The EU calls on Kosovo and Serbia: Execute the energy agreement immediately

Stano's statements followed the criticism of Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Besnik Bislimi, a few days ago he held the European Union responsible for, as said “the delivery of the wrong signals for “Electricity” through interpretations of the wrong provisions of the agreements that do not match the” guide.

But the EU said both sides have unfulfilled obligations in implementing the Guide.

“The EU is a facilitator, not a part in the Dialogue Agreements, including energy guide. The implementation responsibility belongs only to the” parties, said EU spokesman Peter Stano. The “both sides have incomplete obligations regarding the implementation of the Guide, and the EU expects both sides to move forward with immediate implementation. The commercial agreement is an important part of the Guide's implementation, as it would enable Kosovo to start billing consumers in northern Kosovo”, Peter Stano said.

The criticisms of Deputy Prime Minister Besnik Bislimi followed reports that Kosovo's licensed operation company in the northern part of Kosovo has signed a deal recently with the KED in Istanbul. Bislimi said this agreement has nothing to do with Brussels agreements.

However, the Elektrosever company in response to Bislim said it has consistently fulfilled all obligations by the Energy Guide, whose guarantor is the European Union. Elektrosever accused Pristina of not loving it, as he said, that the company should have the right to distribution services and that it is awaiting the response to the official announcement to start implementing the agreement since December of last year”.

Problems with electricity in the northern part of Kosovo date back to the end of the war in 1999. An agreement was reached in 2013 on energy between Kosovo and Serbia, but that for years did not begin to apply.

Prime Minister Kurti, days ago suggested by tweets on the social twitter network that since 1999, because of Serbia's actions, Kosovo has lost over 300m euros in electricity and water bills that Serbs in the north have not paid. Kurti said that for the non-paying of bills in the north, there is no blame on Serbs living there, but blamed <x0-metric parallel structures controlled by Serbia”.

Even now, Belgrade's refusal to allow Kosovo-Serbia trade costs Kosovo up to 10m euros a month”, Kurti wrote.

Elektrosever property of Serbia's energy company EPS, received the operating license from the Kosovo Energy Regulatory Office (ZRRE) 24 June. The energy deal had been reached since 2013, but had not been implemented so far. It's about the energy that Serbs spend in the north and don't pay.