UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, December 11, 2020

Albanian Language Media:

• COVID-19: 590 new cases, 13 deaths (media)
• Hoti: Parties to agree on either the president or election date (Telegrafi)
• Mustafa doesn't view elections as way to resolve president's issue (Koha)
• Foundation set up to support Thaci's legal defence in The Hague (media)
• KFOR Commander expresses readiness to continue cooperation with KSF (Koha)
• Austrian MEP Mandl urges EU to grant Kosovo visa liberalisation (Klan)
• Residents of Krusha demand Tasic be retried for war crimes (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• In Serbian areas in Kosovo 66 new cases of Covid-19, one death (Kontakt plus radio)
• Visoki Decani one of 12 most threatened heritages sites, shortlisted for the 7 most endangered (KoSSev)
• Father Sava: 200.000 Serbs have not returned to Kosovo (Radio KIM)
• “Everyone has right to truth” (Radio KIM)
• The hearing on the case of Ivanovic's murder postponed indefinitely (Kontakt plus radio, KoSSev)
• Radojevic took oath: It is now up to me to live up to expectations (TV Most)
• Pristina Mayor: "The biggest problem of Serbs is that when they turn 18, they leave" (RTK2)
• Montgomery: Fixed stances on multiethnic societies in Kosovo and B&H will bring no solution (Kosovo-online)

International:

• COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Grip West Balkans, Survey Reveals (Balkan Insight)

Humanitarian/Development:

• Reidentifying the dead (Prishtina Insight)
• Homeless in their homes (Kosovo 2.0)

• COVID-19: 621 new cases, 13 deaths (media)
• Hoti: Measures against COVID-19 to be evaluated on Friday (Lajmi)
• Varhelyi: EU working to ensure Western Balkans receive Covid vaccine on time (Klan)
• BIRN Kosovo exposé of hospital security issues draws criticism (Balkan Insight)
• Lajcak: We continued discussions on financial and property claims (media)
• LDK MP: Either a new President is elected, or we go to new elections (RTK)
• AKR: This government has lost credibility (Klan Kosova)
• Ymeri: Vetevendosje wins 40 seats if elections are held soon (Telegrafi)
• Court rules Diaspora vote counting violated Constitution (media)
• Limaj hails Constitutional Court decision (media)
• LVV's Haxhiu reacts to Constitutional Court ruling (media)
• Incident in Zubin Potok, attack on a Kosovo Police vehicle (Kallxo)
• No room for Kosovo in the EU, says Austrian MP (Klan Kosova)
• Osmani slams reports she terminated contract with William Walker (media)

Albanian Language Media:

• COVID-19: 562 new cases, 13 deaths (media)
• On Human Rights Day, SRSG Zahir Tanin Calls for Placing Human Rights at the Core of the COVID-19 Response and Recovery (media)
• Kosovo-Serbia dialogue continues in Brussels (Express)
• Lajcak tells what is expected to be discussed today at Prishtina-Belgrade meeting (media)
• Kosovo-Serbia Dialogue, no narrowing of differences (Express)
• Hoti: We do not go to the dialogue for anyone’s interests but those of the state (media)
• Von Cramon urges visa liberalization for Kosovo (media)
• “We are not blackmailing, but we do not vote anyone except for Haradinaj” (Telegrafi)
• Serwer slams media close to Vucic for referring Albanians with a racist slur (Express)
• “Engagement of former EULEX prosecutors, fades Special Court’s credibility” (RTK)
• Hoti: Human rights to be dignifiedly represented (RTK)
• Abbott with Mother Theresa’s saying on International Human Rights Day (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• 59 newly infected in Serb areas in Kosovo (KiM radio)
• Petkovic: Dialogue is going in the right direction - in the direction of a compromise solution (KoSSev)
• Petkovic met Lajcak in Brussels (Kosovo-online)
• It is clear now - EU enlargement has been slowed down (Jutarnji List, B92)
• Schieb: Serbia's progress in rule of law modest, no new chapter (N1)
• Displaced in Z. Potok and Leposavic: We are second-class citizens; we only want our own roof over our heads (KoSSev)
• Brnabic: Serbia may introduce mandatory PCR test for people coming from abroad (N1)
• Normalization at zero point or step by step process? (KiM radio, 'Dogovor' TV Show)
• "What genocide in Kosovo?” (B92, Prva TV, Tanjug)
• Gara: Remains of at least 6 persons were discovered at Muslim cemetery in North Mitrovica (Kontakt plus radio)
• EP's Bilcík: Serbia standing still, but EU has to be more active too (N1)

International:

