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UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, February 6, 2024

Albanian Language Media: • Enforcement of regulation only through accounts in Kosovo banks (RFE) • Is the Association becoming meaningless? (Radio Free Europe) • Roth: Serious doubts about EU and US strategy to deescalate (Albanian Post) • Rizvanolli: Investments in Trepca will be a priority (Gazeta 10) • Kurti: Measures that are launched will boost economic growth (RTK) • Court postpones execution of decision on property exchange (Koha) • D4D: Media in Serbia publish news about public persons in Kosovo, Kosovo media translate them without verifying (EO) • Unknown persons demolish machine for documents withdrawal in Zvecan (Koha) • Serbian police again stop lawyer that laid flowers at Jasharaj cemetery (Express) • Osmani wishes Charles III rapid and full recovery (media) Serbian Language Media: • Gorazdevac residents: This has crossed all limits; we don't even have money for medicine (Kosovo Online, KiM radio, Radio Gorazdevac) • Clinical Hospital Centre: Decision on dinar threatens to terminate medical treatment of Serbs, drive them out of Kosovo (Radio kontakt plus) • Sarkovic on Kosovo police raid in Vidanje, Klina municipality (Kosovo Online) • Milivojevic: If West prevents UNSC session it would mean they support Kurti’s policy (RTS) • Vucic hands over letter for Chinese President Xi to Ambassador Li (Tanjug) • Atiq: Call opened for reconstruction of houses for “non-majority communities” in Mitrovica North municipality (KoSSev) • Trial to Svecla and others for throwing tear gas in Kosovo Assembly postponed (Kosovo Online) • Serbia gets new Parliament (Tanjug, N1) • Selimi: Kosovo Government with all its forces meddles in North Macedonia elections (media, social media) • EP draft resolution calls for international investigation into Serbian elections (N1, media) Opinion: • Bogdanovic on the situation in Kosovo: "The only thing left is for them to take our lives" (N1, Danas, KiM radio) International: • ‘Worse Than Death’: Male Wartime Rape Survivors in Kosovo Speak Out (BIRN) • Kosovo accused of raising ethnic tensions by banning use of Serbian dinar (The Guardian) • ‘She is just a woman and that is brave enough’ (Kosovo 2.0)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, February 5, 2024

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, February 5, 2024 Albanian Language Media: • German Defense Minister arrives in Kosovo (media) • Osmani: CBK regulation is not against dinar and it does not mention it (media) • Hovenier insists on postponing implementation of CBK regulation (media) • Muja: No one is fueling the fire; some statements can be used for tensions (media) • Kosovo citizens advised not to travel through Merdare (media) • Feith: Kosovo should be careful, don't make mistakes (Reporteri) • Konjufca: Serbia poses a danger to our region and beyond (media) • Gervalla in Rome with Western Balkans foreign ministers (Albanian Post) • Zlatan Arsic acquitted of war crime charges (Koha) • Gervalla meets Belgian Ambassador, focus on political situation (media) • CEC: Signatures for dismissal of mayors in the north are being verified (Koha) • Police begin investigations into posters with Radoicic in the north (media) • Serbian police continue to mistreat Nikola Sandulovic’s family (media) Serbian Language Media: • Stano: Concern growing in EU due to decision of CBK and police operations against Serbian entities (N1) • Brnabic on request for extraordinary session of UN SC: We will fight with all diplomatic means (Beta, NMagazin, TV Pink) • Dacic: Kosovo and Metohija issue of paramount state and national interest of Serbia (Tanjug) • Hovenier after meeting Kurti: We hope to see postponement of Central Bank decision (Kosovo Online) • China: Unilateral Pristina’s actions do not lead toward resolution of Kosovo issue (Tanjug) • Self-determination Movement lists their January successes including ban on dinar (KoSSev) • Zlatan Arsic acquitted (RTS, N1) • Lawyers: Zlatan Arsic is a free man (Kosovo Online) • OSCE: It is of crucial importance that rights of Kosovo Serbs are fully respected (Kosovo Online, media) • Rohde: Unilateral measures only add fuel to fire, opposite of reducing tensions (Kosovo Online, KoSSev, social media) • Simic: Serbs in Kosovo frightened by silence of international community, statements are not enough (Beta, Danas, TV Pink) • Grenell on German officials’ reactions to latest Pristina authorities acts (Kosovo Online, social media) • Chinese Ambassador to Belgrade: Solve Kosovo issue without double standards (Beta, NMagazin, Politika, KiM radio) • Haziri: Government increased national sentiment, reduced European one among citizens (Kosovo Online, VoA) Opinion: • Palokaj: Kosovo is asked not to do what it has the right to do (Koha) • Serwer: How to counter the Serbian world (media) International: • Kosovo Euro Rule, Closure of Belgrade-Run Offices, Draw International Criticism (Balkan Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, February 2, 2024

