• LVV, LDK working groups discuss modalities of new government (media) • Ballots from Serbia processed for counting (Zeri) • Four members of CEC demand urgent meeting (Kosovapress/RTK) • Vetevendosje reacts to CEC’s decision to count ballots from Serbia (media) • Mustafa calls on CEC to verify legality of ballots from Serbia (media) • Pacolli: Why are Serbia ballots more precious than Diaspora ones? (Bota Sot) • Limaj: NISMA has 5.5% of votes, votes from Serbia shouldn’t be counted (Koha) • Palmer: This will be first government that won’t have party from KLA (media) • U.S. and Russia want a compromise solution on Kosovo (Klan Kosova) • Kosovo leaders welcome U.S. resolution on killing of Bytyqi brothers (media) • Serbian official, Kozarev, not permitted to enter Kosovo (media) • Kelmendi: Losers and winners (Koha)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, October 23, 2019 Albanian Language Media: • Osmani: Agreement with Serbia must have blessing from the U.S. (RFE) • Kosovo leaders welcome U.S. resolution on killing of Bytyqi brothers (media) • CEC begins verification of ballots from Serbia (media) • Smajl Latifi summoned by specialist chambers (media) • Can a government be formed without Lista Srpska? (Prishtina Insight) • A Serb arrested for war crimes (KosovaPress) Serbian Language Media: • Dacic: Reaching political solution to Kosovo issue national priority for Serbia (Serbian media, Foreign Affairs Ministry) • "EU will not explicitly ask Serbia to recognize Kosovo" (Tanjug, B92) • "If they exclude Pristina, Albania withdraws from ‘mini Schengen’ immediately" (Tanjug, B92, Kosovo-online) • The US House of Representatives adopts resolution on Bytyqi brothers (Voice of America, Tanjug, B92) • Vukosavljevic on Kosovo's UNESCO membership: It's not going that direction (RTS) • Road sign indicating direction of SOC Draganac Monastery demolished (Radio KIM, Kosovo-online) • Serbian List: Extension of custody for Spasojevic and Rosic "rape of justice" (RTS) • EP rapporteur Bilcik says he will come to Belgrade soon (N1) • Dalibor Jevtic visits Washington (KIM Radio) • Djuric: "Kurti is an obsessive and malicious guy" (N1, Beta, Kosovo online, TV Most, B92) • Special protective equipment for counting votes from central Serbia (RTS, B92, KoSSev) • "Take care, Europe" (B92, Tanjug) Opinions: • Creating a new Casablanca (Prishtina Insight) International: • Balkan nations bank on regional ties after EU snub (The Financial Times) Humanitarian and Development: • INDEP advises new government to cancel contract for new power plant (media) • Kosovo Teacher Probed for Turkish Military Salute with Pupils (Balkan Insight) • In the Balkans, locals fight to save their wild flowing rivers from hydropower (DW) • NGOs, Council of Europe decounce situation for migrants in Balkans (infomigrants.net)

• Albin Kurti expects to take over PMs post in November (Alsat) • Vucic: Let us make efforts for compromise, frozen conflict is not a solution (RTK) • Serbian proposal for land swap falls on def ears in Kosovo (Koha) • LVV and LDK working groups to meet again today (Koha/Zeri) • KLA war veterans don’t rule out protests (Epoka) • Ibrahim Gashi summoned by specialist chambers (media) • “Special court doing its job, arrests will be made soon” (Indeksonline) • Serbian List accuses EU of supporting government without their participation (Zeri) • Bilcik: Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, essential for Serbia’s road towards EU (RTK) • Kosovo, North Macedonia with joint taskforce against security threats (RTK)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, October 22, 2019 Albanian Language Media: • Serb parties willing to cooperate with new government (Radio Free Europe) • Kurti reacts to Nobel prize being awarded to Peter Handke (media) • Ibrahim Gashi summoned by specialist chambers (media) • Svecla tells which ministries would LVV keep (T7) • Seven additional summonses by Specialist Chambers, protests not excluded (KosovaPress) Serbian Language Media: • "No recognition of Kosovo within existing borders" (B92, Tanjug, Standard) • SzS: Vucic by stating “that borders are not determined” infringes Constitution again (Danas) • Hamilton: Grenell - an additional channel that bypasses Palmer (VoA) • Djuric: Kurti proves every day he is an extreme politician (TV Most) • IFJ called on Kosovo President to stop harassment of journalists (Radio KIM) • Serbian List: International community silence, sign of an approval (Kosovo online) • Church in Priluzje broken into and robbed (RTK2, Kontakt plus radio) Opinions: • LDK risks blocking own path (Koha Ditore) International: • Once Beaten and Imprisoned, Kosovo’s Leader Now Has Greater Test (Bloomberg) • Hague Prosecutors Summon Former Kosovo Guerrilla Commander (Balkan Insight) • [BSF Interview] Wiersma: EU should be more aggressive to leaders like Vučić and Đukanović (European Western Balkans) • Emmanuel Macron’s EU accession veto is a historic mistake (Financial Times) Humanitarian and Development: • Salaries in the private sector experience a minimal increase (Prishtina Insight) • Southeast Europe faces dramatic population drop, U.N. warns (Reuters, Al Jazeera, Index.hr)

