Kosovo, Serbia exchange accusations of contempt of obligations from dialogue

The Kosovo delegation for dialogue with Serbia, led by Deputy Prime Minister Besnik Bislimi, has presented its views on the current state of dialogue and on what the chief of this delegation has called Serbia's failures to implement some of the obligations. First, the Kosovo delegation has presented its analyses to the EU special envoy's team for dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, while on Wednesday it has also participated in a meeting with Serbia's delegation, with EU relief.

After the end of these meetings, as has happened earlier during the process more than decades of dialogue, they have in various ways presented what happened at the meeting and accused the other party of failing to comply with obligations.

“We have put those remarks on the agreements regarding Serbia's current steps, for example on the mined border management agreement, recognition of diplomas, freedom of movement, then the entry agreement, as we have seen that the Serbian side has not fulfilled its” obligations, said Bislimi, who has also announced that a review of dialogue has been made in these discussions so far.

Serbia's delegation chief Petar Petkov has reiterated the allegations Serbia currently poses at each meeting for Kosovo's failure to create association, or as he calls it the “The Peace of the Serbian Communists”.

We have told them that association is a condition on terms if we want to move on. Association means the realisation of all the rights of Serbian citizens, because numerous incidents are only evidence of how necessary it is to form”, Petkovic said.

According to him, the Serbian <x0pa>pa has fulfilled almost all agreements within the dialogue and that the Kosovo delegation's complaints mainly concerned technical issues of their implementation”.

The EU's special envoy for dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, in a post on social networks, his already preferred way to communicate, has written that the meetings were content.

Structural documentation for elements of dialogue, past agreements, current issues and future steps towards normalising reports between Kosovo and Serbia”, Lajcak has said through a post on the social Twitter network.

These meetings were also preparations for a high-level meeting between Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti, and Serbia's President Aleksandar Vuciq, who is expected to take place before July 25th. But before this meeting, negotiating teams will also have a meeting through the video connection next week.