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UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, March 15, 2023

Albanian Language Media: • Hovenier on European plan: There is no better agreement (RFE) • Exclusive: Critical notes from the Agreement (Albanian Post) • EU: Kurti-Vucic confirmed participation, meetings in Ohrid start at 10:00 (Kallxo) • Kurti: EU plan must contain concrete details and be comprehensive (Nacionale) • Kurti seeks support for EU integration in Strasbourg (media) • Krasniqi meets head of UNMIK, expresses his reservations about EU proposal (media) • Kurti meets head of LIBE Committee, he assures him of visa-free movement from 2024 (media) • PDK and LDK ask Kurti for more details about European plan (Kosovapress) Serbian Language Media: • Starovic: Important that Belgrade is not recognized as the culprit in the event of the failure of the agreement on Kosovo (Danas, RTS) • Obradovic: There is a potential for a general rebellion against the government (KiM radio, RTV, Beta) • NGO: On the horizon are the first signs of declining support for the Serbian List (Danas, Beta, RFE) • The court in Pristina extended the custody of Sladjan Trajkovic for another two months (Kosovo Online) • Political graffiti war continues in Belgrade (N1, FoNet) • Dacic with the CoE Commissioner for Human Rights: Recognized limitations for the sustainable return of Serbs to Kosovo (Kosovo Online) International: • Remembering the First Days of Pandemic (Prishtina Insight) • Bread for Drenica: When Kosovo Women Marched to Break a Serbian Siege (BIRN)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, March 14, 2023

Albanian Language Media: • Osmani on European modalities for minorities: Kosovo has the best (Koha) • Kurti: The implementation plan should probably not be discussed only in Ohrid (Koha) • Germany expects agreement in Ohrid on implementation of European proposal (RFE) • Von der Leyen: Kosovo, Serbia to use momentum and accept EU plan (Koha) • Caplan: Kosovo refusing Association would give arguments to Serbia (Albanian Post) • Another two months of house arrest for former police officer Dejan Pantic (Telegrafi) • Shqipe Mjekiqi and Sibel Halimi resign from LDK (Klan Kosova) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic to Lajcak: CSM before normalisation (N1, media) • The opposition after the meeting with Lajcak: What answers did they get, what did they say (KiM radio, N1) • People’s Party official: Vucic should call for referendum or elections, and not establish movement (FoNet, Euronews) • Lawyer: KSF member suspected of wounding Serb youth charged with causing general danger and not aggravated attempted murder (KoSSev) • Dacic says SPS against sanctions on Russia (BETA, RTV) • Lawyer: Pantic receives decision on house arrest extension with five days of delay (Kosovo Online) • Lajcak for RTS: If there is no ZSO, there is no agreement either (RTS) • Vucic to meet Escobar tomorrow (Kosovo Online)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, March 13, 2023

Albanian Language Media: • Kurti speaks about the 15 examples offered to the Association (Koha) • Dendias talks with Lajcak about the latest developments in the dialogue (Klan) • Kurti meets head of EULEX Lars Gunnar Wigemark (ekonomia online) • The SGG condemns the insulting language towards Saranda Bogujevci (media) • Former Prime Minister Hoti meets the President of Taiwan (RTK) • Tahiri: Kurti has brought to table an extremely harmful agreement for Kosovo (media) • Today is the deadline to notify CEC on participation in elections in the north (RTK) • "30% of Serbs fled Kosovo in the last 10 years": What will happen to Serb community after visas are lifted? (Nacionale) Serbian Language Media: • Lajcak from today in Belgrade (Danas, Beta) • Vucic: We will face additional pressure over Kosovo (Tanjug) • People’s Party continues campaign against Franco-German proposal (KoSSev, social media) • Lajcak: EU agreement result of lost opportunities for normalisation, it will be fully implemented (KoSSev) • Radojevic on incident in Banje, indictment in Gotovusa shooting case (Kosovo Online, social media) • Petkovic on indictment’s qualification of Gotovusa shooting case (media, social media) • Serbian List on the indictment of Gotovusa shooting (Kontakt plus radio, Kosovo Online) • Serbian List met Lajcak (Radio KIM) • Opposition says Vucic campaign draws attention away from problems (N1) • Two Serb houses in robbed, Office for KiM reacts (media) • CEC: Today the deadline for declaring non-participation in the elections in the north of Kosovo (Danas, Kosovo Online) Opinion: • Is There Really New Momentum Behind EU Enlargement? (Balkan Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, March 10, 2023

