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UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, August 6, 2024

Albanian Language Media: • Stano: Another example of unilateral actions of Kurti administration (Reporteri) • Kusari-Lila: QUINT ambassadors informed about opening of Iber Bridge (ekonomia) • Presidency: Manner incident in Skopje was handled at Kurti-Mickoski conference, regrettable (media) • Rohde: Unilateral and uncoordinated steps endanger Kosovo's application for EU membership (Klan) • Another attempt of LVV to bring opposition into debate about Iber Bridge (Express) • Haxhiu on wounded woman in Fushe Kosove: Negligence of justice institutions (RTK) • EUROPOL: Person arrested in Kosovo for counterfeit money, employee of North Macedonian MIA (Kosovapress) Serbian Language Media: • The Kosovo police stopped a Serbian Post van with letters on Jarinje (N1, FoNet) • Vucic met Konrad: The international community must react to ensure the safety of Serbs (Tanjug, media) • Petkovic on the EU announcement; the opening of jobs for Serbs in Kosovo (RTS, Tanjug TV) • Grenell: US has tools to prevent escalation, tough letters don't work against Kurti (Tanjug, Blic) • Requests submitted for the abolition of custody of arrested Serbs from Kosovo Pomoravlje (RTV Puls, KiM radio) • Elek: New jobs are an incentive for Serbs to stay and proof that Serbia is always with its people (Kosovo Online, TV Most) • Selimi: The Kosovo Government is closing Post offices due to upcoming elections (Kosovo Online)

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)