• COVID-19: 885 new cases, 11 deaths (media) • Vaccine rollout delayed, expected doses also reduced (Koha) • Rama: Albania ready to vaccinate 11,000 Kosovo healthcare staff (Koha) • EP adopts report on Kosovo, urges EU to grant visa liberalisation (media) • Kurti meets Osmani, refers to her as the incoming president of Kosovo (media) • Weber: New elections are not in favour of the opposition (RFE) • Kurti to PAK: Suspend temporarily all decisions (RTK) • Haziri: Difficult year ahead, KSC to have huge impact in coming weeks (Telegrafi) • Vasfije Krasniqi: Ready to take part in dialogue, throw at Serbia’s face crimes committed in Kosovo (media) • Op-ed: It is time for Vetevendosje to finally condemn homophobia (Prishtina Insight) • After request for her dismissal, Emilija Redzepi changes the statement (media) • EU to Examine Whether Serbia is ‘Deleting’ Ethnic Albanian Addresses (Balkan Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, March 25, 2021 Albanian Language Media: • COVID-19: 836 new cases, 10 deaths (media) • Varhelyi: Resumption of dialogue with Serbia is essential (media) • Kurrti continues receiving congratulating letters (media) • Von Cramon: EU to liberalise promised visas for Kosovo citizens (media) • Kurti to visit the U.S. as soon as possible (media) • Kosovo government appoints deputy ministers (media) • State Prosecutor issues 73 indictments against 76 individuals (media) • Kurti asked to dismiss Deputy Prime Minister Emilija Rexhepi (media) • Serbian List attempts to install parallel structures in Skenderaj and Vushtrri (Express) Serbian Language Media: • Covid -19 in Serbian communities: 49 new cases, one death (Kontakt plus radio) • Vucic on Kurti’s dialogue principles, EU reaction (B92) • Bilcik: Important to continue the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina for the sake of reconciliation (KiM radio, Tanjug) • Lazarevic: New elections would strengthen Kurti even more, the losing parties are aware of this (Beta, KoSSev) • Weber: The principles for dialogue presented by Kurti will make easier for the EU and the USA to reset the negotiations (Kosovo Online) • EU on Kurti ZSO statement – Parties in the dialogue to refrain from harmful statements (Kosovo-online) • Agreement to produce Sputnik V vaccine in Serbia reached (RTS) • Obradovic: 904.000 citizens revaccinated in Serbia so far (Kosovo-online) • Interpol warns citizens once again not to purchase vaccines on internet (KoSSev) • Rakic: We continue working on return of displaced persons (Radio KIM) • Office for KiM: KLA graffiti on health ambulance in Suvi Do (Kosovo-online) • Serbian Chamber of Commerce set to open Jerusalem office (N1) Opinion • Kosovo: Kurti In Driver’s Seat Of A Driverless Vehicle – Analysis (eurasiareview) • Serbia’s Brave Actresses Deserve Our Respect for Naming Their Abusers (Balkan Insight) International: • Application of the new methodology to Montenegro and Serbia: Principles remain the same, more emphasis on interim benchmarks (EWB) • President Biden Urged to Move Hague War Court to Kosovo (Balkan Insight) Humanitarian/Development: • The introduction of mutual language learning in Kosovo: A tentative roadmap (FB) • North Mitrovica Municipality: NGO "Eko-Protekt" and UNMIK provided 75 tablet computers for school children (Kontakt plus radio, Radio Mitrovica sever)

