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)
UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, September 4, 2024
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)