The EU confirms: New round of dialogue between Kosovo, Serbia on 17 December

At that meeting, EU Special Representative for Dialogue Miroslav Lajcak will talk with Kosovo and Serbia's top negotiators, Besnik Bislimi and Petar Petkov.

Deputy Prime Minister Bislimi in an interview for VOA last night said he does not expect results from the December 17th meeting.

The summit of December 17th is not that it can produce, or should produce, expectations, whether in Brussels, whether in Pristina or Belgrade. He's happening at a critical moment for three reasons: We have a terrorist attack on the Iber-Lepenci channel, we have new figures coming to the commission, and we have Mr. Lajcak's removal, which ends the mandate. Actually, this is not the best time to start something larger, but there is probably no willingness from the Serb side to take seriously the implementation of the Brussels agreement and the implementation annex of Ohrid”, he has said.

While Petkov told Blic TV that it will insist that on December 17th finally be a trilateral meeting, which has been missing in recent rounds of dialogue, due to Pristina party preparedness.

I'm going to insist that there's a trilateral meeting, look each other in the eye and tell him everything I have, but to listen to his arguments. It is easy to attack Belgrade without evidence. But Bislim is leaving the dialog”, he stressed.