• Vote counting expected to end by week’s end (media) • Kurti gives interview to Syri TV, talks about agreement with Serbia • LVV and LDK working groups to meet tomorrow (Zeri) • Kurti: We will reduce power to strengthen the country (Koha) • Haradinaj: Albin Kurti is a good deceiver (Telegrafi/Klan) • More former KLA officials summoned by Specialist Chambers (media) • Haradinaj convinced that visas will be removed before the New Year (Epoka) • Foreign service appointments continue during transitional period (Koha) • Nick Giacobbe nominated U.S. Deputy Ambassador to Kosovo (media)

Albanian Language Media: • 12 CEC officials admitted to hospital for allergic reaction, discharged (RFE) • Vote recount continues, 220 polling stations still to be counted (Telegrafi) • Bahtiri: LVV – LDK coalition will be signed first week of November (Gazeta Blic) • Ramadani: New Kosovo government to continue path to NATO (media) • Thaci meets PM Abe, express pleasure on Kosovo-Japan rapprochement (Klan) Serbian Language Media: • “Russia will not permit to be excluded from resolving Kosovo issue” (Tanjug, B92, Radio kontakt plus) • Serbian List: To resolve, not misuse Ivanovic’s murder (RTS) • Simic: There is no single point of Brussels agreement which Albanians did not evade to fulfil (TV Most) • Haki Rugova: Serbian List will have place in Kosovo Government (Danas, Kosovo-online, Gazeta Expres) • Vucic: Two infections hit Albanians (Prva TV, B92) • "As long as Vucic is in power, Serbia will not be part of NATO pact" (BETA, B92) • Medvedev: Russia supports peaceful Kosovo solution, in line with Resolution 1244 (BETA, N1) • Serbia and Japan relations much better, Brnabic thanks Abe for balanced stance on Kosovo (BETA, TV N1) • Vucic thanked Thabane for support on Kosovo (Tanjug, B92) • Court of Appeals confirmed: Milorad Zajic from Klina acquitted of war crimes charges (KoSSev, Kontkat plus radio) • Less than half of Serbia citizens see EU membership as foreign policy priority (BETA, N1) • CEC: Still no decision on counting votes from Serbia (TV N1, Kosovo-online) • Early elections in North Macedonia in April 2020 (BETA, N1) Opinions:  • What happened sends a message to Serbia and Montenegro - you're not welcome (Jutarnji List) • France is Undermining Balkan – and EU – Stability (Balkan Insight) • Why was a Nobel Prize awarded to a man who celebrated a war criminal? (WAPO) International: • 'The EU is running scared from fascism' – Kosovo's likely new PM (The Guardian) • Russia, Serbia vow to boost ties despite Belgrade’s EU bid (Washington Post) • Macron’s veto undermines Balkan stability, Greek MEP says (EURAKTIV) • Unsafe Haven: Balkans Sees Rise in Turkish Asylum Requests (Balkan Insight) • Russia & Kosovo will not meet because of 'security risks' - Uefa (BBC) Humanitarian and Development: • 10th anniversary of Crime Victims' Rights Week marked in Kosovo (Telegrafi/Klan) • The long road to becoming captain (Prishtina Insight)