• COVID-19: 823 new cases, 17 deaths (media) • WHO: Vaccines to reach Kosovo in three weeks' time (T7/Telegrafi) • Kosovo business community refuses vaccines from Serbia (Koha/Klan) • U.S. and EU confirm joint engagement in Western Balkans (RFE/Koha) • Lajcak: Resumption of dialogue within weeks (RFE) • Kosnett: We are not asking MPs to vote certain individual but participate and avoid fresh elections (media) • Merkel writes to Kurti: You have a challenging work ahead (media) • Rama says he trusts Kurti in overcoming Kosovo's challenges (Koha) • Osmani and Abdixhiku meet, agree to continue discussions (media) • Hoxhaj: PDK has no vote for Vjosa Osmani, she is a divisive figure (media) • European Parliament expected to endorse report on Kosovo today (media) • SRSG Tanin congratulates Konjufca on election (media) • Konjufca discusses securing anti-Covid-19 vaccines with Szunyog (RTK) • Orlando meets Konjufca: Italy supports Kosovo’s Euro-Atlantic road (media) • Holliday offers support to enlighten fate of the missing persons (media) • Petkovic: Kurti's positions are destroying the future of dialogue (RFE/Kallxo) • President Biden urged to move EU-backed war crimes court to Kosovo (euronews)

Albanian Language Media: • COVID-19: 781 new cases, 17 deaths (media) • Kurti: President election to take place soon (media) • Kurti reveals his approach to the dialogue with Serbia (Prishtina Insight) • Kosovo leaders commemorate anniversary of NATO air strikes on Serbian forces (media) • CEC replaces MPs who accepted government posts (media) • EULEX refutes KLA war veterans: No one was invited to our offices (media) Serbian Language Media: • 42 new cases of Covid-19 in in Serbian communities (KoSSev) • Twenty-two years ago, NATO bombs started falling on the then Yugoslavia (Beta, N1) • Vucic with UN official: UN SC session on UNMIK in mid April (Tanjug, Kosovo-online) • Office for KiM: Krstic’s verdict shameful, victim of persecution by Pristina (RTS) • Defense lawyers on Krstic and Shabani verdicts (Radio KIM) • Rakic assumed office of Minister for Communities and Returns (Kontakt plus radio) • 22nd anniversary of the bombing marked in Gracanica (Kosovo Online) • No easing of measures, Serbian anti-epidemic Crisis Team says (N1) • North Macedonia journalists vaccinated in southern Serbia (N1) International: • 78 Days of Fear: Remembering NATO’s Bombing of Yugoslavia (Balkan Insight) • WB2EU: Citizens need some re-branding of the idea of what the rule of law is (EWB) Humanitarian/Development: • Preparations for Manifesta14 underway (Prishtina Insight) • Patagonia CEO: Hydropower Plants are not Green, Albanian Government Stop Decimating Balkan Rivers (exit.al)

• COVID-19: 772 new cases, 13 deaths (media) • Kurti: We will prepare a file with all agreement violations by Serbia (Koha/Kallxo) • Kurti hosts EU Ambassador to Kosovo Tomas Szunyog (media) • Abdixhiku meets Kosnett and Rohde, informs them about LDK’s role in opposition (media) • Abdixhiku and Osmani to meet today at 14:00 hours (media) • LDK officials comment on Vjosa Osmani’s election (media) • Hasani says Government is internationally obliged to form Association (Klan) • New minister Aliu denies indictment against him, prosecution confirms it (media) • Konjufca asks CEC to provide names of MPs replacing ministers (Kosovapress) • Krasniqi: Association of Serb municipalities undermines Kosovo (Kallxo) • Monuments Evoke Tragic Memories of NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia (Balkan Insight) • Kosovo Convicts Two Serb Policemen of War Crimes (Balkan Insight) • Protesters rally in front of Kosovo embassy in Ankara (AA)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, March 23, 2021 Albanian Language Media: • COVID-19: 705 new cases, 10 deaths (media) • Albin Kurti officially assumes duties as new prime minister of Kosovo (Express) • Kurti: It is time to prove that we deserve our positions (media) • Quint to MPs: The first task is to elect the president (media) • Congratulations for Kurti and the new government continue (media) • U.S. Ambassador visits LDK offices (media) • Z.K and D.Sh. found guilty of war crimes (media) Serbian Language Media: • Covid-19 in Serbian communities: 67 new cases, three