The Guardian: The storm of diplomacy to revive Kosovo- Serbia

This will be the first time Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vuciq and Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti, have agreed to meet with an international delegation since shooting guns at a monastery in northern Kosovo last month, leaving three attackers and a Kosovo police officer dead.

The British newspaper writes that meetings were arranged after a storm of diplomacy involving senior officials in the US, France, Germany, Italy and the EU.

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs spokesman Josep Borrell said: “The purpose of the visit is to make concrete progress in implementing the agreement on the road to normalisation and on de-progression following recent developments”.

He said there are “clear expectations” that the parties would resume normalisation talks “without delays or conditions”.

Talks failed after the September attack, on charges from Kosovo that the EU and the US, in efforts to limit Russian influence in the Balkans, were calming Serbia due to its ties to the Kremlin.

The EU's special representative for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, who will be accompanied by French, Germany and Italy foreign policy and security advisers Emmanuel Bonne, Jens Plötner and Francesco Talo, are also expected to attend.

US envoy for the Western Balkans Gabriel Escobar will also travel to Kosovo and Serbia for meetings, Borrell's spokesman said.