UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, July 10, 2020 Albanian Language Media: • Hoti-Vucic Sunday meeting in Brussels postponed (media) • Hoti: Agreement with Serbia cannot be successful without mutual recognition (media) • Osmani calls blocking of anti-Covid draft law 'disgraceful' (media) • Nagavci: Management of pandemic, presently top priority for Kosovo (media) • Germany donates 6,000 COVID-19 testing kits to Kosovo (media) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic: Meeting in Brussels postponed for Thursday, US- EU relations are not our matter (RTS) • 36 new cases of Covid-19 infection in Serb areas in Kosovo (Radio KIM) • Djuric: Walker is last person who should talk about crimes (RTS) • Vucic: Discussing three crucial issues with Macron (B92) • Simic: Vjosa Osmani deceived public, read inexistent Rakic’s statement (TV Most) Opinion: • EU mediation is a relief but not a panacea (Prishtina Insight) International: • France, Germany lead effort to fire up Serbia-Kosovo talks (AP) • Europe’s Latest Peace-Making Efforts in Balkans Hit New Hurdle (Bloomberg) Humanitarian/Development: • Media Literacy Project: Photojournalist and journalist form integral whole (KoSSev)

• COVID-19: 207 new cases, 8 deaths in last 24 hours (media) • Prishtina Mayor: Number of coronavirus cases is much higher (Klan) • Zeka: 45% of businesses in Kosovo have stopped operating (media) • EU: Dialogue will continue regardless of protests in Serbia (media) • Kosovo PM Hoti goes to dialogue without internal consensus (Koha) • Assembly adopts resolution “in defense of people’s values” (media) • EU Office chief disappointed with failure to ratify agreements (media) • Haradinaj: Not logical for Europeans to undermine US summit (T7) • Kosovo ministers visit Presevo Valley (media) • William Walker disappointed with SPO’s actions (RTK) • War veterans protest charges against President Thaci (Balkan Insight) • Lushtaku: Better for PDK to join the government (Telegrafi) • Stalled talks set to resume in Brussels but what's at stake? (Euronews)

Albanian Language Media: • Kosovo government not in support of draft law on pandemics (RTK) • Government endorses action plan for increase of Covid-19 tests (Telegrafi) • Kosovo PM ready to declare state of emergency over coronavirus (Gazeta Express) • Roth: EU must grant Kosovo promised visa liberalization (Die Welt, Express) • LVV does not vote international agreements, endorsement fails (media) • Gucati: Indictment proposal against KLA leaders, direct attack on Kosovo (media) • Assembly does not approve LVV’s draft resolution on dialogue (media) • UNMIK assists Malisheva with anti-Covid-19 protection equipment (Klan) Serbian Language Media: • In all Serb areas, 139 newly infected in the last three weeks of testing (Kontakt plus radio, KIM radio) • Dacic: Visit to Paris important, matter of Kosovo recognition does not exist for Serbia (TV Pink, Tanjug) • Vucic: We know how to maintain peace (N1) • Stefanovic: An attempt to seize power by force (B92) • New riots in Belgrade; speculations about who provokes clashes (N1) • Vucic: No compromise with the vandals; Involvement of foreign security services proven (B92) • Russian Ambassador rejects allegations or Russia’s involvement in unrests in Belgrade (B92) • US Embassy closely follows events, condemns all violence (media) Opinion: • "Kosovo Serbs always suffer the consequences of instability in Serbia" (KIM radio) • What ‘Twiplomacy’ reveals about the Serbia-Kosovo dialogue (neweasterneurope.eu) International: • Kosovo's Thaci To Go To The Hague For Interview With War Crimes Prosecutor (RFE) • Serbia Protests Meet Violent Response in Europe’s 1st Major Virus Unrest (The New York Times) • Serbian President ‘Has the Evidence’ to Resolve US Albanians’ Murders (Balkan Insight) Humanitarian/Development: • Kosovo’s hospitals receive influx of COVID-19 patients (Prishtina Insight)

