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UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, September 9, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

Konjufca: Dialogue at dead-end; Banjska was last nail on the coffin (Telegrafi)
Konjufca: Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, at a dead end (RTK)
Kurti hosts Leposavic mayor Hetemi and deputy mayor Bogojevic (media)
Abdixhiku: Kosovo has lagged behind with Kurti and his government (media)
Haradinaj: Kurti’s policy in Washington considered almost hostile (media)
Cerkini slams govt for not excavating suspected location of remains (Koha)
Kosovo to open embassy in Colombia soon (EO)
Trajkovic: Vucic cannot easily give up on mafia structures like Radoicic (media)

Serbian Language Media:

Vucic receives Chinese Communist Party official (Tanjug)
Missing a returnee from the village of Gornji Dragoljevac near Istok (RTS, Radio Gorazdevac, KoSSev, KiM radio, media)
The eleventh day of the blockade of Serbian institutions in the north of Kosovo; Lajcak announced a visit to Belgrade (RTS, media)
Kosovo special police took away documentation from NBS Treasury in Leposavic, Support Me Association told to vacate office (Kosovo Online)
Rapajic: Pristina government behind purchases of Serbian properties in the north (Kosovo Online, Vecernje Novosti)
Weber: EU and US responsible for the collapse of dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina (Danas, FoNet, Kosovo Online)
Rada Trajkovic on “Vucic's political schizophrenia”; Kurti “became a burden” (FoNet, KoSSev, N1)

International:

Kosovo reopens border crossings after Serbian activists end blockades (RFE)
My first trip to Kosovo (Kosovo 2.0)
Reforestation Project Recreates Spirit of Yugoslav ‘Work Actions’, on Film (Balkan Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, September 6, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

• Kosovo Police celebrates 25th anniversary of establishment (media)
• Lajcak says he and Bislimi agreed on next meeting of chief negotiators (Koha)
• Gervalla: Threat to block crossings, proof of Serbia’s hegemonistic goals (Koha)
• Turkish Foreign Minister: Nothing more normal than supporting Kosovo (media)
• Valtonen: Finland and Kosovo have a strong bond (media)
• Two suspects stop bus in north, smash windshield, mirrors (media)
• Sinani calls on internationals to prevent attempts to block crossings (media)
• Canak: Vucic’s idea is to present Kosovo as place that threatens Serbs (Express)

Serbian Language Media:
• Transport organized for the announced blockade of crossings (N1)
• Todic after the questioning by KP: Political case lead against us (Kosovo Online)
• Jaksic: It seems to me that Kurti is doing the 'dirty work' for Vucic (NMagazin, Beta, N1, Nova)
• Minister Zigmanov spoke with the OSCE Vice President about the situation in Kosovo (NMagazin, Beta)
• Petkovic: The intrusion into Serbian institutions will have unforeseeable consequences for the normalization of relations with Pristina (N1, Kosovo Online, media)
• Surlic: Kurti has no interest in making any concessions before the elections (Kosovo Online)
• Vulin: Vucic did not refuse Putin’s invitation (N1, RTS)

Opinion:

• The closure of Kosovo’s parallel institutions and its ramifications (emerging-europe.com)
• Balkan arms race makes NATO membership for Bosnia more urgent (BIRN)

International:

• Kosovo’s jubilar grape festival features global stars (Prishtina Insight)
• Recent developments in the north of Kosovo: UK statement to the OSCE, September 2024 (gov.uk)
• Kosovo residents urged to avoid Serbia amid road blockades threats (BIRN)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, September 5, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti meets leaders of Mitrovica North municipality (media)
• Sources: Lajcak to visit Kosovo on September 6 (RFE)
• Stano: Kosovo to avoid uncoordinated actions that can increase tensions (EO)
• Gervalla: Iber bridge must be opened; committed for rule of law everywhere (EO)
• UK advises its citizens “against all but essential travel” to Kosovo north (media)
• People from Kosovo, diaspora advised to avoid Kosovo-Serbia crossings (media)
• Serbian List: The institutions did not violate any law (RFE)
• Haradinaj: Kurti is instrumentalizing the police for electoral interests (media)
• Orav: Honor to meet PM Kurti; looking forward to our cooperation (media)
• Waitz: It would be an honor to be selected EP Rapporteur for Kosovo (media)
• Hoti: No coalition with VV; “if we don’t win election, we’ll be in opposition” (media)
• “Wrong if someone thinks north can be integrated with police measures” (RTV21)
• Grennell: 4 years ago we brought Kosovo and Serbia leaders together (media)
• Football Federation reacts to Romanian fans’ chants against Kosovo (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Serbian List: Political persecution of the Serbian people and part of a wider plan of institutional repression (Kosovo Online, Radio Mitrovica sever, KiM radio, TV Most, KoSSev)
• Zaporozac after questioning by KP: This is a political process against me and my colleagues (Radio Mitrovica sever)
• Rector's Office: The University of Pristina with its temporary seat in North Mitrovica remains (Radio Mitrovica sever, Kosovo Online)
• Maliqi: Kosovo Serbs in a position like the Albanians during the time of Milosevic, Kurti plays similar to Vucic (NMagazin, Beta, Nedeljnik, Danas, media)
• How will Serbs living outside Kosovo vote in the February elections? (Kosovo Online)
• Serbian PM: Kurti pressuring Kosovo Serbs (N1, media)
• Vucic refuses Putin’s invitation to BRICS summit (N1)
• Vucic asks Scholz about lithium project in Germany (N1)

