• Serbs in north of Kosovo boycott local snap elections (media) • “Kosovo’s application for CoE membership on agenda for Monday” (media) • Lajcak: Time of intense preparation for next high-level meeting (media) • Escobar: We expect concrete proposal on Association from Kosovo (media) • Kurti reacts to Serbian armed forces’ exercise in Batajnica (media) • 25 years after Kosovo war, rape victims find the courage to heal (RFE)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, April 20, 2023 Albanian Language Media: • Kurti: There’s a negative mood in the State Prosecution against our government (KSP) • PDK’s Tahiri calls on Kurti to dismiss KEK Board and CEO (Indeksonline) • Rizvanolli on arrest of KEK CEO: We will wait for the facts (media) • Escobar: Waiting for concrete proposal from Kosovo for Association by May 2 (RTK) • Konjufca: Can’t accept Association without de facto recognition from Serbia (media) • “Kurti govt’s seriousness prevented further conditioning of visa liberalisation” (Kallxo) • Government with €3 million aid package for non-majority communities (Klan) • Election commission accredits around 360 observers for elections in north (Kallxo) Serbian Language Media: • Milatovic: Open Balkans better than closed Balkans (Beta, NIN, N1) • Dacic: We have returned to the pre-Brussels era (NMagazin, Politika, RTV) • Escobar: US will recognize Kosovo election results (Tanjug, N1) • Botsan-Kharchenko on Community of Serb Municipalities (Danas) • KP: Three minors admitted that they damaged the door of the church in Prizren (KiM radio) • Ponos: Ten years after Brussels Agreement, Kosovo further from Serbia (N1, Danas) • No visa liberalisation for Serbian passport holders in Kosovo (N1, media) • Petkovic reacts to von Cramon statement, says make Pristina establish ZSO (Radio KIM) • Court of Appeals increases sentence to Vukotic, lawyer announces complaint to Supreme Court (KoSSev, media) • Dacic: Pristina has almost no chance of becoming a UNESCO member (Tanjug) • US ambassadors discuss regional stability with Vucic (N1, social media) Opinion: • Editor of RTV KiM: Serbs got a one-way ticket, Albanians an unsettled situation (Danas, Insajder) • “Serbs from Kosovo humiliated, term Kosovar insulting” (N1) International: • Kosovo Parties Split Over Energy Corporation Head’s Arrest (BIRN) • Serbia, Kosovo, Take First Steps To Implement EU Ohrid Deal (BIRN)

• KEK director Nagip Krasniqi arrested (media) • COMKFOR: We will act if stability and security are threatened (media) • OSCE calls for calm and democratic elections in the north (ATV) • UNMIK chief Ziadeh welcomes visa liberalisation for Kosovo (media) • Szunyog disappointed with absence of MPs during plenary sessions (media) • Freedom of Information in Balkans still ‘on paper only’, panel hears (BIRN) • Police identify three juveniles that damaged church door in Prizren (media) • UNMIK chief condemns arson incident against church in Prizren (media) • Population anxiety mustn’t be resolved at cost of women’s rights (BIRN)

