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UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, October 15, 2024

Albanian Language Media: • Kurti expects new dynamic in dialogue from the new European Commission (RFE) • Svecla: Serbia’s provocations will fail; ready to respond to any challenge (EO) • Rohde hails decision for visa-free entry for Bosnian citizens into Kosovo (media) • Hoxhaj criticizes Kurti for lifting visa regime for Bosnia and Herzegovina (media) • Bislimi hosts UN Assistant Secretary General Ivana Zivkovic (media) • Steinbaum: If government forms the Association, it violates Constitution (media) • Haradinaj: Kurti, a servant of Serbia; don’t support this man (Gazeta Blic) • PDK’s Kabashi calls for resignation of Defense Minister (Koha) • Person indicted for assault against KFOR and Kosovo Police in 2023 (media) • Police arrest person, finds weapon and jacket with Serbian army emblem (media) • Ministry: Sadik Duraku released from detention in Serbia (media) • Nacionale publishes screenshots of messages between Mihali and Krasniqi Serbian Language Media: • Xhufka and Lejdija pleaded not guilty to breaking into the church near Podujevo (KiM radio, Kosovo Online) • Kilometer-long column of trucks with goods at Merdare crossing (RTS, media) • Another indictment for riots in Zvecan (RTS, Radio Mitrovica sever) • Milicevic: Pristina with the police ethnic composition in the north clearly deviate from the Brussels agreement (Kosovo Online) • Sarrazin: I would like goods to move faster (KiM radio, KoSSev) • Szijjarto: Hungary’s goal is for Serbia to open cluster by year’s end (N1) • Serbia fails to sign letter of support for United Nations chief (Beta, N1) • Northern Kosovo residents: Why so many police stations? We need jobs and roads (Kosovo Online) International: • Kosovo to abolish visas for Bosnian citizens from 2025 (BIRN) • Kosovo shares results of solar subsidy scheme (PV Magazine) • Reversing youth exodus from Western Balkans will be hard, report warns (BIRN) • Historic Kosovo mill owner says state restoration ‘destroyed it’ (BIRN)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, October 14, 2024

Albanian Language Media: • Scholz: New dynamic needed in Kosovo-Serbia normalization of relations (media) • Kurti’s address at the summit of the Berlin Process (media) • Kurti: Good neighborly relations crucial for regional cooperation (media) • Kosovo MPs discuss situation with food supplies for KSF (Radio Free Europe) • VV boycotts assembly session on food supplies for KSF (Nacionale) • Defense Ministry issues statement on situation with KSF food supplies (media) • Ministry alarms QUINT and EU on arrest of Kosovar by Serbian authorities (media) Serbian Language Media: • The meeting of the Berlin Process started (Beta, Kontakt plus radio, media) • Scholz to Belgrade and Pristina: Your future is in the EU – only the implementation of the agreement leads there (Kosovo Online) • Vucevic meets with Haddad in Berlin (Tanjug, media) • The column of trucks on Merdare crossing about two kilometers long; Starovic reacts on X (Kontakt plus radio, KiM radio, Kosovo Online, X) • Search at a private celebration in Leposavic - due to "shooting" but no weapons were found (Kontakt plus radio, Alternativna, KiM radio) • Nastic: We are facing a humanitarian disaster, we rely on the international community (Kosovo Online) • Dacic: “The war crime suspect in Pristina identified by the Serbian family whom he tortured” (Kosovo Online, Vecernje Novosti, Tanjug, RTV) • SafeJournalists: Immediately investigate deliberate destruction of car of Kossev portal’s director (NMagazin, N1) • UNS Condemns attack on KoSSev Director Nevenka Medic’s vehicle in North Mitrovica (KoSSev) • New DSS challenges Brnabic on Kosovo session, questions Vucic’s attendance (N1, Danas, KiM radio) • Matijevic: In Kosovo, IDPs cannot exercise the right to property restitution (Kosovo Online) Opinion: • Ten years on, what has the ‘Berlin Process’ done for the Western Balkans? (BIRN) International: • Feuding leaders of Albania and Kosovo quietly ‘forget’ joint govt meetings (BIRN) • Turkiye and Serbia sign Defense Cooperation Agreement focused on drone technology (armyrecognition.com)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, October 11, 2024

