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UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, March 15, 2021

• COVID-19: 597 new cases, nine deaths (media)
• Kosovo opens embassy in Jerusalem (media)
• Turkey condemns opening of Kosovo's embassy in Jerusalem (media)
• Lumir Abdixhiku elected new leader of LDK (media)
• Abdixhiku receives congratulations on his election (media)
• Abdixhiku will not be attending Kurti, Osmani's meeting today (media)
• EP report identifies obstacles to a Kosovo-Serbia agreement (RTK/Zeri)
• COVID-19: Kosovo remains without any printed newspaper (RFE)
• At Kosovo Monastery, Nationalist Clamor Disturbs the Peace (NYT)
• In Mitrovica, a bridge that separates Kosovo's Albanians and Serbs (euronews)
• Balkan States Under Pressure to Prosecute Financiers of Terrorism (BIRN)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, March 12, 2021

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, March 12, 2021

Albanian Language Media:

• COVID-19: 730 new cases, six deaths (media)
• Kosovo government ditches responsibility for absence of vaccine rollout (media)
• U.S.: New government of Kosovo to be formed without obstructionism (media)
• PDK confirms participation in meeting with Kurti, Osmani (media)
• Mustafa: LDK has always been open for dialogue (Kosovapress)
• AAK confirms participation in Monday's meeting (media)
• Supreme Court rejects seven complaints from community parties (media)
• Kllokot mayor arrested on vote manipulation charges (Kallxo)
• Stefanovic: Recognition of Kosovo would undermine Serbia's sovregnity (Klan)

Serbian Language Media:

• 28 new cases of Covid-19, one death registered in Serbian areas in Kosovo (KoSSev)
• Denial from Ranilug to RFE text – ''Dismissed because he did not vote for Adriana Hodzic'' (KoSSev)
• Hodzic: All votes for Duda Balje in Klokot accepted, our votes annulled (Kosovo-online)
• Mayor of Klokot arrested (Kosovo Online, Gazeta Express)
• Petkovic: Unfounded arrests in Klokot, continuation of oppression of Serbian representatives (Kosovo Online)
• Vucic: Serbia to build Sinopharm vaccine factory (N1)
• Serbian List representatives talked with Palmer and Kosnett on elections results and dialogue (Kosovo-online)
• Brussels' patience running out (Danas)
• Varhelyi: Dialogue will continue after institutions in Pristina are formed (Kosovo-online)
• Brnabic: EU accession process frustrating sometimes, but only option (N1)
• Partial lockdown in Serbia over this weekend again (N1)

Opinion:

• Blood is Blood (Kosovo 2.0)

International:

• Despite Govt Promises, Kosovo Still to Administer First COVID-19 Jab (Balkan Insight)
• Kosovo Detains Mayor and Two Others Suspected of Vote Manipulation (Balkan Insight)
• Following Prague, Kosovo to open embassy in Jerusalem (isralelhayom.com)
• Bring Western Balkans back on the agenda, urge nine EU member states (euractive.com)
• Powerful Serb Returns to Kosovo After Arrest Warrant Revoked (Balkan Insight)

Humanitarian/Development:

• Medical equipment from UAE arrives in Serbia (N1)
• Kosovo's abused 'restaurant bears' move to greener pastures (AFP/France 24)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, March 12, 2021

• COVID-19: 678 new cases, nine deaths (media)
• One Good Thing: In Kosovo, virus lets humanity shine through (AP)
• Palmer holds separate virtual meetings with Kosovo leaders (media)
• Palmer: Opposition to be in Assembly session during president's vote (Telegrafi)
• Kurti, Osmani call political parties to discuss future steps (media)
• PDK and AAK on Kurti’s and Osmani’s letter (Klan)
• In interview, Abdixhiku discusses Kurti's letter, LDK election result (Klan)
• Von Cramon submits report on Kosovo to EP (media)
• Butel: Kosovo has not yet met all visa liberalisation criteria (Express/RTK)
• Nagavci: We do not need to co-govern with LDK (KTV)
• AKR seeks complete vote recount (media)
• Markovic: I lost my job for refusing to vote for Hodzic (RFE/media)
• Ministry: Don't fall prey to fake news of Kosovo's de-recognition (media)
• Croatia to increase number of troops to Kosovo (media)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, March 11, 2021

Albanian Language Media:

• COVID-19: 632 new cases, eight deaths (media)
• AAK demands complete recount of votes, Kurti's LVV opposes request (media)
• Haradinaj has not given up his candidacy for president (Kallxo)
• Mustafa: Besian Mustafa did not submit his candidacy to LDK bodies (Telegrafi)
• Supreme Court receives 15 appeals against ECAP decisions, rejects nine (RTK)
• 16-year-old becomes Kosovo’s youngest coronavirus victim (Express)

