Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti: Draft statute for Association cuts off legacy of Kosovo’s non-recognition (RFE)
• Gervalla: We expect Serbia to declare itself about Serbia (Deutsche Welle)
• Special Intervention Unit to protest again on November 7 (Kallxo)
• EULEX arrests Kilaj; Kastrati: Special Court should stop persecuting liberators (KSP)
• Attackers of reporters in the north did not face justice (RFE)
• U.S. sanction former procurement director at Ministry of Trade, Nexhat Krasniqi (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• The safety of journalists: Reporting during crisis situations a serious risk (Radio Mitrovica sever, KiM radio, Kontakt plus radio, KoSSev)
• Rasic on the strategy for the protection of community interests: A long process, but the most important project (KiM radio)
• UNDP analysis: Basic expenditures in Kosovo have been growing for three years in a row (KoSSev)
• Vucic denies claims he will recognize Kosovo, silent on signing of Ohrid agreement (Beta, N1)
• Trajkovic: Vucic's policy towards Kosovo will be crowned with high betrayal of national interests (KiM radio, Beta, N1, NMagazin)
• Stojanovic and Bisevac gifted Gracanica municipality with “the construction tape for suspension of illegal construction” (KiM radio, Medija Centar Caglavica, KoSSev)
• Abbot Sava with Bakojani on the challenges of the Serbs and the SPC in Kosovo (Kosovo Online)

International:

• 'Let's Just Be Albanians': A New Movement In Kosovo Calls On Muslims To Abandon Islam (RFE)
• Miners at Kosovo’s Trepca Giant End Strike (Balkan Insight)
• Teachers, Parents Must Adapt to Address Peer Violence in Balkans (Balkan Insight)

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti: In order to preserve community, discrimination must be fought (media)
• President Osmani meets Dora Bakojanis (RTK)
• EU: We will soon invite Bislimi and Petkovic to Brussels (Reporteri)
• Kryeziu: Discussions can only continue where they left off on October 26 (RTK)
• Rama announces "supportive visit" to Kosovo after acceptance of EU plan (media)
• Krasniqi: Government MPs with monthly income close to €2000, voted against miners and policemen (media)
• Queue in front of vehicle registration centre in the north of Kosovo (RFE)
• SPO raids house of Isni Kilaj (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Vucic informed Bocan-Kharchenko about the difficult situation in Kosovo (RTS, Tanjug)
• Vucic: I will never sign the independence of Kosovo (Kosovo Online)
• Nova.rs: Kurti accepted the CSM, Vucic agreed to the agreement, asking to sign it after the elections (N1)
• Unclear when the population census will be held in Kosovo (KiM radio, Radio Gorazdevac)
• The house of the Dukic family from Suvi Do near Lipljan robbed (Kosovo Online)

Opinion:

• Hasani: Unveiling the Parallel: Serbia’s Failed Attempt to Imitate Russia’s Strategy with Neighbours (Prishtina Insight)

International:

• Why Ursula von der Leyen needs the Balkans to believe in EU membership (Financial Times)

Albanian Language Media:

• Government: Published document doesn’t correspond with EU-U.S. proposal (media)
• Kurti: A Republic of all, not only of the majority (Kosovapress)
• Special Intervention Unit protests: Don’t play with our dignity (Koha)
• SPO raids house of former advisor to Thaci (media)
• 63 attacks and threats against reporters and media reported in 10 months (Klan Kosova)
• KPC again sends proposal for Isufaj as state chief prosecutor to Osmani (media)
• Von Cramon: We need democratic Serbia, not further appeasement of Vucic (media)
• Forensic teams, international missions at site of damaging of Orthodox graves (Kallxo)
• Police stops a Serb, find emblems of Serbian army, baseball bat in the car (Klan)

Serbian Language Media:

