Albanian Language Media:

The U.S. and Italy reaffirm their commitment to de-escalation in the north (RTK)
Zvecan mayor does not see resignation as an option (Klan)
Mandl reacts to scandalous choreography of fans in Serbia (RTK)
PDK MPs remove barrier tapes that have limited space for journalists (media)
Session fails to be held due to lack of quorum, Assembly goes on leave (RTK)
PDK: We will engage for new elections as soon as possible (media)
Prosecution files indictment against Serb for war crimes, and 'inhumanely torturing a person' (media)

Serbian Language Media: 

Serbian List officials met Escobar in Washington (Kosovo Online, media)
KFOR donates modern water pump system to Devic Monastery (Kosovo Online, KoSSev)
Dacic meets with El Gebaly (Tanjug)
Mitsotakis thanks Serbia for assisting Greece's firefighting efforts (Tanjug, media)
Radojica Mrdjinac and Dardan Beqiri new members of RTK board (Radio KIM)

Albanian Language Media:

EU prefers resignation of mayors in north for elections as soon as possible (Koha)
Zubin Potok mayor: I’ll resign if agreement between govt, PDK and internationals (Telegrafi)
Chollet expected to visit Pristina on July 30-31 (Koha)
Kurti reacts to calls by Serbian football club fans for return of Serbian army to Kosovo (media)
Abdixhiku meets businesses: “New Road” is being supported everywhere (Kosovapress)
Independent Media Commission head: For us, Klan Kosova is all good (Klan Kosova)
U.S. State Department report on climate investment in Kosovo (media)

Serbian Language Media:

Borrell statement says Serbia aligned with EU sanctions on Syria (N1)
"Kurti is the problem..." (B92)
Brnabic meets with Egypt's El Gebaly (Tanjug)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, July 27, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• German embassy calls Kurti-Sarrazin meeting "informal and confidential" (Nacionale)
• Turkish Ambassador: Arrival of drones in Kosovo was result of agreement not donation (media)
• PDK leaves the assembly hall, does not participate in the vote (Klan)
• Trajkovic: The northern Serbs must accept the new policemen of Kosovo (media)
• Threats against new Serb KP policemen continue (Kosovapress)
• Analysts: Internationals should pressure Serbia to stop blackmailing (RTK)

Serbian Language Media:

• Odalovic tells RTS Kurti obsessed with north (RTS)
• Trial of Sladjan Trajkovic stars today (Kosovo Online)
• Lawyer Vasic terms acts of prosecution as scandalous, says Trajkovic sent to detention before being interviewed first (Kosovo Online, Radio KIM)
• Daka: There are two ways to snap elections in north of Kosovo (Kosovo Online)
• Miftaraj: Resignations of mayors solution to new elections in northern Kosovo (RFE, Kosovo Online)
• Brnabic: Serbia has become full EU member in digital sphere (Tanjug)

International:

• On the Trail of an Elusive Organ-Trafficking Decision in Kosovo (Balkan Insight)

Albanian Language Media:

Foreign ambassadors react to threats against new Serb police officers in north (media)
Krasniqi: We can agree to go to new elections on Friday (Klan)
Chollet and senior member of National Security Council to visit Kosovo (Albanian Post)
Mehaj meets head of company that manufactures Bayraktar drones (media)
Two Serbian List officials to stay in Washington on Thursday (media)
Action for disconnecting illegal users of water in Gracanica is politicized (KTV)
"Aware of the danger": young Serb policemen start work in the north of Kosovo (RFE)

Serbian Language Media:

Petkovic: Kurti’s messages alibi for new Pristina’s unilateral acts against Serbs (RTS)
Serbian List on official visit to Washington (Kosovo Online, media)
Vucevic meets with Botsan-Kharchenko (Tanjug)
Varhelyi welcomes inauguration of Nis-Merdare highway section (Kosovo Online, social media)
EC official says Pristina and Belgrade far away from de-escalation and normalization (Radio KIM, BETA, Danas)
Serbian firefighters deployed in northern Greece (N1)

International Media:

Intimidation Campaign Against Serb Policemen Condemned by Kosovo and International Community (Prishtina Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, July 26, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti: It is logical for measures to be removed before the new elections (Koha)
• Szunyog: EU measures towards Kosovo remain unchanged (RTK)
• Osmani: Threats to policemen in the north come from Serbia and its criminal groups (media)
• Kurti: Internationals should be vocal against Belgrade's pressure against integration of Serbs (Koha)
• Hovenier: Intimidation against young police officers is unacceptable (Koha)
• Rohde: Stop intimidation of Serbs who were employed in Kosovo Police (media)
• Haradinaj: Threats to policemen in the north, unacceptable (media)
• Serbs welcome work of new policemen from this community in northern municipalities (Kosovapress)
• Kosovo imposes the 11th package of sanctions against Russia and Belarus (Klan)
• Criticism of Kosovo's contract for lobbying in America returns - what did Serbia sign? (Nacionale)

Serbian Language Media:

• Dacic: Kurti wants to create environment of fear and drive Serbs out of Kosovo (Radio KIM, TV Pink, Kosovo Online)
• Arsenijevic: More than 1000 Serbs left northern Kosovo (Radio KIM, KoSSev)
• Head of EU Office in Pristina: There will be negative consequences if requests and expectations of EU are not respected (Tanjug)
• Vucic: Nis-Merdare motorway to boost development (Tanjug)
• Giaufret: “Peace Highway” to be backbone of regional road network (Tanjug, media)
• Ambassadors in Pristina: Intimidation campaign against new Serb members of KP should stop immediately (KoSSev)

