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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, Afternoon Edition, January 3, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• German and French chief advisers expected to visit Pristina and Belgrade (Klan)
• Ahmeti: Serbia has lost the battle in the Council of Europe (Kosova Press)
• KFOR is removing the last vehicles left on the road in the north (media)
• Trajkovic asks Vucic for explanation regarding her detention in Merdare (Sinjali)
• Weber: The association was the reason the dialogue stalled (Albanian Post)
• Bugajski: Association is a ticking bomb, a recipe for discord (Klan)
• “EU should give up equalising blame, in cases when Serbia is more to blame” (Albanian Post)
• EFJ raises alarm about attack on journalists in the north of Kosovo (RTK)

Serbian Language Media:

• EU: Situation in north of Kosovo still fragile, we are continuing talks with both sides (RTS, RTV, Kosovo Online)
• KFOR: We are conducting an operation to remove vehicles from the road in the north of Kosovo (RTS)
• Dacic: Another country will soon withdraw its recognition of Kosovo and Metohija (Tanjug, RTS, media)
• Brnabic: We preserved peace in Kosovo-Metohija thanks to wise policy (Tanjug, media)
• Hill: There will be more US investments in Serbia this year (media)
• Chairman of the KJC: About the resignations of judges from the North in February (Radio Mitrovica sever)
• Kosovo Police detained, then released a physical education teacher from Kosovska Mitrovica (media)

Opinion:

• Will Kosovo’s war ever end? (UnHerd)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, December 30, 2022

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, December 30, 2022

Albanian Language Media:

• Barricades removed, border crossings in the north still closed (Koha)
• Vela: Kosovo-Serbia relations can only be based on mutual recognition (media)
• Gervalla: Serbia creates artificial conflicts; no force can blackmail us (media)
• Italy welcomes the removal of barricades in northern Kosovo (Klan)
• Joseph: Barricades, proof how Vucic plays the U.S. and EU (RFE/Koha)
• Buhler: Serbia's threatening rhetoric is intolerable (DW, media)
• PDK submits the Law on Public Officials to the Constitutional Court (Telegrafi)
• Man in Leposavic reports he was attacked by two masked men (media)
• Barricade in Zupc removed, regular traffic begins (media)
• Vucic offers job in the ministry to young man sentenced to prison in Kosovo (Express)
• COVID-19 cases increasing in Kosovo (Koha)

Serbian Language Media:

• Removal of barricades in northern Kosovo (RTS, Kosovo Online)
• Visoki Decani Monastery on absence of international representatives in Kosovo reaction on Patriarch entry ban, impertinence of Pristina (Kosovo Online, social media)
• Dacic: Germany’s position on Kosovo different to others (N1)
• Opposition MP on Kosovo: Exercise badly played, we did what suits Kurti (N1)
• When journalists “guard“ barricades, but guards are nowhere to be seen (KoSSev)
• Lajcak: Tensions in Kosovo remain high, level of mistrust higher than ever (FoNet, N1)
• Dacic receives Romania's special Western Balkans envoy (Tanjug)
• Man arrested at Gazimestan to work on humanitarian issues at KiM Office (N1, KoSSev)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, December 29, 2022

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, December 29, 2022

Albanian Language Media:

• Kosovo Police confirms: Merdare crossing opened (media)
• Two trucks set on fire at a barricade in the north of Kosovo (media)
• New effort for final agreement; Scholz and Macron advisors visit Kosovo in Jan (media)
• UNMIK chief welcomes measures to deescalate tensions; calls for return to dialogue (media)
• German MP expects concrete actions from EU about situation in North (Albanian Post)
• The removal of the barricades hasn't started yet (Paparaci)
• Krasniqi: Kosovo is going through one of the most fragile moments since it was declared an independent and sovereign state (Klan)
• “Those who believed they protected Serbia by setting up barricades, it is a lie directed by SL” (Telegrafi)
• Tahiri: Kurti made compromises with Serbia, this time he accepted Association (Koha)
• Abdixhiku meets head of OSCE in Kosovo, discuss situation in the north (Klan)
• Haradinaj: Thanks to USA and EU, solution from explosive situation in north found (Koha)

