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Belgrade Media Report 20 September 2021

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United Nations Office in Belgrade

Daily Media Highlights

Monday 20 September 2021

LOCAL PRESS

Vucic convened an emergency session of the Security Council (Novosti)
Armored vehicles and ROSU units at Jarinje and Brnjak (TV Prva/B92)
Serbs from Kosovo heading towards the crossings (TV Prva/B92)
Petkovic: Kurti plans to take down Serbian license plates at administrative crossings (Politika/RTS)
Vucic: Erdogan supports Belgrade-Pristina dialogue (Tanjug)
Vucic from Istanbul: I am not interested in Djukanovic or Milanovic (B92/TV Pink)
Vucic ready to accept EP suggestions though it’s difficult for his SNS (TV Pink/Beta/N1)
Selakovic: Cooperation with India needs to be raised to an even higher level (RTV/Tanjug)
Inter-Party dialogue: Improving conditions for political competition in Serbia (Beta)
Most of Serbia’s opposition rejects document on election conditions (N1)
Djilas won’t cooperate with opposition that enters EP proposed bodies (N1)
Bilcik: Breakthrough made in government-opposition talks (Beta)
Dzaferovic: There will be no new borders and no new states in Western Balkans (Danas)

REGIONAL PRESS

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Izetbegovic: Arrest of Vranj is another provocation from Serbian side; Serbia should leave B&H alone (Hayat)
Dodik: Any possibility of coexistence in current political framework in B&H no longer possible (N1/Srna)
Dodik: Serb MPs not to attend B&H HoR’s session on Monday due to boycott in response to Inzko’s decision (O Kanal)
Sarovic: Dodik should stop speaking on behalf of all parliamentary parties in the RS; There is no agreement of parliamentary parties regarding boycott of B&H HoR’s session (Nova BH)
Borenovic: We will respect RS parliament’s conclusions; Let SNSD, SDA and HDZ B&H agree on how to get out of this political crisis (BN TV)
Zvizdic: There will be quorum to hold B&H HoR’s session, regardless of attendance or absence of Serb representatives (FTV)
Schmidt: Bonn powers are still at my disposal; Those who are causing blockades are actually blocking themselves (O Kanal)
Schmidt reflects on legality of his mandate, institutional blockade in B&H; he says there is no law treating collective responsibility of nation (BN TV)
DF to Covic: Issue of legitimate representation of peoples is not mentioned in ECHR judgments (Dnevni list)
All-Croat candidate against Komsic, the three against Izetbegovic, Stanivukovic against Dodik (Dnevni list)
US appoints Palmer to oversee electoral reforms in B&H (O Kanal)
RS plans to carry out 2022 elections on its own (Dnevni list)
Croatia

Djukanovic: Greater Serbian nationalism wants to take advantage of geopolitical rearrangement (Hina)
Montenegro

Djukanovic finished visit to CRO: MNE will continue to develop as democratic, secular and pro-European country (CdM)
Djukanovic: Communication with Vucic impossible, we know Greater Serbia project can’t be implemented without Montenegro (CdM/RTL)
Reconstructed government and Prosecutorial Council possible by 15 October (RTCG)
Albania

Rama third term government sworn in after presenting economy-focused program (Tirana Times)
“Albania has made progress”, the head of the European Parliament: Reforms will bring rapid membership (Radio Tirana)
Soreca congratulates Rama: Inter-institutional coordination, key to EU integration (Radio Tirana)
New rules for Serbian vehicles entering Kosovo (ADN)

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UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, September 20, 2021

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UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, September 20, 2021

Albanian Language Media:

