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UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, November 5, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

Osmani: Kosovo blessed with American bipartisan support (RTK)
Osmani hosts Orav, receives EC Report on Kosovo (media)
Kurti: Austria is among top investors in Kosovo (media)
Gervalla: No sign U.S. support for Kosovo will change after elections there (RFE)
Osmani: Kosovo grateful for Luxembourg’s enduring support (media)
Kosovo and Luxembourg sign memorandum of understanding (media)
Kosovo will no longer be presented as part of Serbia in German platforms (media)
Mustafi: Serbia does not offer justice for Albanians in the Valley (KTV)

Serbian Language Media:

Vucic, Djuric met Minister for European Affairs of Denmark (Tanjug, media)
Djuric: Pristina regime boasts of not implementing Brussels Agreement (RTS, Radio Mitrovica sever, Kosovo Online)
Pristina takes credit, Serbian goods still struggling to reach consumers (Kosovo Online)
Odalovic: Hoti's statement unmasks Pristina's intentions to block everything related to dialogue, including issue of missing persons (Kosovo Online)
Facebook and Instagram pages of SOC Draganac Monastery targeted (Kosovo Online)
Divisive restoration of Xhafer Deva’s house: Belgrade protests, Albanians rejoice, and German Embassy reiterates Nazi ties (KoSSev)
Vucic, Dendias discuss military cooperation, situation in region (Tanjug)
Vucic on Novi Sad tragedy, calls for his resignations (N1, TV Happy)
Giaufret: Work on reforms, no elections in sight (N1)
PM Vucevic accepts Vesic resignation (N1)
Opposition parties: Construction minister’s resignation insufficient (N1)

Opinion:

Dismissing independent media: Albin Kurti’s strategy to control the narrative (Sbunker.com)

International:

Kosovo lawyer sentenced for sending death threat to journalist (BIRN)
For some Bosnians, Kosovo visa waiver a chance to restore old ties (Prishtina Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, November 5, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

Kurti at Economic Forum requests that Serbia ease transit procedures (Koha)
Kurti met non-resident ambassador of Japan for Kosovo, discuss bilateral relations (Klan)
Osmani requests Luxembourg's support for membership in CoE (RTK)
Minister of Luxembourg promises about 25 million euros of investments in Kosovo (Klan)
Bislimi: Derogatory terms against Albanians have become legal in Serbia (Koha)
Gervalla: Only in Stuttgart and its surroundings there are more voters than in Prizren, we will find a way with CEC (Kallxo)
Serwer warns of chaos in the region if Trump wins: Serbia may try to invade northern Kosovo(Albanian Post)

Serbian Language Media:

Vucic: Serbia, EC have differing views on Kosovo, dialogue only solution (Tanjug, media)
Dacic: There was no request for Kosovo membership at Interpol Assembly (Kosovo Online, media)
Swiss residents sent to one-month detention for showing “Greater Albania” symbol in Belgrade (N1, media)
Serbian Supreme Court ruling on hate speech case met with criticism from Albanians (KoSSev)
Opposition demands dismissal of RTK board amid claims of government control (KoSSev)
Danish Minister: I hope Serbia seizes EU enlargement momentum (N1)
Vesic to officially resign as minister on Tuesday because of tragedy in Novi Sad (Tanjug, media)

International Media:

Kosovo authorities urged to act after minor allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted (Prishtina Insight)
Serbian govt faces growing calls for answers over railway station deaths (Balkan Insight)
Serbian minister offers to resign after deadly train station roof collapse (Balkan Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, November 4, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

