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UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, September 13, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

• Osmani: Vucic wants to annex the north according to Putin’s scenario (media)
• Police confirm pamphlets ‘inciting hatred and division’ in north of Kosovo (media)
• Haliti: Govt decided to give time to allies on the opening of bridge (Telegrafi)
• VV MP says bridge will be opened: We never mentioned a date (media)
• Police seize 6 million dinars, US$ 57,000, €10,000 in raid in Leposavic (Koha)
• “Serbs in north concerned by reports in media controlled by Vucic” (media)
• Knaus: The blindness of the West is remarkable (media)
• Rohde congratulates Osmani on receiving M100 Media Award (media)
• “The truth” about Kosovo in Serbia (Radio Free Europe)
• “Social Media: from the “Magic Bullet” to the “Tragic Bullet” (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Vucevic: Measures we will take will be aimed at keeping peace and protecting Serbs in Kosovo (Radio Mitrovica sever, RTS, media)
• Serbia’s path to resolve Kosovo crisis unveiled by Serbian ambassador to Montenegro (KoSSev)
• Simic: Situation in Kosovo has never been worse, Serbs live in a situation similar to apartheid (Tanjug, RTS)
• New dialogue round on Tuesday, Pristina refuses trilateral meeting (Tanjug)
• Stano didn’t confirm date of next chief negotiators meeting (N1, media)
• Orav with representatives of Serb parties and civil society; Vokrri: “No incident is provoked without the support of international bureaucrats” (N1, KoSSev)
• Photo from filming a movie is reason for new discrediting of Arsenijevic (Radio KIM, KoSSev, Radio Kontakt plus, social media)

International:

• “We had an impact”: Kosovo war photographer says images affected West’s policies (Prishtina Insight)

Humanitarian/Development:

• ‘Dream come true’: Kosovo’s paralympic pioneer recalls making history in Paris (BIRN)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, September 12, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

Kurti: Banjska indictment could’ve been filed earlier, better late than never (media)
EU welcomes filing of indictment about Banjska attack (media)
Kurti: Archive material seized to be used for research needs and purposes (media)
Prelec: Kurti’s strategy in the north of Kosovo is successful (media)
Ternava: Presentations with hate speech ruining inter-religious harmony (media)
AmCham expresses concern over Kosovo’s potential exclusion from regional initiatives (media)

Serbian Language Media:

Serbian List met Orav, calls on EU to take clear stance in condemning Pristina’s behavior (Kosovo Online)
Sentic after visiting arrested young men: Inhuman treatment by police, visible injuries which were not recorded in medical report (KoSSev)
Fourteenth day of blockade of Serbian institutions in North of Kosovo (Danas, KoSSev)
Initiative “Freedom from Fear” letter to European institutions: “Kurti's rule like South African Apartheid” (Danas, Beta, Politika)
Vucic to address the public tomorrow at 6pm (Danas, media)
Vucic: The EU and its member states urgently to oppose the arbitrariness of Pristina (RTS, media)
Vulin: Chinese support for Serbia's integrity appreciated exceptionally highly (Tanjug)
US Ambassador: Anti-lithium protesters against Serbia turning to West (N1)

International:

Prishtina opens shelter to combat stray dogs crisis amid rising attacks (BIRN)

Humanitarian/Development:

A study on the long-term consequences of war-time rape in Kosovo (media)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, September 11, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

• Indictment filed against 45 people for the "Banjska" case (Koha)
• Kurti: Investments that have not been made for two decades, are being made in north (Koha)
• Konjufca: Internationals discriminating Kosovo; different treatment for Serbia (Koha)
• Gervalla on the bridge: We’re waiting for a convenient moment for citizens (media)
• Maqedonci: We will have Javelin missiles at the right time (Koha)
• Government approves amended draft law on Bureau of Asset Confiscation (Koha)
• Kosovo leaders’ messages on anniversary of September 11 attacks (media)
• Kurti remembers “end of supervision of Kosovo’s independence” (media)
• Qelaj: Every action in north needs to attend to respect for human rights (EO)
• Protest at Mitrovica North police station, demanding release of four Serbs (Koha)
• Spiropali in Pristina: Kosovo is a national priority for Albania (Klan)

