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UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 8, 2021

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 8, 2021 Albanian Language Media: • COVID-19: 321 new cases, five deaths (media) • Ministry of Health insists it has secured Pfizer vaccine (media) • Vetevendosje says Constitutional Court ruling is not about Kurti (Koha) • CEC announces a ten-day campaign for extraordinary elections (media) • Rama: Two KSF units to be deployed to peacekeeping missions (RFE) • Petkovic's visit clashes PM Hoti and FM Haradinaj-Stublla (Klan) Serbian Language Media: • 13 new cases of Covid-19, three deaths in Serbian areas in Kosovo (Radio KIM) • Over 30 families from Mitrovica North got new apartments on Christmas Eve (KoSSev) • Petkovic: Serbia is doing its best to strengthen health care system in Kosovo (Kosovo-online) • Specialist Prosecution: Thaci undermined court, we are not in favor of lifting detention (Radio KIM) • Vucic: Serbian people face hard challenges (N1) • Fabrizi hopes Serbia could open more chapters in 2021 (N1, Blic) • Serb house in Babin Most burglarized (KIM Radio) Opinion: • Stop using the Balkans as a synonym for chaos (Prishtina Insight) International: • Balkans feel abandoned as vaccinations kick off in Europe (AP) • Thirteen countries call on EU to support Eastern Partnership vaccine efforts (EurActiv) • Serbia Starts Inoculations With Russia's Sputnik-V Vaccine (RFE) • COVID vaccine: EU orders 300 million more BioNTech-Pfizer doses (DW) Humanitarian/Development: • Kosovo: Infant-toddler centres and preschools are not yet a priority (Balcanicaucaso)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 5, 2020

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 5, 2021 Albanian Language Media: • COVID – 19: 199 new cases, four new deaths (media) • Kosovo ensures 500 thousand anti-COVID vaccines from Pfizer (media) • Mustafa ironizes with Osmani’s statement on her eventual return to LDK (RTK) • Osmani outlines political future (Prishtina Insight) • Dialogue with Serbia on 2020 Seen as Failure in Kosovo (Exit.al) • Assembly extraordinary session for sending KSF on missions with Iowa National Guard, today (media) • Hoxhaj: Presevo Valley will be the main issue in the dialogue with Serbia (media) • AKR to compete in elections with LDK? (media) Serbian Language Media: • 19 new cases of Covid-19, one death registered in Serbian areas in Kosovo (Radio KIM) • Vucic: Forthcoming not an easy year of fight with coronavirus, pressures on the issues related to Kosovo and Republika Srpska (Tanjug, Radio Mitrovica sever) • Selakovic: Belgrade for the continuation of a serious and effective dialogue (Tanjug, Kosovo Online, TV Pink) • Stano: The dialogue continues despite the elections in Kosovo; Belgrade and Pristina to cooperate on vaccines (Kontakt plus radio, Tanjug) • Tanaskovic: It would be no surprise that Pristina bypasses Washington agreement (N1, Sputnik) • “Diary of a Decani monk 1903-1906“ published – original records and documents from the monastery archives (KoSSev) • Sava Janjic: To reconstruct shrines destroyed after the war (Kosovo-online) • Yet another complaint filed on decision to ban Arlov from entering Kosovo (Radio KIM) Opinion: • EU cannot ignore history in Balkans enlargement (euobserver.com) International: • Flawed Cybersecurity Is a Ticking Time Bomb for the Balkans (foreignpolicy.com) Humanitarian/Development: • Year in Pictures: 2020 in the Balkans and Central Europe (Balkan Insight) • Heartwarming harmony as Balkan tensions set aside in Croatia’s hour of need after deadly earthquake (euronews.com)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, December 30, 2020

