UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, October 15, 2020
Albanian Language Media:
• COVID-19: 77 new cases, no deaths (media)
• Lajcak: Association has to establish, you committed in 2015 (RTK)
• Mustafa and Lajcak discuss conclusion of Kosovo-Serbia dialogue (RTK)
• Americans want Kosovo in OSCE (Gazeta Express)
• Whyte: There will be no Republika Srpska in Kosovo (RFE, Koha)
• Krasniqi reacts after Lajcak’s statements on Association (Telegrafi)
Serbian Language Media:
• Lajcak: Pristina must show consistency by implementing the agreement on ZSO (RTS)
• Russian ambassador denies media claims about Putin visit (N1)
• Andjelkovic: Putin’s visit cannot be canceled, because it was not even scheduled (N1, Nova S)
• Gracanica Mayor: We have the right to withdraw from the institutions if the ZSO is not formed (RTS)
• Was progress made with Lajcak’s visit? (KIM radio, Danas)
International:
• Lajčák: International organizations are “eyes and ears” in Kosovo (EWB)
• Snarky Facebook post sparks diplomatic incident between Russia and Serbia: What’s behind it? (neweasterneurope.eu)
• Mariano: Western Balkan states could contribute to security and defense of NATO (EWB)
• EU and the Western Balkans, a long engagement (balcanicaucaso.org)
Humanitarian/Development:
• The Latest: WHO: European cases rocket, strong limits needed (apnews.com)
• International Day of Rural Women: I love the countryside, I love to produce (Radio Gorazdevac, KoSSev)
• Platform Initiative launched to support clean energy transition in coal regions in Western Balkans and Ukraine (balkangreenenergynews.com)
• Femart’s 8th edition celebrates resilience and solidarity in challenging times (Prishtina Insight)
UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, October 15, 2020
• COVID-19: 80 new cases, one death (media)
• Hoti: We will be forced to take stricter steps if COVID cases increase (media)
• Lajcak: EU and U.S. share same interests in the Western Balkans (media)
• Jevtic calls for establishment of Association of Serb-majority municipalities (media)
• Ymeri: There will be no government fall until dialogue ends (Telegrafi)
• Vilan: There is no specific date of our recognition of Kosovo (N1/ Lapsi.al)
• Vucic: Fulfill promises, then we will discuss (RTK)
• Putin cancels Serbia’s visit protesting country’s ‘approximation’ with U.S. (Koha)
• International drivers’ licenses not valid unless Kosovo joins UN (Koha)
• Kosovo PM: No Serb Municipal Association Before Final Settlement (Balkan Insight)
• Serbia finally recognizes Kosovo border by staffing Common Border Crossing Point at Merdare (Express)
Belgrade Media Report 14 October
LOCAL PRESS
Vucic and Botsan-Kharchenko discuss negotiations in Washington and Brussels (Tanjug)
Simic: Pristina’s refusal to form ZSO is threat to survival of Serbs (RTV/TV Prva)
Lajcak cautious about Belgrade-Pristina dialogue process (N1/Pravda)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Komsic: There are hidden motives of Belgrade meeting and they threaten European perspective of B&H (ATV)
SDP’s Becirovic and Our Party’s Cudic on Vucic-Dodik-Covic meeting (Glas Srpske)
Izetbegovic: It is not coincidence Vucic invited only two leaders from B&H (ATV)
Covic: Visit to Belgrade was very transparent (O kanal)
Covic: We had friendly dinner in Belgrade, discussing EU integration and regional issues (Dnevni avaz)
Montenegro
Struggle over power in a new govt: Who will be in Krivokapic’s cabinet? (CdM)
Zenka: There’s no way we are going to enter the new government (Pobjeda)
DPS: According to Krivokapic, Montenegro is a Serbian state (CdM)
Republic of North Macedonia
Mass VMRO protests against “Zaev’s corruption and the economic hardship” (Republika)
VMRO proposes a serious electoral reform (Republika/Kanal 5 TV)
Mickoski asks the government to answer if it’s true that Bulgaria wants a new treaty, with constitutional redefinition of the Macedonian nation? (Republika)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, October 14, 2020
