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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, 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, 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, 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, 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)