Meeting in Brussels, Bislimi and Petkov show what was discussed

At the conclusion of the talks, the two sides accused each other of failing to implement past agreements within the dialogue.

Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Besnik Bislimi, in charge of the question of dialogue, said that at the meeting it has been discussed for agreements reached so far within the dialogue and for remarks the parties have on their implementation.

“We have put forth those remarks for the agreements regarding Serbia's current steps, for example for 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, Bislim said.

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While the director of the Office for Kosovo in Serbia's Government, Petar Petkovovic, at the same time head of the Serbian delegation, said Pristina's side never mentioned the issue of missing people or the formation of the Serbian Communists Association.

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.

He claimed the Serbian side has fulfilled almost all agreements within the dialogue and that the Kosovo delegation's complaints mainly concerned technical issues of their implementation.

EU special envoy for the question of dialogue Miroslav Lajcak called the discussions participants. He had initially held separate meetings with both delegations of Kosovo on Tuesday with him and with Serbia on Wednesday, while after that the three-way meeting between him and officials from both delegations was held.

The broad definitions for the 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.

Today's talks between the negotiating delegations are the first since the first meeting between Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti and Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vuciq, on 15 June.

Earlier it was said the delegations would also prepare to hold the upcoming meeting between the two leaders, envisioned by the end of July, but Deputy Prime Minister Bislimi said it would be discussed during the next week in online form.

The process of Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, with the ease of the European Union, has started in 2011, as dialogue on technical issues, to evolve later into political-level dialogue.

The sides are not achieving reconciliation in almost nothing.

While Kosovo mentions some impasses in implementing a series of agreements to Serbia, the Serbian side insists mostly on establishing the majority Serbian Commission Association.

The agreement on establishing the Association of Serb majority municipalities has been reached within Brussels' dialogue in 2013, which the agreement has been ratified in the Kosovo Assembly. In 2015, an additional agreement has again been reached regarding forming association, but the Constitutional Court of Kosovo had estimated that many provisions of this agreement were out of harmony with the country's Constitution.

Free Europe is addressed to the Government of Kosovo with the question of whether it has any proposals for resolving the issue of association, which it will present in dialogue with Serbia, as the European Union has requested. But he has not accepted the answer.

On Monday, July 5th, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Palmer, in an interview for Rtv 21, has said the agreement for the Association of Serb-run municipalities is the obligation Kosovo institutions have taken and must implement. He has stressed that “exist mechanisms through which Kosovo can resolve this issue in line with its Constitution”.

Arsim Bajrami, professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Pristina, has told Radio Free Europe that Kosovo's <x0pa, in advance it would have to be until the issue of Association is put on the table, to carry out obligations in relation to association. Let him review the statute, harmonise it according to the findings of the Constitutional Court, decree it, and by that revised version, go to the final talks”.

Earlier, James Ker-Lindsey, professor at London's School of Economics and Political Science, has told Radio Free Europe that Kosovo and Serbia needs a final agreement, not continuing dialogue in the format of the European Union.

The question of dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia is becoming like Cyprus. I've seen what happened to the dialogue in Cyprus. It's a waste of time, they've been developing dialogue for 50 years. You need a final deal. You need a comprehensive deal, because in Cyprus they have thus proved, with some confidence-building measures, but they have always had differences”, he said.