Albanian Language Media:
• COVID-19: 80 new cases, one death (media)
• Zemaj: WHO remains Kosovo’s strategic partner in battling COVID-19 pandemic (media)
• Thaci meets Lajcak: We discussed final agreement, including mutual recognition (media)
• Lajcak meets heads of international organisations in Kosovo (media)
• Lajcak meets leaders of political parties (media)
• State Department hails Kosovo-Serbia cooperation in Merdare (RTK)
• Grenell: Merdare border crossing becomes operational thanks to Trump (Klan)
Serbian Language Media:
• 14 new cases of Covid-19 in Serbian communities in Kosovo (Kontakt plus radio)
• Petkovic: The only way to move the dialogue from the deadlock is for Pristina to fulfill its obligations (RTS)
• Simic: Pristina’s refusal to form the ZSO threatens the survival of Serbs in Kosovo (TV Prva, Tanjug, Kosovo Online)
• Popovic: Albanians underrate the EU (Kosovo Online, TV Pink, Tanjug)
• Milivojevic: Belgrade has full right to get out of Brussels agreement (Kosovo-online)
• Vucic: Serbia didn’t change stance on Kosovo following Washington agreement (Sputnik)
• Lajcak cautious about Belgrade-Pristina dialogue process (N1)
• Vucic tells Russian Ambassador gas pipeline to be completed this year (N1, Beta)
• Merdare: Serbian personnel started work in new premises (Radio KIM)
• Dacic: Gratitude to Ukraine for principled stance not to recognize Kosovo (Kosovo-online)
Humanitarian/Development:
• Economic empowerment of women crucial for prevention of gender-based violence (media)
• Serbian “herd immunity” (BETA, B92)
• Civil Society Filled a Void in the Balkan Pandemic (Balkan Insight)
• Report: Global Internet Freedom Declines in Shadow of Pandemic (freedomhouse.com)
• Femart’s 8th edition celebrates resilience and solidarity in challenging times (Prishtina Insight)
• Three KelKos hydropower plants no longer licensed (Prishtina Insight)
UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, October 14, 2020
• COVID – 19: 98 new cases, one death (media)
• Hoti: Association won’t be formed without a final agreement (media)
• Osmani calls for internal consensus for dialogue with Serbia (media)
• Lajcak to meet President Thaci, party leaders on Wednesday (Indeksonline)
• EU wants Association as part of comprehensive agreement (media)
• Guterres warns of Thaci, Veseli attempts to obstruct court’s work (Zeri/RTS)
• “Kosovo – Serbia final agreement must include mutual recognition” (media)
• Osmani: We are discussing formation of a civic initiative (KTV)
• Konjufca: Time is near for a landslide victory of VV in elections (media)
• Kumnova: Our loved ones were taken away by Serbs we knew (media)
• Kandic: War crimes to be simultaneously tried in The Hague and Belgrade (Koha)
• Shala: I was invited by Specialist Chambers as a murder suspect (media)
Belgrade Media Report 13 October 2020
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Daily Media Highlights
Tuesday 13 October 2020
LOCAL PRESS
Brnabic: Serbia continues to work on further improving overall relations with China (Tanjug)
Vucic thanks China for supporting Serbia’s territorial integrity (RTS/Tanjug)
Petkovic: Serbs will leave Pristina institutions if ZSO is not formed (RTS/Tanjug)
Djuric: Pristina investing huge efforts to suspend dialogue (RTS)
Odalovic: Serbia not hiding mass graves (Tanjug/Kosovo Online)
Borrell: Reaching an agreement is a matter of months, not years (FoNet)
Russia: We expect a clear reaction from the EU on the intention of “erasing broders” between Albania and so-called Kosovo (RTV/Tanjug)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Covic and Dodik meet Vucic in Belgrade; Covic: Meeting represents continuation of regional talks on EU integration and economic recovery of Western Balkans, as well as 25th anniversary of DPA (FTV)
Izetbegovic on Vucic’s meeting with Dodik and Covic: I would have gone to meet with Vucic if he had invited me, Zagreb and Belgrade should not intervene towards B&H (FTV)
