• Kurti thanks Lipavsky for Czech Republic’s visa liberalisation support (RTK) • Von Cramon: France, Netherlands will not block visa liberalisation (T7) • Osmani to attend inaugural meeting of European Political Community (media) • Osmani meets Abbott and Knox, discuss political developments (RTK) • Kurti calls on Serbs to register Kosovo license plates, gives Incentive (Exit) • Lajcak meets Chancellor Scholz's advisor, discuss next steps in dialogue (Koha) • SBASHK to announce vote results on strike suspension during weekend (Koha) • Abdixhiku accuses government of arrogance and undemocratic behavior (media) • Albania and Russia clash over Kosovo, PM welcomes fleeing Russians (Exit) • How One Gesture Curbed Ethnic Discrimination (Prishtina Insight)

Albanian Language Media: • Czech Foreign Minister: I have high expectations for visa liberalisation (media) • Osmani: Crucial for visa liberalisation to conclude during Czech EU Presidency (media) • FES: It’s not true EU engaged us to draft Association statute (Albanian Post) • Assembly lacks quorum to extend energy emergency measures (media) • Central Bank Governor refuses invitation to summit because of footnote (RTK) Serbian Language Media: • USA: Serbia's agreement with Russia surprising and a step in the wrong direction (VoA) • Vucic and Hill on the details of cooperation between Serbia and the USA (Kosovo Online) • Djuric met Escobar (Tanjug) • Bilcik in Belgrade today, tomorrow with Vucic (Politika, Tanjug) • Dendias talked to Lajcak, Borrell (Kosovo Online) • Vucic: Serbia, China maintains steely friendship (Tanjug) • Ziadeh with Von Cramon in Brussels on the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina (Kosovo Online) • EP to request suspension of EU accession negotiations with Serbia (FoNet, N1) • Ruling party ally calls for referendum on Russia sanctions (Danas, N1) • Tadic: Vucic's disastrous failure at the UN regarding Kosovo's membership (KiM radio, N1, NIN, Kosovo Online) • Petkovic: Tadic hurt by the successes of the Serbian government (Kosovo Online) • Zubin Potok: A lawyer was hired because of the usurpation of land owned by Serbs (Kosovo Online, Radio Mitrovica sever) • Gracanica municipality exchanges 17 hectares of municipal land for 18 acres of private land (medijacentar.info, Kontakt plus radio, KoSSev, KiM radio, N1) Opinion: • Croatia’s Ethnic Homogenisation Continues as Serb Minority Dwindles (Balkan Insight) Humanitarian/Development: • Belgrade's Russian Émigrés Grapple With New Lives In Serbia, The Ukraine War, And What Comes Next (RFE) • Opening a window on audiovisual archives in the Western Balkans (tech.ebu.ch)

• Czech Foreign Minister to visit Kosovo today (media) • Kosovo Foreign Minister: EU has no reason to deny visa liberalisation (VoA) • Deputy Minister of Education believes classes will start on Oct 3 (RTK) • Rohde: Kosovo and Serbia will have to make difficult decisions (Radio Kosova) • Two foreign organisations drafting Association statute, Novosti reports (Koha) • Lajcak and von Cramon discuss state of play in EU-facilitated dialogue (media) • Chollet and Peach meet, “elevating focus of Serbia-Kosovo dialogue” (media) • Albanian politicians see jailed Kosovo leaders in Hague (The Washington Post) • Vucic: International pressure to recognize Kosovo (Albanian Daily News) • North Macedonia opposition against Open Balkan, blocks laws (RFE)

