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UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, November 1, 2024

Albanian Language Media: • The USA: Serbia has violated obligations deriving from dialogue with Kosovo (media) • EU considers that Kosovo has accepted draft statute for Association (Koha) • Gervalla: Support for Ukraine, key for the peace and stability of Europe (media) • LVV MP: Association draft should be written by the government of Kosovo (Reporteri) • Abdixiku: Current association is autonomy - we will reject it (Klan) • EU Reacts to approval of Law amending and supplementing Law on Public Officials (media) • Giaufret: Without normalisation with Kosovo, there is no EU for Serbia (RTK) • Bosnjacka Mahala blocked for a while, police intervene, disperse the crowd (media) • U.S. sanctions Serbian and Montenegrin firms for supporting Russia’s war (media) Serbian Language Media: • Civil society organisations met Ombudsman, pointed out Kosovo police actions and harassments (Kosovo Online) • Tires of two vehicles with Serbian licence plates slashed in Bosnjacka Mahala, four persons taken for interrogation (KoSSev) • Arsenijevic: I would not be surprised if someone close to Atiq’s cabinet stapled sticker (KoSSev, social media) • Police Inspectorate recommends suspension of three police officers over arrest of EULEX security local staff member (KoSSev) • Giaufret: We expect to see progress in establishing A/CSM (TV Prva, Kosovo Online, media) • Vulin meets Lavrov: Serbia maintaining traditional friendships (N1) • RFE: State Department agrees with EU (N1) • Shea: State Department disappointed with Kurti and his actions in northern Kosovo (Kosovo Online) International Media: • KLA saw outsiders as ‘traitors’, witness tell Kosovo war crime trial (Balkan Insight) • US sanctions companies from Serbia, Montenegro for military exports to Russia (Balkan Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, October 31, 2024

Albanian Language Media: • Special Prosecution with indictment against two persons for war crimes (media) • Hargreaves: Association would solve many important issues (Klan) • Kurti travels to Switzerland to meet diaspora (Reporteri) • COMKFOR meets Turkish Ambassador, discus security in Kosovo (Klan) • Abdixhiku reminds Kurti of Promises he did not keep (media) • Disappearance of hundreds of passports, PDK demands urgent investigation (Reporteri) • Haradinaj: Progress Report proved Kurti’s agenda to leave Kosovo out of all Euro-Atlantic integrations (media) • Vehbi Kajtazi: Suspicious device found in my car, police are dealing with case (Reporteri) Serbian Language Media: • KLA member in trial to Thaci: KLA in July 1999 attacked Serbs in Opterusa ‘only because they were Serbs’ (KoSSev) • Civic activists, analyst slam Kurti over his remarks at Harvard on rights of Serbs (social media) • Vucevic: EU notes Serbia's progress in many areas, especially in economy (Tanjug) • Party of Kosovo Serbs representatives met UK and Swedish ambassadors in Pristina, discussed political and security situation (Radio KIM) • Gogic: UNSC members agree Pristina is cause of crisis in Kosovo and that solution is CSM (Kosovo Online) • Radakovic: At the UN Security Council session on Kosovo, UNMIK tried to alleviate the situation (Kosovo Online) • Trial of Gavrilo Milosavljevic for alleged war crimes continues (Kosovo Online) International: • Key findings of the 2024 European Commission Report on Kosovo (EWB) • EC releases the 2024 Enlargement Package: How much has each candidate advanced? (EWB)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, October 31, 2024

