Albanian Language Media:

• UN Security Council to discuss Kosovo today following Serbia’s request (Koha)
• Kurti travels to U.S., expected to take part in UNSC session on Kosovo (media)
• Tahiri: Partners earlier advised us for PM or President not to go to UNSC (Express)
• Citaku criticizes Kurti for issue of Dinar being discussed at UNSC (media)
• Konjufca: Serbia used the Dinar to blackmail the Kosovo Serbs (Koha)
• Muja: Don’t expect Dinar issue to threaten Kosovo’s partnership with allies (KTV)
• “Romas in north can be blackmailed via uncontrolled entrance of Dinar” (Koha)
• Serbian List MPs return to Assembly to ensure continuation of mandates (media)
• “The fabricated exodus’ of Serbs from Kosovo (Deutsche Welle in Albanian/FAZ)
• Aliu: Contract signed to expand and finalize Pristina-Mitrovica road (Koha)
• KFOR MSU conducts live firing exercise (media)
• Svecla: Kosovo’s security is challenged by Russia’s satellite, Serbia (RTK)
• Danish Justice Minister to visit Kosovo on February 12-13 (Klan Kosova)
• Bregu launches new platform of Regional Cooperation Council in Pristina (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Serbian List writes to Quint, requests prevention of Serbian people exodus from Kosovo (Tanjug)
• CSOs: Blatant violation of media freedoms and direct attack on civil society (Radio KIM)
• NBS: Commercial Bank was forced to close branch office in Mitrovica because of pressure (KoSSev)
• Gogic: It is only matter of time when Pristina will go against schools and hospitals (Kosovo Online)
• Andric Rakic: Kurti is intimidating Serbs with his moves, West can prevent that, but it balances (Kosovo Online)
• Jevtic says KSF member who shot at Serbian children on Christmas Eve pressed lawsuit against him (Kosovo Online, social media)
• Serbian products expelled from the shelves in the north of Kosovo, Mitrovica residents say they "live like in a ghetto" (N1)
• Deputies of the Serbian List at the session of the Kosovo Parliament in order not to lose their mandates (NMagazin, Beta)
• Office for KiM: Fire in Odanovce village most probably planted, pressure continues (Tanjug)
• Serbian List: About a dozen Serbian families in the village of Odanovce attacked by arsonists (Kosovo Online)
• European Court of Auditors wants better protection for growth plan (N1)
• European Parliament adopts Resolution on Serbian elections (N1)

International:

• ‘Stability is fragile’: An overlooked European conflict zone is at a tipping point between peace and combat (CNBC)
• Sandulovic: I was beaten by 10 persons, Radoicic was present (Euronews Albania)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, February 7, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

• Stano: Kosovo risks lagging in EU path because of unilateral actions (media)
• Central Bank Governor meets Minister for Communities and Returns (media)
• Rasic on CBK regulation: We are in a period of transition (RFE)
• Qalaj: Svecla is making a mistake by taking part in police actions (Indeksonline)
• Kurti meets Director of Open Society Roma for Europe, Zeljko Jovanovic (media)
• Bislimi on IMC draft law: It increases transparency of media ownership (Koha)
• Prelec: It is likely Kosovo will form an empty Association or none (RFE)
• Dimic to Kurti: I’m returning to Kosovo; Vucic’s dictatorship intolerable (RTK)
• Serbia fears documentary novel about crimes in Kosovo (Koha)

Serbian Language Media:

Dacic: I received information that UNSC session will be open to public, President Vucic to attend (Tanjug, RTS, media)
First shipment of dinars following CBK decision banned from entering Kosovo (Kosovo Online)
Serbian Democracy calls upon EU to establish Fund in Kosovo (Radio KIM)
China Ambassador Li Ming: The issue of Kosovo should be resolved through dialogue (RTS)
Hovenier: Reactions of Kosovo authorities have direct impact on quality of our partnership (Radio KIM, KoSSev)
Pistorius: I am concerned, Germany has been sending additional forces to Kosovo since April (Blic, Kosovo Online, media)
Sentic: Serbs in Kosovo deprived of basic rights, existence, and dignity (Kosovo Online)
Gogic: Pristina closes down Serbian institutions, and does nothing to return Serbs in institutions in the north (N1, Kosovo Online)
10 years of KoSSev: Awards to Milivoje Mihajlović and posthumously to Belul Beqaj 
Brnabic: Draft EP resolution contains no arguments (Tanjug)

International:

Kosovo Allows Consumers to Terminate Contracts with Cable Operators Escaping Penalties (Prishtina Insight)

Albanian Language Media:

• Enforcement of regulation only through accounts in Kosovo banks (RFE)
• Is the Association becoming meaningless? (Radio Free Europe)
• Roth: Serious doubts about EU and US strategy to deescalate (Albanian Post)
• Rizvanolli: Investments in Trepca will be a priority (Gazeta 10)
• Kurti: Measures that are launched will boost economic growth (RTK)
• Court postpones execution of decision on property exchange (Koha)
• D4D: Media in Serbia publish news about public persons in Kosovo, Kosovo media translate them without verifying (EO)
• Unknown persons demolish machine for documents withdrawal in Zvecan (Koha)
• Serbian police again stop lawyer that laid flowers at Jasharaj cemetery (Express)
• Osmani wishes Charles III rapid and full recovery (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Gorazdevac residents: This has crossed all limits; we don't even have money for medicine (Kosovo Online, KiM radio, Radio Gorazdevac)
• Clinical Hospital Centre: Decision on dinar threatens to terminate medical treatment of Serbs, drive them out of Kosovo (Radio kontakt plus)
• Sarkovic on Kosovo police raid in Vidanje, Klina municipality (Kosovo Online)
• Milivojevic: If West prevents UNSC session it would mean they support Kurti’s policy (RTS)
• Vucic hands over letter for Chinese President Xi to Ambassador Li (Tanjug)
• Atiq: Call opened for reconstruction of houses for “non-majority communities” in Mitrovica North municipality (KoSSev)
• Trial to Svecla and others for throwing tear gas in Kosovo Assembly postponed (Kosovo Online)
• Serbia gets new Parliament (Tanjug, N1)
• Selimi: Kosovo Government with all its forces meddles in North Macedonia elections (media, social media)
• EP draft resolution calls for international investigation into Serbian elections (N1, media)

