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)

Albanian Language Media: • Kurti in Bratislava talks about tensions in north, expresses Kosovo position (Telegrafi) • Kurti: I would be understanding if protests were peaceful (Koha) • Osmani to attend summit of leaders of European Political Community (media) • Konjufca on U.S. sanctions: This is bad for Kosovo (Nacionale) • Lajcak on the situation in the north: If the crisis does not end, everyone loses (Koha) • Police arrest two Serbs in north, seize weapons, flags, nationalistic symbols (Telegrafi) • Konjufca on internationals: They are equalising police with gangs in north (media) • “Disagreements to be resolved in dialogue; Serbia to stop war-inciting rhetoric” (Klan) • Zubin Potok Mayor working from office of communities in Caber (Koha) • Serb owner of bar in Zvecan threatened for sheltering reporters (Koha) • Rama: Serbian army at Kosovo border has zero power (media) • Joseph: Kurti deserved criticism, but the U.S. went too far (Kallxo/Al Jazeera) Serbian Language Media: • Lajcak goes to Moldova to meet Vucic (RFE) • Arsenijevic: All responsibility lies with Kurti (KiM radio) • Krstic: Kurti in the north is only interested in territory (KiM radio) • Simonovic: “Terror by the instructions of the prime minister's office” (KiM radio) • Milovic: There are no criminal gangs at the gatherings (KiM radio) • "KLA" graffiti in several places in Orahovac (KiM radio, Radio Gorazdevac) • In Lipljan two incidents: Serbs threatened, and the SOC flag removed (KiM radio) • EULEX on the arrested Obrenovic: We are following the case; we will ask the lawyer about the treatment of the detainee (Kosovo Online) • Petkovic: Kurti's fake mayors and angry special forces are the source of the problem (Kosovo Online) • Jevtic: By leaving the session of the Assembly of Strpce, we express solidarity with the Serbian people in the north (Kosovo Online) • Civil society demands an urgent de-escalation of the situation in the north of Kosovo (RTK2) • Hill: Pristina will bear the consequences because it did not listen to the advice of the US (Tanjug, Blic) Opinion: • Petritsch: The dialogue failed; the EU waited too long for Pristina to fulfil its obligation to form the CSM (ZSO) (Kosovo Online) International: • What's going on in Kosovo? (eurotopics.net) • Macron Says Kosovo Bears 'Responsibility' For Tensions (barrons.com, AFP) • What’s happening in the north? (Kosovo 2.0) • Kosovo Olympic Committee Seeks IOC Disciplinary Proceedings Against Djokovic (RFE) • Von der Layen presents 4-pillar plan to bring Western Balkans closer to the EU (EWB)

UNMIK Media Observer, Afternoon Edition, May 30, 2023 Albanian Language Media: • Ongoing efforts to organise meeting between Kurti and Vucic (RFE) • Kosovo Police: Situation in north fragile but quiet (media) • Serbian protesters attacked journalists in Leposavic (Koha) • Ministry denies agreement for withdrawal of special police units from north (Telegrafi) • Osmani: Vucic's gangs want destabilisation, their actions to be punished (Koha) • Kurti talks to Peach: "A democracy has no place for fascist violence" (RTK) • Borrell: Kosovo should withdraw Police from the municipal buildings in the north (Koha) • Stano: Kosovo and Serbia are responsible for the violence in the north (Express) • Lajcak tries to arrange an urgent Kurti-Vucic meeting (Koha) • France: Kosovo and Serbia to return to dialogue with approach of compromise (media) • Kearns: In north Kosovo, Serb gangs paid and armed by elements in Belgrade (media) • Hungarian authorities give details about their soldiers injured in the north (media) • Mayors of Leposaviq and North Mitrovica in municipal facilities, the one of Zvecan, works from the Office for Communities (Telegrafi) • Barbed wire is placed near the facility of the Municipality of Zvecan (media) • Kurti postpones participation in Bratislava Forum, due to developments in the north (Koha) Serbian Language Media: • Vucic with Quint ambassadors: Unilateral Pristina acts lead to violence against Serb community (Tanjug, media) • Vucic met Botsan-Kharchenko (Tanjug) • Vucic met Chen Bo (media) • Petkovic says Kurti sole responsible for what happened in north yesterday (RTS) • Lawyer says Dusan Obrenovic arrested in Zvecan beaten up (Kosovo Online, RTS, KoSSev) • Szijarto: Hungarian soldiers within KFOR performed duty under Italian command (Tanjug) • Petkovic: KFOR should have protected Serbs, not assisting ROSU units (N1, BETA) • Todic with US KFOR commander, tells him life in Leposavic paralyzed (Kosovo Online) • Serbs asking Petrovic and Obradovic release, otherwise announce more massive gathering (Danas, Kosovo Online, Kontakt plus radio) • New Zvecan mayor went to local office in Lipa village (Radio Mitrovica sever, Danas) • Leposavic: Incident with journalists, fewer citizens at the protest (KiM radio) • New flag of Serbia placed near monument to Milos Obilic in Gracanica (KiM radio) • Mural of Serbian tennis star Djokovic destroyed in Orahovac (N1, Radio Gorazdevac, KiM radio, Srna) • UNS, DNKiM condemned ban on Serbian journalists entering Zvecan municipal building (KIM Radio, Kosovo Online) • NUNS appealed to employers to provide journalists with protective equipment (Beta, Danas) • Nedeljkovic: Four arrested will be released, withdrawal of Kosovo police expected by 3 p.m. (KoSSev, Radio Mitrovica sever) • Chinese MFA on situation in northern Kosovo (Kosovo Online) International: • EU Urges Kosovo To 'Immediately De-Escalate' Situation After Violence In North (RFE)