Albanian Language Media:
• COVID-19: 827 new cases, 19 deaths (media)
• EU warns Kosovo of consequences for not allowing Serbian President visit (Express)
• Hoti responds to Lajcak: We are for the freedom of movement (RTK)
• Ekaterina Trendafilova reappointed President of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers (Express)
• The Albanian Parliament approves establishment of a special commission for Dick Marty’s report (Koha)
• Mustafa criticizes Minister Haradinaj-Stublla (RTK)
• Haxhiu: LVV does not support any candidate for President without elections (RTK)
• Lindon Kqira: I do not recognise Vjosa Osmani’s decision (RTK)
Serbian Language Media:
• 52 new Covid-19 cases and four deaths registered in Serbian communities (Radio Mitrovica Sever)
• Stano: EU works daily to facilitate Belgrade-Pristina agreement (Tanjug, Kosovo Online)
• Doctors in Gracanica Clinical Hospital Center warn of alarming state in the health care, the director claims everything is fine (VoA, KoSSev, KiM radio)
• US Ambassador in Pristina says Embassy supports agreement implementation (N1, RTS)
• Petkovic alerts international representatives of Haradinaj-Stublla’s behavior (KoSSev)
• Dacic: Stublla’s statement is the culmination of Pristina’s hypocrisy (Kosovo Online, Tanjug)
• Discovery of new graves reveals new crimes (KiM radio, TV Show 'Sporazum')
• New indictment on the assassination of Oliver Ivanovic returns everything to the beginning (RTV Puls, Vecernje Novosti)
• KLA General Staff: In the draft law, it governed the KLA; in The Hague – it only existed on paper (KoSSev)
Opinion:
• Under Biden, the US will push for a ‘EU-goslavia’ (opendemocracy.net)
• Stuck in the Russian Web (visegradinsight.eu)
• Two realities: Roma in the EU and Roma in the Western Balkans in the eyes of the EC (EWB)
International:
• Serbia Pledges to Exhume Suspected Kosovar Mass Grave Soon (Balkan Insight)
Humanitarian/Development:
• Learning a neighbor's language in Kosovo: It's easier when we know at least one word (RFE)
• Women of Southeast, Central Europe Protest Rise in Male Violence (Balkan Insight)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, November 26, 2020
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, November 25, 2020
Albanian Language Media:
• COVID-19: 704 new cases, nine deaths (media)
• Hoti: Review of Kosovo's diplomatic missions to be concluded soon (media)
• Osmani vows to overturn appointment of general consul in Prague (media)
• New consul says his appointment is lawful (media)
• Vetevendosje expects Osmani to annul Shala's appointment in Prague (media)
• Beqaj: Change in Kosovo possible through Vetevendosje-Osmani cooperation (Koha)
• Kosovars find COVID-19 treatment an expensive affair (Prishtina Insight)
Serbian Language Media:
• Covid-19 in Serbian communities: Two more deaths, 62 newly infected and 15 cured (Kontakt plus radio)
• Meeting scheduled, main topic - urgent procurement of vaccines, announced Vucic (B92)
• Vucic: Serbia has no problem to find every missing person (RTS)
• Milorad Trifunovic passed away - coordinator of families of abducted and missing in Kosovo and Metohija (KoSSev)
• Tadic does not expect a change in US policy towards Kosovo (Danas)
• Thaci is aware of guilt, he avoids responsibility (Danas, Kosovo Online)
Opinion:
• Will Biden bail out ‘George Washington of Kosovo’? (Boston Herald)
International:
• Balkan Countries ‘Still Heavily Dependent on Russian Gas’ (Balkan Insight)
• Serbia's Aleksandar Vucic bet big on Donald Trump, and lost. Now what? (euronews.com)
• War Victims Urged to Raise Voices at Kosovo Guerrillas’ Trials (Balkan Insight)
Humanitarian/Development:
• UNFPA: Premiere of "Broken Rib" on the Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (Kontakt plus radio)
• Hoti: Violence against women needs to be uprooted (KP/Telegrafi)
• U.S. Embassy: Every person deserves a life free from violence (media)
• Pandemic Disrupts Southeast Europe Labour Flows (Balkan Insight)
• Why culture makes smoking a hard habit for the Western Balkans to kick (Emerging Europe)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, November 24, 2020
Albanian Language Media:
• COVID-19: 609 new cases, 13 deaths (media)
• Hoti: Name of the new president or election date to be known soon (RTK)
• Mustafa: Meeting on election of president, next week (media)
• Chief Prosecutor: Trial against Thaci and others not to start later than September 2021 (Koha)
• Hoti committed to implement Washington Agreement (Express)