Opinion:

• Bogdanovic on the situation in Kosovo: "The only thing left is for them to take our lives" (N1, Danas, KiM radio)

International:

• ‘Worse Than Death’: Male Wartime Rape Survivors in Kosovo Speak Out (BIRN)
• Kosovo accused of raising ethnic tensions by banning use of Serbian dinar (The Guardian)
• ‘She is just a woman and that is brave enough’ (Kosovo 2.0)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, February 5, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

• German Defense Minister arrives in Kosovo (media)
• Osmani: CBK regulation is not against dinar and it does not mention it (media)
• Hovenier insists on postponing implementation of CBK regulation (media)
• Muja: No one is fueling the fire; some statements can be used for tensions (media)
• Kosovo citizens advised not to travel through Merdare (media)
• Feith: Kosovo should be careful, don't make mistakes (Reporteri)
• Konjufca: Serbia poses a danger to our region and beyond (media)
• Gervalla in Rome with Western Balkans foreign ministers (Albanian Post)
• Zlatan Arsic acquitted of war crime charges (Koha)
• Gervalla meets Belgian Ambassador, focus on political situation (media)
• CEC: Signatures for dismissal of mayors in the north are being verified (Koha)
• Police begin investigations into posters with Radoicic in the north (media)
• Serbian police continue to mistreat Nikola Sandulovic’s family (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Stano: Concern growing in EU due to decision of CBK and police operations against Serbian entities (N1)
• Brnabic on request for extraordinary session of UN SC: We will fight with all diplomatic means (Beta, NMagazin, TV Pink)
• Dacic: Kosovo and Metohija issue of paramount state and national interest of Serbia (Tanjug)
• Hovenier after meeting Kurti: We hope to see postponement of Central Bank decision (Kosovo Online)
• China: Unilateral Pristina’s actions do not lead toward resolution of Kosovo issue (Tanjug)
• Self-determination Movement lists their January successes including ban on dinar (KoSSev)
• Zlatan Arsic acquitted (RTS, N1)
• Lawyers: Zlatan Arsic is a free man (Kosovo Online)
• OSCE: It is of crucial importance that rights of Kosovo Serbs are fully respected (Kosovo Online, media)
• Rohde: Unilateral measures only add fuel to fire, opposite of reducing tensions (Kosovo Online, KoSSev, social media)
• Simic: Serbs in Kosovo frightened by silence of international community, statements are not enough (Beta, Danas, TV Pink)
• Grenell on German officials’ reactions to latest Pristina authorities acts (Kosovo Online, social media)
• Chinese Ambassador to Belgrade: Solve Kosovo issue without double standards (Beta, NMagazin, Politika, KiM radio)
• Haziri: Government increased national sentiment, reduced European one among citizens (Kosovo Online, VoA)

Opinion:

• Palokaj: Kosovo is asked not to do what it has the right to do (Koha)
• Serwer: How to counter the Serbian world (media)

International:

• Kosovo Euro Rule, Closure of Belgrade-Run Offices, Draw International Criticism (Balkan Insight)

Albanian Language Media:

• EC: No problem with regulation, but how it was done (Gazeta Express)
• Konjufca assures U.S. there won’t be unrest over Dinar decision (Kallxo)
• Court sentences Kosovo Serb to 13 years in prison for war crimes in 1999 (media)
• Police, prosecution with action against parallel structures in Peja region (media)
• IMC draft law seen as attack against news websites (Koha)
• AmCham: Kosovo to free itself from discourse of conflict and instability (RTK)
• Unknown persons removed table set up by Ministry in Zubin Potok (media)
• Haradinaj: Kosovo’s main objective is NATO membership (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Vucic: Serbia demands a session of the Security Council, letters to the EU, Russia, and China on Monday (N1)
• The police harassed the team of Radio Gorazdevac (KiM radio, Radio Gorazdevac)
• Revolted by the police action, young people gathered in the center of Osojane (KiM radio)
• Serbian List: The raid of armed special forces in three Metohija municipalities another proof of ethnic cleansing (Radio Mitrovica sever, Kosovo Online)
• Office for KiM: Closure of Serbian municipalities in Metohija, continuation of ethnic cleansing and extermination of Serbs (Kosovo Online)
• After Pec and Istok, the police raided the premises of the Provisional Authority of the Municipality of Klina (Kosovo Online, Danas)
• Gorazdevac: KP raided the facility of the Provisional Authority of the Municipality of Pec (Kosovo Online, Radio Gorazdevac, media)
• Osojane: Kosovo Police special forces raided Provisional Authority of the Municipality of Istok, the post office and the ambulance (KiM radio, media)
• Dusko Arsic sentenced to 13 years in prison (RTS, media)
• Lawyer Vlajic: This verdict destroys everyone's hope of getting justice in Kosovo (KiM radio)
• Shahini: The government should respect the Kosovo Constitution, but also the Serbs who have dinar accounts (Kosovo Online)
• Andjelkovic (Serbian Democracy): Workers of Serbian companies in Kosovo cannot receive money in Kosovo banks (Danas)
• EC spokesperson: The solution for the dinar can be found within the dialogue led by the EU (N1)