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UNMIK Media Observer, Morning Edition, June 28, 2024

Albanian Language Media: • Kosovo Police find surveillance cameras in the north (media) • Rohde calls Kurti's conditions “a burden"; “Serbia violating Article 4” (media) • Rasic doesn’t expect Radoicic to be handed over; “Dialogue must continue” (media) • Assembly podium used for media smearing (Koha) • Kurti meets Serwer: Grateful for his analysis and advice (media) • Kurti welcomes Law on the Modernization of Citizenship in Germany (media) • Serbian delegation leaves after Kosovo MP’s speech on Banjska attack (Kosovapress) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic: Kurti wanted recognition not dialogue (N1) • Office for KiM: Arrest of Lazovic in Leposavic, continuation of Pristina’s terror (Kosovo Online, media) • Wife of arrested Lazovic: My husband is not on photos published by Albanian media, he has never been to Djakovica (Kosovo Online) • Serbian List: Kurti’s regime continues with intimidation and expulsion of Serbs from Kosovo (Kosovo Online, media) • Djuric: Belgrade appreciates Brazil's position on Serbia's territorial integrity (Tanjug) • Austrian Freedom Party requests Parliament declare against recognition of Kosovo (Euronews Serbian) • Pristina portal says 45 indicted over Banjska armed incident (N1) • “Miredita, Dobar Dan” festival shut down (media) International Media: • Police Ban Serbia-Kosovo Cultural Reconciliation Festival in Belgrade (Balkan Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, June 27, 2024

Albanian Language Media: • O’Brien: Non-implementation of past agreements, lost opportunity (media) • Kurti says LDK, AAK want to criticise and not remove him from power (Express) • Opposition MPs leave assembly session (media) • AJK: Independent Media Commission draft law shouldn’t be adopted (Kallxo) • AJK reacts to Basha’s “unacceptable, dangerous attacks” against Kusari (media) • Former Serb member of Kosovo Police arrested for espionage (media) • Svecla: Fighting every form of terrorism is our priority (media) • Hoxha visits police units in Jarinje, Leposavic, Bernjak and Banjska (media) Serbian Language Media: • O'Brien: Failure to implement earlier agreements a lost opportunity for both sides (Kosovo Online) • Brnabic: By rejecting the trilateral in Brussels, Kurti showed that he does not want dialogue (Tanjug, TV Pink) • Arrested A.V. suspected of espionage (RTS, Radio Mitrovica sever, KoSSev) • The president of the Committee for Aid to Serbs from Republika Srpska denied entry to Kosovo (Tanjug, SRNA) • The Spanish Parliament overwhelmingly rejected the initiative to recognize Kosovo (Tanjug) • The German and Italian embassies supported the EU statement on three draft laws (KoSSev) • The SL MPs once again retained their mandates (NMagazin, Beta) • Andric Rakic: No progress in dialogue or formation of the CSM realistic during Lajcak's extended mandate (Kosovo Online) • “Miredita, dobar dan!” festival to kick off in Belgrade (N1, Beta) Opinion: • Hungary’s EU ‘enlargement presidency’ will achieve limited success for Western Balkans (Balkan Insight) International: • Kosovo: Draft law on Independent Media Commission might endanger its political independence (ecpmf.eu) • Serbia’s Vucic fumes as footballers travel to Euro 2024 on Croatian plane (Politico)

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)