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UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, September 3, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

• Osmani: Kosovo has met all conditions to get candidate status for EU (RFE)
• Kurti: Annual average of Foreign Direct Investments is €705.6 million (media)
• Biserko: Info that Serbia building houses for Kosovo Serbs must be verified (RFE)
• Ministry changes law on bureau for confiscation of unjustifiable wealth (media)
• Zubin Potok mayor says he has been receiving death threats (media)
• Serbs warn to block crossings until police withdraws from Kosovo north (media)
• Employees of parallel structures in north protest again (Kanal 10)
• Finnish Foreign Minister to visit Albania, Kosovo and Serbia (Albanian Post)
• Turkey arrests person for transferring money to Mossad operatives (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Provisional institutions in the north of Kosovo still blocked, workers are prevented from working (RTS, RTV, media)
• Jankovic: Violation of human rights of Serbs (KiM radio)
• The closure of Serbian institutions as compensation, because KFOR did not allow opening of the Ibar bridge? (Danas, KiM radio)
• Moma Trajkovic: In Kosovo, the people are in agony (KiM radio, Danas)
• Marsenic: Imposing a "cancel culture" on Serbs (Kosovo Online)
• Congressman Eric Swalwell on the Pristina action: Unilateral provocations are unacceptable (Tanjug, Kosovo Online)

Opinion:

• Biserko and Canak story on the resettlement of Serbs from Kosovo: "Unfounded and dangerous, Milan Radojicic is missing to make the joke complete" (Danas)
• Macron’s visit to Serbia: Business, bromance or transactional politics? (BIRN)

International:

• Out of the shadows: Kosovo hosts pioneering exhibition on queerness (BIRN)
• Making history: Kosovo’s debut at the Paralympic Games (RFE)
• Kosovo’s EFT joins Alpex power exchange (SeeNews)
• Suspect arrested in Turkey for allegedly transferring money to Mossad operatives, report says (AP)

UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, September 3, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

• EU: Failure of parties to reduce tensions will have consequences (Koha)
• Ursula von der Leyen: In Kosovo, economic reforms are bringing benefits (RTK)
• Minister Gervalla at Bled Forum, welcomed by Tanja Fajon (RTK)
• Aivo Orav starts work as new ambassador of EU in Kosovo (RTK)
• Rohde to new head of EU: Looking forward to make Kosovo a success story (RTK)
• Elshani: As long as Radojcic is free, there is danger (Express)
• Krasniqi and Hamza meet Ambassador Hargreaves, discuss current developments (media)
• Indictment against two Serbs, suspected of war crimes against civilian population (media)
• Director of Media 10: We will be filter of truth for every resident also in north of Mitrovica (Gazeta 10)

Serbian Language Media:

• A new war crime indictment filed, two persons of Serbian nationality suspected (KiM radio, KoSSev, Kosovo Online, media)
• NKEU: Do not stop Radosavljevic and Todorovic at the crossings (KiM radio, media)
• The special political program from the Pristina studio moved to the Mitrovica promenade (KoSSev)
• ProGlas initiative for the first time with representatives of Serbs from Kosovo (KoSSev, Danas, Beta)
• Djuric met Azerbaijani FM in Baku (Tanjug)
• Vucevic: Shameful statement by Canak and Biserko about the resettlement of Serbs from Kosovo (Kosovo Online, Tanjug, RTV)
• Vulin: Quint, the EU, and NATO supported the actions against the Serbs in the north of Kosovo, Kurti doing nothing independently (Kosovo Online, Vecernje Novosti)
• Starovic: Without concrete actions against Kurti, no one will take the State Department's statements seriously (Kosovo Online, Politika)

International Media:

• Serbia Urged to Stop Holding Activists at Borders (Balkan Insight)
• Von der Leyen: I will appoint a dedicated Commissioner for enlargement (EWB)
• Transforming the Western Balkans: Trade, Energy, and Mobility as Catalysts for Growth (EWB)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, September 2, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

• EU considers new round of Kosovo-Serbia dialogue a priority (media)
• Police: Protests in Mitrovica north took place peacefully, without incidents (media)
• Shea: Opening of Bridge has caused concern about possibility of violence (Albanian Post)
• Kupchan: Maneuvers in the north serve Kurti, not Kosovo (Klan)
• Tahiri: Any reckless action from wherever it comes from cannot endanger Kosovo (Klan)
• Kurti: The Kosovo Telecom has been returned to the people (media)
• Orav: Looking forward to work closely with local and intl partners (media)