Albanian Language Media: • UNSC discusses Kosovo, UNMIK chief says building confidence through achievable goals is key to decisive political outcomes (media) • Kosovo government adopts budget for 2025 (RFE) • Kurti welcomes EU recommendations: Committed to path of reforms (RTK) • Kosovo Assembly adopts National Plan for European Integration 2024 – 2028 (media) • Borrell: EU membership and progress in Dialogue must go hand in hand (Koha) • PDK’s Krasniqi slams government after publication of Progress Report (media) • Kosovo leaders send condolences to Spain after devastating floods (media) • Kosovo Police Inspectorate recommends suspension of two police officers in the north (Koha) Serbian Language Media: • UNMIK Chief reports to UN Security Council (Beta, N1, Tanjug, KoSSev, media) • Djuric: Kurti's moves creating a climate of fear, violence against Serbs escalated (Tanjug, media) • UNSC on the Belgrade Pristina dialogue, Banjska, the Kosovo authorities’ moves, the UNMIK mandate (Beta, KoSSev, media) • Djuric: We have sent a clear message - Kurti destroying all accomplished by the international community in Kosovo (Kosovo Online) • Petkovic: The truth was heard in NY about the suffering of Serbs from Kosovo and the brutal lies of Gervalla (Kosovo Online) • SL: Djuric presented the difficult situation of Serbs in Kosovo, from Gervalla only insults and lies (Kosovo Online) • EULEX chief says north Kosovo NGOs break ties with the mission (N1, Kosovo Online) • Plans of Pristina for Prizren - The path to UNESCO leads through Belgrade (Kosovo Online) • Vucic: Next US president needs to forge truce in Ukraine (Tanjug, Bloomberg, media)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, October 30, 2024

Albanian Language Media: • EC demands from Kosovo and Serbia immediate implementation of agreement (RTK) • EU: Serbia committed clear violation of dialogue obligations (RTK) • LVV MPs boycott report of KIA director (Koha) • Osmani in Qatar: Family, the strongest nucleus that kept resistance alive (Koha) • Three international agreements postponed for another session (RTK) • Maqedonci meets Qatar Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense (Klan) • LDK to start next week "Tournament of Change": Elections determine Kosovo's own destiny (media) Serbian Language Media: • Guterres on Kosovo report: Potential for escalation, safeguarding rights of non-majority communities vital (N1, media) • EC: Cluster 3 ready for opening, Belgrade and Pristina must implement agreements (Tanjug) • Petkovic: Laws Serbia adopts as support to Serbian people in Kosovo unrelated to obligations from dialogue (Kosovo Online, media) • EU: Serbia has clearly violated its dialogue obligations with proposed law on Kosovo (Kosovo Online) • Starovic: Serbia not violating any agreement within the dialogue, instead trying to help its population in Kosovo (Kosovo Online) • Kosovo Police Inspectorate recommends suspension of two police officers in relation to Milos Subotic’s case (KoSSev) • Djurdjevic Stamenkovski, AfD's Chrupalla discuss situation in Kosovo (Tanjug) • Vucic extends condolences to Spain over deadly flooding (Tanjug, media) Opinion: • On the five points of Belgrade: laws against independence (KoSSev) • Ninic claims Serbia’s Kosovo legislation is a ‘Lex Specialis’ for Milan Radoicic (KoSSev)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, October 30, 2024

Albanian Language Media: • Kurti meets Sarrazin, talk strengthening bilateral relations, regional cooperation (media) • Bislimi on Serbia’s bill on Kosovo: EU should respond and react in a firm way (media) • Foreign Minister Gervalla to represent Kosovo at UN Security Council session (media) • Kurti meets AIRabiah of Saudi Arabia, thanks him for support for Kosovo (media) • COMKFOR talks about security and increased presence of troops in Kosovo (Telegrafi) • Trade Unions and opposition dissatisfied with increase of salaries (media) Serbian Language Media: • Djuric to represent Serbia at UNSC session on UNMIK (Tanjug, media) • Gouillon: 81 attacks on Serbs registered in Kosovo since Kurti's rise to power (Tanjug, Kosovo Online, TV Pink) • The Gracanica municipality sued the GoK for the illegal confiscation of land (Tanjug, Kosovo Online, KoSSev, KiM radio, Danas) • Petkovic: Kurti is the only one taking hostile actions in Kosovo (Kosovo Online, Radio Mitrovica sever, KiM radio) • The SL representatives met Sarrazin: Necessary to prevent the persecution of Serbs (Kosovo Online, Radio Mitrovica sever, KiM radio) • Arsenijevic placed "EULEX VETËVENDOSJE! Police" at the gate of the EU mission base; KP questioned him: Disturbance of public order (KoSSev) • Barduani: Resolving open issues through dialogue key to lasting security in Kosovo (K4, Kosovo Online)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, October 29, 2024