Albanian Language Media: • EC: No problem with regulation, but how it was done (Gazeta Express) • Konjufca assures U.S. there won’t be unrest over Dinar decision (Kallxo) • Court sentences Kosovo Serb to 13 years in prison for war crimes in 1999 (media) • Police, prosecution with action against parallel structures in Peja region (media) • IMC draft law seen as attack against news websites (Koha) • AmCham: Kosovo to free itself from discourse of conflict and instability (RTK) • Unknown persons removed table set up by Ministry in Zubin Potok (media) • Haradinaj: Kosovo’s main objective is NATO membership (media) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic: Serbia demands a session of the Security Council, letters to the EU, Russia, and China on Monday (N1) • The police harassed the team of Radio Gorazdevac (KiM radio, Radio Gorazdevac) • Revolted by the police action, young people gathered in the center of Osojane (KiM radio) • Serbian List: The raid of armed special forces in three Metohija municipalities another proof of ethnic cleansing (Radio Mitrovica sever, Kosovo Online) • Office for KiM: Closure of Serbian municipalities in Metohija, continuation of ethnic cleansing and extermination of Serbs (Kosovo Online) • After Pec and Istok, the police raided the premises of the Provisional Authority of the Municipality of Klina (Kosovo Online, Danas) • Gorazdevac: KP raided the facility of the Provisional Authority of the Municipality of Pec (Kosovo Online, Radio Gorazdevac, media) • Osojane: Kosovo Police special forces raided Provisional Authority of the Municipality of Istok, the post office and the ambulance (KiM radio, media) • Dusko Arsic sentenced to 13 years in prison (RTS, media) • Lawyer Vlajic: This verdict destroys everyone's hope of getting justice in Kosovo (KiM radio) • Shahini: The government should respect the Kosovo Constitution, but also the Serbs who have dinar accounts (Kosovo Online) • Andjelkovic (Serbian Democracy): Workers of Serbian companies in Kosovo cannot receive money in Kosovo banks (Danas) • EC spokesperson: The solution for the dinar can be found within the dialogue led by the EU (N1)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, February 1, 2024

