Albanian Language Media: • Guterres condemns Banjska attack, calls for authors to face justice (Zeri) • Presidency confirms Osmani's participation in the UNSC session (Klan) • Kurti: 2013 agreement violates Constitution of Kosovo (media) • Serbian army drills at border; Kurti: Serbia poses a threat to Kosovo (RTK) • Uglanin: Certain that April 21 vote will not be successful (media) • Zeqiri confident he won’t be dismissed: Serbs don’t trust Serbian List (Nacionale) • Dutch MEP reacts after the mistreatment of Kosovars in Serbia (RTK) • “If Association not sent to court, CoE membership postponed for a year” (media) • Dimic on Serbia stopping Kosovars: Brings back Milosevic’s time (Kosovapress) • Police confiscate weapons in Mitrovica North (Kosovapress) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic: Eleven years they have been looking for the culprits in Serbs and Serbia, and the essence of the Brussels Agreement has not been implemented (RTS) • Stano: Brussels Agreement obligation, consequences for Pristina if it does not form the A/CSM (RTS, Tanjug, KiM radio) • Lajcak: No stronger incentive to resolve the Belgrade, Pristina relations than a clear perspective in the EU (Kosovo Online) • Eleven years since the Brussels Agreement; Simic: Dead letter (RTS) • Combating Human Trafficking Director in KP accused of domestic violence (FoNet, N1, Kosovo Online) • CEC approved 23 locations for voting on April 21 in the north (Kosovo online) • Surlic: The situation between Belgrade and Pristina would have been more relaxed if the A/CSM had been formed 11 years ago (Kosovo Online) • Belo Polje struggles with wild landfills, stray dogs and an unbearable stench, no response from the authorities (KiM radio, Radio Gorazdevac) International: • North Kosovo Vote to Dismiss Mayors Risks Failure Amid Boycott (BIRN) • Senior Kosovar Police Officer Released After Detention At Serbian Border (RFE) • Witness to Violence: Photojournalist Recalls Decades of Documenting Kosovo’s Turbulent Times (BIRN) Humanitarian/Development: • Murati: Kosovo receives €90 million funding from the World Bank (media) • "Women in focus" photo exhibition: Everything is against women when they strive for a position (KiM radio, KoSSev)

Albanian Language Media:

• Kurti: Serbia has violated several agreements (media)
• Kurti: Vucic is retaliating over Kosovo’s success at CoE (media)
• Osmani: Five Kosovo police officers held hostage by Serbia (RFE)
• Rohde: Detention of Kosovo law enforcement officials is unacceptable (media)
• Hovenier: Concerned over detention of Jankovic by Serbian authorities (media)
• Svecla: Jankovic sent to detention for breaking Ser

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, 17 April, 2024 Albanian Language Media: • Serbia blocks around 300 Kosovars at border with Croatia (media) • MFA and MIA call on citizens of Kosovo: Avoid at all costs passage through Serbia (media) • Apart from Croatia, Kosovars are also blocked in Hungary, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informs QUINT (media) • Zulfaj on blocking of Kosovars in Serbia: "little Putin" cannot stand success of Kosovo (Koha) • Von Cramon: Serbia should release the Kosovars, stop embarrassing itself (media) • Kusari-Lila: Serbia should be removed from Council of Europe (Klan Kosova) • Hoxhaj condemns behavior of Serbian Police (media) • Kandic on PACE vote for CoE: Serbia's opposition is an own goal (EO) • Pacolli: Parties in Brussels are discussing how to find a way for Serbia to legally bring money to Kosovo (media) • U.S. Embassy flag at half-mast, Hovenier: Recent killings of women show urgency to do more (media) • Osmani commemorates Poklek massacre; “six-month-old victim called Liberty” (Telegrafi) • Police arrest one of the leaders of group that blackmailed women (Koha) • Retrial: 35 years imprisonment for man who killed his wife in 2022 (media) Serbian Language Media:  • Vucevic: Voting in Strasbourg continuation of the festival of hypocrisy (KiM radio, RTS) • Pantic Pilja: In PACE, it was shown that international law means nothing, they trampled on everything they advocate for (Kosovo Online) • Elek: Members of the CoE trampled on international law and the rule of law (Kosovo Online, TV Most, Tanjug) • Kurti from Strasbourg: No need to talk about A/CSM, when Serbs are boycotting the Assembly (Danas, Kosovo Online) • Gogic: Growth Plan will be reason for another promise from Kosovo to form CSM (Kosovo Online) • Trajkovic and Gogic on Kosovo and CoE: It’s part of geopolitical regrouping, nothing to do with Kosovo and Serbia (N1) • Vehicle of a driver of Provisional Authority President in Leposavic set on fire (Kosovo Online) • Drecun: What follows the CoE adoption of the recommendation for the admission of Kosovo is very dangerous (Blic, Blic TV) • KP on the shooting on the Gracanica-Laplje Selo road: Attempted murder, two people arrested (Kosovo Online, KiM radio) Opinion: • Are the Kosovo media repeating the mistakes of 2004? (KoSSev) • UN Resolution on the Balkans Would Be a Mistake (Real Clear World)