FB&H entity Vice President: Dodik, Covic continue denying Bosnian institutions (N1)
EU FMs express unequivocal support to EU perspective of B&H, call on political subjects in B&H to refrain from inflammatory rhetoric during pre-election period (RTRS)
Croatia
Grlic Radman to request EU foreign ministers’ discussion on Western Balkans (Hina)
Montenegro
Krivokapic soon to set up the Christian Democratic Party? (Dnevne novine)
Vujovic: Krivokapic may consolidate SDP if he wants to (Pobjeda)
Albania
Meta calls PM to resign (ADN)
Rama calls on President to decree changes of Electoral Code (Radio Tirana)
Rama-Merkel discuss Albania’s progress on EU Integration (ADN)
Meta: No EU talks’ opening without respecting 5 June agreement (ADN)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, October 13, 2020
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, October 13, 2020
Albanian Language Media:
• COVID-19: 98 new cases, one death (media)
• EU Special Representative Lajcak to arrive in Kosovo today (Gazeta Express)
• Government to Lajcak’s question on Association shortly before his arrival in Kosovo (Express)
• To Russia, thesis of removing borders between Albania and Kosovo is alarming (Koha)
• France fades Kosovo hopes for visa liberalisation any time soon (Express)
• Hoti receives new U.S. Military Attaché Stephen Rose (media)
Serbian Language Media:
• If Pristina continues blocking ZSO, Serbs announce possibility of leaving all Kosovo institutions (Kosovo-online)
• Várhelyi: Boosting and connecting the Western Balkans on the EU path (N1)
• EU envoy Lajcak makes first report on the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue to foreign ministers (N1)
• Djuric: Pristina makes efforts to suspend dialogue (Radio KIM)
• Grubjesic: Lajcak to convince Pristina establish ZSO and continue dialogue (TV Most)
• “1000 candles” lit in Ivanovic’s honor in Belgrade and North Mitrovica (KoSSev)
• Srebrenica Mothers: Serbian FM threatens all who speak of mass graves in Serbia (N1)
• Odalovic: Serbia does not hide mass graves; we checked everything that was asked of us (Kosovo Online)
• Senior German diplomat says region’s problems can no longer be put off (N1, BETA)
Opinion:
• Ring them Bells (EWB)
Humanitarian/Development:
• Balkan Govts Mull Tightened Rules as COVID-19 Cases Rise (Balkan Insight)
Read More →UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, October 13, 2020
• COVID – 19: 68 new cases, one death (media)
• Hoti: There will never be a technical dialogue with Serbia (media)
• Lajcak: EU remains biggest investor in the Balkans (media)
• Government rules out talks on Association on eve of Lajcak visit (Koha)
• Borrell: Kosovo and Serbia can reach an agreement within months (media)
• Hamza: We’re not bringing down government as we don’t have votes (media)
• Hoxhaj: Hoti government has no idea how to lead dialogue (media)
• Hoti has telephone conversation with Greek PM Mitsotakis (media)
• Serbs mark 1,000 days from killing of moderate Kosovo Serb politician (Reuters)
Belgrade Media Report 12 October
LOCAL PRESS
Vucic: Serbia prepared to discuss compromise, but not ultimatum (Beta)
Dacic: Security Council session on Kosovo and Metohija scheduled (Tanjug/Politika)
Vucic: Important decisions next week (Tanjug/B92)
Petkovic: Thaci not for dialogue, his signature not worth anything (Tanjug)
Lajcak: Brussels expects a far-reaching decision from Vučić on the Kosovo issue (FoNet)
REGIONAL PRESS
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Commissioner Varhelyi visits B&H (BHT1)
Izetbegovic: B&H is responsible for everything the EU criticized it in its Report (BHT1)
Dodik: B&H will not manage to centralize itself at expense of RS for sake of European path (RTRS)
Dodik: B&H will not be EU member if it means removing competencies from RS and transferring them to state-level (ATV)
Dodik: There can be no war in B&H; RS deserves recognition just like Kosovo does (ATV)
