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UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, August 5, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti travels to Skopje, meets Prime Minister Mickoski (media)
• Mexhiti after meeting with Kurti: We discussed strengthening cooperation (Albanian Post)
• Milanovic: Allies' support for Kosovo has faded (media)
• LVV: Iber Bridge must be opened, there is no argument to remain closed (Koha)
• LVV: Consultations on election date will continue (Koha)
• Hoti: This mandate will end with complete failure in capital investments (RTK)
• Klinaku: There is no need for veterans to go to Serbia (media)
• Death of woman from Gracanica, a month of detention for her husband (Kallxo)

Serbian Language Media:

• The Kosovo Police entered all the Post Offices of Serbia in the North (KoSSev)
• Protest of hundreds of Serbs in Pasjane due to the recent arrest of five compatriots (KiM radio, medijacentar.info, Radio Mitrovica sever, media)
• What is controversial about the arrest of five Serbs from Kosovo Pomoravlje for alleged war crimes? (Danas, TV Most, Radio Mitrovica sever)
• Fatherland Movement: More than 50 Serbs in Pristina prisons for alleged war crimes (Beta, Danas)
• A few days after the Vjosa Osmani incident, Kurti with ministers in North Macedonia (Danas, KoSSev)
• Vacancy announcement for recruitment of new members of Kosovo police: Especially for the Serbian community (N1)

International:

• The target is training artificial intelligence on the data of Balkan citizens without notification (en.vijesti.me)
• Yugoslav Socialist Artist’s Retrospective Recalls Lost Era of Defiance and Hope (Balkan Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, August 2, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

• Hovenier: We do not support any change of the status of the bridge (Klan)
• Government: Iber Bridge must be opened; it is at service of everyone and against no one (Klan)
• Rasic: All parties should avoid unilateral actions (RTK)
• Kurti: Government will not stop supporting Kosovo Police (media)
• Explosion in the yard of a house in the north, no one injured (Telegrafi)
• Political parties in North Macedonia react to airport incident with Kosovo President (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Quint after meeting with Kurti: We informed him that we do not support any changes in the current status of the bridge on the Ibar (KoSSev)
• Kosovo President refuses security check at Skopje Airport (N1, media)
• The explosion took place last night in the yard of a private house in Ugljare village (KoSSev)
• Canaj: Both Pristina and Belgrade should focus on the lives of citizens (Kosovo Online)
• M.Z. from Donja Gusterica village died because of severe injuries inflicted by her husband (KiM radio, medijacentar.info, Kosovo Online, KoSSev)
• Vucic welcomed Siljanovska Davkova in the Prohor Pcinjski monastery (Kosovo Online, media)

International:

• TAV Macedonia: We categorically reject the allegations that our employee tried to take Vjosa Osmani's phone (slobodenpecat.mk)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, August 1, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

• Government: Financial support for "Trepca" depends on promise to resume increase in production (Koha)
• Gervalla appoints Nita Shala as Kosovo's ambassador to Italy (RTK)
• Members of KIA Supervisory Committee met director Petrit Ajeti (RTK)
• Kurti convenes Security Council, discuss fires and traffic safety (Koha)
• LVV MP asks Osmani: On what grounds did you not allow Konjufca to replace Kurti in the meeting? (Reporteri)
• Abdixhiku asks public actors to boycott RTK (Koha)
• FOL: Government has implemented 33% of 147 activities (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• On the remains of the Dolac monastery near Klina: Albanians erase the traces of the sanctuary (KiM radio, Politika)
• Petkovic: Unlawful ban of dinar in Kosovo, the state will continue with regular payments (Tanjug, RTS)
• Residents of central Kosovo half a year without the dinar: We struggle to function, this is a crime (Kosovo Online)
• North Mitrovica: In addition to the ban on dinars, residents also worried about the shortage of certain products (Kosovo Online)
• Residents of Strpce: Without the dinar, life hard for both the people and the merchants (Kosovo Online)
• A forest owned by Serbs burned down in Susica, they suspect arson (KoSSev, KiM radio, Radio Mitrovica sever)
• Borrell condemned the attacks by bots from Kosovo on Djordje Bojovic, Viola von Cramon's assistant (NMagazin, Beta)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, July 31, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti: During the war in Kosovo, Serbia's strategy was to hide the crime (RTK)
• Election date to be known today? Osmani to meet leaders of political parties in afternoon (Telegrafi)
• Bislimi: Cooperation with Sinani will be inseparable (RTK)
• KIJ: Kurti and Bislimi did not have proactive approach to report to Assembly about dialogue (Klan)
• UK ambassador congratulates "Sunny Hill" team for dealing with global issue of violence against women (Klan)
• Haradinaj: In my time, Radoicic fled from Kosovo, in Kurti's time, he became a factor (ekonomia)
• IRI: Kosovars mostly watch television to get information (Klan)

Serbian Language Media:

• Petkovic: UNESCO's objective assessment about the danger of Serbian monasteries in Kosovo (NMagazin, Beta, Kosovo Online, Kurir)
• Milivojevic: From words to move to deeds, A/CSM should be the first and previous issue (RTS)
• Transfer of Command at KFOR RC-WEST (N1)
• A Serbian citizen arrested at Jarinje on suspicion of possessing forged Kosovo documents (N1, KoSSev, NMagazin)
• SNS official says early elections possible (N1, Beta, TV Pink)

Opinion:

• Under Rama, Albania is failing on almost every score (Balkan Insight)

International:

• Serbia: Fresh protests threaten EU-backed lithium mining plan (euronews.com)
• Balkan Countries Turn Blind Eye to Growing Loneliness (Balkan Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, July 30, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

• Varhelyi: Dialogue is the European path of Kosovo and Serbia (media)
• Osmani and Infantino talk about improving sports infrastructure in Kosovo (Albanian Post)
• Specialized Chambers to reconsider reduction of sentence against Salih Mustafa (Koha)
• Constitution of the investigative committee for school textbooks fails (Reporteri)
• Selmanaj: Kurti not worried about miners, but about election results (RTK)
• Tahiri to Kurti: Enough with promenades in Paris, deal with Trepca’s unpaid miners (media)
• Kurti: Dear migrants, we welcome you today in "Skenderbeu" square in Pristina (Klan)

Serbian Language Media:

• Djuric: Dialogue with Pristina challenging, we are proud to be Cyprus’s true friends (Tanjug, RTS)
• Varhelyi: Negotiations on Cluster 3 with Serbia should be opened (Radio Mitrovica sever, Tanjug)
• Srdjan Lazovic's detention extended for another two months (Radio Mitrovica Sever, Kosovo Online)
• Haxhiu: Serb policeman shot dead on eve of lithium contract signing, near planned mine site (KoSSev)
• KFOR: We carefully monitor all relevant security developments in Kosovo (Kosovo Online, Tanjug)
• Rakocevic: UNESCO protection important; establishing Kosovo's cultural heritage not possible (Kosovo Online)
• “No to Rio Tinto – we want clean air, water”: Protests against lithium mining in Serbia (N1)

International:

• EU’s endorsement of lithium mining will further tarnish its reputation in Serbia (EWB)