Albanian Language Media: Kurti: Increase in public sector wages in January next year (media) Kurti: I don’t form Associations; I offered to write draft but was rejected (media) Lajcak: Optimistic about some progress, will continue in coming weeks (RTK) Hacker: I guarantee Germany is working to help Kosovo join CoE (media) Osmani to Erdogan: Kosovo committed to strengthening partnership (media) Haradinaj: Kurti is a political amateur, he has made many mistakes (EO) KFOR Strategic Force leaves Kosovo (media) Serbian Language Media: Vucevic not optimist that any major conclusion will be reached at UNSC session tomorrow (Kosovo Online, Tanjug, Radio Mitrovica sever, media) SL with Michalcova and Hupin: The most urgent to prevent institutional violence and form the CSM (Radio Mitrovica sever, Kosovo Online) Lajcak optimist on progress of ''some key issues'' in Belgrade-Pristina dialogue (Kosovo Online) Gacevic: Formation of A/CSM essential as first step in protecting collective rights of Serbs (Danas, Kosovo Online) Radosavljevic: Time to ask how useful EULEX is considering how expensive it is (Euronews Serbia, Kosovo Online) Trial of four Serbs in relation to alleged involvement in attack on Municipal Election Commission Office continues (Kosovo Online) House arrest measure of four young Serbs arrested in Mitrovica North last month revoked (KoSSev) Bottcher: Position of German Embassy and ambassador is well known - “Deva was a known Nazi collaborator” (Kosovo Online) Questions about Serbia’s strategic course: How EC assesses Belgrade’s path to EU (N1, Hina) International: Relentless hoax bomb threats leave police in Balkans frustrated (Balkan Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, October 29, 2024

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, October 29, 2024 Albanian Language Media: Kurti in address at Harvard: Kosovo has strong minority protections (media) Kosovo denies allegations that Serbs’ rights in north are being violated (RTV21) Murati: The Development Bank is becoming a reality (media) Svecla: Kosovo is not a safe haven for criminals (media) Bislimi meets head of Division for Western Balkans in EEAS (media) Jashari meets KFOR Chief of Staff, talk cooperation (media) Osmani: The Siparantum Choir has once again raised our flag high (media) Artists from Kosovo and Serbia with joint exhibition in Belgrade (RFE) Serbian Language Media: Serbian Government declares Kosovo a region of special social protection (KoSSev, media) Vucic: We have no closer or greater ally in Europe than Hungary (Tanjug) Murphy with Vucevic: Implementing Brussels Agreement as a path to compromise (Kosovo Online) Vulin: BRICS summit brings hope (N1, BETA) Milos Subotic: “While they were beating me in police station, other officers were laughing; this no longer feels like life” (Kosovo Online, Danas) Hearing in Milorad Djokovic’s case postponed (Radio KIM) LVV ‘under fire’: Opposition claims government uses north, bridge opening and A/CSM to divert attention (KoSSev) Opinion: Three reasons why there will be a change of government in Kosovo (Nacionale) International Media: ‘Thirrëm edhe mua’ for women fighting breast cancer (Prishtina Insight) Kosovo’s choir awarded in Spain (Prishtina Insight) KLA was voluntary army, witness tells Thaci trial in the Hague (BIRN)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, October 28, 2024