SDP B&H, NS, NiP and NBL submit request for no-confidence vote against SC government led by PM Nenadic (FTV)
There is no doubt that reshuffling of SC government will result in reorganizations in TC and ZDC (Dnevni avaz)
Croatia
Pompeo in Dubrovnik warns Croatia against close ties with China (Hina)
Montenegro
Djukanovic – Varhelyi: Montenegro remains on its European path (CdM)
Jokovic and Knezevic: Participation in government should be in proportion to the election result (CdM)
Ibrahimovic: Bosniak Party members started consultations about entering new govt (Dan)
Albania
The majority changes unilaterally the Electoral Code (Tirana Times)
Read More →UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, October 12, 2020
Albanian Language Media:
• COVID-19: 68 new cases, one death (media)
• Kosovo Assembly adopts law on economic recovery (media)
• Pacolli: Talks on president’s post not to take place at this time (Klan)
• Kosovo minister complains over trade barriers by Serbia (Koha/RTK)
• VV calls for announcement of local elections in Podujeve, Mitrovica North (media)
• In Kosovo, 40 persons convicted for war crimes (RFE)
Serbian Language Media:
• Three new cases of Covid-19 registered in Serbian areas in Kosovo on Saturday (Radio kontakt plus)
• Lajcak: Vucic wonders whether the EU is offering a European perspective (FoNet, N1)
• RTS: Lajcak to visit Belgrade and Pristina
• Dacic: We are grateful to China for supporting sovereignty and territorial integrity of Serbia (Kosovo-online)
• 1,000 candles for Oliver Ivanovic for one thousand days of silence in Mitrovica North as well (KoSSev)
• Vucic: We’ll see if there will be extraordinary parliamentary elections in 2022 (BETA, N1)
• Petkovic: Once again Thaci has shown that he is essentially against dialogue (Kosovo Online, B92)
• Rakic and Szunyog visit northern municipalities (Radio Mitrovica sever)
Opinion:
• COVID-19 Crisis Could Slow Southeast Europe’s Economies for Years (Balkan Insight)
• In times like these anchored cooperation-bashkepunim-saradnja-suradnja-саработка-сарадња, takes on more importance (EWB)
International:
• ‘A Hero Returns’: How Freed War Criminals are Glorified in Kosovo (Balkan Insight)
• Serbia cultivates both US and China in Balkans tug of war (Financial Times)
• Why the Kosovo Conflict Remains a Problem for the EU (The Washington Post)
Humanitarian/Development:
• In pictures: Prishtina Pride Parade 2020 (Prishtina Insight)
• Pride Week: PM Hoti expresses government’s support for LGBTIQ+ members’ rights (media)
UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, October 12, 2020
• COVID-19: 49 new cases, two deaths (media)
• Hoti: Second wave of COVID-19, a very serious threat (media)
• Zemaj: Increase in number of cases, result of failure to respect measures (media)
• Thaci: Kosovo – Serbia dialogue must conclude with mutual recognition (media)
• Lajcak: Form the Association of Serb-majority municipalities (media)
• Assembly to try for seventh time to pass economic recovery bill (media)
• EU foreign ministers to discuss Kosovo – Serbia dialogue on Monday (media)
• Kurti: No sustainable peace possible while Serbia hides mass graves (media)
• Mustafa: Rugova was arrested to damage him and LDK (media)
• Vucic to EU: Ready for compromise, not ultimatum, on Kosovo issue (media)
• Will White House Follow Through On Serbia-Kosovo Deal If Trump Wins Second Term? (RFE)
UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, October 10, 2020
• COVID-19: 79 new cases, three deaths (media)
• U.S. Embassy slams Kosovo Prosecutorial Council, gives up its monitoring role (media)
• Hoti concerned after U.S. Embassy withdraws its experts (media)
• Serbia appoints new head of Office for Kosovo (Express)
• Kosovo FM: We would welcome Greece’s decision to recognize Kosovo (media)
• Canak’s shocking testimony: We were told not to talk about 16 mass graves (RTK)
• Police confirms arrest of Istog mayor Haki Rugova (RTK)
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