Serbian Language Media:

• In Serbian communities 46 new cases, one death (Kontakt plus radio)
• Those interested to receive Pfizer vaccine can register at Gracanica Health House (Radio KIM)
• Dacic: Egypt recognized Kosovo, but did not vote for it in international organizations (Kosovo Online, Tanjug)
• Garipi: Annulment of votes that Roma initiative won is pure racism (Kosovo Online, Kosova press
• Demostat: Kurti spoils model of two Germanys as a solution for Kosovo (Danas)
• 10 years of the Brussels dialogue: EU tracks positive changes, experts in Kosovo more cautious and critical (KoSSev)
• 40 years since demonstrations in Kosovo: The breakup of Yugoslavia began in a student cafeteria (KoSSev)
• Varhelyi: EU demonstrates solidarity in fighting coronavirus consequences (Kosovo-online)

International:

• Kosovo Exhibition Commemorates Historic 1981 Student Protests (Balkan Insight)
• Cyber-Attacks a Growing Threat to Unprepared Balkan States (Balkan Insight)
• European Parliament Declares Whole of EU an ‘LGBT Freedom Zone’ (Balkan Insight)

Humanitarian/Development:

• Regression on ‘virtually every indicator’ of progress for children: UNICEF (news.un.org)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, March 11, 2021

• COVID-19: 562 new cases, six deaths (media)
• Nearly 500 COVID-19 patients being treated in Kosovo’s hospitals (BIRN)
• Daka: Legal justification is needed for a total vote recount (Radio Free Europe)
• Konjufca: New Kurti government will have support from 64 MPs (Telegrafi)
• Quni leaves open possibility of coalition with VV if elected LDK leader (KTV)
• Besian Mustafa announces candidacy for post of LDK leader (media)
• EU urges Kosovo to establish the Association of Serb-majority Municipalities (Gazeta Express)
• Haxhiu: Majority of Brussels agreements to be reviewed (Kanal 10/Telegrafi)
• UK calls for postponement of decisions and recruitment processes for senior officials (media)
• Pre-trial judge rejects Gucati, Haradinaj’s preliminary motions (media)
• Kurti’s Kosovo Win Puts Spotlight on Tensions with Albania’s Rama (BIRN)
• Spain tells Kosovo it will respect UEFA rules for qualifier (AP)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, March 10, 2021

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, March 10, 2021

Albanian Language Media:

• COVID-19: 529 new cases, six deaths (media)
• Mustafa: LDK will make a comeback, no party can replace it (Periskopi/RTK)
• Lutfi Haziri officially announces candidacy for LDK leader (media)
• AAK calls for a full vote recount (Koha)
• Gashi says lawsuit against Marty could be submitted to Swiss, EU authorities (Klan)
• CDHRF warns KLA veterans against travel through Serbia (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• 33 newly infected in Serbian communities (KoSSev)
• EP analysts: Limited results of Belgrade-Pristina dialogue (Radio Mitrovica sever, Tanjug)
• Matic: Serbia prepares digital certificates on vaccination (Kosovo-online)
• North Macedonia PM Zaev: Balkans no longer a time bomb (N1)
• 10 years of dialogue: Real difference, says Lajcak; Life is not better, say South and North Mitrovica residents (KoSSev)
• Serbian List in Niksic, Montenegro, supports DF mayoral candidate (KoSSev)
• Fila: Gashi’s lawsuit against Del Ponte and Dick Marty a farce (Kosovo-online)
• Pascal Lamy: Great mistake was done in the Balkans (N1)
• Parents: Children were in detention for 16 days, we are pleased with their release (Kosovo-online)

Opinion:

• Political quotas and ethnic engineering in the Western Balkans (Al Jazeera)

International:

• Kosovo wants anthem, flag respected in Spain at WC qualifier (AP)
• More Work, Less Pay: COVID-19 Worsens Plight of Stressed-Out Balkan Reporters (Balkan Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, March 10, 2021

• COVID-19: 444 new cases, 13 deaths (media)
• Zemaj: 33,600 doses of COVAX vaccine will arrive this month (media)
• Besnik Tahiri appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs (media)
• Battle against vote theft carried to the Supreme Court (Koha Ditore)
• How many ministries will the new government have? (Koha)
• Citaku reacts to Thaci’s non-inclusion in EU post about dialogue (media)
• “Status of Orthodox churches in Kosovo could be topic of dialogue” (media)
• Kosovar peacekeepers sent on first mission abroad (Radio Free Europe)
• Hague prosecution accused of obstructing Kosovo ex-President’s defence (BIRN)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, March 9, 2021