Albanian Language Media: • Konjufca on Association: EU cannot take away our right to propose a draft (media) • Progress Report expected to request urgent implementation of agreements (RFE) • Koopman commends Kosovo on Reforms Agenda for Growth Plan (media) • “Vucic hoping Trump elected in order to start talks on Kosovo partition” (media) • Zeka: Govt didn’t give the right importance to capital investments (Kosovapress) • RTK: Dinar continues to circulate illegally in the northern municipalities • Tahiri: Vetevendosje is not serious, fortunately we are on verge of elections (Klan) • Videnovic: Serbian politicians must apologize for pain caused in Kosovo (media) Serbian Language Media: • CSOs appeal for international actions on police abuse of non-majority communities (Alternativna, Kosovo Online, social media) • CSOs call upon mayor Atiq to resign (KoSSev, media, social media) • ‘How can I trust the police?’: Milos Subotic’s struggle for justice after alleged assault (KoSSev) • Fatherland: Beating of Subotic only tip of an iceberg (KoSSev, media) • One more Serb claim Kosovo police treated him ‘inappropriately’ (Alternativna, social media) • Andric Rakic: Level of public security in north of Kosovo decreased (RTS, Kosovo Online) • Ugljanin: ID cards listing ‘Mitrovica’ violate law and agreements on north-south division (KoSSev) • Bomb thrown in a yard of Serbian woman, member of Kosovo police in Mali Zvecan (KoSSev, media) • Djuric: Deva's restored house illuminated ‘in colors of the Third Reich flag’ (Kosovo Online, social media) • Kosovo Assembly did not adopt any of proposed laws that Government planned for 2024 (KoSSev, Koha) International: • Kosovo counts cost and benefit of prisoner deal with Denmark (BIRN)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, October 28, 2024

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, October 28, 2024 Albanian Language Media: Von der Leyen visits Pristina, meets Osmani and Kurti (media) Peja mayor Gazmend Muhaxheri assaulted by two persons (media) Finnish MP: We will support Kosovo at Council of Europe (media) EULEX welcomes investigations into claims of beating of a Serb in north (RFE) Atiq: Serb civil society never reacted to vehicles’ burning, violent actions (media) LDK’s Gashi calls for Kurti’s resignation: VV lost majority in parliament (media) Serbian Language Media: EULEX demand the competent authorities to urgently investigate allegations of abuse against Subotic (Kosovo Online, RTS, KiM radio) Atiq: Civil society in the North reacts against government and police actions, not against car arson or Rakic assault (KoSSev) KP outline details of Milos Subotic’s arrest as Inspectorate launches abuse investigation (KoSSev) Office for KiM: The beating of Subotic proof that Pristina uses "Gestapo methods" of violence against Serbs (Kosovo Online) SL: The beating of Subotic confirms that Pristina continues with intimidation and violence (Kosovo Online) SNP: The GoK’s unacceptable and malicious decision on the expropriation of 13 hectares in the municipality of Gracanica (KoSSev) Arsenijevic: Atiq's chief of staff and security chased minors; KP: The inspector stopped the young men for pasting stickers (KoSSev) International Media: Western Balkans’ struggle with open data and digitalization (Prishtina Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, October 25, 2024

Albanian Language Media: NATO notes that consensus of 32 members required on Kosovo (RTV21) Kurti: Austria and Kosovo built a strong partnership over the decades (RTK) Kosovo’s Election Commission joins A-WEB Executive Committee (media) Agency denies reports about removal of “Mitrovica North” from IDs (media) Hoxhaj: Kurti accepted Association, biggest damage in last 30 years (RTV21) Albanians in Serbia to protest against passivization of addresses (Albanian Post) Serbian Language Media: Head of UN: Situation in north of Kosovo tense, possible escalation (RTS, Blic, Danas) Ursula von der Leyen in two-day visit to Serbia (RTS, media) Arsenijevic calls on Kosovo police to open case against Missini café for ‘spreading ethnic intolerance’ (social media) Mesarovic: Serbia has significant economic cooperation with BRICS member states (Tanjug) Barac: EU lost ability to moderate dialogue, negotiations became ‘absurd’ (Kosovo Online) In Pristina, graffiti written against Fadil Geci, along with derogatory words for Serbs (KoSSev, Kallxo) International: Tena Prelec: People in the region need to feel like a part of Europe, rather than as a “super-periphery” (EWB)