Serbian Language Media:

• Stano: The main goal of the EU an urgent meeting of the main negotiators, many unresolved issues (Kosovo Online, Tanjug, Radio Mitrovica sever, media)
• The Association of the Kosovo-Mitrovica district announced the blockade of all crossings from September 6 (KoSSev, KiM radio)
• Simic: The usurpers snatched the property of the Serbian state, the right to work and life of the Serbs in Kosovo was denied (Kosovo Online)
• Veljkovic: The closure of the Provisional Authorities is a direct violation of human rights (KiM radio)
• Kosovo Serbs protest closure of municipality building (N1, KoSSev, Kosovo Online)
• Vucic on the visit of Biserko and Canak to Kurti: ''I have never seen a circus like this before'' (Danas)
• Head of the School Administration: About 1,100 first-year students and the same number of high school students are enrolled (KiM radio, Kosovo Online, Kontakt plus radio, KoSSev)
• Rada Trajkovic: Kurti destroying the sovereignty of the international community (KiM radio, N1)
• Citaku: Criminal gangs encouraged, the government is reduced to propaganda (Kosovo Online)

Opinion:

• Palokaj: Societies are fed up with dialogue (Koha)

International:

• Kosovo parents struggle for textbooks as new school year begins (BIRN)
• Bulgarian military contingent departs for NATO mission in Kosovo (novinite.com)
• Vučić denies close links to Putin and says Serbia is on the path to the EU (euronews.com)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, August 30, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

Osmani: Over 1,600 remain forcibly disappeared, many of them children (media)
Kurti on the missing: In Serbia, there is no will, in Kosovo, close to 3 thousand excavations (RTK)
Kurti: France, allied country and partner, “we want close cooperation” (Gazeta10)
Goffus: Uncoordinated actions increase the risk of violence (media)
Osmani decrees 31 judges, nearly half of them women (media)
Albanian Defense Minister “friendly and open meeting” with Kurti (media)
Hovenier: We repeat call to solve missing persons cases (RTK)
Osmani travels to Prague, represents Kosovo at GLOBSEC (Zeri)
Kurti meets with head of OSCE, talk about strengthening cooperation (Reporteri)

Serbian Language Media:

Vucic: Purchase of French Rafale aircraft is huge for Serbia (N1)
Vucic, Macron want Serbia and France as AI powers (N1)
Arsenijevic: Kurti, as if wanting to go to war with someone, because he has nothing to offer to people (N1)
Office for KiM: Verdict to Zlatkovic proof Pristina continues to oppress and intimidate Serbs (Kosovo Online, media)
International Day of Disappeared (Radio KIM)
Hovenier: Institutions and officials to overcome differences and work to resolve missing persons cases (Kosovo Online, social media)

International:

‘It was Wartime’: Kosovo man still waits for word of missing daughter (BIRN)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, August 29, 2024

Albanian Language Media:

Kurti: Milosevic’s strategy ‘no corpse, no crime’ continues to this day (EO)
Kurti: Employment in Kosovo increased thanks to government support (EO)
Post of Kosovo branch opened in Mitrovica north (media)
PDK after meeting Sarrazin; “cooperation with partners very important” (Express)
“Readiness to restore mosque near Iber bridge; don’t want to politicize it” (Klan)
Rohde “proud to see Kosovo join Paralympics for 1st time” (media)
Hasani: Good work is done by agreeing with those that love Kosovo (Nacionale)
Sinani: Every time I cross the border I am stopped by Serbian authorities (media)

Serbian Language Media:

Macron: EU needs strong, democratic Serbia (N1)
Kosovo Post office opened in Mitrovica North amid whistles and discontent (Radio Kontakt Plus, media)
Petkovic: Opening of Kosovo Post office new unilateral act by Pristina (Tanjug)
Andric-Rakic: Kosovo Post office does not meet needs of Serbian population (Kosovo Online)
Protected witness at trial to Thaci and others about murder of 25 Serbs in Volujak cave, detention center in Malisevo (KoSSev, BETA)
Selimi: Kurti’s government turned Kosovo into security issue (Kosovo Online, social media)

International:

People picturing war: Capturing a Kosovo child’s birth in a refugee tent (BIRN)
Vucic will gain most from Macron visit to Serbia, French analyst predicts (BIRN)
Serbia will take regional celebrities off entry ‘watch list’, Minister says (BIRN)