Albanian Language Media: • Serbia continues “old habit of violating agreements” (Radio Free Europe) • Beyer: Ohrid agreement, only path for normalisation and EU membership (Express) • Kosovo Police raid central offices of Kosovo Power Corporation (media) • OSCE: Not part of team that drafts Association statute; if needed will help (Express) • Hoti: Dialogue wasn’t kept on tracks of mutual recognition (TV Dukagjini/Nacionale) • Serb candidate for Zvecan: If I win, I will return to work all those who resigned (Insajderi) • Krasniqi: Polls show that Vetevendosje has dropped to 36-37 percent (media) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic: We will fulfil everything we said, but only when Pristina forms the CSM (ZSO) (N1) • Tenth anniversary of the First Brussels Agreement (N1) • Odalovic: On the 10th anniversary of the Brussels Agreement, Pristina awarded visa-free status (KiM radio, RTS, Beta) • Petkovic: The next round of dialogue in Brussels on CSM (ZSO) (Beta, N1, RTS) • Dacic: Pristina's CoE bid will not be on agenda on Wednesday (Tanjug) • Kosovo Police calls minorities to apply for jobs (KoSSev, N1) • Ziadeh: Perpetrators to be held responsible for arson incident at the church in Prizren (euronews.rs, Tanjug, RTS, Kosovo Online) • Elections in the north: Voting containers in places inhabited by Albanians and at crossings (Kontakt plus radio, Klan) • Jevtic: The elections in the north of Kosovo contrary to democracy (Beta, TV Prva, KiM radio) • Simic: We will not stop demanding the CSM (ZSO), we will remain a thorn to Pristina (Kosovo Online, TV Pink) • Analysis from Ljubljana: Montenegro's agreement with the SOC, a model for Kosovo (Danas) • The EU decision on visas: Residents of Kosovo with Serbian passports are the most discriminated group in Europe (Kosovo Online) International: • American Corners Bring US Closer to Kosovar Youth (Prishtina Insight) Humanitarian/Development: • Energy from the wind in Bajgora (Kosovo 2.0)

• European Parliament votes to scarp visa regime for Kosovo citizens (BIRN) • Visa liberalisation agreement to be signed on Wednesday (SchengenVisaInfo) • Gervalla, Kosovo delegation thank MEPs for visa liberalisation (Klan) • Kurti and Vucic to meet in Brussels on May 2 (Albanian Post) • Joint monitoring committee for Kosovo-Serbia agreement established (media) • U.S. expects implementation of past agreements, including Association (VoA) • Vela: Serbian List informed of all developments regarding elections (Klan) • Hovenier condemns arson incident in Orthodox church in Prizren (media) • Montenegro Urged to Reinvestigate 1999 Killings of Kosovo Albanians (BIRN)

Albanian Language Media: • Kurti: Serbia should be more responsible for implementing the agreement (RTK) • Rohde: Implementation of the agreement and avoidance of any tension, needed (Klan) • European Parliament Approves Visa Liberalization for Kosovo (Prishtina Insight) • Reuten proud that the EP removed visas from Kosovars (media) • Von Cramon: Congratulations to Kosovo for the long-awaited visa liberalization (media) • Austria congratulates Kosovo on visa liberalization (ekonomia) • Kurti: Visa liberalization brings us one step closer to the European Union (media) • Osmani: The liberalisation of visas, a merit of the people of Kosovo (media) • The government takes credit for the visas (media) • Opposition parties hail EP decision on liberalisation of visas (media) • Church door in Prizren set on fire, police say gasoline smell was present at scene (Kallxo) Serbian Language Media: • Hill: We will not give up until CSM (ZSO) becomes a reality (N1, FoNet, Kontakt plus radio) • Pristina's request for membership will not be on the CoE agenda tomorrow (Kosovo Online, Danas) • Dacic may cancel Strasbourg visit over Pristina's CoE membership bid;MFA: Dacic to attend the COE Committee of Ministers (Tanjug) • Signing of the petition for the withdrawal of special units of Kosovo police continued today in the north (Kosovo Online) • Lajcak concerned about developments in North Kosovo (Beta, N1, KoSSev) • KP: Attempt to set fire to the door of the Church of St. Panteleimon in Prizren; Office for KiM: An example of Pristina's intolerance towards everything Serbian (Kontakt plus radio) Opinion: • Andric Rakic: Almost impossible to stop the escalation of 'non-normalization' with the current negotiators (medijacentar.info, Kontakt plus radio, KiM radio)

