UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, November 6, 2023 Albanian Language Media: • President Osmani travelled for an official visit to Singapore (Reporteri) • Lajcak today in Kosovo for meetings with Kurti and opposition (RFE) • LDK MP expects Lajcak to present Association draft to opposition leaders (Express) • Kurti to participate at Paris Summit on Friday (Reporteri) • Serwer: Vucic’s ambitions are biggest threat to the region (media) • Maqedonci promises increased cooperation with Turkish drone company (media) • Survivor of sexual violence in war confesses, wants justice (RTK) Serbian Language Media: • Brnabic meets Xi Jinping in Beijing (RTS) • Petkovic: Pristina refused invitation for dialogue that was supposed to happen on November 7 (Tanjug, RTV) • Civic Initiative Serbian Survival to become political party (Radio KIM) • Petkovic sends request to OSCE in relation to upcoming parliamentary elections (Radio KIM, Tanjug) • SMS message to MTS d.o.o. numbers for switching to “RKS” plates; more than 470 vehicles re-registered since the deadline extension (KoSSev) • Specialist Court extends detention of Isni Kilaj (Kosovo Online) • Poll shows Kosovo Serbs fear Serbian List, don’t trust Pristina (N1, NMagazin, Beta) Opinion: • Ben-Meir: EU’s Serbia-Kosovo mediation has hit a brick wall (Weekly Blitz) • Zoric: Peace has no alternative (KiM radio, Slobodno Srpski) International: • Media in Kosovo, Serbia, Focus too Much on Conflict – Report (Prishtina Insight) • US Blacklists Former Kosovo Procurement Official for Corruption (BIRN) • Kosovo University Offers First Master’s Course in Transitional Justice (BIRN)

Albanian Language Media: • Kurti: Draft statute for Association cuts off legacy of Kosovo’s non-recognition (RFE) • Gervalla: We expect Serbia to declare itself about Serbia (Deutsche Welle) • Special Intervention Unit to protest again on November 7 (Kallxo) • EULEX arrests Kilaj; Kastrati: Special Court should stop persecuting liberators (KSP) • Attackers of reporters in the north did not face justice (RFE) • U.S. sanction former procurement director at Ministry of Trade, Nexhat Krasniqi (media) Serbian Language Media: • The safety of journalists: Reporting during crisis situations a serious risk (Radio Mitrovica sever, KiM radio, Kontakt plus radio, KoSSev) • Rasic on the strategy for the protection of community interests: A long process, but the most important project (KiM radio) • UNDP analysis: Basic expenditures in Kosovo have been growing for three years in a row (KoSSev) • Vucic denies claims he will recognize Kosovo, silent on signing of Ohrid agreement (Beta, N1) • Trajkovic: Vucic's policy towards Kosovo will be crowned with high betrayal of national interests (KiM radio, Beta, N1, NMagazin) • Stojanovic and Bisevac gifted Gracanica municipality with “the construction tape for suspension of illegal construction” (KiM radio, Medija Centar Caglavica, KoSSev) • Abbot Sava with Bakojani on the challenges of the Serbs and the SPC in Kosovo (Kosovo Online) International: • 'Let's Just Be Albanians': A New Movement In Kosovo Calls On Muslims To Abandon Islam (RFE) • Miners at Kosovo’s Trepca Giant End Strike (Balkan Insight) • Teachers, Parents Must Adapt to Address Peer Violence in Balkans (Balkan Insight)

Albanian Language Media: • Kurti: In order to preserve community, discrimination must be fought (media) • President Osmani meets Dora Bakojanis (RTK) • EU: We will soon invite Bislimi and Petkovic to Brussels (Reporteri) • Kryeziu: Discussions can only continue where they left off on October 26 (RTK) • Rama announces "supportive visit" to Kosovo after acceptance of EU plan (media) • Krasniqi: Government MPs with monthly income close to €2000, voted against miners and policemen (media) • Queue in front of vehicle registration centre in the north of Kosovo (RFE) • SPO raids house of Isni Kilaj (media) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic informed Bocan-Kharchenko about the difficult situation in Kosovo (RTS, Tanjug) • Vucic: I will never sign the independence of Kosovo (Kosovo Online) • Nova.rs: Kurti accepted the CSM, Vucic agreed to the agreement, asking to sign it after the elections (N1) • Unclear when the population census will be held in Kosovo (KiM radio, Radio Gorazdevac) • The house of the Dukic family from Suvi Do near Lipljan robbed (Kosovo Online) Opinion: • Hasani: Unveiling the Parallel: Serbia’s Failed Attempt to Imitate Russia’s Strategy with Neighbours (Prishtina Insight) International: • Why Ursula von der Leyen needs the Balkans to believe in EU membership (Financial Times)

Albanian Language Media: • Government: Published document doesn’t correspond with EU-U.S. proposal (media) • Kurti: A Republic of all, not only of the majority (Kosovapress) • Special Intervention Unit protests: Don’t play with our dignity (Koha) • SPO raids house of former advisor to Thaci (media) • 63 attacks and threats against reporters and media reported in 10 months (Klan Kosova) • KPC again sends proposal for Isufaj as state chief prosecutor to Osmani (media) • Von Cramon: We need democratic Serbia, not further appeasement of Vucic (media) • Forensic teams, international missions at site of damaging of Orthodox graves (Kallxo) • Police stops a Serb, find emblems of Serbian army, baseball bat in the car (Klan) Serbian Language Media: • President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic announced parliamentary elections on December 17 (media) • Serbian National Assembly President announced local elections in Serbia on December 17 (media) • Surlic: European officials use the term "de facto recognition" to please Pristina, constructive ambiguity about the CSM (ZSO) (RTS) • Pristina forensics opens an investigation at the dug-out cemetery in N. Mitrovica, numerous international organizations also at the scene (KoSSev) • Office for KiM: School in Kamenica stoned (KiM radio) • Ambassador says US not neutral on Kosovo (N1) • Research: More than a third of Serbian citizens see the USA as an enemy (N1, FoNet, Beta, NMagazin) • Neue Zurcher Zeitung: Vucic wants to control public opinion (N1) • Borrell: Well-managed accession process will also strengthen EU (N1) International: • Trepca Miners in Mitrovica Demand Improved Working Conditions (BIRN) • Serbia Schedules Early Elections for December 17 (Balkan Insight)

Albanian Language Media: • An Explanatory Note on the Kosovo-Serbia agreement (Albanian Post) • SPO raids apartment of Thaci’s former advisor, Artan Behrami (Koha) • Palokaj: No sign that measures against Kosovo will be lifted (KTV) • Rasic comments on decision for free registration of vehicles into RKS plates (media) • Haradinaj: NATO membership guarantees more security and peace in the region (media) • “I will get the Kosovo passport as soon as possible” (RFE) Serbian Language Media: • Hill: The proposals "on the table" for some time, Belgrade and Pristina should reach an agreement as soon as possible (Tanjug) • Clinical Hospital Center Kosovska Mitrovica: The hospital pharmacy almost empty, patients sent to central Serbia (Beta, NMagazin, Politika, N1) • Issuance of documents overshadowed by high-level politics (KoSSev) • Brnabic on elections: If we lose, we will be a responsible opposition (N1, Beta) • International law professor Milanovic: We don't know what exactly it means when they ask for de facto recognition (NMagazin, Beta) • Momcilo Trajkovic: The Serbian List does not have the support of the people (KIM radio) Opinion: • Glenny: Same problems 20 years later (N1) International: • Leaked – Serbia signs lithium exploitation agreement with European Commission (balkangreenenergynews.com)