• Covid-19: 214 new cases, 4 deaths in last 24 hours (media) • Government of Kosovo extends restrictive measures to the north (media) • Hoti: Only Kosovo laws apply in northern municipalities (media) • Covid-19: North Macedonia shuts border with Kosovo (media) • Thaci to travel to The Hague for interview (media) • Limaj commends Thaci's readiness to be interviewed in The Hague (media) • Bislimi: Calls to undo specialist chambers to save one person not KLA (Koha) • Hoti: Kosovo ready for dialogue on mutual recognition with Serbia (media) • Borrell’s Office: Visa liberalisation to be treated urgently (Lajmi.net/RTK) • Nagavci: SL's statement neither coincidental nor unintentional (Telegrafi) • PDK to support all international financial agreements (media) • KLA war veterans organize today protests in all Kosovo cities (media)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, July 08, 2020 Albanian Language Media: • Hoti's office: Measures in the north in coordination with Kosovo institutions (Telegrafi) • Osmani: SL's call, unconstitutional and against Kosovo's sovereignty (media) • CDHRF calls on Hoti to dismiss Rakic following coronavirus measures (media) • Oxygen supply problems reported in clinic treating Covid-19 patients (Koha/Klan) • Roth: EU to deliver visa liberalisation to Kosovo, land swap dangerous (Telegrafi) • French presidency gives details of Macron-Hoti meeting (RTK) • Justice demanded for the murder of Bytyqi brothers 21 years ago (media) • Thaci visits Veseli's family home (media) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic to address the nation at 3pm (media) • Pisonero: Restrictive measures must not affect fundamental rights, public order must be guaranteed (media) • Vucic on negotiations with Pristina: "It will not be easy" (B92, Tanjug) • Grenell: We never believed in a quick agreement between Kosovo and Serbia in the election year (Blic) • Djuric: An attempt to destabilize Serbia will not pass on the eve of the key phase of the fight for Kosovo (Kosovo Online) • “Reactions of people showed what they think about measures, to discuss it at Crisis Staff meeting” (N1) • Serbian Health Minister says decision on lockdown in next two days (FoNet, N1) • Four more coronavirus cases in central Kosovo (Radio Mitrovica North) • Northern Kosovo under quarantine as of last night, curfew from 9 pm to 5 am (KoSSev) • 53 new Covid-19 infection cases registered in Serb-populated areas yesterday (Radio KIM) • Rakic and Jevtic: We will stand up for property of Visoki Decani and Serbian Orthodox Church (Radio KIM) Opinion: • Two voices on Kosovo (balcanicaucaso.org) • China Has Overtaken Russia as Serbia’s Great Ally (Balkan Insight) International: • Violent protests in Serbia as Vučić announces another lockdown after weeks of alleged pre-election cover-ups (EWB) • Stalled Serbia-Kosovo Dialogue Set to Resume in July (Balkan Insight) Humanitarian/Development: • Coronavirus: Airborne transmission cannot be ruled out, WHO says (BBC) • Roma Inclusion in Balkans Depends on Governments Recognising Antigypsyism (Balkan Insight) • Activists rejoice as water returns to Lumbardhi (Prishtina Insight) • The Rise of Religious Radicalisation among Diaspora Albanians (Balkan Insight)

• COVID-19: 183 new cases confirmed, three fatalities (media) • Assembly President summons PM Hoti to report on pandemic (media) • Health Minister says situation with COVID-19 under control (media) • Haziri criticises recently introduced restrictive measures (media) • Four northern municipalities introduce new restrictive measures (media) • Beyer: Dialogue must resume, and agreement reached (RTK) • Grenell: We support EU for meetings on 10 – 12 July (Express) • Lajcak discusses the dialogue with senior German officials (media) • Hoti: France committed to support Kosovo in dialogue process (media) • Selmanaj: France has dilemmas and hesitates on visa liberalisation (T7) • 42 MEPs call for visa liberalisation for Kosovo (media) • EU confident Thaci will extend EULEX's mandate (Koha) • Vucic on dialogue with Kosovo: They will pressure us to lose (media) • KLA associations reveal July 9 protest method (media)

