Invalid “There is an agreement in Brussels, Bislim: Next week he'll be traveling back there

There has not been a trilateral meeting, while Deputy Prime Minister Besnik Bislimi has met with EU emissar Miroslav Lajcak has called “a bullshit appointment”.

After that meeting, Bislimi said the Serbian side had gone to the European Crusade with no idea of handling an initial proposal that had brought mediator Lajcak to the table.

Below, find the announcement by the Prime Minister's Office regarding the Bislimi statements after the meeting:

Today, upcoming meetings have been held under the dialogue process in Brussels. Below, the first Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration, Development and Dialogue of the Republic of Kosovo, Besnik Bislimi, after the end of the round of talks:

Today's meeting has taken place two days after the very important decision in the Council of Europe, a decision that manifested both the European and Kosovo model on how the integration of the region should be promoted, but also to build reports among neighbouring countries. And a day after the manifestation of the Serbian model of normalisation and integration or implementation of the agreements that was manifested through the exposure of a medieval mentality of dealing with citizens of a neighbouring country, through their halt at border points, arrest, torture, and in this context perhaps Serbia's approach to today's meeting.

Those at today's meeting perfectly showed futility and we saw the uncertainty of their early fulfillment that we have an urgent issue where some Serbian citizens have failed to get their benefits. Just as the past has had zero interest from the Serbian side to deal with these citizens, and all their energy is again oriented towards the licensing of an economic subject of Serbia in Kosovo, which is unacceptable to us and we have made that clear over and over again.

Today's meeting has only had to happen in a constructive spirit where we had to discuss Mr. Lajcak, and instead Serbia has come up with a completely new proposal, wanting the situation to turn into a starting point that we have not accepted of course, and in the end Serbia has agreed to return to the point where we should be today, therefore in the next meeting we will discuss squarely and exclusively on the European side's proposal.

As a result, this meeting today may be considered a futile, unsuccessful meeting, and perhaps as a success of the Serbian side's obstructural policy, which has only wanted to buy time on end and with which we confirm that there is no urgency in this problem we are facing, and there is no interest in the Serb side to address the concerns of Serbian citizens.

Questions from correspondents: If today's meeting has marked a step back from two weeks ago, why is there at least the motive on the Kosovo side to come back to another meeting, where is the end of this story?

We were told by Mr. President last week. Lajcak, which this week's meeting will be the last meeting, because he will enable the meeting only if the Serb side clearly shows he will come to close the agreement according to Mr. Lajcak. Since this did not happen, then we insisted that the meeting be organised only if the parties submit their proposals until Monday and if Mr. Lajcak finds the proposals are in line with his distributed ideas last week. It means, we have managed to influence that the upcoming meeting in no way can be misused by Serbia to postpone decision-making.

Questions From correspondents: How much of the circumstances of yesterday's meeting today, although there has not been a mutual meeting, has this been a serious situation?

I think that for the process it is a serious circumstance, while for Serbia it has probably been a extenuating circumstance where they have also been following a decision in which they have expressed their frustration with the fact that most European countries look to the future, not the past.

Petkov, meanwhile, said he did everything to find a solution and that he had “a constructive proposal” that, according to him, Lajcak praised as a very good “for continuing talks”.

Next week, Bislimi and Petkovic are expected to travel back to Brussels with the aim of reaching an agreement.