• 12 European heritage sites shortlisted for the 7 Most Endangered Programme 2021 (europanostra.org)
• China Increasing its Footprint in Balkan Media, Study Concludes (Balkan Insight)
• Southeast Europe is Pioneering a Global ‘Whistleblower Revolution’ (Balkan Insight)
• Grenell talks Serbia-Kosovo: people should stop "lingering on the past" (The Tartan)

Humanitarian/Development:

• Surviving a Pandemic (UNDP Eurasia)
• Serbian Health Minister: Return to normal life not possible before spring (B92)

• COVID-19: 561 new cases, 11 deaths (media)
• BIRN exposes lack of security at COVID-19 clinics (Prishtina Insight)
• Mustafa says healthcare staff needs to be treated with more respect (media)
• SHSKUK refutes BIRN report on COVID-19 (Kallxo)
• Delegations from Kosovo and Serbia to meet in Brussels today (media)
• Hoti: No date when political roundtable will take place (EO/Koha)
• Mustafa: Our goal is not to take the post of Kosovo president (T7/Kallxo)
• Haziri: President's name goes through LDK offices (media)
• Hoxhaj: President to be decided through parliamentary cooperation (Klan)
• LVV vows to sue Serbia for genocide at ICJ (media)
• Gucati's appeal rejected at the Specialist Chambers (media)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, December 9, 2020

Albanian Language Media:

• COVID-19: 561 new cases, 11 deaths (media)
• Kosovo PM's Office: Only financial claims to be discussed in Brussels (Klan)
• Hoti expects Serbia to apologise for crimes in Kosovo (media)
• Osmani: Victims' voice cannot be silenced, Serbia to recognise weight of its crimes (media)
• Kurti: Kosovo needs re-legitimisation of institutions through fresh elections (media)
• Mustafa: No readiness to discuss the president, we are sliding towards elections (Telegrafi)
• Hoxhaj: PDK will not become part of a process that deepens internal divide (media)
• Tahiri: PDK has no votes for Haradinaj’s candidacy for President (media)
• Next statutory session for former KLA leaders on December 17 (media)
• Germany commits €72.1 million to support Kosovo's European integration (Koha)

Serbian Language Media:

• 67 new cases of Covid-19, one death in Serbian areas (Radio KIM)
• Tahiri: Presidential elections in Kosovo in late February (RTK2)
• Petkovic: We will insist in Brussels tomorrow on ZSO and security of returnees (Kosovo-online)
• Germany: Opening of chapters depends on Belgrade, not on Brussels or Berlin (N1)
• Jevtic with COM KFOR on security situation in Kosovo (Kosovo-online)
• Ministry for Communities and Returns: Returnee attacked in Dubrava village (Radio KIM)
• US Committee: Bosnia dysfunctional and susceptible to Russia and China influence (N1)
• Vucic: If I would sing an act on independent Kosovo, I would win Nobel Peace Prize (B92)
• Janjic: Biden unlikely to follow Engel's recommendations regarding Kosovo (Kosovo Online, Tanjug, TV Prva)
• “Belgrade is aware of what the Serwer-Albright-Engel trio is trying to do” (B92, Tanjug)
• Jeremic: We did not lose at the International Court of Justice, that is a lie (Kosovo Online)
• Viola von Cramon: This is not an anti-Serbian attitude, but a pro-European one (Politika, Tanjug)

International:

• BCSP and KCSS: Citizens of Kosovo and Serbia support the dialogue, but see no benefits (EWB)
• Serbia Convicts Yugoslav Soldier of Killing Albanian Civilians (Balkan Insight)
• Albright Tells Congress Corruption 'Crippling' Western Balkans, Says U.S. Needs To Step Up Regional Presence (RFE)
• Viral vulnerability: How the pandemic is making democracy sick in the Western Balkans (ecfr.eu)

Humanitarian/Development:

• Court suspends work of two hydropower plants in Decan (media)

• COVID – 19: 643 new cases, 17 deaths (media)
• EP will again call on non-recognising countries to recognise Kosovo (RFE)
• “Vetevendosje will not engage in deals for Kosovo President post” (media)
• Daut Haradinaj doesn’t rule out coalition with Vetevendosje (media)
• Almqvist: Fake news study doesn’t represent position of EP (media)
• Engel: Serbia cannot join EU without recognising Kosovo (media)
• Albright: US and EU to cooperate in initiatives in Western Balkans (media)
• Montenegrin government: Footnote for Kosovo was a technical mistake (media)

Albanian Language Media:

