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UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, November 8, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti: Draft is more advanced, but we are not fully satisfied (media)
• Kosovo, Serbia chief negotiators to meet next week in Brussels (RFE)
• Edtstadler: Recognition of Kosovo by all EU member states is imperative (media)
• Haradinaj on draft statute: Serbia has reason to feel victorious (Klan Kosova)
• Haziri expects agreement in Brussels next week (media)
• Haxhiu appointed coordinator against domestic, gender-based violence (media)
• Gazeta Express publishes Albanian PM Rama’s draft statute of Association
• Xhaferi: No potential for border changes; implications would be fatal (media)
• Osmani meets Prince William, “conversation centered on cooperation” (media)
• Court confirms verdict against Vukotic for sexual violence in war (Telegrafi)
Serbian Language Media:
• Vucic: We appreciate Romania's non-recognition of Kosovo (Tanjug, media)
• Lajcak on meetings in Pristina (media, social media)
• Brnabic: Relations with Azerbaijan at historical high point (media)
• Over 850 vehicles with Serbian license plates switch to “RKS” plates (N1, KoSSev)
• Lazarevic on vehicles re-registration: Belgrade in a shameful way shifted responsibility to Serbs in Kosovo (KoSSev, N1)
• Kosovo Supreme Court upholds 13 years imprisonment sentence for Vukotic, Lawyer: From Nuremberg to The Hague no one has been tried in such a way (KoSSev, N1)
• RFE: Possible new meeting of Belgrade, Pristina chief negotiators next week (RFE, N1)
International Media:
• Kosovo Govt’s Reform Agenda Gets Bogged Down in Court (Balkan Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, November 7, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

Lajcak says he has agreed with Bislimi about next steps in dialogue (Koha)
Kurti and Bayraktar discuss possibilities for further cooperation (Express)
Memli Krasniqi and Lumir Abdixhiku taken under protection by the Kosovo Police (RTK)
A page of Association's statute published, it is based on "Zajednica" of 2013 (Albanian Post)
Joseph: With new proposal, the Republika Srpska model has been excluded (RTK)
Hovenier: Too few answers for the families of the missing (RTK)
Security experts in Belgrade: Investigate how weapons went to the north (RTK)
Serbian Language Media:

Orlic: Serbia appreciates Romania's principled stance on respect of its sovereignty (media)
New Slovak government respects territorial integrity of Serbia (BETA, Kosovo Online)
OSCE informed Kosovo Government of Belgrade’s request on ballots collection (Kosovo Online)
Dacic meets Yemeni counterpart bin Mubarak, discuss Kosovo as well (Tanjug, media)
Xi: Serbia maintains sincere friendship with Chinese people (Tanjug)
SRSG Ziadeh meets KFOR Commander Ulutas (Kosovo Online)
Serbia, Kosovo exchange project ends with exhibition (N1)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, November 6, 2023

Albanian Language Media:
• EU: New proposal on Association is balanced (RTK)
• Kryeziu: Kosovo did not accept or agree to any autonomy (RTK)
• Escobar firm on Kosovo-Serbia agreements; “Legally binding” (Sinjali)
• Svecla: Our citizens positively responded to decision to register vehicles (media)
• Kurti: We will surely win the new elections too (Kallxo)
• Osmani attends the U.S. Marine Corps Birthday Ball (media)
• Isufaj also enters race for Chief Prosecutor of Special Prosecution (Albanian Post)
Serbian Language Media:
• Vucic: The Brussels meeting was supposed to take place in a couple of days, but the other side did not accept it (Tanjug, RTS)
• Security Information Agency (BIA) chief Aleksandar Vulin resigns (Tanjug, media)
• “Since the SNS has been in power, the goal has been to turn the BIA into a party police” (N1)
• Petkovic: By announcing the increase of KSF and KP members, Kurti threatens the Serbs in Kosovo (Radio Mitrovica sever, Kosovo Online)
• Serbian List: And the world is silently watching it (Radio Mitrovica sever, Kosovo Online)
• Petkovic: A contingent with medicine enters Kosovo, to be delivered to hospitals (KoSSev)
• Serbian List representatives meet with CoE rapporteur (Tanjug)
• Politicians are allowed to lie; it is up to the media to not transmit those lies (KoSSev)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, November 3, 2023

Albanian Language Media:
• Agreement reached, Trepca mineworkers’ strike ends (RTK)
• Osmani: Proposal of draft statute of Association should be reviewed by court (media)
• Kurti to report to Assembly on latest meeting in Brussels and Association draft (media)
• SPO conducts operations in investigation of administration of justice offences (media)
• Kurti: Kosovo’s membership in CoE – a historic process (media)
• Hovenier welcomes minister’s decision to supply hospitals in north (media)
• Rama: Association’s draft statute is an EU draft (media)
• Serbia deletes 3,370 Albanians in Presevo Valley from voter lists (Koha)
Serbian Language Media:
• Dacic: Pristina more likely to open embassy on moon than in Belgrade (Tanjug)
• Bocan-Kharchenko: Vucic is clear - he will not recognize Kosovo (Kosovo Online, Politika, Tanjug)
• Ponos: Vucic and Kurti are the "yin and yang" of the Kosovo disaster (NMagazin, N1, Nova.rs)
• Petkovic: The opposition hopes that they will succeed in deceiving the citizens with falsehoods at the expense of Kosovo (Kosovo Online)
• The police in Zubin Potok complete the station, put up a sign and flags (RTS)
• Municipality of Strpce: Concern about firewood is increasing (Kontakt plus radio)
• NJSI protest in front of the government building with opposition support, media reports on success in Banjska, Svecla and Kurti on investments in special forces (KoSSev)
International Media:
• Kosovo Serb Testifies About Son’s Abduction by Guerrillas (Balkan Insight)
• Troubles Underground: Kosovo's Trepca Miners Strike For Better Conditions (RFE)
• High-level conference in Germany: There is consensus on EU enlargement and reform, roadmap needed (EWB)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, November 2, 2023

Albanian Language Media:
• Kurti: Needs and desires are simpler than solutions (media)
• Svecla: Average monthly income of officers who protested is over €2,000 (media)
• Albanian PM’s proposal for Kosovo-Serbia agreement published (Klan)
• PDK: The Specialist Chambers must stop political persecution (media)
• Rasic: One third of Serbs fled Kosovo because of the Serbian List (media)
• Reuten: The West must draw a line on Serbia (media)
Serbian Language Media:
• Bilcik: Enlargement top priority, Von der Leyen clearly said EU wants Serbia (The Guardian, N1, Beta, Tanjug)
• Senator Shaheen: The relationship between Serbia and Kosovo worrying (VoA, KiM radio)
• Bishop Teodosije met with the British ambassadors from Belgrade and Pristina (KoSSev)
• The doctor arrested in April in Jarinje released (KoSSev)
• Those wanted for war crimes in Kosovo released in Montenegro (RFE, KoSSev)
• ANEM: 56 cases of threats, attacks on journalists, N1 and Danas targeted the most (FoNet, N1)
International Media:
• Western countries press for reform ahead of Ukraine decision (Politico)