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UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, November 30, 2021

Albanian Language Media:

• Bashkim Jashari appointed new commander of KSF (media)
• KSF commander resigns (Albanian Post)
• EU supports institutions and strengthening of law and order in Kosovo (RTK)
• Gervalla: Approach to visa liberalisation for Kosovo could change soon (media)
• Krasniqi meets Lajcak: Dialogue should end with mutual recognition (Klan)
• PDK mentions new elections as way out of parliamentary stalemate (Telegrafi)
• Konjufca meets Austrian Ambassador: Final agreement, mutual recognition (RTK)
• Kosovo Police special unit surround the Post Office premises (RTK)
• Kosovo and Germany with an agreement to support the KSF with 1 million euros (Klan)
• COVID-19: Eight new cases, one death (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• PM Brnabic and Viola von Cramon correspondence on Twitter (Kosovo Online)
• Von Cramon: Berlin could change approach towards Belgrade (N1)
• Environmental movement calls Vucic to annul controversial laws (N1)
• Northern Kosovo fears that it might be left without power supply; non-compliance with agreements, unpaid bills and Kurti’s ''the day will come'' (Euronews Serbia)
• Gracanica: Ljiljana Subaric and members of the Municipal Assembly took the oath (KiM radio)
• Petkovic with Botsan Kharchenko on dialogue (KiM radio)

Opinion:

• Legal framework for Kosovo Serbs tailored to Pristina (part three): What kind of future awaits them? (KoSSev)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, November 29, 2021

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, November 29, 2021

Albanian Language Media:

• Pahor: Kosovo and Serbia to trust the dialogue, respect agreements (media)
• Osmani: EU should react towards Serbia’s destabilizing rhetoric in the region (RTK)
• Prosecution: Investigations in Decan are not easy (RFE Albanian)
• Ibishi: Attack threats should be taken seriously (Ekonomia)
• Croatian Ambassador to Albania: "Serbian World" is being legitimized with "Open Balkans" (Klan)
• COVID-19: Two new cases, no deaths (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Covid-19: 65 new cases registered in Serbian areas on Saturday (Radio KIM)
• Vucic: I am completely convinced that we should not recognize Kosovo (KoSSev, KiM radio, Tanjug, TV Pink)
• Vucic meets with Pahor in Belgrade (Tanjug)
• Pahor on ZSO in Pristina: I understand decision of Constitutional Court, but agreements must be respected (KoSSev)
• Visoki Decani Monastery extends condolences to families of victims in Glodjane (social media)
• Blinken: Indispensable role of Serbia in promoting the regional stability (Tanjug)
• Survey on Law on Referendum: Most people think it is related to Kosovo and Rio Tinto Company (KoSSev)
• Petkovic elected member of SNS Presidency, Djuric Vice-President (Kosovo-online)
• Glass on a store belonging to Blagoje Radic from Orahovac broken (Radio kontakt plus)

International:

• Kosovo’s Forensic Investigators: ‘We are the Voice of the Dead’ (Balkan Insight)

Humanitarian/Development:

• Three weak earthquakes hit Kosovo (N1, RTS, KiM radio)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, November 26, 2021

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, November 26, 2021

Albanian Language Media:

• Rama: Different positions on Open Balkan do not hurt us (media)
• Kurti to Rama: Let us speak like diplomats and work like patriots (Koha)
• Lajcak discusses security situation in Kosovo with KFOR and EULEX (RTK)
• Threatening tones of war must not be underestimated, analysts say (Telegrafi)
• Rama’s impossible dismissal, President risks violating Constitution (Demokracia)
• Meta: Albania fully supports Kosovo – Serbia dialogue (Klan Kosova)
• COVID-19: 17 new cases, no deaths (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Serbian Parliament adopted the Law on Referendum and People's Initiative, 50 percent turnout threshold abolished (media)
• Vucic’s interview to RTS on meeting with Putin, Kosovo issue (RTS)
• Vucic: Putin to keep gas price same for Serbia, we saved one national stadium (N1)
• Djordjevic: Vucic was not received that well in Russia, as he claims (Danas)
• Szunyog: To implement Constitutional Court decision on Visoki Decani Monastery (Radio KIM)
• Escobar on Balkan (HINA, N1)
• Serbian Ambassador elected Chair of UNESCO Executive Council (Kosovo Online)
• RIA Novosti: Russia will get a nuclear power plant in Serbia (NMagazin, Beta, Danas)
• Pahor to visit Serbia on Sunday, with Vucic about dialogue with Pristina and the Western Balkans (Tanjug, Kosovo Online)

