• COVID-19: 529 new cases, eight deaths (media) • New anti COVID measures may be extended after April 18 (Koha) • Over 80,000 new jobseekers since the beginning of pandemic (Kallxo) • Reporters want to have priority in COVID-19 vaccination (Radio Free Europe) • Latifi: Government decision for additional restrictions, hasty (Kallxo) • Stano: We expect dialogue to begin upon institutional consolidation (Telegrafi) • Document for confiscation of unlawfully acquired wealth finalised (media) • AAK leader Haradinaj accuses LVV MP Zyba of 'vote buying' (Telegrafi) • Qazim Rrahmani resigns post of deputy minister (media) • Media representatives urged to stop hate speech (media) • Two Kosovo Albanians identified from wartime mass grave in Serbia (BIRN)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, April 6, 2021 Albanian Language Media: • COVID-19: 489 new cases, eight deaths (media) • Osmani officially takes post of Kosovo president (media) • Hoxhaj refuses participation in Osmani's inauguration ceremony (media) • Reshitaj says she is still part of AAK despite attending presidential vote (media) • Former PDK MP Grainca explains why she chose to join LVV (media) • Osmani and Vitia visit vaccination centre in Pristina (media) • Vitia addresses reports of increased police presence around hospitals (Telegrafi) • Updated coronavirus measures angers restaurant owners (Prishtina Insight) Serbian Language Media: Covid-19 in Serbian communities: 40 new cases (media) Vucic: Statements from Kosovo authorities are not encouraging (KoSSev) Djilas: 20 years of attempts to resolve the Kosovo issue by putting pressure on Serbia to recognize it, and nothing was done (KoSSev) A Serb from Strpce stopped today at Breznica crossing, interrogated by BIA? (KoSSev) Rasic: New political energy in Kosovo (KiM radio) Professor Celic on election of Vjosa Osmani: three main players more extreme than KLA (Sputnik) Spahiu: Reconstruction of the road Jarinje-Mitrovica is more than needed (Radio Mitrovica sever, Kosovo Online) Gerxhaliu: Chambers of Commerce of Kosovo and Serbia are cooperating behind the eyes of the public (KiM radio, Slobodno Srpski) International: • Serbia’s leader chooses Chinese-made vaccine for own shot (AP) • Victims Discouraged by ‘Lenient’ Sentences for Sex Crimes in Serbia (Balkan Insight) Humanitarian/Development: • In Kosovo, System ‘Failing to Protect’ Domestic Abuse Victims (Balkan Insight)

• COVID-19: 512 new cases, 11 deaths (media) • Kosovo introduces tougher measures in face of growing COVID-19 cases (media) • Kurti: Kosovo is skeptical to vaccines from non-recognising countries (media) • Plan to vaccinate Kosovo teachers in Albania postponed (media) • Zemaj: Lockdown decision without strategy will worsen situation (media) • Vjosa Osmani elected President of Kosovo (media) • Osmani receives congratulations on her election (media/social media) • PDK: President of Kosovo emerged from dirty deals (media) • Abdixhiku: LDK to continue acting as opposition, congratulations to Vjosa (media) • AAK: Osmani is Kurti's president, Kosovo turns into monism (media) • Pacolli: Happy to have contributed to president's election (media) • President Osmani takes over her duty today (media) • Kurti: Human remains recovered in Kizevak belong to Kosovo war victims (Koha) • Donika Gervalla will lead the "Guxo" initiative? (media) • Politics Still Sways Public Sector Hiring in Kosovo (Balkan Insight)

