The topics Kosovo, Serbia discuss in Brussels on Tuesday

Pristina and Belgrade confirm their participation in the Brussels meeting, where, according to the EU, they will be discussed implementing agreements reached so far and open issues.

Kosovo and Serbia's negotiating teams meet on Tuesday (16.11) in Brussels to continue the dialogue, though there is already a contradiction between Kosovo and Serbia about exactly what is negotiated this time.

European Union officials said that in the new round of meetings of Kosovo and Serbia's top negotiators, Besnik Bislimi and Petar Petkovovic, it is discussed implementing agreements reached so far and open issues and the way forward in dialogue.

From the Kosovo prime minister's office say that, the “des of discussion at the bilatheral meeting will be the issue of the missing, energy and free movement”, meanwhile, “data for the possible meeting for political dialogue between leaders depends on the course of the process and agreement on issues at the top negotiators' level”.

On the other side of Serbia's so-called government office for Kosovo, they say at the 16.11 meeting. The Serbian team is headed by the director of this office, Petar Petkovovic, and that at the meeting the main topic will be the Association of Serb-run municipalities.

Pristina authorities are classed against the Association of Serb majority municipalities, as required by official Belgrade “Association with executive competency”, referring to the principle agreement signed in 2013 between Kosovo and Serbia. But Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti said several days ago in an interview for the DW, that Kosovo's “Constitution does not allow association on ethnic bases” and that the 2013 agreement, according to him, Kosovo MPs have approved it in an extraordinary pressure where transparency has been lacking.

“Constitutional Court Act by December 2015 The Serbian Major Community Association has demonstrated in light of the truth, which is integible in our legal and constitutional system. She didn't handle the 2013 deal, but the impact she had on content in 2015 when the 2013 deal broke out in its concrete, in its details, and in its spirit has practically hit the 2013 deal. In other words, this Constitutional Court act has not stated that only the letter of Association is problematic, but it has found that 23 articles of the constitution are being violated with it and that each of the seven chapters of Association is not in accordance with the constitution, but has also hit the spirit of this association. There can be no association with the Kosovo Constitution on ethnic grounds”, Prime Minister Kurti told DW.

Serbia's President Aleksandar Vuciq said the day before in Belgrade that “Kosovo must form association as negotiated in Brussels”, or otherwise, as it turned out, “Thank you, your work, in our work, maybe we meet one day”.

However, official Brussels mediating Kosovo- Serbia, but also the US, constantly ask the parties to sit at a table in order to reach a comprehensive final agreement where all issues are addressed.

Currently, Gabriel Escobar is standing in the region as US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia, who a few days ago is also the official American envoy for the Western Balkans. He visited Bosnia and Herzegovina and is visiting Montenegro, but is not scheduled to visit Kosovo and Serbia. The media in Pristina write that the failure to schedule Escobar's visit to Pristina and Belgrade could also be seen as a message for Kosovo and Serbia's nonprogress in the Brussels dialogue.

Following Gabriel Escobar's official appointment as an American envoy for the Balkans, the US Embassy in Pristina in a news release said that “Escobar is currently working on the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue facilitated by the European Union”.

“Congratulations on the new special representative in the Western Balkans, Deputy Secretary Gabriel Escobar! He is already working in the Serbia-Kosovo dialogue undertaken by the European Union, ensuring the accession of the region into the EU and putting pressure on Bosnia's leaders to advance reform and respect Bosnia and Herzegovina's territorial integrity”, the US Embassy's announcement in Kosovo said. / DW