Humanitarian/Development:

• Kosovo’s Other Deadlock: LGBT Rights in a Time of Strife (BIRN)

Albanian Language Media:

Public Pulse Brief shows growing satisfaction with government’s work (media)
EULEX chief reacts to threats against new Serb police officers in north (Telegrafi)
EU asks Kosovo to announce elections in north “as soon as possible” (RFE)
Citaku slams Bislimi for “setting conditions” (media)
Analysts: Measures to be removed gradually, there is a compromise for elections (RTK)
Haradinaj meets Szunyog, express concern over “government’s legislative agenda” (media)
Who is the White House official that will visit Kosovo? (Albanian Post)
Rafuna criticizes government for lack of capital investments (Telegrafi)

Serbian Language Media:

Two Kosovo flags hoisted in front of Mitrovica North municipality (KoSSev)
EULEX chief: Any intimidation of non-majority communities membres in Kosovo police unacceptable (N1, KoSSev)
Rakic-Andric on EULEX chief statement about Kosovo police (Kosovo Online, social media)
Vucic: Pristina does not want elections, we ask EULEX to take part in saving lives of Serb detainees (RTS)
Serbia sending firefighters to Greece (N1)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, July 25, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti to meet the German emissary Sarrazin today (media)
• EU on Bislimi's condition for elections in north: To be announced as soon as possible (Express)
• Szunyog and Abdixiku talk about situation in north and fight in Assembly (RTK)
• New policemen from communities, 45 of them Serb, start work in the north (Koha)
• Threats against Serb policemen who have just started serving in KP begin (Kosovapress)
• The Czech Republic appoints an ambassador to Kosovo for the first time (RTK)
• Kusari-Lila warns of criminal charges against Simic and media that published recordings (Koha)
• AAK asks opposition to support motion to overthrow government (Koha)

Serbian Language Media:

• "Unfortunately for Kurti, truth is slightly different” – Danas interlocutors on his statement that Serbs in Kosovo live better than those in Serbia (Danas)
• Arsenijevic reacts to Kurti’s interview for Vecernji list (social media)
• Haradinaj: After US sanctions on Vulin, Kurti fears he can become next (Radio KIM, BETA)
• Drecun: Pristina laying groundwork for further escalation (Tanjug)
• Vucic receives credentials of seven new ambassadors (Tanjug)

Albanian Language Media:

Bislimi: Elections in north shouldn’t be announced until penalty measures lifted (media)
Kosovo’s Foreign Ministry does not permit Petkovic visit (media)
War veterans suspend opposition to minimum wage law pending Court decision (Koha)
Kurti on wildfires in Greece: Our government ready to assist any way we can (media)
Osmani: Austria remains an important ally of Kosovo (RTK)
Products from Serbia being replaced with products from other countries in region (Koha)
Feith: U.S. is losing patience with Kosovo (Teve1)

Serbian Language Media:

N.Mitrovica Municipality, with police assistance, halts construction of at least one more building (KoSSev)
Office for KiM: Mitrovica mayor halts social projects because beneficiaries are Serbs (Kosovo Online, Novi Magazin)
Brnabic: Serbia to boost cooperation with Suriname in all fields (Tanjug)
Dacic thanks Al-Maliki for principled stance of Palestine on Kosovo (media)
New Kosovo police officers join service (KoSSev)
Pieter Feith: US losing patience with Pristina (Tanjug)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, July 24, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti: Norway is and remains our important partner (RTK)
• Sinani: A silent ethnic cleansing is taking place in the Valley (RTK)
• Interior ministers of Kosovo and Albania visit Vermice border crossing (media)
• AAK meets with representatives of associations emerging from war (media)
• Baraliu: 25 strange conditions on Kosovo's path to the EU (RTK)

Serbian Language Media:

• Iranian President says his country to continue respecting territorial integrity and sovereignty of Serbia (N1)
• Dacic: Retractions of Kosovo recognitions started with Suriname (RTS)
• Djuric: Albin Kurti 'persona non grata’ in political Washington (Tanjug)
• High US official said no one supported Kurti in his policy in northern Kosovo, his approach impaired relations (KoSSev)
• Drecun: Turkey’s behaviour indicates it will play significant role in Kosovo (Kosovo Online)
• Rasic: There are people interested to return to Kosovo (Radio KIM)
• Vucic receives group of Serb children from region (Tanjug)

Humanitarian/Development:

• Institutions do not take measures if family does not send child with disabilities to school (Klan)

Albanian Language Media:

Prime Minister Kurti’s interview for Vecernji List (media)
Lajcak describes meetings with leaders from Kosovo and Serbia (media)
AAK to hold new roundtable today on “grave political situation” (media)
Gap between opposition and government grows amid thirst for power (Koha)
Mustafa: Government can be ousted with a stronger opposition strategy (Kosovapress)
Demiri thanks European MP for “tireless engagement” in Kosovo’s processes (media)
Pristina University to have course on Roma language soon (Radio Free Europe)

Serbian Language Media:

Commemoration of Staro Gracko crime held, families still wait for justice (RTS, media)
Pristina authorities banned Petkovic from attending commemoration of Staro Gracko crime (RTS, Kosovo Online, Radio KIM)
Jevtic: “Plainclothes officials” filmed those present at Staro Gracko crime commemoration ceremony (Tanjug, Radio KIM)
EU envoy Miroslav Lajcak compares April elections north of Kosovo to “landmine“ (N1, FoNet)
US delivers 66 Humvee light armored vehicles to Serbian Army (N1)
Serb arrested at Jarinje on Friday released after making statement (RTS)