people died (Kontakt plus radio) • Vucic: Pristina brutally violated its own highest legal act (Danas, Beta) • Petkovic: Kurti's demands absurd and undermine Belgrade-Pristina dialogue (TV Most) • Simic: Two ministries belong to the Serbian list according to the law; we will not vote for Kurti's government (Kosovo Online, Radio Mitrovica sever) • Jevtic handovers duty to Rakic today, announces continuation of a joint struggle for betterment of Serbs (TV Most) • Rada Trajkovic to Kurti: Citizens place their hopes in you and your promise of equality for all (Kosovo Online) • Zlatan Krstic sentenced to 14 years in prison, Shabanaj to seven years (Kosovo-online) • Epidemiological situation in Zvecan deteriorates, authorities urge citizens to vaccinate (Kosovo-online) • Miftaraj: The constitution is clear, the Kosovo president is elected first, then the government (KoSSev) • Surlic: Serbs acceptable for Pristina if decision-making does not depend on them (KoSSev) • Krasniqi: The government that consolidated the majority, with the highest number of women, I expect the president to be elected (KoSSev) • Only open debate on Kosovo "allowed" (Danas) • Serbian DefMin concerned over Kosovo participation in NATO exercise (N1, FoNet) • EU top diplomat says debate on Western Balkans at next meeting of EU FMs (N1, Beta) • RFZO: Serbia has 5.800 doses of US new anti-coronavirus drug (N1) • WHO Belgrade representative: Epidemic situation serious, measures to remain until results seen (N1) Opinion • Western Balkans’ Plight is Wake-up Call for Europe (Balkan Insight) International: • Balkan Countries Lacking Vaccines Look to Neighbours for Jabs (Balkan Insight) • Vaccine makers should license technology to overcome 'grotesque' inequity: WHO (Reuters) • Coronavirus digest: EU commissioner says herd immunity by summer is possible (DW) • NATO, US to stage large-scale military exercises around Serbia until summer (euractive.com)

• COVID-19: 827 new cases, 16 deaths (media) • Kosovo elects new Government with Kurti Prime Minister (media) • Congratulations pour in for new Government of Kosovo (media) • Kurti expects to take new post today, calls for swift election of president (Telegrafi) • Hoti to hand over duty to Kurti today (media) • Hoxhaj: We will not send Kurti’s mandate to the Constitutional Court (EO) • Haziri: LDK has not discussed approaching Constitutional Court (T7/Klan) • “Constitution does not oblige PM to offer two ministries to Serb community” (Koha) • Rama does not mediate dialogue, says he defends Kosovo’s interests (RTK) • Zemaj writes to COVAX concerning lack of vaccine rollout in Kosovo (media) • Vulin: Serbia to work incessantly to prevent Kosovo from joining Interpol (media)

Albanian Language Media: • COVID-19: 827 new cases, 16 deaths (media) • Glauk Konjufca elected Kosovo Assembly Speaker (media) • Konjufca requests Vetevendosje's proposal for prime minister (media) • Kurti-led government set to be voted this afternoon (Telegrafi/Koha) • PDK expects swift formation of government, reiterates position against Osmani for president (media) • Turkish community MPs to vote for Kurti-led government (Klan) • Ambassadors congratulate election of Assembly speaker, presidency (media) • Kurti: There can be no monoethnic association in Kosovo (KP) Serbian Language Media: • 19 new cases of Covid-19 registered in Serbian areas on Sunday (KoSSev) • Konjufca elected Assembly Speaker, Serbian List didn’t support his election (Kosovo-online) • Slavko Simic elected vice president of the Assembly (Kosovo Online) • Miletic: New elections do not suit anyone at this moment (RTK2) • Baxhaku: The votes of the Serbian List also needed for the election of the president (RTK2) • Jeremic: Vaccination process in Serbia commendable (Dnevnik) • Serbian