• Kurti: No partial implementation of agreement, no delays (media) • Deadline to form Monitoring Committee expires (Koha) • European Parliament expected to vote on visa liberalisation today (media) • Kurti meets Davenport, discuss elections in the north (media) • Vela: Serbian Govt trying to interfere with local elections in north (media) • Serbian government adopts measures to protect Serbs in Kosovo (Euractiv) • Jablanovic: Situation in the north can escalate (media) • Kurti: Pleased to announce agreement with IMF for up to €260M (media) • Vela reacts to Dacic’s remarks about Kosovo’s CoE membership (media) • Private hearing of first witness in Thaci trial causes concern (BIRN) • 20 cases of criminal acts against reporters this year (RTK) • Seizing crypto-mining equipment has saved Kosovo ‘millions’: Govt (BIRN)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, April 14, 2023 Albanian Language Media: • Tajani meets Osmani: The future of the Western Balkans is in the EU (RTK) • Kurti and Abazovic sign agreement on air services between Kosovo and Montenegro (media) • Konjufca: Without the Serbian parties in the elections, there is no Association (media) • Svecla on elections in the north: I am convinced that whole process will end peacefully (media) • Kurti honors the victims and survivors of sexual violence during the war (media) • The CEC reduces the number of voting centers in the north from 44 to 19 (Koha) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic presents five conclusions after meeting with Serbs from Kosovo (Tanjug) • Patriarch: Prayer for peace more powerful than any weapon (Tanjug) • Petkovic says he should be in Kosovo for Easter, announced visit to Pristina (Kosovo Online) • Kovac in a meeting with Vucic on problems Serb sports associations face in Kosovo (KoSSev) • Petkovic: Conclusions from yesterday’s meeting will be binding for Serbian negotiating team (media) • Jeremic: Why elections when Vucic would be defeated in a referendum (FoNet, N1) • Orthodox Christians mark Good Friday (N1)

• Bislimi: Postponing elections in the north, not a good option (VoA) • Vela: Vucic wants to block 23 April elections in the north (media) • Serbia conditions disputed elections in north on Serb municipalities body (BIRN) • Election Commission expected to approve voting centers today (Telegrafi) • If elections are held in the north, “99 percent of Serbs will boycott them” (AP) • Abazovic: Serbia should recognise Kosovo as soon as possible (Klan Kosova) • Escobar: Ohrid agreement is historic (media) • One month detention on remand for police officer in wounding incident (media)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, April 13, 2023 Albanian Language Media: • Konjufca: There is a tendency to destabilise the north before the April 23 elections (Koha) • Haradinaj requests the postponement of the elections in the north (Koha) • Bislimi and Murati travel to U.S., to meet representatives of IMF and World Bank (media) • Abazovic in Kosovo tomorrow, to meet senior officials and opposition (media) • Monastery of Decan not included in list of seven endangered monuments this year (Klan) • "Everything ready to undo Dick Marty's report" (Reporteri) • The Supreme Court: Citizens have the right to demand the money they were billed for electricity in the North (media) • U.S. Embassy: Interference with freedom of expression,violates principles of democracy (Reporteri) • WB Regional Platform Safe Journalists condemns attack on journalist (Reporteri) • Jakup Krasniqi is not in good condition, lawyer requests his withdrawal from session (Reporteri) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic meeting Serbs from Kosovo (RTS) • Serbs protested shooting of their fellow citizen at Bistrica bridge, demand special forces withdraw from north (KoSSev) • Signing of petition for withdrawal of Kosovo special police from northern Kosovo continues (Radio kontakt plus) • Vucic, Dacic met with Spanish Foreign Minister (RTS) • PM Brnabic thanks Spanish Minister for position on Kosovo (FoNet) • Petkovic with Botsan-Kharchenko: Peace and security of Serbian people our biggest concern (Kosovo Online) • Media: Todosijevic’s prison sentence postponed by two months (Kosovo Online, BETA, N1) • KFOR condemns incident in which Milan Jovanovic was wounded (RTS) • Serbian ambassador says strategic dialogue with US discussed (BETA)