Borrell: An important step in establishing association has been made

EU High Representative Josep Borrell has said that today there has been a symbolic significant step towards establishing association.

The second “that is important, the parties took an important and symbolic step towards the establishment of the Association agreed on 10 years ago. The management team consisting of Kosovo Serbs finally booked the first draft for the parties is not the last. It's a starting point. He's on line with Article 7 of the new deal. The draft presentation makes the meeting important. I welcome the fact that the draft has been offered. Kurti shared his thoughts about the protection of the Serb community in Kosovo, and as the sides' views are expected are obviously far from in nature what the Association should be like. I didn't expect anything else, I knew the parties had different thoughts about the nature of association. But even if they did not agree, they have agreed to start negotiations on association in the near future. Taking this first draft as the first step of discussion. It calls on both sides to engage in this process constructively and with a good spirit to be ready for compromise. The process is run by past agreements in dialogue, and inspired by good practices and good models in Europe, we have many cases of association, numerous nature. In each state, it finds a model and will be considered during negotiations. We will facilitate the process of reaching final agreements, speaking from the draft presented today”, Borrell said.