Serbian Language Media:

• Protest in front of police station in Mitrovica North over arrest of 4 young Serbs, “Police of Kurti-land” among banners (KoSSev, media, social media)
• The interrogation of the arrested young men will be in the north (KoSSev, KiM radio, Kontak plus)
• Rade Nedeljkovic: My son was brutally beaten up (Radio KIM)
• Blowing whistles in Mitrovica North is obstruction of public peace and order, when Kurti blew whistles in Kosovo Assembly it was ‘patriotic policy’ (KoSSev)
• Arsenijevic: No reason to complain to PIK, they act as police advocate (KoSSev)
• Serbs in Kosovo exposed to persecution and police torture (NMagazin, Beta)
• Discrimination of newborn children due to discharge papers in Kosovo (Zenski.info, Kosovo Online)
• Brnabic: Pristina demonstrates force daily, Kurti wants an ethnically pure Kosovo (Kosovo Online, Tanjug, RTV)
• Vucic to Herzog: No outbursts of anti-semitism in Serbia (N1, media)

Opinion:

• Don’t drop the ball on Kosovo (carnegieendowment.org)

International:

• Kurti’s unilateral takeover of North Kosovo: Pre-election boost which risks increasing tensions (EWB)
• Arming Serbia is dangerous for Europe, says Kosovo FM (TRT World)
• Kosovo resident found guilty of threatening BIRN crew (BIRN)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, September 10, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

Osmani travels to Poland to attend “Vital Voices Summit” (media)
Kurti in Leposavic, lays cornerstone of police substation (media)
Vucic to announce Serbia requests about “attacks against Serbs in Kosovo” (RFE)
Gashi: If LDK wins elections, it is open for coalition to all parties (media)
Maliqi: Kosovo to insist on opening the bridge in coordination with allies (media)
Four arrested in north on suspicion of insulting and assaulting police (Kallxo)
Abdixhiku meets new head of EU Office in Kosovo (media)
Tahiri: Kosovo must be careful, Serbia is inciting situations (media)
“Serbs wants KFOR presence to delegitimize Kosovo independence” (media)
“When army returns to Kosovo” banner at Albania-Montenegro border (Express)

Serbian Language Media:

Vucic after meetings with Lajcak and Hill: Kurti wants persecution of Serbian people, Serbia's demands and measures in 72 hrs (media)
Four young Serbs arrested in Mitrovica North last night (KoSSev, N1, Danas, Radio kontakt plus, social media)
Interrogation of arrested young Serbs underway in Mitrovica North (Radio kontakt plus)
Office for KiM and Serbian List: Arrest of young men is a mirror of anti-Serb politics (KiM radio)
Serbian Democracy condemns police violence against young men in North Mitrovica (KiM radio)
Vucevic: Arrest of four young Serbs is continuation of terror against Serbian people (RTV, Kosovo Online)
Parent of one of arrested men: Excessive force for verbal contact (KoSSev, Kosovo Online)
Petkovic on construction of police station in Lesak: A threat to remaining Serbs (KiM radio)
Celic: If Kurti attacks Serbian education and healthcare it would lead to a disaster (Kosovo Online)

Opinion:

Femic: ‘Kosovo’ still the most expensive Serbian word, that's why it is "covered" by Rio Tinto (N1)

International:

Kosovo’s Osmani urges compromise to avert new row with the West (BIRN)
Serbian Deputy PM meets with Shoigu in Moscow to discuss BRICS invite (RFE)
Harris Needs a Balkans Policy—Quickly (foreignpolicy.com)

Humanitarian/Development:

K2.0 discusses public space (Kosovo 2.0)

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)