Serbian Language Media:

• Vucic: Removal of barricades to start Thursday morning (N1, media)
• Ziadeh (UNMIK) welcomed the removal of barricades and de-escalation (N1, media)
• KFOR: Serbian forces don’t need permission for movements in their territory (N1)
• Two trucks at barricade near Dudin Krs, Mitrovica North burned down (KoSSev)
• Dacic: It depends upon Kurti only if there will be escalation of conflict (Radio KIM)
• Djuric: Pristina lost “blank cheque” support for its behaviour from US and international community (RTS)
• US Ambassador Hill says Kosovo crisis requires political solution (Nova.rs, N1)
• Heightened combat readiness state of Serbian Army revoked (Kosovo Online)
• Petkovic: Trampling US-EU guarantees will not be easy for Pristina (Tanjug, TV Pink)
• Vucic to receive Nedeljkovic tomorrow (Danas)

Opinion:

• "Full escalation in Kosovo only postponed": What's next in 2023? (DW, Danas)

International:

• Serbia's Vucic Says Kosovo Roadblocks To Be Removed (RFE)
• Village’s Xmas Lights Draw Thousands of Kosovars (Prishtina Insight)
• In northern Kosovo, conflict is avoided, for now (emerging-europe.com)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, December 28, 2022

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, December 28, 2022

Albanian Language Media:

• Osmani: There is nothing that can defeat will of people to live freely (media)
• Kurti about barricades in the north: Criminals will be arrested (Telegrafi)
• Kosovo Police: Blocking in Merdare is illegal (Zeri)
• Pantic’s detention replaced with house arrest measure, attorney confirms (RFE)
• Kurti surprised by the decision to send Pantic to house arrest (Koha)
• Von Cramon welcomes decision on Pantic, demands immediate removal of barricades (Klan)
• Abazi: Pantic’s release, failure of the entire institutional chain (Telegrafi)
• Bomb threat at Pristina Airport, passengers and staff evacuated (media)
• AAK’s Tahiri calls on Kurti to summon meeting of party leaders (media)
• LDK’s Hoti proposes four points for Kosovo to “emerge from Serbia’s trap” (media)
• Gashi: Serbs citizens in north are paid €50 daily to be in barricades (Klan Kosova)
• Kremlin: We are not pushing Serbia to incite tensions in Kosovo (RFE)

Serbian Language Media:

• Barricades entered the 19th day: Now and Merdare crossing closed (KoSSev)
• Dejan Pantic under house arrest (RTS, Blic, Tanjug)
• Vucevic: Serbia's position to seek a political agreement (KoSSev, RTS)
• Vucic: Pristina wants to banish Serbia, Serbs from Kosovo forever (Tanjug)
• A new convocation of the Zubin Potok assembly formed (RTS)
• Brnabic responds to Osmani on justice and democracy (Kosovo Online, social media)
• Hill: Important that the Patriarch be with the Serbs in KiM (Danas, Nova.rs)
• Civil society: The Kosovo government to apologise to the patriarch; international community to speak out and condemn it (Kontakt plus radio)
• Haradinaj: Kurti's statements complicate the situation; KFOR cannot be given deadlines (KoSSev)
• UNS and DNKiM: Ensure unobstructed work to Svetlana Vukmirovic and other journalists (UNS, media)
• Petkovic asks Rohde if he will condemn entry ban to RTS journalist (Kosovo Online, social media)
• Nikola Nedeljkovic arrested on June 28 at Gazimestan released after six-months sentence (Tanjug)
• Dacic: Albanian FM spurring Kurti to further provocations (Tanjug)

International:

• Kremlin Denies Kosovan Claims Russia Is Pushing Serbia to Stoke Tensions (Reuters)