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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)

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)