UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, July 11, 2023 Albanian Language Media: • Stoltenberg calls for de-escalation in the north (Reporteri) • Osmani: It is the turn of Kosovo, Ukraine and Bosnia-Herzegovina in NATO (Koha) • LDK calls for new elections in north, mobilisation to draft statute of Association (Koha) • Hovenier: Management of north is sensitive, we want coordination (Koha) • Kurti: Still no justice and peace for Srebrenica (Radio Free Europe) • Haradinaj: Kurti has built a paper castle (Gazeta Express) • Zulfaj: Serbia rejected everything, but the EU is punishing Kosovo (Albanian Post) • “Risk of Klan Kosova being closed is serious and real; process is political” (Klan) Serbian Language Media: • Serbs keep protesting in Zvecan for 44 days (Kosovo Online) • Sentic: Kurti should say why there are no Serbs in many institutions (Radio KIM, Media Centre) • OSCE condemns arson attack on Serb returnee house, calls on police to investigate case (Kosovo Online, social media) • Milatovic: Montenegro is worried due to the situation in northern Kosovo (Tanjug) • Petkovic: Day does not go by without having Kurti make fun of law and justice and twisting very essence and concept of democracy (Radio Mitrovica sever) • Milatovic concludes visit to Serbia with meeting with Patriarch Porfirije (Tanjug)

Albanian Language Media: • PDK wants Assembly to be dissolved: Time for Kosovo to go to elections (Telegrafi) • Escobar: We need new elections in north; there can be even bigger crisis (media) • LDK demands minister Gervalla’s resignation (media) • Recica on Gervalla’s remarks: US, EU could ponder even harsher sanctions (EO) • Osmani hosts UNDP representative in Kosovo (media) • Nic: Kosovo is closer to open conflict than Bosnia (Radio Free Europe) • Hungarian KFOR soldier who was wounded in north has leg amputated (media) • Rexhepi on Kosovo-Bosnia relations: Stagnation comes from Serbian entity (RTK) Serbian Language Media: • Pasalic: Arrested Serbs and those protesting in Kosovo are exposed to terror (NMagazin, Vecernje Novosti, Beta, KiM radio) • Dukagjin Gorani: Kurti's attitude unreasonable (KiM radio, medijacentar.info) • Jozic family house burnt in the village of Veric near Istok (KiM radio, Radio Gorazdevac) • Montenegro’s Milatovic with Vucic: Turning a new leaf in our relations (N1) • British MPs distance themselves from Alicia Kearn's statement about arms smuggling in the SPC (SOC) (N1, KiM radio) International: • Serbia Ready to Use Planned Gas Terminal in Montenegro (Balkan Insight)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, July 7, 2023 Albanian Language Media: • EU on Rama’s proposal: Any such initiative should be coordinated (Reporteri) • Kurti meets new head of EULEX, discuss developments in Kosovo (media) • Germany temporarily suspends cooperation with Kosovo (DW, media) • Swiss MPs writes to EC: Stop measures against Kosovo, blame is more on Serbia (KSP) • Haziri: LDK will propose a draft for the Association (media) • Krasniqi: Serious situation due to crises produced by Kurti, we demand early elections (media) • Davenport: Klan Kosova case, watched closely in Kosovo and internationally (media) • Kearns receives support after Vucic threatens her with investigations (Telegrafi) • Pristina Mayor accuses Minister of Finance of blocking projects for Pristina (Kallxo) Serbian Language Media: • Drecun: Situation in KiM is entering into a dramatic phase of development (RTS) • Kosovo to lose up to 500 million euros if the measures last until the end of the year (KoSSev, RTK2) • 'Announcements' of arrests and false lists scare Serbs in Kosovo (RFE) • Kurti did not get the floor at US Independence Day celebration in Pristina (RTS, Tanjug) • Kosovo customs confirms that ban on Serbian goods is still in force (Radio KIM) • Berlin: Germany could send additional troops to reinforce KFOR forces in Kosovo (Kosovo Online, RTV) • Vucic: I conveyed Serbian stances on situation in Kosovo (Kosovo Online) • US Embassy calls for justice for Bytyqi brothers (N1) Opinion: • When will the elections take place in the north of Kosovo and will the Serbs turn out unconditionally? (Danas) International: • Joseph: Failure of the Serbia-Kosovo agreement would be a failure of Brussels and Washington (EWB) Humanitarian/Development: • Learning history and culture of Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities – means against discrimination (Koha)

