Lajcak talks about elections in the north: Kurt and Vuchy realized how serious the situation is

The European Union's envoy for Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, estimates that elections in the four northern municipalities must be held in the coming months.

Lajcak in an interview for Euronews Serbia stressed that this is one of the points Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti and Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vuciq, agreed with the recent meeting in Brussels with EU High Representative Josep Borrelin.

“Of course, new elections should be held in the following months. And that was one of the points Vuciq and Kurt agreed to. Clearly, mayors have no legitimacy. The mayor of municipalities with legitimacy may be only those elected by Kosovo Serbs. The question we're dealing with is when and how we get there. And of course, for Serbs to have the motivation to feel safe and that we have free elections”, Lajcak said.

The EU envoy for last Thursday's meeting stressed it was only for crisis management that was created in northern Kosovo.

He added that Kurti and Vucinqi have understood how serious the situation is, and that, according to him, is the positive thing from this meeting.

That meeting last Thursday in Brussels was a meeting for crisis management. So it wasn't a meeting dedicated to normalisation, dialogue, unfortunately. The positive thing is that both Vuchy and Kurt realized how serious the situation is. No one hides this and claims we have no serious crisis in the north. And second, they agreed that one of the main elements of exit from the crisis is new elections. Where they disagreed was the matter of extenuation. How will these heads work and from where”, he added.