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UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, June 26, 2024

Albanian Language Media: • New round of high-level dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia today (media) • Lajcak: We hope leaders come with vision and political courage (media) • Rasic on Kurti-Vucic meet: It will increase dynamics of the dialogue (media) • NATO appoints Mark Rutte as next secretary general (media) • Osmani, Kurti congratulate Berset election as CoE Secretary General (media) • Bajrami outlines reports Kosovo sent to EU following Banjska attack (media) • Kurti meets members of Bavarian State Parliament and Chancellery (media) • Krasniqi: No room for a monoethnic institution in Kosovo (media) • Gervalla meets President of Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (media) • Court gives right to government on the law on the minimum wage (media) • KLA War Veterans react after court decision, “we’ll continue protests” (media) • Kurti congratulates Mickoski, looks forward to enhancing robust relations (media) • Kosovo government confirms rejecting Petkovic’s visit request (Koha) • Exhibition in Mitrovica on International Day against Hate Speech (media) • Court extends detention by 60 days for three suspects of Banjska attack (media) Serbian Language Media: • New round of dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina; Vucic with European officials in Brussels (RTS) • Lajcak: Everything ready for discussion; hope for the political courage of Vucic and Kurti (RTS) • Office for KiM: Petkovic banned from visiting Kosovo on Saint Vitus Day (Kosovo Online, media) • Djuric congratulates Berset on election as CoE Secretary General (media, social media) • Radojkovic: European Football Championship showed region still far from reconciliation (Kosovo Online) • YIHR filed 10 lawsuits against the media for 'hate speech' against the participants of the 'Mirdita' festival (KoSSev, Beta) Opinion: • Rada Trajkovic: Vucevic's "compromise" is the division of Kosovo (KiM radio, Beta) • Hungary’s EU ‘enlargement presidency’ will achieve limited success for Western Balkans (BIRN) International: • NATO picks Netherlands' Mark Rutte as next boss (Reuters)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, June 25, 2024

Albanian Language Media: • VV, AAK don’t expect results “if Serbia doesn’t change approach” (EO) • Vogel: The dialogue has been moribund for a long time (media) • Serwer: A successful and democratic Kosovo doesn’t suit Vucic (Express) • Qelaj: Government has not clarified objectives of expropriations in north (Koha) • Kurti: Over 700k objects scanned in less than month at Digitization Center (media) • Blinken appoints Tom Sullivan as new Counselor of State Department (media) • PDK threatens government with sending two laws to Constitutional Court (Koha) • Kosovo Defence Minister Maqedonci to visit Croatia tomorrow (media) • Osmani: Kosovo grateful for Slovenia’s strong and continued support (media) • Szunyog meets Lladrovci, discuss local governance issues (media) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic: To ensure safety of Serbs in Kosovo, implement agreements made thus far (Tanjug) • Drecun: The Brussels talks just a shell without substance (Kosovo Online, RTS) • Sljuka: By going to Brussels, Kurti wants to demonstrate he is constructive so punitive measures would be lifted (Kosovo Online) • Varhelyi: Serbia committed to the EU path, the goal is to open the next clusters (RTS) • Warrant for an Albanian from Kosovo due to expulsion of Serbs (Politika, Kosovo Online) International: • Kosovo Serb jailed for 2023 mob attack on NATO peacekeepers (BIRN) • Kosovo struggles to rein in wild west medication market (BIRN) • Kosovo law ignores tech-facilitated abuse of women: Report (BIRN)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, June 24, 2024