• Election results to be certified early November (Zeri) • ECAP rejects counting of diaspora ballots (Klan Kosova) • Vucic: No one has offered us border correction or partition of Kosovo (Zeri) • Vetevendosje confirms Kurti was not injured in car accident in Tirana (Bota Sot) • Lushtaku comments on PDK’s election defeat (T7/Bota Sot) • “AKR will have three MPs” (Epoka e Re) • Slobodan Petrovic on election results: We were robbed (Klan Kosova) • Thaci welcomes Alexander Soros’ call to debate (RTK) • Protest in support of Kurdish people in Pristina faces opposition (KP/Koha)

• Konjufca: None of the parties set conditions, we did not discuss ministries (media) • Haziri: Coalition with Vetevendosje immediately after certification of results (RTK) • Kociajncic responds to Vucic on ‘poisoned envelopes from Serbia’ (Zeri) • Serbian List accuses and threatens Kurti (media) • Petrovic speaks about abuse of votes (RTV Dukagjini) • Cakaj: Between regional agendas and Kosovo, Albania stands with Kosovo (Klan) • Hoxhaj: EU is making space to anti-democratic states (Klan) • Rama to meet Kurti in the following days (Klan)

Albanian Language Media: • Nagavci: We don’t accept conditions from LDK, Kurti will be PM (Koha) • Vetevendosje working group arrives at LDK premises, the meeting begins (Express) • Nuredin Ibishi – Leka summoned by Specialist Chambers (Gazeta Express) • Haradinaj: I stopped the Kosovo division project and a theft of €10 billion (media) Serbian Language Media: • Stojanovic: I would never compare sufferings and tariffs (Danas) • Research: 75 percent of Serbian citizens would consider recognition of Kosovo as treason (KoSSev) • Vucic wrote to EU regarding alleged poisoning case (B92) • Brussels: EU leaders deadlock over membership talks for North Macedonia and Albania (Tanjug, B92) • Fajon: Wake up Macron, EU must show political maturity and responsibility (N1 Belgrade, N1 Sarajevo) • Dodik: Bosnian Serbs can't wait for a demarcation between Serbia and Kosovo (N1, TV Klan) • Dacic to TV Prva: ''Poisoned envelopes'' one in a series of "classic lies" of Pristina (Blic, Vecernje Novosti, N1) • Suspended talks in Brussels on Albania and Northern Macedonia; the consequences of delay are brutal (Serbian media) • IPU conference ends in Belgrade with Declaration and Resolution (Beta, RTS) • Botsan-Kharchenko: Situation in Kosovo serious (RTS) • President Vucic on Kosovo, dialogue, Albin Kurti (Politika, TV Pink) • Bundestag delegation chief says Serbian president is legitimate partner (N1, DW) International: • First Flag: Kosovo's Would-Be PM Takes Serbian Heat For Favoring Albanian Banner (RFE) • Russia submits proposal on moving UNGA First Committee's sessions from New York (TASS) • Russia calls for condemning radicals in Kosovo for raising tensions in Balkans (TASS) Humanitarian and Development: • Gracanica Mayor: Seriously consider the problem of pollution of the river bed in Laplje Selo (KIM radio, Gracanicaonline.info, RTK2) • Regional cooperation necessary for fighting human trafficking (Kosovapress) • Countess of Wessex meets religious leaders of Kosovo (RTK)

• “Kosovo-Serbia agreement, strategic priority for the U.S.” (Koha Ditore) • LVV-LDK working groups set to meet today (Zeri) • Vetevendosje leader Albin Kurti’s interview to News 24 • LDK leader Isa Mustafa’s interview to Klan Kosova • Vetevendosje movement files a complaint at ECAP (media) • Sherifi: NISMA currently stands at above 5 percent (Klan Kosova) • Publicist Veton Surroi’s interview to T7 • Krasniqi says no PDK member supports land swap idea (T7/Express) • Former KSF commander, Kastrati, summoned by Specialist Chambers (media) • Cakaj: Mini-Schengen to remove Kosovo-Serbia border barriers (Koha) • Countess of Wessex meets President Thaci (media) • Dehari family urges authorities to release expertise report (media)