Lajcak warns Kosovo and Serbia: If there are tensions again, let's forget the deadlines of the final deal.

The European emissary stresses that the repeated cycle of crises followed by the temporary solution obliges negotiators to engage in the <x0th> burning, because you cannot focus on normalisation when there is a crisis. ”

“I hope we will not face another crisis within a week or we may forget the normalisation of”, he said.

Lajcak insists that the current momentum is ideal for finding a solution and that if this moment is lost, the deal could drag on for decades. If an agreement is not reached further by 2024, Lajcak says they will have to return from scratch to the process.

This is a real possibility, sometime until December 2023 or early 2024. If things don't happen by then, we'll have to start over. If we turn to crisis and conflict, then we can forget the” deadlines, Lajcak stressed.

However, according to the medium's assessment, under these circumstances, the final agreement appears far away.

Lajcak has also demanded that the situation not be allowed to turn into another crisis.

“What is now important is not to allow the slide back into another crisis, and it is important for leaders in Kosovo and Serbia to start creating a suitable atmosphere for productive discussions about normalising relations”, the European diplomat, who is working together with the US and NATO under diplomatic efforts between Kosovo-Serbia disputes, has said.

He has said the efforts will not stop, saying that March 2023 is the deadline for reaching an agreement.

Politico has written that the international community is feeling an emergency to resolve the Balkan dispute, given Russia's need for destabilising the Balkans in order to distance it from the EU.