UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, March 1, 2021
Albanian Language Media:
• COVID-19: 467 new cases, 9 deaths (media)
• VV: Revoking Radojicic arrest warrant, scandalous and dangerous (media)
• CDHRF: There should be protests against Lajcak’s visit (media)
• Albin Kurti’s crossroad between EU, US, Erdogan and Netanyahu (euronews.al)
• Hague Court schedules new status conference on Salih Mustafa’s case (Gazeta Express)
• Berisha: We will demand annulment of votes orchestrated by the Serbian List (Ekonomia)
• Simmons: I said and will say it again: Kosovo is a sovereign state (RTK)
• Director General of Kosovo Prosecutorial Council Secretariat, arrested (RTK)
Serbian Language Media:
• 86 new cases of Covid-19 registered in Serbian areas in Kosovo on Saturday (Radio konakt plus)
• Radojevic: Interethnic incidents have no place in our city (Radio kontakt plus)
• Lajcak: I am not coming to Belgrade with ultimatum, EU and US expect continuation of dialogue (Tanjug)
• Simic: We expect that Lajcak reminds Pristina of its unfulfilled obligations (Kosovo-online)
• Office for KiM: “Arilje” handball team banned from entering Kosovo (Radio KIM)
• Gathering to support detained youngsters in Gracanica held last night also (Radio KIM)
• Petkovic urges citizens from Kosovo to get vaccinated (Kosovo-online)
• Poll shows 75 percent of young Serbians want mandatory military service to resume (N1)
Opinion:
• Palokaj: A priority or not, the dialogue will last for many years (Koha)
• The far-reaching consequences of Kosovo’s failure to secure vaccines (Prishtina Insight)
International:
Kosovo Revokes Arrest Warrant for Powerful Serb Businessman (Balkan Insight)
Humanitarian/Development:
• Additional doses of Sputnik V for revaccination have arrived to Serbia (B92)
• Additional doses of Pfizer’s vaccines arrived in Serbia (Kosovo-online)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, February 26, 2021
Albanian Language Media:
• COVID-19: Five dead, 445 new cases (media)
• Stricter implementation of measures to prevent increase in COVID cases (media)
• Lajcak to visit Kosovo on March 1 (media)
• Rugova: There are tendencies to impose a new LDK leader (media)
• Ineffective justice for attacks on journalists (Radio Free Europe)
• “Government to prepare strategy against Russia’s malign operations” (media)
Serbian Language Media:
• Vucic: Serbia will continue to aid Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija (Kosovo-online)
• EU spokesman denies Lajcak bringing ultimatum to Belgrade (N1)
• Lajcak to visit Pristina and Belgrade next week (Radio KIM)
• Drecun: Lajcak pushed ZSO aside; story on non-paper appears who knows how many times (RTS)
• Selakovic says lack of EU’s reaction on “Great Albania” statements doesn’t help building trust (N1)
• One more protest held in Gracanica (RTV KIM)
• Zakharova: Agreement between Belgrade and Pristina shouldn’t be forced, rhetoric of Kosovo Albanians concerning (Kosovo-online)
• Petkovic replies to Osmani over map issue (Kosovo-online, social media)
Opinion:
• Kosovan abyss (KoSSev)
Humanitarian/Development:
• Serbia tightens anti-epidemic measures (N1)
• Half million doses of Chinese vaccines to be delivered to Serbia (B92)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, February 25, 2021
Albanian Language Media:
• COVID-19: 437 new cases, five deaths (media)
• EU downplays Lajcak’s interview backdrop map with Kosovo as part of Serbia (Express)
• Montgomery: US committed to working with EU on Kosovo-Serbia dialogue (VoA, media)
• Kosovo journalist Visar Duriqi physically assaulted (media)
• Daka leaves the CEC meeting following LVV's request for community votes (Koha)
• Hague Court extends detention for Kosovo war veteran leaders (Express)
• Emigrant votes are holding Kosovo’s electoral result ‘hostage’ (Euronews.al)
• LDK chairmanship to meet today at 16:30 (Express)
• Mustafa meets with Rhode, discuss latest developments in Kosovo (media)
Serbian Language Media:
• 95 new cases of Covid-19 registered in Serbian areas in Kosovo (KoSSev)
• One-month detention assigned to seven persons suspected of involvement in Laplje Selo fight (KoSSev)
• Gracanica: Students protest over decision to detain youngsters involved in Laplje Selo fight (Radio kontakt plus)
• Father Sava: It was not a lynch, but a fight of two politically opposed groups of young men (media, social media)
• Gracanica police station commander: Fight in Laplje Selo arranged in advance (KoSSev)
• Rasic: My son certainly didn’t know the fight was organized, school worked on Monday (KoSSev)
• Selakovic condemns EP call to five EU states to recognize Kosovo (B92)
• Vucic met SOC Patriarch, discussed Kosovo issue (B92)
International:
• Attack on Kosovo Investigative Journalist Condemned (Balkan Insight)
• Former intelligence chief indicted in ‘Gulenist’ case (Prishtina Insight)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, February 24, 2021
Albanian Language Media:
• COVID-19: 461 new cases, three deaths (media)
• Palmer: Kosovo-Serbia and Bosnia Herzegovina, two separate issues (VoA, media)
• European Parliament: Kosovo's independence is irreversible (REL, media)
• Bajrami resigns from the Acting Finance Minister position (media)
• Haradinaj sees LVV movements as "powerless to face northern integration" (Koha)
• Head of Kosovo's Agency for Agricultural Development arrested (media)
Serbian Language Media:
• Vucic: Meeting with Kosovo Serb representatives on Friday; Concentrated pressure of the EU and the USA (media)
• Vucic on the fight in Laplje Selo: We have all the information; two groups of young men organized the fight (KoSSev)
• Belgrade-ordered beating or an organized fight between high school students? (KoSSev)
• Jevtic: Why is there silence about attacks on Serbian returnees? (Radio Mitrovica sever)
• MEPs: Rule of law and normalisation with Kosovo crucial for Serbia (N1)
• EP on Kosovo: No reform results, call for formation of A/CSM (Radio Mitrovica sever)
• Andjelkovic: Albanians frontally attack Serbian List out of fear from Serbian unity in Kosovo (Kosovo-online)
• Serbia & UAE to intensify defense ministries’ cooperation (N1)
Opinion:
• Kosovo must use this moment to reframe the narrative of the past (Kosovo 2.0)
International:
• MEPs call on Serbia to commit unambiguously to European values (europarl.europa.eu)
• Biden's Early Move in Balkans Signals Interest in Europe (VoA)