Next week's new round of Kosovo- Serbia

Next week, which in all likelihood Thursday 24 October, the new round of meetings under dialogue for normalisation of reports between Kosovo and Serbia is expected to take place at the level of chief negotiators.

So said diplomatic sources of Radio Free Europe in the European Union, without specifying meetings.

In the EU, they always use the word “meetings”, as they are not sure whether there will be a trilateral meeting -- that is, a meeting between the two delegations in the presence of EU facilitators.

So far, bilateral meetings have usually been held between the EU envoy for the dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, and the chief negotiators of Kosovo and Serbia, but not even trilateral meetings.

The last time a trilateral meeting was held was the July 2nd meeting this year. After the meeting, however, the parties came up with diametrically opposed positions about what had happened at meetings. The sides had accused each other of “of readiness for dialogue”.