Albanian Language Media: • SBASHK: Let’s suspend strike until January, classes to start on Oct 3 (Express) • SBASHK: Strike may be suspended temporarily but not stopped (Koha) • Maragos: EU willing to continue support for Kosovo (RTK) • German MP: Kosovo has deserved visa liberalisation for long now (Telegrafi) • Vetevendosje MP denies reports he has decided to leave the party (EO) • Serious violations suspected in Dehari case; Ministry suspends chief inspector (media) • Police arrest seven people in anti-drug operation in Dukagjin region (Klan Kosova) • Police arrest Russian national at Kulla crossing, had undeclared money (Express) • Haradinaj recalls meeting with former U.S. Secretary of Defence (Nacionale) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic’s public address on all key issues on October 8 (Tanjug, media) • Selakovic on Kosovo’s application to the CoE, Consultation plan signed with Lavrov, Vucic’s meetings (NMagazin, Beta, Kosovo Online, TV Happy) • Russian Embassy: Hill’s statement is inappropriate (N1, FoNet) • Djilas to US officials: Serbia must align its foreign policy with EU (N1) • Drecun: Pristina is trying to destabilize the situation in every way (RTS, Kosovo Online) • Today is the International Day of Bosniaks (KoSSev, Kosovo Online) • Deputy PM: 700,000 citizens left North Macedonia in eight years (Beta, N1) International: • EBRD affirms Kosovo's 2022 economic growth f'cast at 4% (SeeNews) • ‘This is a War’: Albania Struggles to Keep Lid on Hacked Data (BIRN) • Two coal plants in Western Balkans go offline due to malfunctions (balkangreenenergynews.com)

• Osmani: Hopes should not be raised high for visa liberalisation (media) • Czech EU Presidency to discuss free visa for Kosovo (Euractiv) • Hopes raised; no new requirements for visa liberalisation (Lajmi) • Osmani meets Under Secretary General of United Nations DiCarlo (media) • Osmani: Returning to Kosovo, fully confident Kosovo is on right path (media) • Konjufca to meet Vassilis Maragos today in Prishtina (media) • Rohde: No threat of war between Kosovo and Serbia (media) • Kosovo does not approve Petkovic visit; Foreign Ministry tells reasons (media)· • Italian KFOR removes Serbian flag near Ibar Bridge (media) • Citaku: Schools remain closed; Kurti wants to make Kosovo unlivable (media)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, September 27, 2022 Albanian Language Media: • Prime Minister Kurti’s interview with Republik (media) • Ternava: We support the teachers’ demands, but strike must end today (Klan) • KFOR says KSF did not ask to go north; did Rakic and Petkovic lie? (Express) • Carpenter: Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, slow but steady progress (Telegrafi) • U.S. Embassy: Russia-Serbia agreement, a wrong step! (Indeksonline) • The Union of Education gives signs that the strike in education could end! (Gazeta Blic) • Abdixhiku slams Kurti for Japan visit when education sector on strike (media) • Osmani calls on Iranian women not to give up on their rights (Koha) • International partners promise continued support for KSF (Koha) Serbian Language Media: • Mayor Vulovic: "The situation in Zubin Potok still tense" (Blic, Tanjug, Radio Mitrovica sever) • KFOR, Mehaj on KSF in northern Kosovo (KoSSev) • Petkovic: EU to condemn Kurti’s war threats (Kosovo Online) • Selakovic: Croatia has stepped beyond framework of EU policy (Tanjug) • Kurti congratulated the European Day of Languages; The experience of Serbs from Kosovo bitter, they say - he brags about other people's results (KoSSev) • Petkovic banned from visiting Kosovo (Kosovo Online) • The Socialists and Democrats MEPs: No accession talks if Serbia doesn’t align with sanctions on Russia (N1, media) • Media published document signed by Lavrov and Selakovic – An ordinary plan of meetings, without those at highest level (Danas) • Hill: I saw the Serbia-Russia Consultation Plan (FoNet, N1) International: • Ned Price: We Desire To Be A Partner To The Countries Of The Western Balkans (thepavlovictoday.com) • Serbia Rules Out Recognizing Russian Referendum in Occupied Ukraine (Balkan Insight) • Slim chance for Serbia’s progress towards the EU by the end of the year, relationship with Russia remains the biggest problem (EWB) • Junior Ruling Party Turmoil Could Shake North Macedonia Govt (BIRN)

• President Osmani interview with the Voice of America • Defence Ministry refutes Serbian media reports about KSF in north (media) • Jasharaj: Strikers are united despite attempts to divide us (Ekonomia Online) • Kurti travels to Japan to attend funeral of former PM Shinzo Abe (media) • Osmani meets Albanian diaspora in US, “immense support for Kosovo” (media) • Ex-Minister for European Integration: Visas could be lifted on Oct 13 (Klan) • “New agenda expected in talks between Prishtina and Belgrade” (Express) • Kurti: Kosovo a multilingual society, value of our country (RTK) • Berisha: Rama is acting like Belgrade’s lawyer (Euronews Albania) • Kanal 10 Director Arben Ahmeti arrested for domestic violence (media)

