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UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 11, 2023

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 11, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• President Osmani meets with the U.S. Senior Official, Derek Chollet (media)
• Rizvanolli: Electricity payment for northern municipalities cannot continue indefinitely (Klan)
• Ambassador Bajrami refutes Vucic: Relations with Libya are deepening (media)
• LDK: LVV trying to hide failures through propaganda (media)
• Citaku: Ambassador Martin Berishaj should be dismissed (media)
• Xhafer Deva’s successor files lawsuit against German ambassador Rohde (express)

Serbian Language Media:

• Jevtic asks for reinforced presence of KFOR in Strpce (Tanjug)
• Vucic says he will meet four international envoys by January 20 (media)
• Vucevic: Strong military helped resolve Kosovo crisis peacefully (BETA, N1)
• Petkovic says Kurti is one moving away from normality (Kosovo Online)
• Brnabic: No expectations from Chollet visit expect formation of Community (Tanjug)
• Brnabic says she received assurances – INTERPOL closed to Kosovo (N1, FoNet)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, January 11, 2023

• Kurti: We want to achieve normalization of relations with Serbia (media)
• Chollet to visit Kosovo today; will meet Osmani and Kurti (media)
• Lajcak meets with Varhelyi, Escobar, discuss about dialogue (RTK)
• Hovenier: U.S. is committed to a sustainable partnership with Kosovo (RTK)
• Kosovo: More pressure on Serbia to accept French-German proposal (AA)
• The real face of Serbia: A Response to Djuric (Prishtina Insight)
• Minuto-Rizzo: Historic engagement of NATO in Balkans will continue (EWB)
• Hungary to veto Kosovo's applications to EU bodies: Foreign minister (AA)
• Opposition parties reacts to LVV’s video (Kallxo)
• Rasic doesn’t believe he said youths in Shterpce were shot to be killed (Klan)
• Kosovo Awaits Supply of Material for Personal Documents (Prishtina Insight)
• Impact of COVID-19 on Poverty in Kosovo (Borgen Magazine)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 10, 2023

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 10, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti: Serbia has unanimously rejected the Franco-German plan (Ekonomia Online)
• Kurti to mayors: Focus on budget expenditures to be transparent (Express)
• Tahiri: Kurti is appropriating merits of independent institutions (media)
• Gashi: Main responsibility for wounding in Shterpce falls on security institutions for not stepping up police presence (Kallxo)
• Hamiti: Any attempt to diminish independence must be strongly rejected (Nacionale)
• Somalia refutes Vucic, the African state wants to deepen relations with Kosovo (RTK)

Serbian Language Media:

• Djuric: Kurti has no carte blanche support from US (Tanjug)
• Borko Stefanovic: “Perfidious ethnic cleansing, Kurti wishes to push Serbs to Raska” (N1, FoNet, Nova S)
• Hungary to vote against Kosovo membership in European bodies (RTV, Kosovo Online)
• Vorgucic: Incident near Strpce shows situation in enclaves (KoSSev, N1)
• Dacic: Serbia-Hungary relations at highest level in decade (Tanjug)
• Dacic: Three red lines for Serbia regarding Kosovo (Tanjug, media)
• Brnabic: Free trade agreement with UAE (FoNet)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, January 10, 2023

• Kurti: Drug labs in north were worth more than €100 million (media)
• NATO, EU, US consult on developments in Kosovo, Western Balkans (NATO)
• Lajcak on the U.S., NATO and EU meeting: Useful and timely (Klan)
• Smith: U.S. fully supports EU-facilitated dialogue (media)
• Visa liberalization Thursday on the agenda in Brussels (Zeri)
• EU membership, consultations with non-recognising countries a priority (Koha)
• Kurti and Rizvanolli ask citizens to save electricity (media)
• MFA reacts to attack on Kosovo bus traveling through Serbia (Reporteri)
• State Department criticises Vucic’s accusations against Joseph (RFE)
• Serbs in North and in Shterpce Stage Protests (Prishtina Insight)
• Rasic says KSF soldier tried to kill two Serb youths near Shterpce (Koha)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 9, 2023

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 9, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• Prime Minister Kurti to visit Austria this week (RTK)
• Sweden’s EU Presidency has started consultations for Kosovo’s bid (RFE)
• Schmitt: In Balkans only one country causes problems, Serbia (Der Standard/Koha)
• Analysts: Serbia is trying to refuse European plan; Kosovo to clarify its position (EO)
• Reka: Some wrongly hope that peace can be reached with Vucic (Nacionale)
• Serb reporter: Wounded in Strpce are misused by Vucic and Serbian List (Klan)

Serbian Language Media:

• Thousands protest over armed attack on two Serb youngsters in Strpce (N1)
• Reactions to armed attack on two Serb youngsters near Strpce (RTV, Tanjug, Kosovo Online)
• Serb young man beaten while returning from midnight Christmas liturgy in Klokot (N1)
• SOC: Patriarch will visit Pec Patriarchate in line with his program and discretion (Radio kontakt plus)
• Pristina extends house arrest of Pantic for two more months (Tanjug)
• A rally held in North Mitrovica against Serbia List and Serbian President (KoSSev)
• Vukasin Obradovic to his Albanian friends: Do what Suroi did in ’99 (KoSSev)
• Brnabic: We will request additional guarantees for Serbs in Kosovo (N1, RTS)
• US State Department: Chollet due in Belgrade on Thursday (BETA, N1)

