UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, 22 April, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti to non-majority communities: You’re a value and identity of our state (media)
• Government: EU should remove unfair measures, Kosovo met its obligation (RTK)
• Kusari-Lila: Serbia is obstructing integration of Kosovo Serbs (media)
• Tahiri: EU should lift measures, people are being penalized (Kallxo)
• AAK: Referendum revealed Vucic’s heavy influence on Serbs (Indeksonline)
• Rohde: Boycott requested by Serbian List, regrettable and destructive (Klan)
• Osmani-Vucic confrontation, Security Council to meet on Kosovo today (RTK)
• Kurti meets Glavchev in Sofia as part of Vienna Economic Forum (media)
• Hoxhaj proposes for Assembly to support UN resolution on Srebrenica (media)

Serbian Language Media: 

• The Ohrid Agreement entered the negotiation framework for Serbia's membership in the EU (RTS)
• Serbian Democracy: EU to look again at its requests for de-escalation which Pristina did not fulfill (KoSSev)
• The UN SC in NY today on Kosovo, Vucic to represent Serbia (Tanjug, media)
• Dacic: The UN SC session another opportunity for Vucic to point out the problems of the Serbs in Kosovo (Tanjug, RTV, Kosovo Online, media)
• Sentic: Special forces in the Leposavic municipality during voting; respecting the rights of Serbs remains a challenge after the failed referendum (KoSSev, KiM radio)
• European Parliament plenary session begins, visa liberalization for Serbs in Kosovo on agenda (Tanjug)
• Roundtable on ''the occupation and (high) treason of Kosovo and Metohija'' (Beta, NMagazin)
• Confiscated weapons and marijuana worth around 70,000 euros in Suhareke/Suva Reka, four people arrested (KoSSev)

Albanian Language Media:

• Guterres condemns Banjska attack, calls for authors to face justice (Zeri)
• Presidency confirms Osmani's participation in the UNSC session (Klan)
• Kurti: 2013 agreement violates Constitution of Kosovo (media)
• Serbian army drills at border; Kurti: Serbia poses a threat to Kosovo (RTK)
• Uglanin: Certain that April 21 vote will not be successful (media)
• Zeqiri confident he won’t be dismissed: Serbs don’t trust Serbian List (Nacionale)
• Dutch MEP reacts after the mistreatment of Kosovars in Serbia (RTK)
• “If Association not sent to court, CoE membership postponed for a year” (media)
• Dimic on Serbia stopping Kosovars: Brings back Milosevic’s time (Kosovapress)
• Police confiscate weapons in Mitrovica North (Kosovapress)

Serbian Language Media:

• Vucic: Eleven years they have been looking for the culprits in Serbs and Serbia, and the essence of the Brussels Agreement has not been implemented (RTS)
• Stano: Brussels Agreement obligation, consequences for Pristina if it does not form the A/CSM (RTS, Tanjug, KiM radio)
• Lajcak: No stronger incentive to resolve the Belgrade, Pristina relations than a clear perspective in the EU (Kosovo Online)
• Eleven years since the Brussels Agreement; Simic: Dead letter (RTS)
• Combating Human Trafficking Director in KP accused of domestic violence (FoNet, N1, Kosovo Online)
• CEC approved 23 locations for voting on April 21 in the north (Kosovo online)
• Surlic: The situation between Belgrade and Pristina would have been more relaxed if the A/CSM had been formed 11 years ago (Kosovo Online)
• Belo Polje struggles with wild landfills, stray dogs and an unbearable stench, no response from the authorities (KiM radio, Radio Gorazdevac)

International:

• North Kosovo Vote to Dismiss Mayors Risks Failure Amid Boycott (BIRN)
• Senior Kosovar Police Officer Released After Detention At Serbian Border (RFE)
• Witness to Violence: Photojournalist Recalls Decades of Documenting Kosovo’s Turbulent Times (BIRN)

Humanitarian/Development:

• Murati: Kosovo receives €90 million funding from the World Bank (media)
• "Women in focus" photo exhibition: Everything is against women when they strive for a position (KiM radio, KoSSev)

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti: Serbia has violated several agreements (media)
• Kurti: Vucic is retaliating over Kosovo’s success at CoE (media)
• Osmani: Five Kosovo police officers held hostage by Serbia (RFE)
• Rohde: Detention of Kosovo law enforcement officials is unacceptable (media)
• Hovenier: Concerned over detention of Jankovic by Serbian authorities (media)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, 17 April, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