• President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic announced parliamentary elections on December 17 (media)
• Serbian National Assembly President announced local elections in Serbia on December 17 (media)
• Surlic: European officials use the term "de facto recognition" to please Pristina, constructive ambiguity about the CSM (ZSO) (RTS)
• Pristina forensics opens an investigation at the dug-out cemetery in N. Mitrovica, numerous international organizations also at the scene (KoSSev)
• Office for KiM: School in Kamenica stoned (KiM radio)
• Ambassador says US not neutral on Kosovo (N1)
• Research: More than a third of Serbian citizens see the USA as an enemy (N1, FoNet, Beta, NMagazin)
• Neue Zurcher Zeitung: Vucic wants to control public opinion (N1)
• Borrell: Well-managed accession process will also strengthen EU (N1)

International:

• Trepca Miners in Mitrovica Demand Improved Working Conditions (BIRN)
• Serbia Schedules Early Elections for December 17 (Balkan Insight)

Albanian Language Media:

• An Explanatory Note on the Kosovo-Serbia agreement (Albanian Post)
• SPO raids apartment of Thaci’s former advisor, Artan Behrami (Koha)
• Palokaj: No sign that measures against Kosovo will be lifted (KTV)
• Rasic comments on decision for free registration of vehicles into RKS plates (media)
• Haradinaj: NATO membership guarantees more security and peace in the region (media)
• “I will get the Kosovo passport as soon as possible” (RFE)

Serbian Language Media:

• Hill: The proposals "on the table" for some time, Belgrade and Pristina should reach an agreement as soon as possible (Tanjug)
• Clinical Hospital Center Kosovska Mitrovica: The hospital pharmacy almost empty, patients sent to central Serbia (Beta, NMagazin, Politika, N1)
• Issuance of documents overshadowed by high-level politics (KoSSev)
• Brnabic on elections: If we lose, we will be a responsible opposition (N1, Beta)
• International law professor Milanovic: We don't know what exactly it means when they ask for de facto recognition (NMagazin, Beta)
• Momcilo Trajkovic: The Serbian List does not have the support of the people (KIM radio)

Opinion:

• Glenny: Same problems 20 years later (N1)

International:

• Leaked – Serbia signs lithium exploitation agreement with European Commission (balkangreenenergynews.com)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, October 30, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti - to QUINT ambassadors: Kosovo ready to sign basic agreement, Serbia refusing (media)
• Szunyog on Ursula von der Leyen's meetings: Waiting for fruitful discussions (Klan)
• Sources from Special Prosecution: “Almost all terrorists of Sept 24 are identified” (AP)
• Specialist Prosecutor’s Office raids houses of Thaci’s former advisors (media)
• Court sentences Bozovic to seven months in prison for incidents in the north (Koha)
• Delawie: The EU really needs to stop coddling Vucic (media)
• PDK: We do not vote international agreements without setting date for elections (Reporteri)
• Kurti expected to report to Assembly on developments in dialogue on Friday (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Vucic: I will call elections on Wednesday or Thursday (media)
• Serbia Against Violence parties will offer cooperation to right wing parties if need be (media)
• Less: It's no secret that London has more understanding for Pristina than other Western actors (Kosovo Online)
• Janjic: Brussels talks ended without an agreement, but showed a change in work methodology (Kim radio, Slobodno srpski)
• Milovan Bozovic from Zubin Potok sentenced to seven months in prison (KoSSev, media)
• Larger number of Kosovo police present in Zubin Potok, works on police station construction continue (Kosovo Online)
• "Fatherland" on construction of police station: “The brutality of Pristina while Belgrade is busy collecting voters” (KiM radio)
• Office for KiM: Tractor stolen from Djuric family in Osojane village (Kontakt plus radio, KiM radio, N1)
• Vucic receives farewell visit from Albanian ambassador (Tanjug)

Opinion:

• Palokaj: Vucic continues to successfully challenge the EU (Koha)

International:

• Kosovo’s Report Reveals Banjska Terrorist Attack Details (Prishtina Insight)
• After BIRN Investigation, Prishtina Court Sentenced 13 Police Officers for Smuggling Operations (Prishtina Insight)