Maliqi: The blockade of both Vucinqi and Kurti

Her comments follow a day after the presidential elections in Serbia, which, according to preliminary results, produced the winner, with nearly 60 per cent of the vote.

Speaking to reporters in Pristina, Osmani said Serbia continues to be guided by a mentality of the 1990s.

Our “expectations are very high by the European Union and, of course, Kosovo institutions will contribute in this direction, but I cannot say that we have optimistic expectations regarding Serbia's behaviour. This [dialogu] is the process in which we must constantly engage and give our best because it should focus on mutual recognition. This is the interest of the Republic of Kosovo”, Osmani said.

Vuciq is the host of Serbia's negotiations on normalising relations with Kosovo, which have been under way since 2011.

The burden of negotiations from Kosovo is the country's prime minister, Albin Kurti.

Kurti and Vuciq have only met twice last July of last year under the process mediated by the European Union.

Their meetings have brought no progress in negotiations except reconciliation to continue them.

Maliqi: The blockade of both Vucinqi and Kurti

Recognition of political developments in Kosovo, Agon Maliqi, says Vuciqi's re-election will further block dialogue. According to him, the blockade is also Kurt's interest.

I don't see any prospects for this to change. With the will of Vuciq and Kurti there will be no progress. No need and urgency to close the” context, says Maliqi for Radio Free Europe.

The biggest objections between Kurti and Vuciqi relate to the formation of the Association of Serb majority municipalities in Kosovo.

Even though the parties have reached an agreement on him in Brussels in 2013, Kurti insists that there can be no “single-ethnic cohesion”> in Kosovo.

Vuciq, on the other hand, says the talks cannot continue without the establishment of Association.

Maliqi says that both leaders are returning to the status quo, as, according to him, this “is in the interest of their domestic policy”.

The Kosovo government has not responded to the REL's request to comment on Vuciki's re-election, nor on the question of what the process of dialogue between the two states will be, when Serbia's chief negotiator will again be Vuciq.

Janjiq: Dialogue must take new direction

Dusan Janjic, from the Forum for Ethnic Relations in Belgrade, says he does not expect major changes in Serbia's stance on Kosovo, following April 3rd elections in Serbia.

He says the Brussels Agreement “can be destroyed”.

Speaking to Radio Free Europe, Janjic says that Vuciq has a “populist”, similar to that of Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti.

Allow me to remind you of the barricades, [Kosovo] special police and Serbia's response with the army, with the police, with the Russian ambassador controlling all of this...”, says Janjic.

With this, it refers to the period at the end of September last year, when the government of Kosovo, led by Kurti, has imposed reciprocal measures on Serbia for vehicle plates, urging drivers from Serbia to set temporary license plates with Kosovo symbols.

Consequently, some Serbs in northern Kosovo have been blocking roads at border crossings, Jarinje and Brnjak for two weeks.

At those two crossings, members of Kosovo Special Police have been present all along to protect them, but Serbian military planes have also flown several times near the Jarinje border.

Official Belgrade has also put some military units in a state of readiness.

The two sides, later, have reached a temporary agreement on license plates, but Janjic says he believes tensions from that period have not eased.

He says dialogue on normalising relations should take a new course, and adds that the warned removal of Serbs from Kosovo institutions means “collapse of the Brussels Agreement”.

About ten days before elections in Serbia, Vucic has met with representatives of Serbs from Kosovo. At the world, he has said they have asked permission to leave Kosovo institutions.

When Serbs leave the institutions, the Brussels agreement falls. Politics doesn't change overnight. The policy of territorialisation of power, following Vuciq, implies reopening the issue of non-integration of the Serb and northern Kosovo community [resident with Serb majority] and this is the issue of borders”, Janjic says.

In the past, there have been some discussions on the exchange of territories between Kosovo and Serbia, as opportunities for normalising relations.

But the idea has also been rejected by specific circles in Pristina and Belgrade, even in the international community.

Serbian elections will never be held in Kosovo”

The Kosovo government has not allowed the holding of Serbia's recent elections on its territory, saying that this is contrary to the Kosovo Constitution.

On April 3rd, Serbia has held presidential elections, early parliamentary elections and local elections for Belgrade and several other municipalities.

Members of the Serb community from Kosovo have been able to vote in elections in one of the border towns in Serbia.

Janjak says Serbia's elections will never be held on Kosovo territory again, and that there are <x0” argument” that the states of the Quint United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and France “have silently supported the Kosovo Government's decision”.

The [two sides'] agreement is silent that there will be no more elections. In terms of the status, [it] means that Kurti has completed Kosovo's sovereignty with a policy of reciprocity, which is a very dangerous” policy, says Janjiq, without elaborating more.

Quinn States, however, have criticised the Kosovo government's decision not to allow Serbian elections.

On the horizon, right now, there's no new Kurti-Vucciq meeting.

EU special envoy for Kosovo-Serbia dialogue Miroslav Lajcak has said in an interview for REL, in March, that the third meeting between Kosovo leaders and Serbia needs a constructive and peaceful atmosphere.

According to him, a Kurti-Wucciq meeting can only happen when two leaders can agree on something.