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UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, October 15, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti expects new dynamic in dialogue from the new European Commission (RFE)
• Svecla: Serbia’s provocations will fail; ready to respond to any challenge (EO)
• Rohde hails decision for visa-free entry for Bosnian citizens into Kosovo (media)
• Hoxhaj criticizes Kurti for lifting visa regime for Bosnia and Herzegovina (media)
• Bislimi hosts UN Assistant Secretary General Ivana Zivkovic (media)
• Steinbaum: If government forms the Association, it violates Constitution (media)
• Haradinaj: Kurti, a servant of Serbia; don’t support this man (Gazeta Blic)
• PDK’s Kabashi calls for resignation of Defense Minister (Koha)
• Person indicted for assault against KFOR and Kosovo Police in 2023 (media)
• Police arrest person, finds weapon and jacket with Serbian army emblem (media)
• Ministry: Sadik Duraku released from detention in Serbia (media)
• Nacionale publishes screenshots of messages between Mihali and Krasniqi

Serbian Language Media:

• Xhufka and Lejdija pleaded not guilty to breaking into the church near Podujevo (KiM radio, Kosovo Online)
• Kilometer-long column of trucks with goods at Merdare crossing (RTS, media)
• Another indictment for riots in Zvecan (RTS, Radio Mitrovica sever)
• Milicevic: Pristina with the police ethnic composition in the north clearly deviate from the Brussels agreement (Kosovo Online)
• Sarrazin: I would like goods to move faster (KiM radio, KoSSev)
• Szijjarto: Hungary’s goal is for Serbia to open cluster by year’s end (N1)
• Serbia fails to sign letter of support for United Nations chief (Beta, N1)
• Northern Kosovo residents: Why so many police stations? We need jobs and roads (Kosovo Online)

International:

• Kosovo to abolish visas for Bosnian citizens from 2025 (BIRN)
• Kosovo shares results of solar subsidy scheme (PV Magazine)
• Reversing youth exodus from Western Balkans will be hard, report warns (BIRN)
• Historic Kosovo mill owner says state restoration ‘destroyed it’ (BIRN)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, October 14, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

• Scholz: New dynamic needed in Kosovo-Serbia normalization of relations (media)
• Kurti’s address at the summit of the Berlin Process (media)
• Kurti: Good neighborly relations crucial for regional cooperation (media)
• Kosovo MPs discuss situation with food supplies for KSF (Radio Free Europe)
• VV boycotts assembly session on food supplies for KSF (Nacionale)
• Defense Ministry issues statement on situation with KSF food supplies (media)
• Ministry alarms QUINT and EU on arrest of Kosovar by Serbian authorities (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• The meeting of the Berlin Process started (Beta, Kontakt plus radio, media)
• Scholz to Belgrade and Pristina: Your future is in the EU – only the implementation of the agreement leads there (Kosovo Online)
• Vucevic meets with Haddad in Berlin (Tanjug, media)
• The column of trucks on Merdare crossing about two kilometers long; Starovic reacts on X (Kontakt plus radio, KiM radio, Kosovo Online, X)
• Search at a private celebration in Leposavic - due to "shooting" but no weapons were found (Kontakt plus radio, Alternativna, KiM radio)
• Nastic: We are facing a humanitarian disaster, we rely on the international community (Kosovo Online)
• Dacic: “The war crime suspect in Pristina identified by the Serbian family whom he tortured” (Kosovo Online, Vecernje Novosti, Tanjug, RTV)
• SafeJournalists: Immediately investigate deliberate destruction of car of Kossev portal’s director (NMagazin, N1)
• UNS Condemns attack on KoSSev Director Nevenka Medic’s vehicle in North Mitrovica (KoSSev)
• New DSS challenges Brnabic on Kosovo session, questions Vucic’s attendance (N1, Danas, KiM radio)
• Matijevic: In Kosovo, IDPs cannot exercise the right to property restitution (Kosovo Online)

Opinion:

• Ten years on, what has the ‘Berlin Process’ done for the Western Balkans? (BIRN)

International:

• Feuding leaders of Albania and Kosovo quietly ‘forget’ joint govt meetings (BIRN)
• Turkiye and Serbia sign Defense Cooperation Agreement focused on drone technology (armyrecognition.com)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, October 11, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti blames Serbia, Russia for Muslim countries not recognizing Kosovo (media)
• Kasanof meets opposition leaders in Kosovo (media)
• Haziri on Kasanof’s visit: It will positively affect course of dialogue (Gazeta Blic)
• Vetevendosje boycotts extraordinary assembly session called by PDK (media)
• Enrico Barduani assumes command of KFOR (media)
• MP leaves Vetevendosje and joins Democratic League of Kosovo (media)
• Families of KLA martyrs concerned about Kusari-Radoicic conversations (media)
• Bislimi: Government will continue supporting Albanians in Presevo Valley (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Vucic welcomes Erdogan outside Palace of Serbia (Tanjug, media)
• Vucic receives Czech FM (Kosovo Online, Tanjug, RTS, media)
• Kozarev at the OSCE conference in Warsaw about the Kosovo Serbs’ difficult situation (Kosovo Online)
• Kozak: The US deeply concerned about Kosovo's unilateral actions (Kosovo Online)
• Tomislav Pantic released on bail (KiM radio, RTS, Beta)
• The Milenkovic, Pantic, Vlajic and Vakic trial continued today in Pristina (Kosovo Online)
• Antonijevic: Kosovo’s membership process in the CoE is frozen (Kosovo Online)