Albanian Language Media:

• COVID-19: 444 new cases, 13 deaths (media)
• Haradinaj-Stublla resigns as foreign minister and quits AAK (Prishtina Insight)
• Borell: 10 years since the dialogue started, it is time to conclude it (Express)
• Hodzic: We’ll use all legal means to get votes back (media)
• ECAP calls for recount of votes in 134 polling stations (media)
• KSF embarks on its first international deployment (media)
• Tome Gashi prepares lawsuits against Dick Marty and Carla Del Ponte (Gazeta Express)
• Duda Balje and Veton Berisha submit appeals to the Supreme Court (RTK)

Serbian Language Media:

• 61 new cases of Covid-19, one death registered in Serbian areas in Kosovo (KoSSev)
• Hodzic filed complaint to Supreme Court: We’ll address the international courts if need be (Kosovo-online)
• Garipi: The Roma Initiative appealed to the Supreme Court (KiM radio, Kosovo Online)
• Court annuls detention of four youngsters, proposal for other three to remain under house arrest (Radio KIM)
• Stankovic: They drag Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja into dialogue in vain (Kosovo Online, Vecernje Novosti)
• CoE Belgrade Office Head: Serbia makes some progress in rule of law, more to do (N1)

Opinion:

• About a "Greater Serbian hegemony" (Kosovo-online, Novi Standard)

International:

• In Central and Southeast Europe the EU is Losing Vaccination Race to Russia (Balkan Insight)

Humanitarian/Development:

• In Kosovo, three organisations are showing what women can do when given the chance to lead (Emerging Europe)
• International Women’s Day Marked in Southeast, Central Europe Despite Pandemic (Balkan Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, March 9, 2021

• COVID-19: 587 new cases, 6 deaths (media)
• COVID-19 worsens plight of stressed-out Balkan reporters (BIRN)
• Abdixhiku, Haziri announce candidacies for post of LDK leader (media)
• Kurti: Dialogue with Serbia must be well prepared (media)
• Lajcak: Dialogue brought about important agreements (media)
• Hodzic: ECAP decision, politically motivated and scandalous (media)
• Kosnett: Women leaders, always instrumental to Kosovo’s success (media)
• Szunyog: Impressed with stories of powerful women (media)
• People’s Attorney: Gender equality in institutions must be obligatory (Kallxo)
• Prishtina marches “against patriarchy that kills” on Women’s Day (BIRN)
• KSF to embark on first peacekeeping mission abroad (media)
• “Those who believe Serbia must be forced to accept deal live in fairy tale” (media)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, March 8, 2021

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, March 8, 2021

Albanian Language Media:

• COVID-19: 587 new cases, 6 deaths (media)
• EU: Ten-year dialogue has brought clear changes (RFE, Kallxo)
• ECAP: All votes for Bosniak in 7 municipalities are annulled (media)
• ECAP decides on recount of conditional and diaspora votes for AAK (media)
• ECAP suspends six commissioners in Suhareka, orders vote recount (Koha)
• Investigation on suspicions for Haradinaj-Stublla’s vote rigging begins (media)
• Haradinaj: I wish the manipulators meritorious punishments (Koha)
• Kurti says new government won’t have less than 5 female ministers (media)
• Women’s representation in Kosovo’s Parliament increased without reliance on gender quotas (exit.al)
• March in Prishtina in honor of the International Women’s Day (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• 18 new cases of Covid-19 registered in Serbian areas in Kosovo on Sunday (KoSSev)
• Office for KiM: 10.500 Serbs from Kosovo inoculated (Radio KIM)
• EU: 10 years later, time to bring the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina to an end (Kosovo Online, Tanjug)
• Odalovic: Pristina should open archives, people have not disappeared in the forest (RTS, Kosovo and Metohija radio, Kontakt plus radio)
• Vucic: Pristina wanted to buy Serb souls in the south, it failed in the north, we will help the people (KoSSev)
• Dacic: Double standards of EU, Belgrade’s stances clear since beginning (Kosovo-online)
• Additional 28.080 doses of Pfizer vaccine arrived in Serbia (Tanjug)
• Serbian List urges competent authorities to prosecute those who broke into Serbian Orthodox churches (Kosovo-online)
• Serbian opposition parties and organizations submits joint platform on elections conditions’ talks (N1)

Opinion:

• Rebuilding on Equal Foundations (EurActiv)

Humanitarian/Development:

• UN highlights transformative power of equal participation, marking International Women’s Day (UN News)
• Covid could endanger progress on gender equality, says Merkel (The Guardian)
• A boy from Novo Brdo’s love for tennis breaks all boundaries (KoSSev)