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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)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, September 3, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

• EU: Failure of parties to reduce tensions will have consequences (Koha)
• Ursula von der Leyen: In Kosovo, economic reforms are bringing benefits (RTK)
• Minister Gervalla at Bled Forum, welcomed by Tanja Fajon (RTK)
• Aivo Orav starts work as new ambassador of EU in Kosovo (RTK)
• Rohde to new head of EU: Looking forward to make Kosovo a success story (RTK)
• Elshani: As long as Radojcic is free, there is danger (Express)
• Krasniqi and Hamza meet Ambassador Hargreaves, discuss current developments (media)
• Indictment against two Serbs, suspected of war crimes against civilian population (media)
• Director of Media 10: We will be filter of truth for every resident also in north of Mitrovica (Gazeta 10)

Serbian Language Media:

• A new war crime indictment filed, two persons of Serbian nationality suspected (KiM radio, KoSSev, Kosovo Online, media)
• NKEU: Do not stop Radosavljevic and Todorovic at the crossings (KiM radio, media)
• The special political program from the Pristina studio moved to the Mitrovica promenade (KoSSev)
• ProGlas initiative for the first time with representatives of Serbs from Kosovo (KoSSev, Danas, Beta)
• Djuric met Azerbaijani FM in Baku (Tanjug)
• Vucevic: Shameful statement by Canak and Biserko about the resettlement of Serbs from Kosovo (Kosovo Online, Tanjug, RTV)
• Vulin: Quint, the EU, and NATO supported the actions against the Serbs in the north of Kosovo, Kurti doing nothing independently (Kosovo Online, Vecernje Novosti)
• Starovic: Without concrete actions against Kurti, no one will take the State Department's statements seriously (Kosovo Online, Politika)

International Media:

• Serbia Urged to Stop Holding Activists at Borders (Balkan Insight)
• Von der Leyen: I will appoint a dedicated Commissioner for enlargement (EWB)
• Transforming the Western Balkans: Trade, Energy, and Mobility as Catalysts for Growth (EWB)