International:

• Herzog to visit Serbia and Albania next week (timesofisrael.com)
• Serbian Deputy PM assures Putin that Russia an 'ally' (RFE)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, September 4, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

• Kosovo Intelligence Agency on visit by CIA Director William Burns (media)
• Increased number of KFOR troops on Iber bridge again (RFE)
• Police collecting evidence in premises used by Serbian-run structures (Telegrafi)
• Zubin Potok Mayor: This is not the first time I receive death threats (media)
• Hand grenade thrown in village near Zubin Potok; no injuries reported (media)
• “Heb’s” opens in north; Manager: Serbs too interested to get employed (Telegrafi)
• Kurti: Working every day for KSF to be modern, professional as possible (media)
• Kurti meets Gorgun, discuss possible cooperation in defense industry (media)
• Hoti: Kosovo lost a lot by failing to implement Washington Agreement (Nacionale)

Serbian Language Media:

• The sixth day of the blockade of institutions in the Kosovo north, reinforced KFOR forces on the Ibar bridge (RTS)
• Confiscation of equipment continues today in the PA KM municipality building; the coat of arms of Serbia and the municipality removed (Radio Mitrovica sever, KiM radio, KoSSev)
• Trajkovic and Jaksic held at Merdare crossing (KoSSev, Danas)
• A bomb thrown at the house of a Serb in the village near Zubin Potok (Kosovo Online)
• Andric Rakic: Necessary to insist on ensuring the votes of voters from central Serbia arrive by mail (Kosovo Online)
• Support to the Serbs in the north, the state will not allow a pogrom, says Jevtic (Tanjug, Kosovo Online)
• Vucic met with Brammertz (Tanjug, media)
• Brnabic: Kurti conducting open ethnic cleansing (Tanjug, TV Prva)
• Dacic on the relocation of Serbs from the north: I have not yet heard that Biserko and Canak defended the Serbs somewhere (Danas, TV Pink)
• Giaufret: One and a half billion euros to Serbia in the next three years (RTS)
• U.S. State Department’s reaction to Aleksandar Vulin meeting with Putin (Danas, VoA, serbianmonitor.com)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, September 3, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

• Osmani: Kosovo has met all conditions to get candidate status for EU (RFE)
• Kurti: Annual average of Foreign Direct Investments is €705.6 million (media)
• Biserko: Info that Serbia building houses for Kosovo Serbs must be verified (RFE)
• Ministry changes law on bureau for confiscation of unjustifiable wealth (media)
• Zubin Potok mayor says he has been receiving death threats (media)
• Serbs warn to block crossings until police withdraws from Kosovo north (media)
• Employees of parallel structures in north protest again (Kanal 10)
• Finnish Foreign Minister to visit Albania, Kosovo and Serbia (Albanian Post)
• Turkey arrests person for transferring money to Mossad operatives (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Provisional institutions in the north of Kosovo still blocked, workers are prevented from working (RTS, RTV, media)
• Jankovic: Violation of human rights of Serbs (KiM radio)
• The closure of Serbian institutions as compensation, because KFOR did not allow opening of the Ibar bridge? (Danas, KiM radio)
• Moma Trajkovic: In Kosovo, the people are in agony (KiM radio, Danas)
• Marsenic: Imposing a "cancel culture" on Serbs (Kosovo Online)
• Congressman Eric Swalwell on the Pristina action: Unilateral provocations are unacceptable (Tanjug, Kosovo Online)

Opinion:

• Biserko and Canak story on the resettlement of Serbs from Kosovo: "Unfounded and dangerous, Milan Radojicic is missing to make the joke complete" (Danas)
• Macron’s visit to Serbia: Business, bromance or transactional politics? (BIRN)

International:

• Out of the shadows: Kosovo hosts pioneering exhibition on queerness (BIRN)
• Making history: Kosovo’s debut at the Paralympic Games (RFE)
• Kosovo’s EFT joins Alpex power exchange (SeeNews)
• Suspect arrested in Turkey for allegedly transferring money to Mossad operatives, report says (AP)