• COVID-19: 557 new cases, 17 deaths (media)
• WHO: Vaccination in Kosovo cannot begin before spring (media)
• Kosovo-Serbia dialogue to resume Thursday (Klan Kosova)
• Hoti expects the roundtable on President to take place next week (RTK)
• Kosovo receives U.S. guarantee that 4 September agreement will implement (RTK)
• Support of Kosovo and BiH to be requested at U.S. Congress today (Koha)
• German Ambassador Rohde's interview with Gazeta Express
• Hoti: Petkovic did not go to Skenderaj, I've spoken to mayor Jashari (Express)
• LVV proposes Albanian Parliament resolution condemning Serbia’s genocide in Kosovo (Express)

Serbian Language Media:

• In Serbian communities in Kosovo 86 new cases of coronavirus, 30 cures (Kontakt plus radio)
• Dacic: Kosovo will be on Assembly’s agenda in coming period (FoNet)
• UNS and UNS in Kosovo: RTK to stop labeling (KoSSev)
• Petkovic denies that the supply of electricity to the north of Kosovo will stop in mid-December (RTS)
• Petkovic visits Banjska Monastery in Zvecan municipality, met Bishop Teodosije (Jedinstvo)
• Grubjesic: Von Cramon's statement malicious; blockade will affect dialogue (N1)
• EU adopts global human rights sanctions regime (N1)

International:

• Serbia Backs Russia Again in UN Vote on Crimea (Balkan Insight)

Humanitarian/Development:

• Hoti encourages survivors of sexual violence to apply for status (media)
• Activities of the regional shelter for victims of domestic violence within “16 Days of Activism” campaign (Radio Mitrovica sever)

• COVID-19: 534 new cases, 15 deaths (media)
• Hoti: Measures will be reviewed at the end of the week (media)
• "COVID tests to be performed in six other centres by January" (Koha)
• LVV invites Minister Zemaj to report on oxygen shortages claims (media)
• Hoti responds to Haradinaj: I make the decisions, everyone knows this (media)
• Haradinaj: If we don’t agree on President, we go to new elections (media)
• Kurti, Lajcak talk about the dialogue and missing persons (media)
• “Attacks against the Special Court, a very big mistake” (media)
• Hoti claims EP report was built on conspiracy theories (Kosovapress/Koha)
• Tahiri: Government preparing institutional response to EP report (media)
• German ambassador: Some countries still say no to visa liberalisation (media)
• Kurti: Europe to condemn Serbia’s crimes in Kosovo (media)
• Jashari apologises to families of martyrs for Serbian official’s visit (media)
• Kosovo institutions issued permission for Petkovic's visit (Telegrafi)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, December 7, 2020

Albanian Language Media:

• COVID-19: 519 new cases, 14 deaths (media)
• Kosovo applies to obtain COVID-19 vaccine (media)
• Kosovo Government allocates €200,000 for KLA war associations (media)
• Working group to lay foundation for war crimes research institute (media)
• Trade unions claim economic recovery law is discriminatory for certain sectors (Koha)
• Constitutional Court to meet in coming days to deliberate on Arifi case (Kosovapress)
• Kosovo's foreign ministry not informed of Petkovic's visit to north (Zeri)
• ECAP fines Serbian List for electoral silence violation (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• 15 new cases of Covid-19, two recoveries and one death registered in Serbian areas in Kosovo (KoSSev)
• Office for KiM Director visits North Kosovo, sends message of Serbia’s support and peace with Albanian neighbors (KoSSev)
• Despite about a hundred infected health workers, there is plenty of us, we are motivated to work, says Dr Elek (KoSSev)
• Trendafilova: The court’s mandate to provide justice; we do not deal with politics (Kontakt plus radio, Politika, N1)
• CPT: Gazeta Metro and RTK published inaccurate and dangerous information about our work (Radio KIM)
• Kosovo embassies get a shipment of KLA flags (KoSSev, N1)
• EUCO unlikely to adopt EU ministers’ conclusions on Western Balkans enlargement? (N1)

Opinion:

• How do we judge women who kill their abusive partners? (Kosovo 2.0)

Humanitarian/Develiopment

• Behind bars in the home (Prishtina Insight)
• Kon: It is unlikely there won't be any measures for New Year holidays (B92)

• COVID – 19: 468 new cases, 19 deaths (media)
• “No ‘hybrid’ solutions in Kosovo’s anti-corruption fight” (Balkan Insight)
• Osmani decrees law on economic recovery (media)
• Hoxhaj: Adoption of economic recovery package, a merit of PDK (media)
• Is it time to rethink Kosovo’s political system? (Prishtina Insight)
• Havolli: More than 65 senior officials are investigated for corruption (RFE)
• EP study on fake news and disinformation in the Western Balkans (media)
• U.S. Embassy: Domestic violence is a crime, don’t endure it, report it (media)