Meeting Between Bislem and Lajcak Ends in Brussels

Later, Lajcak is expected to meet with the chief of the Office for Kosovo in Serbia's Government, Petar Petkov.

After bilateral meetings, the trilateral meeting is expected, where according to the EU the parties will discuss the next steps in implementing the Agreement on the road towards normalising relations between Kosovo and Serbia.

Bislimi, who has travelled yesterday to Brussels, has met with EU Commissioner for Neighborship and Enlargement Oliver Varhely today.

The European Commissioner wrote on Twitter that they have talked about the agenda of European reforms and the options of how I can help the European Commission implement those that have been achieved in dialogue, so that it is successful.

The European Union said Monday that it hopes that what happened in Kosovo's north will not affect the meeting of Pristina and Belgrade's chief negotiators.

The European Union has called the agreement a transition to a new phase in dialogue, from the phase of crises to a phase of normalisation. But recent developments in the north have turned the fear of recurring tensions.

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.

The Bislimi-Petkovic meeting is the first after the meeting in Ohrid, where Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti, and Serbian President Aleksandar Vuciq have reached agreement for implementation of the Agreement for normalisation of relations.

Kurti and Vuciq have agreed on the text of the Agreement to normalise relations on February 27th.

With EU mediation and US support, the two countries have been in negotiations for normalising relations since 2011.

They have reached dozens of agreements, but most of them have not been implemented and parties have blamed each other for the impasse.