41 minutes agoEU hopes events in the north will not impact Bislimi-Petkovic meeting
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(3 years ago)The European Union has asked Kosovo and Serbia to refrain from assessments that could spoil the atmosphere in dialogue, and says it hopes that what has happened in the last days in northern Kosovo will not affect the meeting of Pristina and Belgrade's chief negotiators who will meet [...]
The European Union has called on Kosovo and Serbia to refrain from estimates which could spoil the atmosphere in dialogue, and says it hopes that what has happened in the last days in northern Kosovo will not affect the meeting of Pristina and Belgrade's chief negotiators, who will meet in Brussels on Tuesday.
So EU spokesman Peter Stano said today during a media conference.
Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Besnik Bislimi and the head of the Office for Kosovo in Serbia's Government, Petar Petkov, will meet on April 4th in Brussels to discuss the next steps in implementing the Agreement on the road towards normalisation of relations between Kosovo and Serbia”, European officials have said.
Stano said they expect from both sides “to contribute to creating and maintaining an atmosphere that helps normalisation and reconciliation, and the need for implementing the obligations that the parties have taken on themselves”, and added that the “pals have agreed to refrain from any action that would have negative” effect.
On February 27th, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti and Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vuciq, agreed to the Agreement on normalising relations on the basis of the European proposal, while on March 18th in Ohrid, they agreed to the Annex for its implementation.
Stano called the meeting tomorrow as the key “ ”, because, as he said, the””pals will be collected for the first time since the Ohrid Agreement and will discuss the very steps needed for implementing the obligations that come out of that agreement and from its annex”.
He said the agreements reached were aimed at precisely leaving the crisis phase.
Three cars were burned in Leposaviq, the Serb-run municipality in northern Kosovo on Saturday evening. Two of the cars were with RKS license plates, and one with Belgrade license plates.
Later, Kosovo Police announced that they had arrested a Serb community member in northern Mitrovica under suspicion that, among other things, they have participated in burning a car.
After this arrest, the Serb List, the largest party of Kosovo Serbs backed by official Belgrade, named the arrest in northern Mitrovica as the subsequent “mistreatment of the Serbian people” and warned that if the detainee is not released, the “reaction from Serbs would be caused.
