UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, June 7, 2023 Albanian Language Media: • Sanctions awaiting Kosovo if Kurti says no (Albanian Post) • Murati: If sanctions were to be discussed, they should be against Serbia (Koha) • Ceku: Kurti will very soon have an answer for all (Koha) • Stoltenberg: Violence is setting back Kosovo and the entire region (Koha) • Haradinaj: We have votes to initiate motion against Kurti government (media) • Abdixhiku to Abbott: Kosovo’s clash with allies, strategic deviation (media) • Selimi: Lajcak, Escobar to report if Kosovo approved de-escalation plan (media) • Peci: See you in isolated and bankrupt Kosovo (media) • Raci: Hard to believe Kurti will be on list with Radoicic, Dodik (media) • Fried: The government of Kosovo abused the trust of the USA (RFE) • Unknown assailants attack two persons in their vehicle in Zvecan (media) • Govt adopts Sovereign Fund bill; Kurti: The core of our economic sovereignty (Telegrafi) • Rasic says not whole state of Serbia should be blamed for war crimes in Kosovo (Koha) • LVV’s Atic meets PDK’s Peci: Northern municipalities will become citizens’ (Telegrafi) • Kosovo, Albania governments to meet on June 14 (media) Serbian Language Media: • Citizens in northern Kosovo continue protesting (Radio KIM) • Lajcak: A long conversation with Vucic, an urgent political solution to the current crisis needed (Radio Mitrovica sever) • Lawyers of two Serbs arrested at Jarinje on May 31 file appeal against detention measure (KoSSev) • North Macedonia FM submits to OSCE plan for normalisation of situation in N. Kosovo (Beta, N1) • Liturgy in Leposavic: Bishop Teodosije called for peace; Gazeta Express: Inspires Serbs to violence (KoSSev) • Dacic: Unity and political stability top state and national interest (Tanjug) • Serb from northern Kosovo in detention in Belgrade, charged with urging Serbs to leave Kosovo (KoSSev) • Petkovic meets Gori, discusses situation in northern Kosovo (Kosovo Online) International: • Kosovo president open to new elections in Serb-majority municipalities (Reuters) • Kosovo Eyes Consequences as Deadline for US, EU Demands Approaches (BIRN) • US, EU considering sanctions against Kurti if situation in north escalates (Euronews.al) • Behind the Renewed Troubles in Northern Kosovo (Crisisgroup.org)

Albanian Language Media: • Osmani meets Escobar and Lajcak (media) • Krasniqi: I’ve never seen such concern among internationals (Telegrafi) • Abdixiku: Kurti to reflect, Kosovo at a critical moment (Koha) • Escobar: U.S. is waiting for Kosovo to present draft on Association (media) • OSCE Head of Mission: Strong support for EU call (media) • Gervalla: Elections in north should be held, but preliminary actions are required (Koha) • Svecla: Person who threatened Leposavic deputy mayor, arrested (Koha) • Isufaj confirms investigations about tensions in the north (Nacionale) • Haradinaj: Kurti is in love with the plan for Kosovo’s partition (Telegrafi) • Hoti: Kosovo losing friends and allies because of Kurti and Osmani (media) • Gashi: Opposition leaders concerned that internationals are concerned that Serbia is concerned (Nacionale) • Sheholli: Albanians over 30 in Medvedja getting military service summons (Demokracia) • The CEC says it is ready for new elections in the north (Koha) • Hoxha: Advertisement for police officers in north closed, sufficient number applied (Kosovapress) Serbian Language Media: • Lajcak and Escobar met Serbian List representatives (Kosovo Online) • Andric Rakic about the meeting with Lajcak and Escobar (KiM radio) • Crisis in northern Kosovo day 12, citizens continue protesting, envoys to meet Vucic (KoSSev) • Drecun: Escobar and Lajcak have a wrong view of the situation in the north of Kosovo (NMagazin, Danas, RTS, N1) • Davenport meets Lajcak, emphasises importance of all