Lajcak: Ohrid Agreement legally binding, but little progress has been achieved in implementing it

He, in the panel of discussion for the Kosovo dialogue process, Serbia at the Dubrovnik Forum, has declared so because Anna Brnabiq, the head of Serbia's Parliament in a letter, has said the basic agreement towards normalisation is not legally binding.

This year again by introducing the European Union can give you the definition of normalisation of relations. It means as it is in European documents that means to facilitate, to help Kosovo and Serbia sign a legally binding agreement that will normalise their relations and resolve the existing open issue between them”, Lajcak has stated.

The “certainly belongs to the Kosovo and Serbia parties to determine exactly what normalisation means, but I think that when we talk about legally binding agreements, this really indicates a lot of”.

“second, the deal we reached in February and March last year in Brussels and Ohrid. It's an agreement which is legally binding and must be reached. It was an announcement to the parties, they agreed to it during our meeting in Ohrid. It was made on lines with the Vienna Convention, which says an agreement can be reached through signatures. In this case, which was formalised through a statement by Josep Borrell, the EU has said several times that agreement is legally binding”.

What's relevant, if we've made progress in implementing this agreement? We have made very little progress in implementing this deal”, Lajcak said.