Everything from meeting in Brussels

The elections in municipalities in northern Kosovo should be announced as soon as possible, European Union High Representative Josep Borrell said.

Thursday, June 22nd, was the day when Kosovo R4th Republic Prime Minister Albin Kurti and Serbian President Alexander Vuciq travelled to Brussels to hold separate meetings with Borrell.

After more than four hours of discussion, the latter declared its demands by the head of the Kosovo executive and then by the Serbian president. The same weren't the same ones before.

“We have requested from many times to decode the situation and return to dialogue. Bea has been clear about the steps, as has the United States. Unfortunately, everything we've seen has been the opposite. We spent more than four hours with Kurt and Vuciq at separate meetings to find a solution. We have introduced the parties for Kosovo, to immediately remove the special units, and the four heads temporarily to exercise the task outside”, he has said.

Borrell stressed the need to return to dialogue and implement the Ohrid Agreement, including Association.

On the other hand, a statement after meeting with the EU emissaries for the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, Borrell and Lajcak, Prime Minister Kurti said not rarely that it was the Serb side, which is robbing him of an election.

I'm engaged because I haven't had a direct appointment. Again, those who said yes to the agreement not to sign it are now refusing to meet with me as well, while holding three Kosovo policemen hostage. It's a difficult situation for us, but we do the best we can, as you see in Brussels it's still a day, we could have continued negotiations... There has been time to have intensive dialogue until we reach any agreement, my readiness is not missing, nor are concrete proposals. We have some kind of escape from the other side, and from possible solution”, Kurt said.

The situation according to him has been tense because Serbia had not signed the Brussels and Ohrid Agreement.

“thank Borrell and Lajcak for the commitment, we paid for the unconditional release of the three police officers, and on the other hand the transition to normalisation of the reports has no alternative. The latter needs fully detailed and balanced sequence of the basic agreement and implementation agreed on in Ohrid. The first time on February 27th, I was told we would accept it but the other side is not signing it, we're waiting in Ohrid, still not signed. In this situation we are the result of the nonsignation of this basic agreement and failure to implement that agreement immediately and completely. A lot of agreements have been signed before, but they have been implemented, now the signing is becoming non-compliance”, he said.

Tensions in northern Kosovo began 26 May with the occasion when Kosovo Police helped mayors Zvecan, Zubin Potok and Leposaviq settle in municipal facilities following local residents' protests.

Tensions culminated on May 29th, when local Serbs clashed with KFOR's mission soldiers with cerras, dozens of people remained injured.

Journalists have also been attacked by protests in the country's north. Unless physically, their tools, professional and travel have been damaged several times.