communities participation in elections and institutions (KoSSev) • DefMin: Serbian military still on high alert (N1) • The EU Council extend the EULEX mandate until 2025 (RTS) International: • Why is there trouble in Kosovo again? (The Economist) • Serbia backs ammunition shipments to Ukraine in westward pivot (Financial Times) • Richard Grenell: If Kurti’s mayors are duly elected then why is the EU calling for new elections? (The Pavlovic Today) • Joseph: Failure of the Serbia-Kosovo agreement would be a failure of Brussels and Washington (EWB) Humanitarian/Development: • Kosovar Artist’s Work in Amsterdam Art Week (Prishtina Insight) • CAN Europe: Western Balkans took little to no action in preparing NECPs (balkangreenenergynews.com)

Albanian Language Media: • Kurti to meet Escobar and Lajcak in the evening (Koha) • Kurti: Law enforcement in north is necessary to remove criminal elements (Koha) • Kusari-Lila: Police in the north when there is threat and danger to security (Reporteri) • Tahiri: Kurti reduced sovereignty to yards of four municipalities (Telegrafi/Kallxo) • “Vucic cannot condition Kosovo; elections in north were Kurti’s experiment” (Koha) • Stano: EU ready to organise Kurti-Vucic meeting when conditions allow (media) • KFOR removes some barbwires in Zvecan (RFE) • The Kosovo Police attacked in Zvecan (Koha) • Mustafa: Association cannot be formed in these conditions (media) • Tahiri accuses govt: KFOR getting stronger in north, sovereignty getting weaker (Koha) • Around 20 media have been attacked during tensions in the North (Albanian Post) Serbian Language Media: • Petkovic: Kurti arrests innocent Serbs, we demand the immediate release of Rados and Dusan (Kosovo Online) • POKS request from Serbian Government protection for arrested Serbs in northern Kosovo (Novi Magazin, KoSSev, Kosovo Online) • Reactivation of the Serbian National Council of Kosovo and Metohija in Gracanica (KiM radio, KoSSev, Danas) • Radio KIM on inaccurate reporting during crisis in northern Kosovo • KFOR removed barbed wire in Zvecan (Kosovo Online) • Simic on the RFE article: Fake news that Serbian List has two conditions for participating in the elections (Kosovo Online, Tanjug, RTV, FB) • Kosovo police entered street where people gather in Zvecan (Tanjug) • Jevtic: Desecrated "Becir's Church" on the way to the Brezovica Ski Center (Kosovo Online) • Vucic meets Beyer, tells him Kurti persistently avoids fulfilling Brussels agreement obligations (Kosovo Online, media) • Vucic to meet Escobar and Lajcak tomorrow (Kosovo Online) Humanitarian/Development: • The Pride Week in Kosovo opens today (Paparaci)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, June 2, 2023 Albanian Language Media: • Kosovo Assembly discusses situation in north (media) • Osmani met British Foreign Minister Rishi Sunak (media) • Lajcak and Escobar next week in Kosovo (media) • Osmani describes meeting with Vucic: He was whining, complaining, and lying... (Koha) • Gervalla: We showed we are open to early elections in the north (Nacionale) • Bujar Osmani: As OSCE chairman, I join the call for new elections in the north (Reporteri) • Von Cramon demands investigations of those who attacked NATO soldiers (RTK) • Svecla visits police in north of Kosovo: Sovereignty is unalienable (media) • Mayors resign in July, Osmani declares elections which are held in late August – this is the international plan to calm the north (Albanian Post) • Hoxhaj: Serbia policy on Kosovo doesn’t have to do with people but territory (media) • Events in the north, Gabriel Escobar’s post under question (Albanian Post) • Kimberly West selected Specialist Prosecutor (media) Serbian Language Media: • Hospital director: Condition of Dragisa Galjak still serious (Kosovo Online) • Petkovic: “Hunting lists for Serbs reveal fascist character of Kosovo