Albanian Language Media: • Except for Hoti and Vucic, Merkel and Macron invite EU’s Borell as well (Express) • Kosovo’s FM discusses with Germany’s EM Heiko Maas (media) • CDHRF requests urgent voting of Covid-19 law (RTK) • LVV accuses Hoti’s government for failing to manage Covid-19 situation (RTK) • Judah: I was wrong, it seems dialogue can make it without Thaçi (media) • War veterans change protest plan (media) Serbian Language Media: • Apostolova: Current status quo in Kosovo is unsustainable (Jedinstvo, Kosovo Online, Tanjug, Blic) • Dr. Antonijevic: We’re waiting for the results of 111 samples, some of which we have been waiting for 6 days (KoSSev) • Covic: International community like 'Vienna Boys' Choir' (RTS) • Jevtic and Rakic about improved conditions for the return of the displaced (Radio Mitrovica Sever) • UNESCO official says Serbia imposed pandemic measures to strengthen authorities (N1) Opinion: • Kosovo: a hasty rotation of power (EWB) International: • US soldier killed in noncombat incident in Kosovo (The Hill) • France, Germany seek to unfreeze stalled Kosovo-Serbia talks (EURACTIV) Humanitarian/Development: • Conspiratorial Corona: Hoaxes and Conspiracy Theories in the Balkans (Balkan Insight) • Novi Pazar is the biggest hotspot of COVID-19 in Serbia (EWB)

• Covid-19: Record number of new cases in Kosovo, 195 (media) • Four more people die from COVID-19 on Monday (media) • Health Minister comments on spike in COVID-19 cases (media) • Covid-19: Hospital and University Clinic director dismissed (media) • Osmani criticises Government for not submitting anti-COVID law (media) • PDK: Anti-COVID law must be adopted, violators must be fined (media) • Pacolli: Assembly must urgently adopt anti-COVID law (media) • UN Mission in Kosovo donates protective equipment to Ferizaj (Klan) • UNDP donates 20 ventilators to Kosovo (media) • Disgruntled Kosovars turn to North Macedonia for tests (Prishtina Insight) • Hoti to meet Macron in Paris today (media) • LVV: Concerns we raised about secret Thaci-Vucic agreement, confirmed (media) • Cakaj’s office: Media reports about him joining PDK are speculation (Express) • NISMA MP Shala switches party, joins AAK (media)

Albanian Language Media: • Covid-19: Hospital and University Clinic director dismissed (media) • Thaci: Danger of coronavirus pandemic still high (media) • Zemaj warns of legal sanctions for not respecting Covid-19 measures (media) • Stjernvall: Pristina a 'party town' as Covid-19 cases spike (media) • EU confirms Paris summit, Hoti-Vucic meeting (media) • CDHRF: Talks with Serbia to be suspended (Zeri) Serbian Language Media: • The dialogue continues, Hoti and Vucic on July 12 in Brussels (N1) • Serbia-Kosovo summit on Friday, Merkel and Macron hosts (Blic) • Vucic with Macron on Thursday in Paris (Kosovo Online, Tanjug) • John Bolton publicly presented the deal (Danas) • Dr. Antonijevic: 60 people tested today, 300 by Friday (Radio Mitrovica Sever) • "Epidemiological situation in the municipality of Gracanica under control" (KIM radio) • Serbian election commission says less than half of electorate voted (N1) • Another theft in Priluzje: A cultivator with a rotary tiller stolen from farmer (KoSSev) Opinion: • Turkey in the Balkans: A march westward (moderndiplomacy.eu) International: • Serbia, Kosovo leaders to meet as EU-backed talks resume (AP) • Kosovo Confronts 'New Situation' After Record Daily Deaths From COVID-19 (RFE) • Kosovo Politician Threatens BIRN Country Director (Balkan Insight) • Balkan States Find Prosecuting Terrorism a Challenge (Balkan Insight) Humanitarian/Development: • BIRN editor says many more COVID-19 deaths than officially reported (N1)

• 152 new coronavirus cases in last 24 hours in Kosovo (media) • Kosovo government reinstates curfew in some cities (media) • Health Minister: We have potential to fight the virus (media) • Ministry of Health on new fatalities: We must wait for investigations (media) • Kurti: New elections are the only solution (media) • Nagavci accuses government of failing to manage coronavirus situation (media) • Ismaili: Hoti government to treat pandemic with greater seriousness (media) • PDK’s Haxhiu: State of emergency must be declared (media) • PM Hoti: We’re waiting for confirmation of date of Paris Summit (media) • Kosovo, Serbia leaders discussed land swap idea, Bolton says (media) • Mustafa: Current situation does not guarantee institutional stability (Koha) • Thaci continues visits to families of martyrs (Zeri) • Veseli calls on KLA associations to call off protest (media)