Lajcak in Pristina this week, due date accurately

Negotiations between Kosovo and Serbia, as revealed after the February 21st meeting in Brussels, will continue through the so-called “diplomacy”>

A visit by the Special Representative of the European Union, Miroslav Lajcak, is expected to be made to Pristina and, as usual, to Belgrade.

The EU's Office for Media has told Gazeta Express that Lajcak's visit to Pristina will speak “when it is appropriate”.

Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister Besnik Bislimi has said that the special EU emissary comes to Pristina by the end of this week and sees the work the Kosovo side has done for guiding European proposal implementation, which has been accepted by Kosovo and Serbia.

It is expected that Mr. Lajcak visit Kosovo, then even Serbia; see the work that has been done. Based on our proposals, I believe he will try to consolidate them”, Bislimi said on March 1st in RTK.

Lajcak's visit is expected to take place, ahead of the meeting between Prime Minister Albin Kurti and Serbian President Aleksandar Vuciq, due to be held on March 18th in Ohrid, northern Macedonia.

Prime Minister Kurti, after formally accepting the European proposal on 21 February, has said negotiations for normalisation will continue through flying diplomacy.

Even before agreeing to the European proposal, Lajcak and other Western emissaries had been frequenting visits to Pristina and Belgrade in recent months to persuade the parties to accept that proposal.

In the proposal, the pledge to implement previously signed agreements between Kosovo and Serbia, which includes the agreement on forming association, is at the bottom point. Foreign diplomats, after accepting the European proposal from the parties, have reiterated calls for the Government to launch the establishment of association.

Ahead of his visit to the two capitals and prior to the Ohrid meeting, Lajcak has said that at his table there are 16 existing functional models for the Association of Serb-run municipalities, which he has shared with Kosovo and Serbia.

According to him, they can be seen as models for minority rights, and all are in line with European standards.

We're talking to our partners about existing models that are strengthening state functionality rather than weakening, so we don't think there should be any fear. No one has the interest to weaken Kosovo's functionality. We should view it not as a threat or punishment or compromise, but an obligation on one side, and should also be seen as building the trust of Kosovo Serbs and the Government of Kosovo and defining Serbia's Government reports with Kosovo Serbs, according to European standards”, he has said.