Belgrade says Pristina has many options for continuing dialogue except tax removal

The prime minister, Anna Brnabyq, has been staying in Luxembourg during the day. From there, she has said she hopes that after the elections, negotiations on long-term and compromise solutions between Belgrade and Pristina will be continued in Kosovo.

“I hope that after the elections, we will have people who will be courageous and responsible enough, first in front of their citizens and capable of talking about the long-term solution. We're gonna be there”, Brnabyq said.

“If you stop the circulation of goods, then there is nothing to talk about,” said Brnabyq, adding that Pristina should withdraw the tax decision, set in November last year.

Regarding dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia, Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel also spoke. Bettel said it is important that Belgrade and Pristina continue talks and reach compromise, citing that the agreement of both sides was important for peace and their path towards the EU.

The agreement between Serbia and Kosovo is important for citizens of both countries. It is important to continue the path towards the EU, ensure peace for your countries and achieve compromise so that you can get closer to each other”, Bettel said.

And unlike Brnabiqi, the director of the Office for Kosovo in the Serbian Government, Marko Djuric was tougher, stressing that sooner or later, Pristina would have to fulfill its obligations. Djurdi has stressed that Pristina accepts nothing but recognition from Serbia, but that this will not happen.

There will be no easy and sustainable solution regarding Kosovo. This will not shake us until support of Serbs in Kosovo is only to be empowered”, Djuric told the newspaper Vecernje Novosti.

He added that from the new EU mediator in the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, which will replace Moghrin, he expects to be neutral and return credibility to dialogue, which was already damaged by Pristina's actions.

Djuqi commissioned authorities in Pristina to lift the tax on Serbian products and return dialogue because, as he added, their voters cannot eat the fantasy of Greater Albania, but deserve to live in normal society.