Albanian Language Media: • Osmani’s message to members of PACE on Kosovo’s membership vote (media) • PACE committee rejects all amendments of Serbian, Italian members (media) • Woman killed in Peja, “situation is alarming” (media) • Hoxha: Radoicic’s group is free; there is threat of another attack in north (KTV) • Rohde on Palkowitsch appointment: Testament of growing partnership (media) • EU conditions Serbia’s integration with normalizing relations with Kosovo (RFE) • Osmani: At first govt meeting, I’ll propose withdrawal from Open Balkan (Express) Serbian Language Media: • Dacic: PACE expected to adopt recommendation to admit Kosovo (N1, media) • PACE Political Committee approved no amendments filed by Serbia, dismissed those from Italy related to CSM (KoSSev, media) • Biljana Pantic Pilja: PACE Committee voted against our amendments, we will file objection (Tanjug) • Gathering because of armed persons appearing in Suvi Do village, near Lipljan (Radio KIM, KoSSev) • Xharra: More than 700 police officers with criminal offenses part of Kosovo police (Kosovo Online) • Protest over the murder of women, demands to confront Osmani: Enough with the conference, introduce a state of emergency (Kosovo Online) • Vucic meets with Lajcak in Mostar (Tanjug, social media) • Dacic, Bayramov discuss strategic partnership between Serbia, Azerbaijan (Tanjug) • Petkovic: A new round of dialogue on Thursday (Tanjug) • EU ambassadors adopted the updated text for chapter 35 with Serbia (Tanjug, RTS, media) International: • Wider Europe Briefing: Kosovo could finally get in the Council of Europe (RFE)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, 15 April, 2024 Albanian Language Media: • International Forum for Women Peace and Security starts in Prishtina (media) • Clinton: Kosovo has made “important progress” toward gender equality (RFE) • Gervalla: Vote tomorrow will pave way to Kosovo’s membership at CoE (RTK) • MFA: Serbia’s propaganda in full opposition with reached agreements (media) • Bislimi meets deputy director of European Foreign Service, emphasizes need for removal of EU measures against Kosovo (media) • Lajcak expects Bislimi and Petkovic to be “open-minded” in the following meeting (Albanian Post) • Statistics Agency: Census expected to conclude before targeted date (Kosovapress) Serbian Language Media:  • Vucic: Pristina prepared a trick with A/CSM (KoSSev, RTS) • Starovic: There is no normalization while north is occupied by Kosovo police (Kosovo Online, social media) • Lawyer files appeal over Sofronijevic’s detention (RTS) • Serbian List: Arrest of Sofronijevic and beatings of Stevanovic “new values” for CoE (Radio KIM, Danas, BETA) • Serbian Democracy: A Serb beaten by special forces in the village of Bube; KP: Case reported, PIK takes over the investigation (KiM radio, KoSSev) • Why Serbs in the north don’t want to take part in the census? (Radio KIM) Opinion: • Dimitrijevic: Crème de la crème of journalists from Albanian community seek to glorify their values through their reporting, that’s where we differ (KoSSev) International: • Prosecution Investigates Claims of Professor’s Sexual Harassment after BIRN Investigation (Prishtina Insight)