19 minutes agoPetkovi's Bislimi meets tomorrow in Brussels for “emergency implementation”
Periskopi(2 years ago)
(2 years ago)A new cycle of negotiations is expected to be held on Tuesday (morrow, 2 July) at the European helm between Kosovo and Serbia's officials, Beograd, and Besnik Lajcak, aiming to achieve progress in implementing the agreements by the end of the mandate. [...]
EU Foreign Policy and Security spokesman Peter Stano, who, at a press conference Monday, has announced that the parties will discuss the way towards implementing agreements reached within the framework of dialogue on normalising relations under EU auspices.
A recent EU attempt to revive dialogue has failed last week due to the unwillingness of leaders to sit at the negotiating table. EU High Representative Josep Borrell has met separately with Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti and Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vucic, but despite efforts, there has been no trilateral meeting.
Prime Minister Kurti has presented three conditions that must be met by Serbia as guarantee of further commitment to dialogue and current, the start of implementing agreements, including the handover of terrorist group leader Milan Radoicic, to Kosovo justice, which, despite last year's aggression in Bay of Zvecan, continues to be free in Serbia.
Kosovo and Serbia reached agreement on the road towards normalising relations in early 2023, originally in Brussels, Belgium, then in Ohrid, North Macedonia. But despite the insistence of European diplomats that the Ohrid Brussels and the Annex Agreement are legally binding, they have failed to convince the parties to implement the same.
Otherwise, while the scope of great research for “responses” and “the resolution” is expected to continue in the coming weeks, it remains to be seen whether the list of violent scenarios that could result from open issues and existing tensions will be expanded, or Kosovo and Serbia will begin implementing peace cause agreements.