Opinion:

• Kosovo Crisis has Underlined NATO’s Unclear Mandate in Region (BIRN)

International:

• Wider Europe Briefing: Will Kosovo And Serbia Finally Make A Deal? Plus, The Nitty-Gritty Of EU Enlargement (RFE)
• The Guardian view on problems in the western Balkans: Europe should do more
• Roma Tell Long-Neglected Stories of Kosovo War’s Enduring Impact (BIRN)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, January 9, 2023

• NATO declines Serbia's request to deploy its troops in Kosovo (Reuters)
• Two Serbs injured in Christmas Eve shooting, suspect arrested (euronews)
• Kurti strongly condemns attack on two citizens in Shterpce (media)
• EU condemns shooting of two Serbs on Orthodox Christmas Eve (media)
• Hovenier condemns wounding of two young people in Shterpce (RTK)
• UNMIK chief condemns shooting of two Serbs in Shterpce (media)
• One month detention for suspect of wounding two young Serbs (media)
• Protest in Shterpce after the injury of two young Serbs (media)
• Albin Kurti: Can Kosovo bond with its ethnic Serbs? (Al Jazeera)
• Chollet to visit Kosovo on January 11 (media)
• A bus with passengers from Kosovo gets attacked in Serbia (media)
• “Kurti will resign”, analyst gives details of plan for snap elections (euronews.al)
• PDK’s Krasniqi calls Svecla’s request for expired passports shameful (media)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 5, 2022

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 5, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti agrees to Rasic’s request for Porfirije visit to Kosovo (media)
• Peach starts the series of visits of Western emissaries to Kosovo (Koha)
• Abdixhiku: State leaders owe the people an explanation (media)
• Citaku: Kurti must explain why allies are saying time is not for recognition (media)
• Mitrovica-Jarinje road will be closed for around 2 hrs due to barricades removal (media)
• U.S. Embassy explains “like” on Vucic’s tweet (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• President Vucic in his annual address talks about Kosovo, challenges ahead (N1, media)
• Vucic: Further nine countries revoked recognition of Kosovo (media)
• Zuroff: Honours for Deva an insult to memory of his victims (Tanjug)
• US State Department: No announcements about Escobar visit to Serbia (Tanjug)
• Vasic: Trajkovic’s health deteriorates, we will request house arrest (KoSSev)
• Pristina extends detention of Miljan Adzic (Tanjug)
• Vacancies for police officers in northern Kosovo announced (N1, media)

International:

• Serbian President Claims ‘Nine More Kosovo Recognition Withdrawals’ (BIRN)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, January 5, 2023

• President Osmani decrees the Law on Wages (media)
• Opposition seeks clarification about U.S. ambassador's statement (Nacionale)
• Stano: Kosovo, an example of cooperation between EU and NATO (media)
• Germany: Return of Serbian troops, completely unacceptable (Express)
• “Every mistake can cost Kosovo; should learn from North Macedonia” (media)
• Haziri: Kurti doesn’t have problems with envoys, but with the people (Reporteri)
• Weber skeptical: Unlikely agreement will be reached this year (RFE)
• North Kosovo: time to turn to civil society (Social Europe)
• Vucic: Chollet will visit Belgrade next week (Kallxo)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 4, 2023

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 4, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• State Department: Kosovo, Serbia should create climate for reconciliation (Reporteri)
• “European” plan to intensify the dialogue in January (Koha)
• Deputy Defence Minister: Serbia’s request to deploy troops in Kosovo is absurd (KP)
• Haxhiu: Mechanism to monitor human rights implementation by Special Court (Koha)
• LDK’s Hoti: Govt to explain why now is not time for mutual recognition? (media)
• Von Cramon on how non-recognising states could vote at PACE (Koha)
• Hoti: We don’t accept Serbia’s added paragraphs in missing persons document (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Recently detained Serbs - Pantic under house arrest, Trajkovic without therapy, and request for extending detention to Adzic (RTS)
• Slovak Ministry: Any change of position to depend on Belgrade-Pristina normalisation (Tanjug)
• Director of Museum of Genocide sent letters to ambassadors over plans to renovate Xhafer Deva’s house (Kosovo Online, N1)
• Quartet of Western envoys to visit Serbia after Orthodox Christmas (Tanjug, Novosti)
• Serbs from northern Kosovo call for protest, dissatisfied with Belgrade’s policy (Danas)

Opinion:

• After barricades: Instead of new Kosovo policy, old problems persevere in new year (KoSSev)

International:

• Soaring Air Pollution in Region Stokes Health Fears (BIRN)
• The DJ and the War Crimes (Rolling Stone)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, January 4, 2023

• EC: Situation in north still very fragile; talks on Association must start (media)
• KFOR: We’re examining Serbia’s request to deploy troops in Kosovo (Express)
• Hungary plays key role in Kosovo peacekeeping (Hungary Today)
• NATO Military Chiefs of Defence Meeting - 18-19 January 2023 (nato.int)
• Will Kosovo’s war ever end? (UnHerd)
• The religious propaganda that threatens Kosovo (Kallxo)
• The Peak of the Balkans Trail: Europe's last true wilderness (BBC)