UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, April 11, 2023 Albanian Language Media: • EU: All points of Agreement must be implemented without distinction (media) • Osmani disappointed that mutual recognition is not explicitly included in EU proposal (media) • Kurti confirms purchase of British comedian's villa to convert it into an Embassy (media) • Ceku reacts after Serbia wrote to UEFA: Kosovo will not tolerate any illegal activity (Koha) • CEC: Preparations for the elections in the north ongoing (media) • Lawyer: Special Court should have respected official holiday in Kosovo (Indeksonline) • LDK: This government is incompetent, it is costing Kosovo dearly (Reporteri) • Should the Kurti-Vucic agreement be registered at the UN? (Nacionale) Serbian Language Media: • New meeting of Vucic and Serb political representatives from Kosovo this Thursday (BETA, N1, Prva TV) • Serb wounded near Bistrica bridge in Zvecan municipality (KoSSev, Radio KIM, Kosovo Online) • SRSG Ziadeh meets President Vucic (Radio KIM, media, social media) • Dacic, Branbic voice concern over incidents, security in Kosovo (N1, BETA) • Serbian Football Association writes to UEFA over situation in Kosovo (Tanjug) • Serbian Parliament Committee for Kosovo meets behind closed doors (media) • Dacic: Sanctions on Russia would not change its stance on Kosovo, but our relations would change (Prva TV, Tanjug) Opinion: • Milicevic: People in northern Kosovo afraid of what new day will bring (Radio KIM)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, April 7, 2023 Albanian Language Media: • QUINT expresses to Kurti full commitment to "unconditional" implementation of the agreement (Koha) • Osmani answers to PCK about nomination of chief prosecutor, accuses of illegal pressure (Koha) • Gervalla: I expect that Greece will soon move towards recognition (media) • Jablanovic on elections in the north: Serbian List silence scares me a lot (media) • The "head of the Association" - Vucic's politician who demanded Kurti's sanctioning (Albanian Post) • Kosovo ex-guerrilla ordered to pay war victims €207,000 (Prishtina Insight) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic after meeting with representatives of Serbs from KiM: Joint platform in seven days (N1) • Vucic: Kosovo will be in Serbia during my term, ask someone else after that (Tanjug, RTS, media) • The final list of voters for the local elections in the north of Kosovo established (Beta, NMagazin, RTS) • Oathkeepers leader schedules emergency meeting of Committee on KiM (Beta, N1) • Four opposition parties demand from Serbian public broadcaster to read out European plan publicly (Radio KIM) • Vucic: Serbia to boost presence in Africa (Tanjug) • Apostolic Nuncio Gangemi: Holy See remains principled in its stance on Kosovo (RTS, Kosovo Online) • Ahmetaj: Families of missing persons should be guaranteed right to know through all domestic and international legal remedies (KoSSev) • Albanian PM: Serbia slowly surrendering to reality (FoNet, N1) International: • Serbia urged to uphold freedom of expression while also countering hate speech (news.un.org)

Albanian Language Media: • Kurti: The term of the April 4 agreement is "violently disappeared victims" (media) • Bislimi: There are five criteria on which to see how suitable the Association is (Klan) • Kurti: We are getting ready for the elections in the north (media) • The Serbian List returns to the Assembly (Koha) • Kurti about two years in government: There is a long list of quality changes (media) • Hoti: The government intends to put independent institutions under control (media) • Krasniqi to Kurti: Kosovo is being emptied, our country is being depopulated (media) • The Special Court recommends to Kosovo to create mechanism for compensating victims (media) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic meets with US Senator Daines (Tanjug) • Petkovic: Bislimi's pure lie about the five criteria for CSM (ZSO) (Twitter, Kosovo Online) • Stano confirmed Missing Persons Declaration agreed (N1) • Petkovic: The term 'forcibly disappeared' in the declaration on the missing is not a legal category (NMagazin, Beta) • UN Security Council to discuss new report on UNMIK on April 27 (Tanjug) • Vucic: I pointed out to bin Zayed what Belgrade can accept in dialogue with Pristina (Tanjug) • Dacic: Kyrgyzstan will not change its position on non-recognition of Kosovo (FoNet, N1) • Democracy in Action: Current circumstances do not allow holding free elections in the north of Kosovo (Beta, KiM radio) • Changes in the top of the regional police in the north of Kosovo (RTS, Blic, KiM radio) • Nova.rs: Vucic preparing a document on Kosovo for the Parliament (Danas) • Vucic tomorrow with the political representatives of Serbs from Kosovo (Kosovo Online) • Serbian List MPs show up in Kosovo Parliament after five months (Beta, N1, KoSSev) International: • Trial Panel I Orders Salih Mustafa to Pay €207,000 in Reparations to Victims (scp-ks.org)