Government partially eases anti-coronavirus measures (N1) • Additional 55.990 doses of Pfizer vaccine arrived in Serbia (Tanjug) • Additional 100.000 Sputnik V vaccines arriving in Serbia on Tuesday (N1) Opinion: • Say Her Name (Kosovo 2.0) International: • Kosovo’s new parliament starts, vote on new govt expected (AP) • Coronavirus: EU 'not ready' to share COVID vaccines with poorer countries (DW) Humanitarian/Development: • Vetevendosje's women MPs dress in white, in nod to gender equality (Kallxo) • Kosovo Slow to Build Monuments to its Female Heroes (Balkan Insight)

• COVID-19: 812 new cases, eight deaths (media) • Health-Care Workers From Kosovo Receive COVID-19 Vaccines In Albania (RFE) • Still no vaccines in Kosovo, Zemaj criticizes the EU (euronews.al) • KBA: Around 20,000 Kosovo businesses closed due to COVID-19 (Klan) • Kosovo Assembly to hold constitutive session today (media) • PDK meets ahead of the constitutive session of the Assembly (Klan) • Von Cramon speaks of EU expectations for Osmani and Kurti (RTV Dukagjini) • Association of Serb-majority communities, challenge for incoming government (KP) • Borrell to report on Kosovo-Serbia dialogue (media) • German ambassador to Serbia calls for sustainable Kosovo-Serbia solution (Koha) • LDK elects party leadership, snub Veliu, Rugova (media) • Balje: With Kurti, Kosovo-Albania unification idea being revived (media) • New head of OSCE for Kosovo assumes post (Koha) • Kosovo Court Reopens Sensitive Murder Trial Following BIRN Findings (Balkan Insight) • Arrests Shake Up a Soccer Scene in Serbia Ruled by Gangsters and ‘Gravediggers’ (NYT)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, March 19, 2021 Albanian Language Media: • COVID-19: 828 new cases, eight deaths (media) • Abdixhiku and Shala meet Kurti and Osmani (media) • Vucic publishes the map of Kosovo immersed in Serbian flag, US embassy reacts (euronews.al) • EU comments on Vucic’s photo with the map of Kosovo (Express, media) • Swedish MEP says EU should not threaten Kosovo for its Embassy in Jerusalem (Express) • Majko to Vucic: Serbia should not capitulate in face of its inabilities (RTK) • LDK to elect new chairmanship on Saturday (RTK) • Osmani holds a virtual meeting with USAID Director (media) Serbian Language Media: • 36 new cases of Covid-19 in Serbian areas (KoSSev) • Vucic: We are looking for a compromise, but I am not sure that Albanians are ready (media) • Petkovic: Hysterical assaults by Albanian politicians the only answer to Vucic’s peaceful policy (Kosovo-online) • EU: Serbia and Kosovo to refrain from statements that do not serve normalization of relations (Kosovo Online) • More than two million people in Serbia received first dose of vaccine (Danas) • North Mitrovica Hospital Center sends staff to help the Batajnica Covid hospital (KoSSev) • Office for KiM demands a higher level of security for the religious heritage in Kosovo (Kosovo Online) • Church in Silovo village broken into (RTV Puls, Radio Mitrovica sever, KiM radio) • Protests of a group of people in Gracanica continue over hiring in the Clinical Hospital Center (KiM radio) • Minister tells German Ambassador thousands leaving Serbia every year (N1) • CRTA: Citizens of Serbia moderately interested in politics, mostly in Kosovo (KoSSev, N1) • Croatia establishes contact with Chinese COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers (N1) Opinion: • What are the new Kosovo government biggest priorities? (euractiv.com) • Serbia’s vaccine diplomacy in China’s shadow (Al Jazeera) International: • EU agency: AstraZeneca vaccine safe, will add clot warning (AP) Humanitarian/Development: • Between life and death, artists articulate the pandemic (Kosovo 2.0) • No more! Kosovars hold vigils for latest femicide victim (Prishtina Insight)