International:

• The road to Autostrada (Kosovo 2.0)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, October 10, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

Opposition leaves assembly session after request for debate denied (media)
Kusari-Lila reacts to published audio: No hybrid war can bring us down (media)
Kurti: Kosovo’s membership in the Council of Europe, a priority (RTK)
Haradinaj accuses Kurti: Kosovo is being led by Serbia’s spy (media)
Osmani meets Slovenian counterpart, talk furthering alliance (media)
Hargreaves: Kosovo takes important step to address money laundering (media)
Osmani: Freedom and democracy will always triumph (media)
Kurti meets activists and citizens from Sandjak (media)
Outgoing COMKFOR Ulutas holds farewell meeting with Svecla (media)

Serbian Language Media:

Kasanof: Jadar project a huge potential for Serbia; progress in Belgrade-Pristina dialogue necessary (Kurir)
Vucic: We will sign major energy agreement with US next Wednesday (Tanjug, RTS)
Protest because of Arsenijevic’s arrest in front of police station in Mitrovica North (Radio KIM, KoSSev, Kosovo Online)
Lawyer: Arsenijevic detained based on order of prosecutor, but also reports from Visar Syla (KoSSev, Radio KIM)
Yet another recording of alleged conversation between Kusari and Radoicic – ‘Help me so I will help you’ (KoSSev)
Petkovic reacts to Rohde’s statement on CSM (Kosovo Online, social media)

Opinion:

Another Kurti’s victory: How did he get applause for escalation? (Alternativna.com)

International:

Kosovo gains regional free trade representation following Serbian goods’ ban removal (Prishtina Insight)
President Erdoğan to try to de-escalate Serbia-Kosovo tensions in tour (Daily Sabah)
Kosovo’s secret lobbying contracts a growing concern (BIRN)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, October 9, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti: There are no trade measures against Serbia, only security measures (media)
• Baerbock: We were able to untie the knot in CEFTA agreement together (media)
• Kurti: Visit to Leposavic today, part of breast cancer awareness month (media)
• Osmani represents Kosovo at Ukraine-South-East Europe Summit (media)
• Initial hearing held in Pristina on Banjska attack case (media)
• Koci: I have info many other people were involved in Banjska attack (media)
• Kurti says publication of tapped conversation is part of “hybrid war” (media)
• Bislimi: Lajcak working on next meeting of chief negotiators (media)
• Kurti holds farewell meeting with outgoing COMKFOR Ulutas (media)
• Surroi: Kosovo’s foreign policy is hostage to wrong decisions in dialogue (KTV)
• Albulena Mehmeti appointed chair of RTK board (media)
• Gervalla asks for €200,000 as solidarity for Bosnia after floods (Koha)

Serbian Language Media:

• Vucic to Kasanof: The impossible conditions in which the Serbian people live in Kosovo (RTS)
• Kurti visits Leposavic, reinforced police presence on streets (Kosovo Online)
• Hetemi requests Centre for Social Work in Leposavic to evict premises it uses (Kosovo Online)
• Director of Center for Social Work Leposavic: Hetemi's request attack on poorest, we are asking for protection of international community (Kosovo Online)
• Petkovic and SL on Center for Social Work in Leposavic (Kosovo Online)
• Serbian Chamber of Commerce: Decision to announce lifting of ban on placement of Serbian products in Kosovo is incomplete (Tanjug)
• The three accused for Banjska pleaded not guilty (KiM radio, KoSSev)
• Lawyers in Banjska case: We will file appeal to dismiss indictment, objection to evidence (Kosovo Online)
• Ambassador Hill about lithium, Kosovo issue, other topics in interview with N1 (N1, media)
• “Intoxicated deputy minister in Kosovo government, involved in traffic accident with official vehicle released after testing” (Kosovo Online)
• Erdogan to visit Serbia on October 10-11 (Tanjug)

International:

• Kosovo Serbs plead not guilty to terrorism over Banjska attack (BIRN)
• ‘Take the lead’: Kosovo pushes Germany, France on Europe entry (AA)
• In Kosovo, public access to criminal indictments varies from court to court (BIRN)