• Stano: Establishment of Association, an unfulfilled obligation of Kosovo (media)
• Report notes Osmani’s attention to gender equality, women’s rights (media)
• LDK and AAK will not vote on 2025 budget, Kusari: nothing new (media)
• LVV MPs leave Assembly session (Koha)
• “Largest number of attacks on journalists are [still] in investigative phase” (AJK)
• Person who threatened journalist Kajtazi sentenced to 5 months in prison (media)
• Haradinaj: Kurti saved Serbia; playing dangerous games with Association (media)
• Osmani, Kurti congratulate Moldova’s Sandu on second term as president (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• The Milos Subotic case: NGOs from North asked prosecutor's office to announce an investigation against suspended police officers (KoSSev)
• Detention of three Serbs arrested in relation to Banjska case extended for two more months (RTS, media)
• Lawyer Vasic: The hearing of the witness, we demanded the statements he gave to UNMIK and EULEX (Kosovo Online)
• Savic: Kosovo in CEFTA with ban on Serbian goods being partially lifted (Kosovo Online)
• Serbian products slowly making their way to central Kosovo, buyers and sellers disappointed by quantity (Kosovo Online)
• Radovanovic: International factor to check whether agreement on lifting ban on Serbian goods is 'deceit' (Kosovo Online)
• Institute for Public Health: The water in Lake Gracanica still not drinkable (Kosovo Online, KoSSev, KiM radio)
• EU Ambassador: Best prospects for Western Balkans (N1)
• 26 individuals questioned over Novi Sad tragedy (N1, media)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, November 4, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti travels to Austria to participate in Vienna Economic Forum (media)
• Kamala Harris: We will continue our support for Kosovo (RTK)
• Luxembourg Foreign Minister to visit Kosovo today (RTK)
• PDK holds convention, Hamza unveils program for February 9 elections (media)
• Survey: Over 50 percent of Kosovars would vote for Harris on November 5 (media)
• Albanians protest in Medvegja, demand return of their addresses (media)
• Hamza in Italy: Businesses that invest over €500,000 or employ over 50 workers will be exempt from profit tax (Klan)
• 750 shipments from Serbia entered Kosovo in a month (Klan)

Serbian Language Media:
• In Gracanica candles lit for the victims in Novi Sad; North Mitrovica high school students donated blood for the injured (KiM radio, KoSSev)
• Serbian List: We strongly condemn Bogdanovic's call for “the murder of Vucic” (Radio Mitrovica sever)
• Novi Sad prosecution says 14 killed in railway station roof collapse (N1, media)
• Protest held in Belgrade over Novi Sad tragedy, resignations demanded (N1)
• Dacic: Kosovo did not apply for candidacy and has no chance of becoming a member of INTERPOL (RTS, Radio Mitrovica sever, media)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, November 1, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

Kurti: Swiss direct investments in Kosovo increased by 170 percent last four years (Telegrafi)
Gervalla: NATO integration important for stability in Balkans (RTK)
Rohde: Serbia should reconsider draft law on Kosovo (Klan)
Fitore Pacolli: Kosovo is being bullied by internationals (Express)
Wisner does not exclude possibility that idea of ​​correcting borders can be explored with Trump administration (Albanian Post)
Haradinaj meets Hovenier, discuss Kosovo's membership in NATO (Telegrafi)
​​Abdixhiku: LDK will be part of government only with me as prime minister (media)
Police come across a man with rifle and military equipment in mountains of Leposaviq (Koha)

Serbian Language Media:

MFA of Serbia: Serbia seeks to protect rights and social security of Serbs with Draft Law on Kosovo (Kosovo Online)
UNS: Decades of impunity for murders and kidnappings of journalists, in Kosovo 17 journalists killed and missing (Kosovo Online, media)
Trial of Milos Pleskovic for alleged war crimes starts in Pristina, prosecutor and defence presented introductory remarks (Radio KIM)
Lawyer Filipovic: No evidence for accusations in case of Pleskovic (Kosovo Online)
Trial of Milorad Djokovic’s for alleged war crimes continues by hearing a witness (Kosovo Online)
Mijacic: If Serbia does not initiate reforms soon, we will be able to dream about European integration (N1)
Bisevac: Serbs in north without human rights, West bears responsibility (Kosovo Online)
EULEX report warns of rising tensions in Northern Kosovo as ethnic Serbs face new challenges (KoSsev)

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)