International:

• Euronews Albania’s poll on unification, Rama and Kurti give their take (euronews.al)
• No more stops from Albania to Kosovo and vice-versa, all controls lifted (euronews.al)
• Serbia President Hails ‘Incredible’ Gas Deal With Russia (Balkan Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, November 25, 2021

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti: Electricity in four northern municipalities will be billed soon (media)
• Konjufca: Kosovo’s future in EU and NATO, not in Serbia’s initiatives (Telegrafi)
• Gervalla: War has returned as a real threat in the Balkans (Koha)
• Kurti: Today we commemorate women and girls lost to violence (Klan Kosova)
• Specialist Chambers confirm some detainees are infected with COVID-19 (Klan Kosova)
• Mobile team vaccinates school pupils in Prishtina (Prishtina Insight)
• COVID-19: 12 new cases, no deaths (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Covid-19: 33 new cases in Serbian communities (Kontakt plus radio)
• Putin: Russia supports Serbia's position on resolving the Kosovo issue (Tanjug, Kosovo Online)
• Dacic: The law on the referendum has nothing to do with Rio Tinto, the Constitution preamble will not change (Danas)
• Petkovic: The only one destabilizing the region is Albin Kurti (Radio Mitrovica sever, Kosovo Online)
• Mojsilovic with Kajari: The only legitimate security actor in Kosovo is KFOR (Tanjug, Kosovo Online)
• US envoy to Serbia on ‘Open Balkan’: We support economic linkage; Escobar agrees (N1, FoNet)
• DSS official won’t run with anyone who says that genocide was committed in Srebrenica and Kosovo is independent (Beta, NIN, N1)
• Protesters in Belgrade threaten to block Serbia if two laws are passed (N1)
• 520 kg of marijuana seized in Nis (B92, N1, Kosovo Online)

International:

• Western Balkans in the coalition agreement of the next German government (EWB)
• Venice Commission: Serbia followed ‘most’ constitutional recommendations (BIRN)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, November 24, 2021

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, November 24, 2021

Albanian Language Media:

• Kosovo President Osmani meets Canada's Governor General Simon (media)
• Kurti: We are committed to fighting crime and corruption, uphold rule of law (media)
• EU Special Representative for dialogue, Lajcak, to visit Kosovo tomorrow (Klan)
• Kurti: I strongly condemn cases of discrimination against communities in Kosovo (Kallxo)
• Hajdari: Anti-dumping measures linked to equality and reciprocity (Koha)
• CDBK: Kosovo in CEFTA as a country, not through UNMIK (Zeri)
• COVID-19: Six new cases, one death (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Vucic on meeting with Putin, talks with Pristina, bigger incentives for childbirth (RTS)
• Mihajlovic: Alleged debt for electricity in northern Kosovo a lie, yet another sort of pressure against Serbs (Kosovo-online)
• Stano: Pristina to change decision and allow Petar Petkovic to enter Kosovo (Tanjug)
• Conference on the Open Balkan today in the Serbian Parliament (RTV Puls, Kosovo Online)
• Vucic awarded Golden Charter and Key of Mitrovica North City (KoSSev)
• Kremlin: Putin and Vucic to discuss also the prospects for resolving the Kosovo issue (Tanjug, Kosovo Online, TASS)

Humanitarian/Development:

• Public pulse: Citizens dissatisfied with municipal support during a pandemic (KiM radio)
• Kopač: Western Balkans need to introduce CO2 tax by 2025 (balkangreenenergynews.com)
• Activists in Balkans raise alarm on rising violence against women (axios.com)
• How do you see me? How do I see you? (Kosovo Trustbuilding Platform)