Four hours from the start of trilateral meeting in Brussels for dinar

Just before the hour ten In one of the European Union's foreign service offices (BE) in Brussels, Belgium began a trilateral meeting between Kosovo and Serbia's top negotiators, Besnik Bislimi and Petar Petkovic, and EU Special Emissari Miroslav Lajcak, but despite the four hours since the start of the meeting, negotiations are under way.

Lajcak has voiced optimism that agreement can be reached at the seventh meeting on the dinar issue, which comes after the expiration of the Kosovo Central Bank transition period (BQK) for implementation of regulation for cash operations. And the negotiations will be directed to the proposed “compromsis” by the European emissary for resolving the dinar crisis, writes the Albanian Post.

EU spokesman Peter Stano stated during the past week that the bloc expects the next meeting between Kosovo's chief negotiators and Serbia on the Serbian dinar issue to be the final case for resolution on the proposal made by Lajcak, but no concrete details of the European proposal that Kosovo authorities gave constructively to resolve the dinar knot.

On February 1st, the BEC regulation entered into force, via which the euro is defined as the only legal currency allowed for cash transactions in Kosovo, banning the use of the Serbian dinar within the territory. In Serb-run areas in the country, except for euro currency, the dinar has so far been used under the parallel system financed by Serbia.