Albanian Language Media: • Albania signs 13 agreements with Kosovo; Rama expects meeting with Kurti (media) • Sanctions, Germany reduces cooperation in security with KSF (Albanian Post) • Tahiri: Other opposition parties said they’re ready to sign no-confidence motion (media) • Kearns: Attacks against KFOR and reserves found by KP prove presence of illegal weapons (Kallxo) • EULEX: Government didn't coordinate in designating organisations as terrorists (Koha) • Kovacevski calls on Kurti and Vucic: Politicians are obliged to act as statesmen (Klan) • Szunyog: Free and independent media are essential part of democratic society (media) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic: Underway silent ethnic cleansing of Serbs; we will demand an urgent session of the UN SC (Danas, RTS) • Raska-Prizren Diocese warns of possible set up, says ‘continuation of March pogrom by different methods’ (KoSSev) • Dacic: Accusations against SPC (SOC) part of a propaganda war; we asked Foreign Office for explanation (Kosovo Online, TV Pink, RTV) • Djuric: Accusations against Serbian Orthodox Church deeply concerning (Tanjug) • Vucic informs Erdogan about escalation of violence against Serbs in Kosovo (Kosovo Online) • Germany terminates cooperation with Pristina in several areas (RTS, RFE, Blic) • Doctor Todorovic sentenced to 10 months in prison “for the attack against Kosovo police officer” (Kosovo Online)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, July 5, 2023 Albanian Language Media: • Kurti: It will be known within this week about claims on weapons in the churches (Koha) • KFOR: No evidence of weapons in churches; Kosovo responsible for rule of law (Koha) • Kurti: There is no solution because the agreement is not being implemented (Koha) • Lajcak on meeting with Osmani (media) • Szunyog: Measures to be lifted when Kosovo contributes to de-escalation of situation in the north (Reporteri) • Kurti refuses to meet with Rama without a meeting of the governments (Koha) • Citaku slams Kurti for refusing to meet Rama (media) • Kurti appreciates the role that the UN has played in Kosovo (Klan) • Jablanovic detained for illegal crossing of the border (Koha) • Journalists Associations head express concern about Klan Kosova situation (media) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic to Lajcak: Serbian people in Kosovo exposed to worst torture in last 15 years (NMagazin, N1) • Vucevic: Peter Stano makes irritating statements, empty shell of bureaucratic vocabulary (Beta, NMagazin, TV Pink) • Dacic with the chargé d'affaires of the Great Britain Embassy regarding the statement of MP Kearns (Kosovo Online, Danas) • KFOR: There is no evidence of the alleged smuggling of weapons into Orthodox churches (KiM radio, RTS) • Cvijanovic: Even KFOR has to refute lies of “ferocious Albanian lobbyists in Britain” (RTRS, Kosovo Online) • Serbian Minister of Defence: Serbian Orthodox Church target of Albanian lobbyists (N1, FoNet) • Elek: We are threatened by humanitarian disaster, we can’t deliver medicines, let alone weapons (Novosti, Kosovo Online) • Krasniqi: New directors have been appointed in the Municipality of Leposavic (Kim Radio) • Sretena Bojovic denies that she took over the position of director in the Municipality of Leposavic (KiM radio) • While the public’s attention is on three other northern municipalities, what is happening under the table in N.Mitrovica? (Part II, KoSSev) • Muhaxheri compares Kurti’s approach to north with that of Milosevic on Kosovo in 1989 (KoSSev) • Jablanovic refutes being at illegal crossing (Tanjug) • KFOR Commander visits Leposavic today (Kosovo Online) Opinion: • Moving—bottom-up—beyond the crisis in Kosovo (socialeurope.eu) International: • First effects of EU sanctions sting Kosovo (Euractive)