Albanian Language Media: • COVID – 19: 234 new cases, seven deaths (media) • Kosovo requests from Italy help to ensure anti-COVID-19 vaccines (media) • Osmani and Kurti discussed political situation with Viola Von Cramon (media) • Osmani: Time has come for our soldiers to contribute to foreign peacekeeping forces (media) • Hoxhaj: I am certain PDK will lead with future government (RTK) • Musliu: PDK does not have any red lines even for LVV (media) • AAK will run on its own in the elections (media) • Ramadani expects anti-COVID vaccines to arrive in Kosovo by March (media) Serbian Language Media: • In Serbian communities in Kosovo 26 newly infected (KoSSev) • Jevtic not satisfied with the return process, 273 people returned this year (KoSSev) • KLI report: There is a culture of impunity in Kosovo, most of the accused politicians belong to PDK (KoSSev) • Ambassador Djuric: We want the United States to be a part of Serbia's recovery (B92, Politika) • Office for KiM: Pristina is creating a climate in which attacks on Serbs are permissible (Kosovo-online) • Russian Ambassador says vaccine to arrive in Serbia soon (N1, B92) • Vucic offers help to Croatia following earthquake (BETA, N1) • Arts, entertainment, and recreation industry suffer the most damage during the pandemic, the IT sector the least (KoSSev) • Trajkovic: Veton Surroi, Kosovo's new leader (Kosovo Online) International: • Kosovo Is Losing Its Biggest Supporter In Congress; But It May Be Too Early For Serbia To Celebrate (RFE) Humanitarian/Development: • Two police officers suspended after video of an assault (Prishtina Insight) • Unequal Damage, Fair Recovery? (Kosovo 2.0)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, December 29, 2020

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, December 29, 2020 Albanian Language Media: • COVID-19: 109 new cases, eight deaths (media) • Osmani: Anti-COVID vaccines, only after April (Radio Free Europe) • NISMA in coalition talks with PDK (media) • Abrashi: We paid special attention to implementation of Washington agreement (KP/Klan) • Weber: Thaci’s departure from politics to be seen as collapse of post-war political elite (Koha) • Following resignation, Cakaj denies joining election race in Kosovo (Indeksonline) Serbian Language Media: • In Serbian communities in Kosovo 30 new cases of Covid-19, one death (Kontakt plus radio) • European Commission aid package to help Western Balkans with vaccination (N1) • Serbian government pandemic Crisis Staff bans New Year celebrations (N1, FoNet) • Jevtic: Repanovic family house in Osojane robbed for the seventh time (Kosovo-online) • Vucic on Serwer: I do not play with meaningless statements (Kosovo-online) Opinion: • COVID-19 only exacerbated Kosovo education’s preexisting conditions (Prishtina Insight) Humanitarian/Development: • Strong magnitude 6.3 earthquake hits Croatia (aljazeera.com)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, December 28, 2020

Albanian Language Media: • COVID – 19: 181 new cases, eight deaths (media) • Hoti discusses with Varhelyi Serbia’s illegal smuggling of anti-COVID vaccines (Koha) • Loncar: Vucic proposed to bring Covid-19 vaccines to all communities in Kosovo at beginning of January (Indeksonline) • Kosovo Parliament to decide on Budget 2021 today (Express) • Recica: PDK does not have special requests for approval of the budget (RTK) • Haradinaj-Stublla travels to Turkey (RTK) • Quni: We will soon become members of the Adriatic Charter (Koha) • Hoti: There are several candidates for PM in LDK, each, better than the other (RTK) • Daka: Organising elections, a challenge (RTK) Serbian Language Media: • 48 new cases of Covid-19 registered in Serbian areas in Kosovo on Saturday (Kontakt plus radio) • Vucic: Did anyone ask Ms. Haradinaj which provision of the Brussels agreement we violated with the vaccines? (Kosovo-online) • Petkovic: Politics has no place in preserving the health of citizens (KiM radio, Kontakt plus radio, RTS, Politika) • Petkovic: Season of hunt for Serbs is not closed even at time of pandemics (Kosovo Online) • Loncar for Indeksonline – Vucic proposed to bring Covid-19 vaccines to all communities in Kosovo at beginning of January (KoSSev) • Fr. Ilarion: Let us not strive for imaginary happiness because it lies in our hearts (KoSSev) • Serbia to send Covid-19 vaccines to BiH's Republika Srpska entity (N1) • NATO-led KFOR: Security in Kosovo stable (BETA, N1, KIM Radio) • Permission of “Hortikultura” needed for Serb funerals at Pristina Orthodox cemetery? (Radio KIM, Gracanica-online) • Milorad Arlov banned to enter Kosovo (Radio KIM) • Halimi: How to trust the Kosovo judiciary after the embarrassment with the trial for the murder of Ivanovic? (Kosovo Online, Politika) • HLC: On Nenad Arsic’s sentence after insight and analysis of the first-instance verdict (Radio KIM) International: • Kosovo Protests ‘Illegal’ Arrival of COVID-19 Vaccines in North (Balkan Insight)