Albanian Language Media: • Kurti blames Serbia, Russia for Muslim countries not recognizing Kosovo (media) • Kasanof meets opposition leaders in Kosovo (media) • Haziri on Kasanof’s visit: It will positively affect course of dialogue (Gazeta Blic) • Vetevendosje boycotts extraordinary assembly session called by PDK (media) • Enrico Barduani assumes command of KFOR (media) • MP leaves Vetevendosje and joins Democratic League of Kosovo (media) • Families of KLA martyrs concerned about Kusari-Radoicic conversations (media) • Bislimi: Government will continue supporting Albanians in Presevo Valley (media) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic welcomes Erdogan outside Palace of Serbia (Tanjug, media) • Vucic receives Czech FM (Kosovo Online, Tanjug, RTS, media) • Kozarev at the OSCE conference in Warsaw about the Kosovo Serbs’ difficult situation (Kosovo Online) • Kozak: The US deeply concerned about Kosovo's unilateral actions (Kosovo Online) • Tomislav Pantic released on bail (KiM radio, RTS, Beta) • The Milenkovic, Pantic, Vlajic and Vakic trial continued today in Pristina (Kosovo Online) • Antonijevic: Kosovo’s membership process in the CoE is frozen (Kosovo Online) International: • The road to Autostrada (Kosovo 2.0)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, October 10, 2024

Albanian Language Media: Opposition leaves assembly session after request for debate denied (media) Kusari-Lila reacts to published audio: No hybrid war can bring us down (media) Kurti: Kosovo’s membership in the Council of Europe, a priority (RTK) Haradinaj accuses Kurti: Kosovo is being led by Serbia’s spy (media) Osmani meets Slovenian counterpart, talk furthering alliance (media) Hargreaves: Kosovo takes important step to address money laundering (media) Osmani: Freedom and democracy will always triumph (media) Kurti meets activists and citizens from Sandjak (media) Outgoing COMKFOR Ulutas holds farewell meeting with Svecla (media) Serbian Language Media: Kasanof: Jadar project a huge potential for Serbia; progress in Belgrade-Pristina dialogue necessary (Kurir) Vucic: We will sign major energy agreement with US next Wednesday (Tanjug, RTS) Protest because of Arsenijevic’s arrest in front of police station in Mitrovica North (Radio KIM, KoSSev, Kosovo Online) Lawyer: Arsenijevic detained based on order of prosecutor, but also reports from Visar Syla (KoSSev, Radio KIM) Yet another recording of alleged conversation between Kusari and Radoicic – ‘Help me so I will help you’ (KoSSev) Petkovic reacts to Rohde’s statement on CSM (Kosovo Online, social media) Opinion: Another Kurti’s victory: How did he get applause for escalation? (Alternativna.com) International: Kosovo gains regional free trade representation following Serbian goods’ ban removal (Prishtina Insight) President Erdoğan to try to de-escalate Serbia-Kosovo tensions in tour (Daily Sabah) Kosovo’s secret lobbying contracts a growing concern (BIRN)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, October 9, 2024

Albanian Language Media: • Kurti: There are no trade measures against Serbia, only security measures (media) • Baerbock: We were able to untie the knot in CEFTA agreement together (media) • Kurti: Visit to Leposavic today, part of breast cancer awareness month (media) • Osmani represents Kosovo at Ukraine-South-East Europe Summit (media) • Initial hearing held in Pristina on Banjska attack case (media) • Koci: I have info many other people were involved in Banjska attack (media) • Kurti says publication of tapped conversation is part of “hybrid war” (media) • Bislimi: Lajcak working on next meeting of chief negotiators (media) • Kurti holds farewell meeting with outgoing COMKFOR Ulutas (media) • Surroi: Kosovo’s foreign policy is hostage to wrong decisions in dialogue (KTV) • Albulena Mehmeti appointed chair of RTK board (media) • Gervalla asks for €200,000 as solidarity for Bosnia after floods (Koha) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic to Kasanof: The impossible conditions in which the Serbian people live in Kosovo (RTS) • Kurti visits Leposavic, reinforced police presence on streets (Kosovo Online) • Hetemi requests Centre for Social Work in Leposavic to evict premises it uses (Kosovo Online) • Director of Center for Social Work Leposavic: Hetemi's request attack on poorest, we are asking for protection of international community (Kosovo Online) • Petkovic and SL on Center for Social Work in Leposavic (Kosovo Online) • Serbian Chamber of Commerce: Decision to announce lifting of ban on placement of Serbian products in Kosovo is incomplete (Tanjug) • The three accused for Banjska pleaded not guilty (KiM radio, KoSSev) • Lawyers in Banjska case: We will file appeal to dismiss indictment, objection to evidence (Kosovo Online) • Ambassador Hill about lithium, Kosovo issue, other topics in interview with N1 (N1, media) • “Intoxicated deputy minister in Kosovo government, involved in traffic accident with official vehicle released after testing” (Kosovo Online) • Erdogan to visit Serbia on October 10-11 (Tanjug) International: • Kosovo Serbs plead not guilty to terrorism over Banjska attack (BIRN) • ‘Take the lead’: Kosovo pushes Germany, France on Europe entry (AA) • In Kosovo, public access to criminal indictments varies from court to court (BIRN)