• Veliu to be invited for a motion about EC Security Report (media)
• Zemaj calls the situation with the pandemic in Kosovo alarming (Koha)
Serbian Language Media:
• Two persons died, 67 new cases of Covid-19 in Serbian communities in Kosovo (KoSSev)
• Dacic: No extreme changes in Washington's attitude towards dialogue with Pristina (FoNet, N1)
• Rakic and Bjørnstad about more frequent attacks on Serbian population (TV Most)
• Vesic to file a lawsuit in Strasbourg (B92, Tanjug)
• Bilčík: EU should be Balkans' goal, not political playground (DW, N1)
• Reforms leading to EU membership are Serbia's priorities (FoNet, N1)
Opinion:
• Crimes, victims could easily be revealed with honest willingness in Serbia (Koha)
• A wound that needs healing, not opening (Koha)
• Petar Ristanovic: Leaders of the ''KLA'' – Untold biographies (KoSSev)
International:
• A special Kosovo war crimes court will try its ex-president. So how do ‘hybrid’ courts work? (Washington Post)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, November 23, 2020
Albanian Language Media:
• COVID-19: 645 new cases, 12 deaths (media)
• Borrell: Kosovo-Serbia land swap, once an option but no longer one (Telegrafi)
• Hoti: Selmanaj's remarks have been misconstrued (Kosovapress/Koha)
• Vetevendosje calls for dismissal of Deputy Prime Minister Selmanaj (media)
• KWN writes to PM Hoti asking for DPM Selmanaj's dismissal (media)
• Kosovo Assembly fails to adopt resolution on missing persons (media)
• Osmani: Unfortunate that Kosovo is not allowed CoE membership (media)
• Kosovo delegation meets Croatian PM Plenkovic (media)
Serbian Language Media:
• Vucic: SPC Patriarch Irinej loved Serbs everywhere, his main concern was Kosovo (N1)
• MP Adem Hoxha joined the Serbian List (KiM radio, Kosovo Online)
• Vesic prohibited from entering Kosovo (KoSSev, KiM radio, Kontakt plus radio)
• The inscription "KLA" on the board at the entrance to Kisnica (KiM radio)
• Gracanica mayor on attempted flag burning (KIM radio)
• Four charged with the murder of Ivanovic in a new indictment, hearing to be held on December 4th (KoSSev)
• BCSP: 70% of Serbs do not believe there will be an armed conflict, 47% of them are ready to take part in a Kosovo conflict (KoSSev)
Opinion:
• Serbs Should Mourn Quiet Patriarch Who Avoided Conflict (Balkan insight)
• Cause for Optimism in Albeit Slow Western Balkans Recovery (Balkan Insight)
Humanitarian/Development:
• Hidden economy at very high levels and increasing throughout the Western Balkans (EWB)
• WHO official says Serbia close to lockdown (N1)
• Over 2,600 migrants in Kosovo, majority of them from Syria (RTK)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, November 20, 2020
Albanian Language Media:
• COVID – 19: 11 deaths, 855 new cases (media)
• Osmani: We are tired of irresponsible politicians who show tolerance to Serbia's rejective policies (media)
• Hardinaj-Stublla made official request to visit mass graves locations in Serbia (media)
• Kizevak explained: EULEX experts describe how they identified the exact location where the human remains were discovered (EULEX, Express)
• Veliu: Serbia exercising violence against migrants near Presevo (RTK)
• Osmani: We are tired of irresponsible politicians who show tolerance to Serbia's denying policies (media)
• Belgrade Court orders exhumation of human remains from Serbian mass grave (Euronews Albania)
• Kosovo’s Constitution does not specify who replaces acting president (Express)
Serbian Language Media:
• Gracanica Crisis Staff: Seven more newly infected with Covid-19 (KiM radio)
• Serbian Orthodox Church: Serbian Patriarch Irinej reposed in the Lord (media)
• Three-day mourning in Serbia after SPC Patriarch's death; Putin sends condolences (N1)
• Petar Petkovic: Serbian people has lost its spiritual father and archpastor (Kosovo Online, TV Most, KiM radio)
• Varhelyi tells MEPs Western Balkans are a priority (N1)
• Serbian government official calls for end to attacks on Kosovo Serbs (FoNet, N1)
• Gara: Nine sets of human remains found in 3 months in Kosovo, excavations carried out in North Mitrovica (KoSSev)
• SPO: Government officials “loyal” to Thaci and Veseli presided over “corrupt government pay-outs” to potential witnesses (KoSSev)
• Albanian citizens can enter Serbia using only an ID card (KoSSev)
Opinion:
• Kosovo turns blind eye to officials flouting COVID-19 laws (Prishtina Insight)
International:
• Serbia Mourns Aged Patriarch’s Death from COVID-19 (Balkan Insight)