Three-way meeting continues, Western mediators hope for concrete results

As the REL reports, the European Union will present to the parties a <x0 consolidation plan” for implementing the European proposal, which aims to finalise with final agreements.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vuciq and Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti met separately with EU Foreign Policy and Security chief Josep Borrell and EU Special Representative for Dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina Miroslav Lajcak.

After that, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti, and Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vuciq, began the joint meeting at 15:30, with the mediation of European officials in Ohrid, North Macedonia.

Borell is expected to talk about the outcome of the Kurti-Vucciq meeting. Chief diplomat Josep Borrell's press conference has become known on the European Union website.

The EU's diplomacy chief, along with emissar Lajcak, is mediating the Kurti-Wucciq meeting in Ohrid, while it is expected to be understood whether the two sides have managed to figure something out.

EU spokesman Peter Stano at a media conference earlier said he does not know when the meeting might end.

At the end of today's meeting, he's going to appear before the media, we don't know the time, but I'm going to inform you through colleagues here. With dialogue as we're used, we don't know when it will end, but we hope that this meeting will be completed sometime in the afternoon or in the evening. ” he said.

The two leaders are meeting with mediating EU officials to discuss implementing a European plan for normalising relations.

Western officials hope for progress Saturday in EU-mediated talks between Serbia and Kosovo leaders, in a new effort to ease decades of tensions.

Kosovo and Serbia state leaders agreed in advance last month on the EU's 11-point plan for normalising relations.