Albanian Language Media: • Kurti: Constitutionality, legality, decision-making are not negotiable (RTK) • EU asks again Kosovo to resolve dinar issue through dialogue (Klan) • Hoti: We didn’t get answer in Vienna why Serbia not opening archives (Klan) • Svecla and Krasniqi in Mitrovica North : Serbia's threats do not scare us (Koha) • Bislimi: EU should be driving force for Western Balkans as well (RTK) • Gervalla in Germany, discusses cooperation in security field (RTK) • Hamza: There are sufficient funds for defendants in the Hague (EO) • Haradinaj at White House National Security Council (media) • Ramadani: KFOR did not allow Krasniqi to enter Zvecan municipality on Monday (media) • Serbian inscriptions on Albanian houses in Kroi i Vitakut neighborhood (RTK) • Kosovo police remove billboard with Serbian flag in Kroi i Vitakut (Reporteri) • Limaj on opposition: I don’t know if they want to keep Kurti in power (media) Serbian Language Media: • Hill: The Ohrid Agreement does not imply that Serbia recognizes Kosovo (N1, NMagazin, Beta, Bujanovacke) • Vucic to address public tomorrow (Danas, RTS, media) • Vucic: I informed Botsan-Kharchenko about Pristina's latest unilateral move (Tanjug) • Dacic: Kurti's decision to ban dinar undermines dialogue (Tanjug, Kosovo Online, TV Pink) • National Bank of Serbia: There can be no talk of an agreement with the CBK, a solution only through political dialogue (Tanjug, RTV, Kosovo Online) • Prosecution: Two suspects Illegally provided medical services in Pristina (KiM radio, RTS) • Center for Peace and Tolerance (CPT): The action in the Center in Pristina instills fear and endangers the safety of Serbs (KiM radio, Kosovo Online) • Office for Kosovo and Metohija: Detention of health workers exposes the criminal nature of Kurti's regime (N1, NMagazin) • EU concerned over fallout of Kosovo central bank decision (N1) • Kosovo Central Bank: Komercijalna Bank voluntarily stopped operations (Beta, N1) • Serbian DefMin says conscription not about Kosovo (N1, RTS) • KoSSev editor in chief asked Vucic whether he agreed to abolish the dinar in Brussels; Petkovic reacted on X (N1, NMagazin, Kosovo Online) • JUGpress: "EULEX informed about incidents with armed forest thieves, KFOR and the Serbian Army do not respond" (NMagazin) International: • What is (or was) Open Balkan? (Kosovo 2.0)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 31, 2024

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, January 31, 2024 Albanian Language Media: • Kurti: CBK's decision is non-negotiable (RTK) • Osmani on dinar: Each time we act along with allies, constitution is protected (media) • CBK Board Chairman: Discussion to postpone regulation, no suspension (RFE) • Gervalla meets Germany’s Minister of Defense, discuss security in region (RTK) • Osmani believes CEC will take appropriate actions for dismissal of mayors in north (Koha) • Former minister sentenced to 3 years in prison in “€53 million case” (media) • ICG: If not Association, parties to find other alternatives (Koha) • Haradinaj: Kosovo, its army ready to be NATO member alongside U.S. (media) • Rohde: More ambition is possible and expected (media) • Ministry: Nearly €23 million for attorneys of eight former KLA members (Kallxo) • Radakovic: Only 30% of Serbs that left institutions don’t want to return (KTV) Serbian Language Media: • UNS and DNKiM: Central Bank of Kosovo not to violate right to information in Serbian language; translation provided after reaction (Radio Mitrovica sever, KiM radio) • Lucic: Pristina's action against MTS makes life difficult for Serbs (Radio Mitrovica sever, RTS) • Hill: I support Quint stance on postponing KCB decision (Kosovo Online) • Amendments to laws on citizenship and property: Granting rights to Albanians from southern Serbia or depriving rights of Serbs in Kosovo? (Kosovo Online) • COMKFOR discusses security with Lajcak (N1) • Vucic to meet Quint ambassadors, EU delegation head today (Tanjug) • Rohde: Concern over interference of Kosovo Government in judiciary (Kosovo Online, social media) • Haradinaj: Kosovo should show flexibility in resolving dinar issue (Kosovo Online, media) • MTS security staff staged warning strike in Gracanica (RTS, Radio kontakt plus) • Commercial Bank as of today no longer works in Kosovo (Radio KIM) • Vucevic: “We will never recognize independence of Kosovo, even if not even one of us remains there” (Kosovo Online, Beta, TV Happy) International: • Kosovo ban on Serbian dinar risks new crisis (AFP) • EU envoy urges Kosovo and Serbia to step up normalization efforts before the bloc’s June elections (AP) • Toward Normal Relations between Kosovo and Serbia (ICG) • Kosovo* enters day-ahead market on Albanian Power Exchange (BGEN) • With Billions in Conditional Aid, EU Offers Balkan States ‘Taste’ of Accession (BIRN)