• COVID-19: 6 deaths, 48 new cases (media)
• License plates’ reciprocity, Svecla provides details on increase of police forces (RTK)
• Citizens block the roads to Brnjak and Jarinje (media)
• Kurti on action in the North: Serbia agreed to this as well (Ekonomia Online)
• MIA: Do not use Brnjak and Jarinje border points (Koha)
• The road to the Jarinje and Brnjak border points, continues to be blocked (Kallxo)
• EU: Kosovo and Serbia to immediately reduce tensions (RTK/Klan)
• KFOR: The situation in the North is stable (media)
• Serbian media: Vucic to gather National Security Council following Kosovo decision on license plates (Express)
• LDK’s Gashi: PM Kurti putting on a ‘show’ with license plates (Kallxo)
• PDK and LVV clash over Kurti’s role in the KLA (Telegrafi)
• Kurti to undertake U.S. visit in November (Kosovapress/Klan)
• Albanian Assembly Speaker Nikolla to visit Kosovo (Koha)

Serbian Language Media:

• 38 new cases of Covid-19 registered in Serbian areas on Saturday (Radio kontakt plus)
• Stano: Lower tensions immediately, sides to refrain from unilateral actions (Kosovo Online, Tanjug)
• KFOR on events in northern Kosovo: Security situation stable (Kosovo-online)
• Vucic convened an emergency session of the Security Council (B92, Vecernje Novosti)
• ROSU at Jarinje and Brnjak, confiscation of vehicle plates commenced, Rakic urges Vucic to react (RTS)
• Simic called for the restraint of the citizens (B92, TV Prva, Tanjug)
• Issuance of trial RKS vehicle plates has started (KiM radio)
• Replacement of Serbian registration plates started in Gorazdevac (Radio KIM)
• Andric: 9,500 vehicles with Serbian license plates captured in Kosovo (Beta, Danas)
• Stefanovic: ”Explain to Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija how you ‘defend’ them ” (Kosovo Online)
• Rada Trajkovic accuses Vucic of misinforming Serbs (Kosovo online)
• Petkovic: Pristina to start issuing temporary license plates for cars with Serb plates as of Monday (KoSSev)
• Milivojevic: By introducing reciprocity, Kurti practically abolishes dialogue (Kosovo-online)
• Lajcak on two-day visit to Belgrade (Radio KIM)
• Lajcak canceled a meeting with civil society in Belgrade (Kosovo Online, Danas)
• Petkovic: Either Brussels agreement will be respected or it shall not exist (Radio KIM)
• Vucic, Erdogan: Friendship with Turkey is guarantee of peace in region (N1)

Opinion:

• Janjic: Vehicle plates are just the beginning of Kurti’s measures of reciprocity, Lajcak does not understand, and that leads to war (Kosovo Online)

International:

• Tempers Flare At Serbia-Kosovo Border As Pristina Presses ‘Reciprocal’ Move Over License Plates (RFE)
• Kosovo deploys police, Serbs protest amid border tension (AP)
• Kosovo Deploys Police as Serbs Protest in Licence Plate Dispute (Balkan Insight)
• Tensions as Kosovo begins removing Serbian licence plates at border (Euronews)

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UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, September 20

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• COVID-19: 10 deaths, 173 new cases (media)
• Government: 35% of adult population is fully vaccinated in Kosovo (media)
• Movement of vehicles with KS license plates to be banned as of today (media)
• Kurti: If we were to sign a final agreement, Serbia would have to change its constitution (euronews.al)
• President Vjosa Osmani insists on concluding dialogue with mutual recognition (euronews.al)
• U.S. Embassy: Discussions with Kosovo government on gas pipeline ongoing (media)
• Serbs consider a possible plan on the north of Kosovo to constitute a threat (Koha)
• President Osmani travelled for official visit to United States (media)
• Rama Links Kosovo’s Membership in ‘Open Balkan’ to Its ‘Dedication to Peace’ (Exit News)
• ‘Relations with Albania Are Cooling,’ Warns Kosovo President (Exit News)
• Albanian PM Rama accepts invitation of Kurti to visit Kosovo (Express)
• Kosovo’s President Vjosa Osmani: Principled, yet willing to take risks (DW)
• A group of Afghan citizens leave Kosovo for United States (media)
• U.S. Seeks Acceleration Of EU-Balkan Integration, Senior Official Says (RFE)

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