to be lifted when reasons for its introduction are eliminated (Zeri)
• Isufi: Measures against Serbia should increase (Epoka)
• Apostolova, O’Connell meet LDK leader Mustafa (Zeri)
• Konjufca: Thaci, the least transparent person (T7)
• Secret procedure for funds allocated for Specialist Chambers (Koha Ditore)
• OSCE: In ten years, 34 women died as a result of domestic violence (Koha)
Headlines - 18.01.2019
UNMIK Headlines 17 January
• Haradinaj: Tax not related to U.S. but to Serbia and Russia (media)
• U.S. Embassy urges suspension of import tax (Klan Kosova)
• EU Commissioner Hahn to visit Kosovo today (media)
• NATO: KFOR to remain unchanged despite KSF’s new mission (Bota Sot)
• Negotiating team violates Resolution on Dialogue (Koha Ditore/Zeri)
• Haradinaj to Putin: Russia destabilises the Balkans (Koha)
• Russian flags adorn Kosovo’s north ahead of Putin’s visit to Serbia (media)
• Hoxhaj: Our aim was not recognition when we imposed tax to Serbia (Telegrafi)
• Limaj: We stand by Haradinaj’s position on tax (Klan Kosova)
• Mustafa: LDK will not become part of the negotiating team (RTK)
• Thaci’s secret “hideout” (Zeri)
• Thaci: A liberator is unjustly interviewed in The Hague (media)
• At The Hague, Lushtaku exercises right to silence (Koha Ditores)
• Another KLA commander called by Specialist Chambers (Zeri)
• Bahtiri: Assembly will support petition for unification of Mitrovica (Epoka)
Headlines - 17.01.2019
UNMIK Headlines 16 January
• Haradinaj: U.S. against border changes, tax to remain in force (Koha/RTK)
• Haradinaj “threatens” Thaci (Kosova Sot)
• Goods from Serbia imported before 21 Nov exempted from 100% tax (dailies)
• Daut Haradinaj: Tax will remain even if it spells government’s end (Koha)
• NATO to discuss creation of Kosovo’s army (Epoka)
• Mustafa concludes testimony before Specialist Chambers (dailies)
• Gucati: More former KLA officials to go to The Hague (Telegrafi)
• Bahtiri to submit petition for unification of Mitrovica today (Epoka)
• Kosovo opens a Customs Office in Durrës, Albania (media)
• Haziri: We will not become part of dialogue, government chose PSD (Telegrafi)
• Negotiations unfruitful, teacher strike continues (Koha Ditore)