Albanian Language Media: • COVID-19: 793 new cases, 10 deaths (media) • Vitia warns on new anti-Covid-19 measures (media) • LVV collects signatures, extraordinary session for voting the President, today (Express) • Confirmed by government: quorum for the election of President, secured (media) • Kosovo Assembly establishes 14 committees (Express) • Kurti: Government work plan to be drafted after election of president (media) • Konjufca receives congratulatory letter from Montenegrin Parliament Speaker (RTK) • Nasuf Bejta to be Vjosa Osmani’s counter-candidate? (Front Online, media) • Hoti, Veliu and Selmanaj will not participate in Osmani's vote for president (Reporteri, media) Serbian Language Media: • Covid-19 in Serbian communities: 22 new cases, one death (media) • NATO: The decision to set up a KSF base in Crnusa has been taken by the Kosovan authorities (KoSSev) • Boemi, Sputnik, and Raska (KoSSev) • Gazmen Salijevic appointed Deputy Minister for Communities and Returns (KiM radio) • Organized crime and corruption a major problem in Kosovo (Sporazoom, KiM radio, RTV Puls) • The Economist: Serbia leads in vaccination; Vucic’s strategy pays off (N1) • Request for dismissal of indictment against Silvana Arsovic rejected (KiM radio) Opinion: • West’s Tension With China Presents Balkans With Tough Choices (Balkan Insight) Humanitarian/Development: • Skopje: Serbia donates 40,000 vaccines to North Macedonia (Beta, N1) • North Macedonia President Pendarovski orders military deployed on borders (Beta, N1)

• COVID-19: 1,020 new cases, 13 deaths (media) • Vetevendosje has not yet secured votes for Osmani's election (Koha/Telegrafi) • Kosovo Assembly to hold session today (media) • Haziri: LDK MPs free to express their will (T7/Telegrafi) • Haradinaj: I fear times when Osmani would have to make quick decisions (T7/Telegrafi) • Kurti asked to keep his word regarding missing persons (Koha) • Konjufca: Serbia committing multiple crimes for hiding whereabouts of missing persons (Koha) • Kurti continues cabinet appointments (media) • Dugolli leaves deputy minister post for that of MP (media) • Kosovo does not permit construction of road in the north (Klan) • Collaku: Thaci indicted on plan devised by Serbia and Russia (Klan)

Albanian Language Media: • COVID-19: 975 new cases, 12 deaths (media) • Krasniqi: Strained situation with COVID-19, 80% of patients on oxygen therapy (RFE) • Health Minister Vitia meets U.S. Ambassador Kosnett (media) • Rama: Albania to vaccinate Kosovo's teachers (Telegrafi) • Macron congratulates Kurti, offers full support for Kosovo-Serbia agreement (media) • Kurti: Many crimes committed in Kosovo and no justice delivered (media) • Orlando: Parties to be constructive in president's election process (Koha) • Defence Minister Mehaj meets KFOR Commander Federici (media) • On anniversary of SAA, Austrian MEP calls for visa liberalisation for Kosovo (media) Serbian Language Media: • 45 new Covid-19 cases in Serbian communities, one death (Kontakt plus radio) • CNN on Serbia’s ''impressive'' success in immunization: Setting the pace in Europe (KoSSev, FoNet, N1) • EU: Serbia must work on reforms to speed up accession negotiations (FoNet, N1) • Vucic about the Crnusa base: If there would be any danger…Serbs from Kosovo know all (KoSSev) • Participant of the campaign for the boycott of Serbian elections claims his vote was falsified in Kosovo (RFE) Opinion: • Serbia’s Vaccine Diplomacy isn’t as Benign as it Looks (Balkan Insight) International: • Will Kurti bring changes in the fight against corruption in Kosovo? (EWB) • US Concerned About Continuing Rights Violations in South-East Europe (Balkan Insight) • EU solidarity with the Western Balkans during the times of COVID (opendemocracy.net) Humanitarian/Development: • Three Kosovo children arrive for medical treatment in Israel (media) • UNMIK helping the most vulnerable in Zubin Potok (Kontakt plus radio) • Rakic, Popovic and representatives of international organizations visited the beneficiaries of the reintegration program (Kosovo Online) • Climate change top challenge over the next decade, UNESCO global survey finds (news.un.org)