government” (N1, BETA) • Professors entered secondary school to get documentation in Zvecan, request school to be freed (KoSSev) • Rajovic: Kosovo police does not allow Trepca miners to do their job (Radio KIM, N1, BETA) • Drecun: Serbs in north Kosovo to keep protesting until situation is resolved (Tanjug) • Daniel Fried to VoA: Kosovo government caused crisis, Washington is furious (N1, Danas) • Senator Murphy: "If PR wants to argue, Congress should make a decision on whether we're ready for this ride"; Kurti again about elections (KoSSev, RFE, media) • Peci on crisis in northern Kosovo, possible resignation of new mayors (KoSSev) • KiM radio: Petrovic and Obrenovic were detained before the start of the riots in Zvecan (gracanicaonline.info, media) • Lawyer: Condition of Dusan Obrenovic more stable, but I am still concerned about his safety (Tanjug) • Strpce and Gracanica sent messages of support to Serbs from the north of Kosovo (Kosovo Online, KiM radio) Opinion: • Janjic: New Kosovo elections to calm the situation, send Kurti into opposition (Beta, N1) International: • Kosovo Leaders Agree to New Elections in Restive North (BIRN) • Democracy Digest: Hungary troops attacked in Kosovo (BIRN) Humanitarian/Development: • Plenty of Work Ahead to Improve Children’s Well-being in Kosovo (Prishtina Insight)

Albanian Language Media: • Blinken urges 'immediate de-escalation' in the north (Koha) • Osmani: Allies need to help us stop Serbia’s destabilising actions (Koha) • Kurti: The mayors in the north should be in the municipal buildings (Koha) • Osmani meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (media) • Borrell: Violence is not the right way, it must be punished (media) • Kovacevski: Peace in Kosovo means peace in the Western Balkans (Klan) • Kosovo Police: Calls for protest in Mitrovica South, ill-intended and suspicious (media) • Police investigating announced protest; suspected to be initiated from abroad (Kallxo) • Svecla: Calls for protest in Mitrovica South do not help Kosovo (media) • Musliu on calls to protest: They are suspicious and ill-intended (Indeksonline/KSP) • Albanian protesters leave: Did not even know who called the protest (Nacionale) • Kosovo’s special prosecution investigating two Serbs for terrorism (Kallxo) • Abdixhiku: Coordination is needed with international allies (Kosovapress) • VV MP on Haradinaj’s motion: Ridiculous and paradoxical, you lack votes (Gazeta Blic) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic: I asked north Kosovo Serbs to persevere in peaceful manner (Tanjug, media) • Osmani: Serbia has no place among European nations (Danas) • Goran Rakic thanked KFOR; the existence of the miners of the "Crnac" mine is threatened (Tanjug) • Former president of Zvecan Municipality: If ZSO had come to life, we would not have come to this situation (RTS, Tanjug) • Todic: We expect the international community to reason with Kurti (Kosovo Online) • The court in Pristina ordered the detention of two Serbs arrested in Zvecan, condemnation from Belgrade (Beta, NMagazin) • Atiq requested membership in the Association of Municipalities of Kosovo (Radio Mitrovica sever, KiM radio, KoSSev) • Andric Rakic: Kurti leads politics to the last NATO soldier (Beta, KoSSev) • Ristuccia: Kurti brought the mayors despite the doubts of the international community (Radio Mitrovica sever) • The former Minister of Agriculture of Kosovo, Nenad Rikalo, sentenced to three years in prison (NMagazin, Beta) • Mitrovica: Protest over, one incident recorded (KiM radio) International: • Kosovo president calls on Serbia to stop destabilising country (Reuters) • NATO chief says alliance 'does not give up' on political solution to Kosovo clashes (AA) • EU Leaders To Discuss North Kosovo As Crisis Persists (RFE) • Kosovo Counts Cost of Delays to Integrated Health Database (BIRN)