Albanian Language Media: • Borrell: Agreement on the missing, the first step in fulfilling the commitments (media) • Lajcak and Chollet: Urgent implementation of agreements reached, necessary (RTK) • KIA: exercises for destabilisation of north are being conducted in Raska (media) • ‘I Expect Acquittal’: Thaçi Launches War Crimes Defence (Prishtina Insight) • Finnish ambassador: We support Kosovo in its membership in EU, CIS and NATO (media) • Hoxhaj: incidents in the north, Serbia's message of obstructing the agreement (Reporteri) • Tahiri: Kurti government violated Kosovo's sovereignty by talking with Serbia about Association (media) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic meets with French Senate delegation (Tanjug, media) • Sarazzin met Brnabic: Implementation of what was agreed in the dialogue is crucial (Beta, N1) • Sarrazin: Association of Serb majority communities accepted in Pristina (KoSSev, N1) • James Rubin: It is a time of great hope in the Balkans (N1) • NATO: Stoltenberg in regular contact with Vucic (FoNet, N1) • Milatovic: Not realistic for Montenegro to withdraw the recognition of Kosovo, and it is a matter that is very clear (KoSSev, nova.rs) • Petkovic: Concrete steps to Community discussed for first time (Tanjug) • People’s Party officials Jovanovic and Aleksic on initiating referendum on French-German agreement (KiM radio, Beta, Nova S) International: • Serbia, Kosovo Discuss Establishing Serb Municipalities Body (BIRN) • War Crime Allegations ‘Absurd’, Kosovo Ex-Guerrilla Tells Court (BIRN)

Albanian Language Media: • Kurti met with emissaries of Germany and Austria for the Western Balkans (RTK) • Chief negotiators in Brussels: Lajcak first meets Bislimi then Petkovic (Klan) • Varheleyi meets Bislimi prior to the meeting in Brussels (Reporteri) • Kurti meets Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates (ekonomiaonline) • Two years as President, Osmani: My guide remains the citizen’s and the Republic’s interest (media) • Haradinaj: Kosovo has its place in NATO, next to its friends (media) Serbian Language Media: • Dacic: Pristina will do all to obstruct formation of CSM (BETA, Blic, N1) • Petkovic meets with Lajcak in Brussels (Tanjug) • Lawyer: M.B. from Zubin Potok sent to one month detention (KoSSev, Radio KIM, RTS) • Vucic: The pressure will continue, but Serbia knows how to fight (Politika, Tanjug) • Brnabic meets with Atlantic Council delegation (Tanjug) • Leader of the CI "For Zubin Potok'' on the current crisis in Kosovo (Danas) • Mladenovic: Complain or interrupt the conference when there is no translation (KoSSev, Kontakt plus radio, UNS) • Representatives of the Serbian List with special representatives for the Western Balkans, Sarazzin and Aigner (Radio Mitrovica sever, FB) International: • Thaci's Lawyers Say He Didn't Hold Command Power As Guerrilla Leader During Kosovo War (RFE) • Trial of former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci gets underway in The Hague (euronews) • Serbia/Kosovo: Start of ex-Kosovo president’s trial for war crimes “an important step along the long road to justice” (amnesty.org)