Vuciq: We've spoken to KEDS, near the northern power agreement.

He said there has been negotiations on the issue with the Kosovar Power Distribution Company (KEDS).

“Today we have had negotiations with the Turkish side, with KEDs, for the presence in northern Kosovo. That's what we agreed on. We hope there are only technical aspects [to be fixed] and we will have good results in the coming days”, Vuciq said.

The Kosovar Power Distribution Company did not deny or confirm whether they have held talks with Serbia on the issue, but said any agreement reached would improve the situation in northern Kosovo.

The issue of electricity in the country's north has been the subject of talks between Kosovo and Serbia since the start of dialogue.

Any agreement reached would change the situation for the better”, ECDS spokesman Viktor Buzhala told Radio Free Europe.

The Kosovar Power Distribution Company (KEDS), by 2013, is under the management of the Turkish consortium “Calic-Limac”. KEDS has the exclusive power distribution in the entire territory of Kosovo, manages and maintains assets on the ground.

Within the framework of dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia, which is conducted with the European Union's mediation, the two sides had reached an energy agreement in 2013. But it has not been implemented so far.

Currently, Serbian citizens living in northern Kosovo do not pay for the spent energy. According to System Operator, Transmission and Electricity Market in Kosovo (KOSTT) losses from energy bills in the north only for 2021 have reached 40m euros.

From 1999 to 2017, the debt for Kosovo's north has been paid by Kosovo's citizens from municipalities south of Ibri. In 2017, however, such a practice was suspended by the Court of Appeals, for it was estimated to be illegal. Later, this decision was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Kosovo.

The bills for energy spent in northern Kosovo are paid to COSTT, the Government of Kosovo, in fact. /rel