Lajcak: No turning back, agreements have been accepted by two sides Kosovo, Serbia

With Europe's attention focused on the ongoing struggle between Russia and Ukraine, peace and stability are not guaranteed at all in another of the region's most unstable areas of conflict, according to a senior EU diplomat.

Relations between Serbia and Kosovo, which have been tense since the brutal double conflict in the 1990s, remain delicate a year after an attempt to get a new road towards normalisation, the American medium “writes. CNBC”

“Stability is fragile. We cannot get peace and stability as good”, EU Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue and the Western Balkans said in an interview for CNBC in Davos, Switzerland last month.

CNBC, while reporting on the context that negotiations are under way between Kosovo and Serbia, stresses that dual-combat conflict has left Europe very divided on the road ahead, with some EU members Spain, Slovakia, Cyprus, Romania and Greece, and other non---- The EU, which opposes Kosovo's claim for independence”.

However, Lajcak said the normalisation agreement had advanced the “situation never before, and noted that the focus was now on implementation. Normalisation measures include the development of “normal relations, good neighbourly relations” and the restriction by “threat or use of force” in future disputes.

There's no way back. There is no way before these agreements because these agreements are accepted by both sides”.

Both the EU and the US have invested much in normalising relations between Serbia and Kosovo, even though they face other international conflicts that develop rapidly between Israel and Hamas and Russia and Ukraine.

But the clock is ticking. With elections expected this summer at the European Parliament and later in the US year, progress in normalisation talks will be critical before the issue is depreciated, the American medium writes.

The “that will start before the EU and the US go to the polls will continue through the entire election process,” said Lajcak.

But what will not start before these [elections], I will have my doubts that it will begin later”.

Resistance is more likely to come from the respective leaders of Serbia and Kosovo, President Aleksandar Vuciq and Prime Minister Albin Kurti, who have nationalist bases at home to calm down.

Pressures are high on both sides. With aspirations towards EU membership for Serbia and Kosovo, Lajcak said this could provide the EU with a carrot to promote peace between the two countries.

Serbia is currently in the middle of EU accession talks, as it has been granted candidate status in 2012, while Kosovo has potential candidate status, although both will need major reforms to accept in the bloc.

The success of the normalisation process will also depend on how directly and closely they are related to the road of Kosovo and Serbia to the EU”, Lajcak said.

This is the strongest lever we have”.