• COVID-19: 948 new cases, 14 deaths (media) • Sources: President election session to take place on Friday (media) • Hoxhaj: PDK has not changed position on Osmani's candidacy (media) • LVV, PDK appoint heads of parliamentary groups (media) • Government to discuss confiscation of unlawfully acquired assets (media) • Haxhiu vows to begin work on judicial vetting process (media) • Varhelyi hopes dialogue will be priority of new government of Kosovo (RTK) • Serb accused of 1999 massacre of 130 men arrested in Kosovo (AP/BIRN) • Kosovo Village Remembers 106 Civilians Killed in 1999 War (Balkan Insight) • New Government working without programme (Koha) • Ministry of Agriculture suspends five employees for abuse of power (media) • Spain beats Kosovo, national broadcaster downgrades visitors (AP)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, March 31, 2021 Albanian Language Media: • COVID-19: 923 new cases, 14 deaths (media) • Donika Gervalla: We are not an experiment, we are a sovereign state (Prishtina Insight) • Rohde, Von Cramon: MPs should follow LDK’s example (media) • Krasniqi: Decision not to vote Vjosa Osmani is final (RTK) • Haradinaj: We have not changed our position, we do not support Osmani (media) • Konjufca: Serbia has not detached from Milosevic’s policy (media) • Blinken to Vucic: US goal is to see Kosovo, Serbia reach an agreement centered on mutual recognition (Express) • Kosovo economy to expand by 4% in 2021, according to World Bank report (Express) • Man arrested over 1999 Kosovo Massacre (Express) • EU expects Kurti government to be fully committed to dialogue (RFE Albanian, media) Serbian Language Media: • 26 new cases of Covid-19 registered in Serbian areas in Kosovo (Kosovo-online) • Office for KiM: Arrest of Mila Andjelkovic yet another brutal example of returnees’ intimidation (Kosovo-online) • EU and US join forces in support of WB to prevent Russia and China influence (N1) • US State Department: Human rights violations, corruption cases in Serbia in 2020 (N1) • More frequent provocations of group of Albanian youngsters in front of school in Ugljare (Kosovo-online) • Vucic: Reconstruction of Jarinje-Mitrovica North motorway to start in a month (KoSSev) Humanitarian/Development: • WHO report: Coronavirus likely came from animal, not a lab (CNN, N1)

• COVID-19: 811 new cases, 14 deaths (media) • Zemaj says Kosovo has secured 100,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine (media) • Humolli from WHO: Covid measures need to be toughened (RTV21/Telegrafi) • Kosovo FM Gervalla: Embassy in Jerusalem is a done deal (media) • State Department: Many corrupt officials continue to hold public posts (media) • PM Kurti meets British ambassador Abbott (media) • Abdixhiku: LDK with 12% could not condition a party with 50% of votes (Telegrafi) • Opposition Party Clears Path to Parliament Vote on Kosovo President (Balkan Insight) • PDK's Deliu-Kodra slamms FM Gervalla for agreement with Serbia remarks (media) • Haxhiu: Serious action needed to fight organised crime and corruption (Klan) • U.S. Embassy opposes holding government meetings outside of Kosovo (media)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, March 30, 2021 Albanian Language Media: • COVID-19: 752 new cases, 14 deaths (media) • UNICEF: 76,800 doses of Covid vaccine expected by May (media) • PM Kurti meets representatives of UN agencies in Kosovo (media) • Abdixhiku: LDK will take part in president’s election session (media) • Assembly presidency discusses division of parliamentary committees (media) • CEC replaces 13 MPs with new ones (media) Serbian Language Media: • 59 new cases of Covid-19 registered in Serbian areas in Kosovo (KoSSev) • Vucic: Vaccination of people from region – signal we can move ahead together (RTS) • Von der Leyen promises 650,000 Covid-19 vaccines for Western Balkan countries (N1) • Gerxhaliu: Excavation of mortal remains on three locations in Kosovo (Kosovo-online) • Rakic: Houses for two families in Klokot municipality to be constructed soon (Radio kontakt plus) International: • Albania, Greece, Romania, Serbia Join Global Pandemic Treaty Call (Balkan Insight) • EU move on vaccine exports puts Serbia’s leader on edge (The Financial Times) • World leaders back treaty to prepare for next pandemic (DW) Humanitarian/Development: • ‘Nothing Like Home’ exhibition showcases Kosovo’s young artists (Prishtina Insight) • Greece accepts all vaccines for Serbia’s tourists as of May 14 (N1)