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UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, September 8, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti: Greece is near recognising Kosovo (media)
• “U.S. will continue to support advancement of Kosovo stability and prosperity” (media)
• Osmani meets Quint permanent ambassadors at NATO (media)
• Police at Zubin Potok factory; Elshani: We assisted privatisation agency (media)
• Ex-police officer in north arrested, suspected of taking bribe and abuse of duty (Sinjali)
• Gjoshi: We won’t overthrow Kurti government with votes of Serbian List (Koha)
• Biserko: Serbia is not giving up on idea of Greater Serbia (media)
• Haxhixhemajli: Through Northern Brigade, Vucic tries to incite tensions in north (KSP)
• Construction of houses in north, VV MP emotional: Tears of joy (Nacionale)
• Osmani congratulates Pendarovski on North Macedonia Independence Day (media)
• Lutfi calls on internationals: Albanians in Serbia are being discriminated (Koha)

Serbian Language Media:

• Vucic: Pristina shows that their power has no limits (RTS)
• Radio KiM: Privatization Agency and the police at the factory in Zubin Potok (N1)
• The trial in the case of Dusko Arsic for war crimes continued in Pristina (Beta, N1, Kosovo Online)
• Stoltenberg: KSF deployment in the north requires prior concurrence of KFOR; Osmani: The north will always be part of Kosovo (KoSSev)
• Poll: The majority would sign the petition to remove the mayors; a part if the conditions are met or Belgrade request it (KoSSev)
• Starovic: Stoltenberg implicitly admitted that the KP is a destabilizing factor in the north

Opinion:

• Fajon: Full speed ahead to 2030 (media)

International:

• Kosovo’s Blueprint for Mayoral Dismissals Meets Scepticism From Experts (BIRN)
• Kosovo’s Beloved Hardh Fest Shuts Its Doors on a Spectacular Season (BIRN)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, September 7, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti: We’re really trying; Serbia is not distancing from Milosevic’s policy (media)
• Stoltenberg: We’re working hand in hand with EU on Kosovo and WB (Klan)
• EU official: Measures against Kosovo are provisional and reversible (media)
• Butikofer: Situation in WB destabilised through wrong EU-US positioning (media)
• Rohde: Berlin Process driving vital economic integration in Western Balkans (media)
• Police says bomb alarm in a Mitrovica North building was false (Albanian Post)
• Graffiti with inciting content seen in Leposavic, police investigating (media)
• Selimi on administrative instruction, “very complicated process” (Albanian Post)
• Haxhiu: Civil Code this year, we’ll have votes of VV MPs that were against (Express)
• Pendarovski: Kurti didn’t misuse visit to North Macedonia even for a second (media)
• Canak: There are no Serbian monasteries in Kosovo, they are orthodox monasteries appropriated by Serbia (Koha/TV Happy)

Serbian Language Media:

• Vucic to address nation “about all important issues” (N1)
• Dacic certain of SNS, SPS election victory (Beta, FoNet, N1)
• Petkovic to the Quint and Lajcak: Pristina's ultimatum can deepen the crisis and raise tensions (Radio Mitrovica sever)
• A day before the deadline for Serb institutions to vacate the building, KP inspected the premises after receiving a tip about a bomb (KoSSev)
• Igor Simic: The attempt to evict the building in Bosniak Mahala part of the plan to expel the Serbs (Kosovo Online, Tanjug)
• Petkovic: ''The false bomb alert is Kurti's trick, I informed the international community'' (Tanjug)
• "KFOR dedicated to preserving security and freedom of movement in Kosovo" (KiM radio)
• Andric Rakic: If the decision to “vacate” the facility in Bosniak Mahala is implemented, the scenario of May 26 can be repeated (Kontakt plus radio)
• US Ambassador Hill: Serbia-US relations stable (FoNet, N1)
• Day of America in Belgrade, the US Embassy: When the Ohio National Guard returns to Serbia (KoSSev)

Opinion:

• Shasha: Between cynicism and hope (Koha)

International:

• RTK’s Board Blocks High-Scoring Women from Top Jobs (Prishtina Insight)

Humanitarian/Development:

• GAP report on progress of mayors in implementing election promises (media)
• Ministry bans use of plastic bags, some will be paid (Kosovapress)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, September 6, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti accuses "Russia's allies" of undermining the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue (RFE)
• Svecla on threats from Serbian terrorist organization: enemies of Kosovo will end up being accountable to the law (Reporteri)
• After being admitted to the OGP, Kurti talks about the developments in Kosovo (media)
• Konjufca: Association can be made in 1 minute, but only after we have de facto recognition (Albanian Post)
• Kurti meets Prime Minister of Estonia, discuss about situation in Kosovo (media)
• German Government: Our position on visa liberalization remains unchanged (media)
• Special Prosecutor approves request for Kurti as witness in case of Serb arrested for war crimes (Reporteri)
• Selmanaj accuses Kurti of sanctions by the democratic world (Reporteri)

Serbian Language Media:

• Serbian List: “We reject Pristina's ultimatum to leave the premises of the building in North Mitrovica” (Kosovo Online)
• Andric Rakic: The Constitutional Court will overturn the instruction for the petition to remove the mayors (Kosovo Online, Danas)
• Bugaku: The best option is the resignation of mayors in the north (Kosovo Online, RTK2)
• Between European promises and conditionality - three scenarios for Serbia (Radio Mitrovica sever, RTS)
• In seven months, 14 people killed in Kosovo (Kosovo Online)
• The mayor of Zubin Potok appointed his daughter as the municipal director: I was forced (Danas, Kosovo Online, KiM radio)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, September 5, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• Germany defies Macron over Kosovo visa liberalisation threat (media)
• Administrative instruction for removal of mayors in north finalised (Telegrafi)
• Rama: Thaci trial raises question of level of respect for democratic principle (media)
• Interior Minister comments on weapons seized in Zvecan (media)
• AmCham calls for lifting of measures on imports from Serbia (RFE)
• Haziri: Second package of measures against Kosovo is ready, govt knows this (TeVe1)
• Rukiqi criticises govt: Failed to initiate a single important economic project (Nacionale)
• Hoxhaj criticises Kurti government for “awfully wrong foreign policy” (media)
• Tahiri: U.S. will no longer allow Kurti to hide content of talks (Koha)

Serbian Language Media:

• FM Dacic with Philippines FM Manalo in Jakarta (Tanjug)
• Minister Marsudi: Indonesia will not change its position regarding the non-recognition of Kosovo's independence (Politika, Beta)
• Former KP police officers received a summons for questioning as suspects in the "murder of Prime Minister of R. Kosova" (KoSSev)
• Weapons recovered in house raid in northern Kosovo; Svecla: We raided a weapons base in the North (N1, KoSSev)
• Rakic with Barbano on the withdrawal of special units from the north, and bigger presence of EULEX and KFOR (Tanjug)
• Opposition demands immediate parliamentary and Belgrade elections (N1)
• Popov: Kurti does not want to form the ZSO, imposes extreme topics and sways the West (Kosovo Online, Blic)

Opinion:

• Issue of missing persons shouldn’t have become part of Brussels dialogue (Koha)

International:

• Hashim Thaçi’s Interview From The Hague – by Petrit Selimi (medium.com)
• Kosovo’s Thaci Gives First Interview from Detention in The Hague (BIRN)
• Lynching and Public Propaganda Remain a Challenge for Women in Kosovo (BIRN)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, September 4, 2023

Albanian Language Media:

• Osmani begins her visit to Albania, welcomed by Begaj (media)
• Begaj: Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, the only way to peace and normalization of relations (media)
• Government MPs do not participate in Assembly's extraordinary session (media)
• Hoti: Opponents of the Washington Agreement are bearing consequences today (media)
• Three Serbian citizens arrested for entering Kosovo illegally (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• FM Dacic to attend ASEAN Summit, sign Instrument of Accession (N1, RTS, Tanjug, Beta)
• Grenell: Three years after the Washington Agreement, relations between Belgrade and Pristina have deteriorated (Tanjug, Blic)
• Adjancic: The Prosecution Council requests the release of the building in Mitrovica, by September 8 (KiM radio, Slobodno srpski)

Opinion:

• Bazdulj on the Kosovo issue: The war is not a reality, the agreement is, provide the CSM to the Serbs (KoSSev, Fonet, Danas)

International:

• Three years since the Washington Agreement between Serbia and Kosovo: What has been implemented? (EWB)
• Albanian-Supplied AKs Fuel Violence on Refugee Route through Serbia (Balkan Insight)
• Kosovo Inspectors Search Lakes in Clampdown on Illegal Fishing (Balkan Insight)