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, March 10, 2023 Albanian Language Media: • Lajcak discusses with Bislimi urgent issues on the agenda of the Dialogue (media) • Krasniqi: I expressed to Lajcak the PDK’s reservations about the agreement (Koha) • AAK supports EU proposal even though "it is not de jure recognition of Kosovo" (media) • Abrashi: Only opposition parties are talking about the Association (Nacionale) • Lekaj: AAK is against increased energy tariffs, there will be protests too (Telegrafi) • MacShane: Surreal nonsense that EU countries don’t recognize state of Kosovo (media) • Tahiri: Self-management and Association will ruin Kosovo’s sovereignty (Nacionale) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic: There will be no capitulation or surrender, nor consent for Pristina to join UN (RTS) • Prince Filip Karadjordjevic: Franco-German proposal unacceptable for Serbia (KoSSev, social media) • Dveri Movement, public figures demand Parliament session on Kosovo (FoNet) • Vucevic: People's Movement to bring together all those wishing to preserve Serbia (Tanjug) • Lawyer: What ever happened in Kosovo during conflict, from brawl to robbery, Pristina accuses Serbs of war crimes (RTS) • French ambassador: Vucic and Kurti should show flexibility and reach agreement, people in north suffer most from situation (KoSSev) • Vucic congratulates China's Xi on his re-election as president (Tanjug) International: • Death of a Premier: How Serbia’s Rotten System Enabled Zoran Djindjic’s Killers (BIRN) Humanitarian/Development: • Public Pulse: Trust in Kosovo government on decline, Serbs feel drastically less safe (KoSSev) • ACDC offers free legal aid to people in northern Kosovo (Kosovo Online) • Residents from Miroce village without access to their properties for two decades (KoSSev) • Ruzica Simic: Protection of women’s rights and victims of violence in north virtually non-existent now (KoSSev)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, March 9, 2023

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, March 9, 2023 Albanian Language Media: • Kurti and Lajcak to discuss roadmap for implementation of European plan (Koha) • U.S. calls for mutual recognition after European plan (Demokracia/The Pavlovic Today) • Freedom in the World: Kosovo, among countries with greatest improvement (RFE) • The last diplomatic shuttle (Albanian Post) • Haziri: How can we support Kurti? We don’t know what he negotiated (media) Serbian Language Media: • Serbian List says it will not take part at extraordinary elections in northern Kosovo (Kosovo Online) • Brnabic: We are pursuing best but most difficult policy for our country (Tanjug) • Vucic with Botsan-Kharchenko on situation in Kosovo (social media, media) • Office for KiM reacts to beating of two young Serbs by Kosovo police (Danas, Kosovo Online) • Protest in Josanica over beating of two young Serbs by Kosovo police (RTV) • Kosovo police on media reports on beatings in Josanica (KoSSev) • Zlatan Arsic sent to one month detention (Radio KIM) • UNS and DNKiM: Sanctions for organisers of conferences in Kosovo for not providing translation in Serbian language (Radio KIM, media) • Ombudsman met landowners in Leposavic affected by expropriation (KoSSev) • Analysts on announcements of creating Peoples’ Movement for State (Danas, media) • Opposition failed to collect signatures necessary for extraordinary assembly session on European plan (media) • Freedom House: ‘Dramatic’ decline in liberties in Serbia (Voice of America, N1) International: • Southeast Europe Marches for Women’s Rights (Balkan Insight) • US Urges Prompt Mutual Recognition Between Serbia And Kosovo Following EU Proposal (The Pavlovic Today) • Freedom House: Southeast, Central Europe – Except Kosovo – Sees Freedoms Decline (Balkan Insight)