• Serbia blocks around 300 Kosovars at border with Croatia (media)
• MFA and MIA call on citizens of Kosovo: Avoid at all costs passage through Serbia (media)
• Apart from Croatia, Kosovars are also blocked in Hungary, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informs QUINT (media)
• Zulfaj on blocking of Kosovars in Serbia: "little Putin" cannot stand success of Kosovo (Koha)
• Von Cramon: Serbia should release the Kosovars, stop embarrassing itself (media)
• Kusari-Lila: Serbia should be removed from Council of Europe (Klan Kosova)
• Hoxhaj condemns behavior of Serbian Police (media)
• Kandic on PACE vote for CoE: Serbia's opposition is an own goal (EO)
• Pacolli: Parties in Brussels are discussing how to find a way for Serbia to legally bring money to Kosovo (media)
• U.S. Embassy flag at half-mast, Hovenier: Recent killings of women show urgency to do more (media)
• Osmani commemorates Poklek massacre; “six-month-old victim called Liberty” (Telegrafi)
• Police arrest one of the leaders of group that blackmailed women (Koha)
• Retrial: 35 years imprisonment for man who killed his wife in 2022 (media)

Serbian Language Media: 

• Vucevic: Voting in Strasbourg continuation of the festival of hypocrisy (KiM radio, RTS)
• Pantic Pilja: In PACE, it was shown that international law means nothing, they trampled on everything they advocate for (Kosovo Online)
• Elek: Members of the CoE trampled on international law and the rule of law (Kosovo Online, TV Most, Tanjug)
• Kurti from Strasbourg: No need to talk about A/CSM, when Serbs are boycotting the Assembly (Danas, Kosovo Online)
• Gogic: Growth Plan will be reason for another promise from Kosovo to form CSM (Kosovo Online)
• Trajkovic and Gogic on Kosovo and CoE: It’s part of geopolitical regrouping, nothing to do with Kosovo and Serbia (N1)
• Vehicle of a driver of Provisional Authority President in Leposavic set on fire (Kosovo Online)
• Drecun: What follows the CoE adoption of the recommendation for the admission of Kosovo is very dangerous (Blic, Blic TV)
• KP on the shooting on the Gracanica-Laplje Selo road: Attempted murder, two people arrested (Kosovo Online, KiM radio)

Opinion:

• Are the Kosovo media repeating the mistakes of 2004? (KoSSev)
• UN Resolution on the Balkans Would Be a Mistake (Real Clear World)

Albanian Language Media:

• Osmani’s message to members of PACE on Kosovo’s membership vote (media)
• PACE committee rejects all amendments of Serbian, Italian members (media)
• Woman killed in Peja, “situation is alarming” (media)
• Hoxha: Radoicic’s group is free; there is threat of another attack in north (KTV)
• Rohde on Palkowitsch appointment: Testament of growing partnership (media)
• EU conditions Serbia’s integration with normalizing relations with Kosovo (RFE)
• Osmani: At first govt meeting, I’ll propose withdrawal from Open Balkan (Express)

Serbian Language Media:

• Dacic: PACE expected to adopt recommendation to admit Kosovo (N1, media)
• PACE Political Committee approved no amendments filed by Serbia, dismissed those from Italy related to CSM (KoSSev, media)
• Biljana Pantic Pilja: PACE Committee voted against our amendments, we will file objection (Tanjug)
• Gathering because of armed persons appearing in Suvi Do village, near Lipljan (Radio KIM, KoSSev)
• Xharra: More than 700 police officers with criminal offenses part of Kosovo police (Kosovo Online)
• Protest over the murder of women, demands to confront Osmani: Enough with the conference, introduce a state of emergency (Kosovo Online)
• Vucic meets with Lajcak in Mostar (Tanjug, social media)
• Dacic, Bayramov discuss strategic partnership between Serbia, Azerbaijan (Tanjug)
• Petkovic: A new round of dialogue on Thursday (Tanjug)
• EU ambassadors adopted the updated text for chapter 35 with Serbia (Tanjug, RTS, media)

International:

• Wider Europe Briefing: Kosovo could finally get in the Council of Europe (RFE)