Albanian Language Media: • Konjufca doesn’t expect “anything important” from Kurti-Vucic meeting (media) • Muja: Meeting in Brussels to discuss if there is an agreement in place (media) • PDK’s Tahiri: Kosovo needs a new government (media) • Gervalla goes to Luxembourg, will attend EU foreign ministers’ meeting (media) • Osmani: KSF members “outstanding results” in prestigious academies (media) • Court sentences Orlovic to 15 months in prison for attack against KFOR (media) • Supreme Court President talks importance of judiciary’s independence (Koha) • Begaj says EU measures against Kosovo are unfair (media) • OSCE mission congratulates Egyptian community on day of celebration (media) Serbian Language Media: • Research in Mitrovica: Albanians are leaving due to economic reasons, Serbs are leaving due to ethnic tensions (Radio kontakt plus) • Milos Pleskovic pleaded not guilty (Radio KIM, media) • Kosovo Property Agency: We issued 24 notices for the relinquishing of property in N.Mitrovica – not 150, the decisions are final (KoSSev) • 26th anniversary since kidnapping of miners at Belacevac, near Obilic (Kosovo Online) • Destiny of two Serbs kidnapped in Orahovac still remains unknown (Radio KIM) • Starovic: Pristina's efforts to join NATO will not bear fruit (Kosovo Online) • Vucic, Dacic attend Day of Interior Ministry, Police Day celebration (N1, FoNet) • Opposition politician: Western powers tolerate Vucic staying in power because of lithium mining (N1, FoNet) Opinion: • Kosovo Specialist Chambers reflect Kosovo relationship with West (Kosovo 2.0) International: • Miners of Trepca march towards ‘Reporting House’ exhibition (Prishtina Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, June 21, 2024

Albanian Language Media: • Borrell: We discussed how to build a more united Europe together (media) • EU foreign ministers to meet Western Balkans counterparts on June 24 (media) • Sources: France and Italy against full removal of measures (Koha) • Murati: 5.6% economic growth in the first quarter of the year (media) • Gervalla: Kosovo and Portugal hold their first Economic Forum in Pristina (media) • Clinton Center publishes photo with Kosovo children, families in June ’99 (media) • Citaku: Sexual violence was used as weapon of war by Serbia (media) • Hoxhaj: Letter of EU leaders is a new veto for Kosovo (Telegrafi) • Kurti expresses support for Montenegro’s Democratic Party of Socialists (media) • Serwer: Dodik and Vucic could attempt an attack like Banjska in Bosnia (media) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic asked Macron to stand by Serbia on the road to preserving peace (RTS, Tanjug, Kosovo Online) • Vucic: With Hecker about the security situation in the country and the region, especially in Kosovo (Kosovo Online, Tanjug) • Mijacic on the possible opening of the Ibar bridge: We are entering a new period of crisis (Kosovo Online) • Petkovic: “Shameless lies of Osmani, 200.000 Serbs expelled from Kosovo, new ethnic cleansing in place” (media, social media) • Milenkovic’s defence: Witness excluded existence of an act that could be qualified as crime (Radio KIM) • Special prosecution dropped criminal prosecution of Rade Basara, defendant in Oliver Ivanovic’s murder case (media) • Austria’s FM: No shortcuts in Belgrade-Pristina dialogue (Beta, N1) • Gashi: The goal of cooperation between Pristina and Sarajevo another UN resolution against Serbia (Kosovo Online) Opinion: • Iber river bridge: From symbol of division to a symbol of coexistence (Koha) • EU voters are normalising the far right (Kosovo 2.0) International: • Serbia fans in Munich chant anti-Kosovo slogans (Reuters) • Romanian President withdraws NATO bid, clearing final hurdle for Rutte (RFE) • Serbia urged to recognise wartime sexual violence victims (BIRN) • Pro-Russian Telegram channels push Kremlin’s line in Balkans (BIRN)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, June 20, 2024

Albanian Language Media: • Kurti and Vucic to meet on June 26 in Brussels (RFE) • Sources: No agreement in EU on full removal of measures (Koha) • Rohde: Measures should be removed; it is in the hands of member states (EO) • Borrell travels to Austria to advance EU – Western Balkans relations (media) • Albanians and most Serbs support opening of Iber bridge (RTV21) • Konjufca: Banjska, blow against cooperation, stability, security in region (media) Serbian Language Media: • Djuric: The dialogue in a coma; the new arrests of Serbs threw gloves in the face of the USA and the EU (RTS, media) • Detention ordered for a Serb from Zvecan arrested yesterday on the Bistrica Bridge (RTS, Kosovo Online, media) • Lawyer: I hope L.D. would be released, strange he got arrested after a year and so (Kosovo Online) • Office for KiM: Arrest of Serb at Bistrica bridge is Kurti's attempt to provoke new crisis (media) • Serbian List: If innocent Serbs are arrested, because of what Kurti deserved lifting of punitive measures (Kosovo Online, media) • A decade since the creation of the Peace Park on the Ibar Bridge, new fears for Serbs (Kosovo Online) International: • Anti-corruption fight in Balkans sees progress, but also regression: report (BIRN) • Growing diaspora vote becomes game-changer in Balkan elections (BIRN)