Albanian Language Media: • Visa liberalisation for Kosovo on the EU agenda on October 13 (Radio Free Europe) • Strike in education continues; Jasharaj: Regrettably there is no movement (RTK) • An elementary school in Prishtina decides to end strike (Kallxo) • Hoxhaj: Solution must be found for pupils to return to schools (Telegrafi) • Haradinaj to Kurti: End the strike, or resign (media) • Croatian Foreign Minister: Next months crucial for Kosovo-Serbia deal (Albanian Post) • Selimi: Kosovo leadership should think a bit (media) • EU concerned over strengthening Serbia-Russia relations (media) Serbian Language Media: • Office for KiM: Incursion of KFS to north is direct threat to Serbian people (Radio KIM) • Serbian List: The incursion of the KSF into the Zubin Potok territory a gross violation of the agreement, whose guarantor is NATO (Radio Mitrovica sever) • EU: Serbia cannot strengthen relations with Russia in the circumstances of aggression and crimes in Ukraine (Beta) • Vucic to Lavrov: Serbia committed to UNSC Resolution 1244 (N1) • What did Serbia and Russia sign – a scandal or continuation of a technical matter from 1996? (N1, media) • Brnabic visits family of Nikola Nedeljkovic (Radio KIM) • US Ambassador wants explanation of Serbia-Russia document (N1) • Serbian FM: We can not accept results of referendums in Ukraine (N1) • The Party of Freedom and Justice (SSP) delegation in the US for talks on Kosovo and Serbia's foreign policy (FoNet, N1) International: • Russian Mobilization Prompts Exodus to Serbia, Turkey (Balkan Insight)

• SBASHK: Prime Minister, Govt not interested to resolve situation (media) • Albin Kurti reelected as leader of Vetevendosje Movement (media) • European MPs want Serbia’s path to EU stopped after deal with Russia (Koha) • Kurti: Serbia-Russia deal should alarm Western democratic centers (media) • NATO brings reserve troops to Kosovo for training amid unrest fears (Reuters) • The European Political Community, as an aid to the enlargement process (RFE) • Kurti: Massacre in Upper Abri, most inhumane committed by Serbia (media) • Serbian List claims KSF entered the north, call on NATO to react (media) • WB country manager calls for reform in social protection in Kosovo (media) • Serbia says it won’t recognise Russia’s staged votes in occupied Ukraine (RFE)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, September 23, 2022 Albanian Language Media: • Assembly does not adopt PDK-sponsored resolution on strike in education (RFE) • Nagavci: We have addressed all demands, except for the additional €100 (Sinjali) • SBASHK: We can emerge from this situation only through an agreement (Demokracia) • SBASHK receives letter of support from American Federation of Teachers (Express) • CDHRF calls for understanding from SBASHK: The strike must end (Nacionale) • AmCham calls for dialogue and compromise to end strike (Telegrafi) • NATO: Additional troops from UK will take part in routine drill (Express) • NATO and security experts fear possible tensions in the north of Kosovo (RTK) Serbian Language Media: • EU invited 44 countries to the summit in Prague (media) • Vucic meets Iranian President Raisi (Tanjug) • Vucic meets US Under Secretary Nuland in New York (Tanjug) • Petar Miletic, former Deputy PM: The information that I was appointed as an adviser to Kurti is only half correct (Danas) • Rasic, Trajkovic on the Miletic's appointment (medijacentar.info, Kosovo Online) • Tour guide on incident in Pec (Radio KIM) • MFA: Serbia's strong diplomatic activity in UN continues (Tanjug, media) • ''Which countries have recognized Kosovo and which have not?'' (Danas) • Establishment of government war crimes institute in Kosovo – related risks and timeframe (Radio KIM) Opinion: • "Kurti is trying to place Serbia alongside Russia, and as a Marxist-Leninist he knows that Kosovo is neither a state nor independent" (Danas) Humanitarian/Development: • Rizvanolli asks citizens in Kosovo* if they are willing to pay for power imports (balkangreenenergynews.com)