Tomorrow deadline ends, Kosovo and Serbia take ideas to Brussels on how to implement the Bazic Agreement after unsuccessful meetings

Klisman Kadiu, Bislim adviser, said on Tuesday that the government would submit comments within the deadline.

The government of the Republic of Kosovo will hand over its written comments on the document of the sequence plan, within the pre-term time of July 18th, according to the request of Emissary Lajcak”, he told Time.

Cadiu said that last year and this year, Kosovo “has presented concrete proposals and comments for each point of the versions of the sequence plan, testifying to constructiveity, as well as the willingness to implement the” agreements.

For agreements to be implemented in full, the same approach must be applied and the other side, which so far, unfortunately has been missing”, he said.

Based on comments to be sent by both sides, European mediators will issue a new proposal for implementation of the agreement, as Bislim said on July 2nd.

That day Bislim and Petkov remained in Brussels late. There they had gone to find a solution to the way the Basic Agreement was implemented.

Meetings shared with Lajcak and then the trilateral joint meeting failed to produce any agreement.

For about seven hours, a series of issues were discussed, while Lajcak said they were hired “for a number of future steps”.

Bislimi said the Serbian side was interested in discussing only the establishment of the Serb majority municipalities' Association, while Petkovic acknowledged that he had insisted on the issue, which he called the <x0 key> for Serb survival and the normalisation process”.

A week after that meeting, Lajcak wrote on Facebook that no progress had been achieved.

“Unfortunately, we failed to make progress in the big picture ʹ implementing the Road to Normalisation”, he wrote, although he reiterated that they had agreed to concrete steps “on some practical questions against”.

The meeting of the chief negotiators had preceded a trip by Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti and Serbian President Aleksandar Vuciq to Brussels. On June 26th, they returned to the European helm and, despite the EU's warning they would participate in separate meetings with European diplomacy chief Josep Borrell, followed by a trilateral meeting, this second did not happen.

The EU organised meetings with Wucinna Kurt to analyse, as it was told, what has been achieved in dialogue under Borrell's leadership and for <x0 Street before”.

Vuciq's Kurt did not sit face-to-face to discuss the way the agreement is implemented for normalising relations reached on February 27th 2023 and for the annex of its implementation on 18 March 2023.

For American university professor John Hopkins, Daniel Serwer is very clear that neither Kosovo nor Serbia are interested in normalising relations.

I think it is quite clear that neither the authorities of Serbia nor the Kosovo authorities are ready for normalisation of relations. The goal of the dialogue should be a permanent legal solution between Kosovo and Serbia. But obviously, we are not yet ready for such a thing”, he said Tuesday at RTK.

Lajcak was visiting Pristina and Belgrade before Kurti and Vuciq were invited to go to Brussels. He said he had come for “the mode of refocusing the process of normalising relations between Kosovo and Serbia, and what concrete steps we will take”.

His mandate as sent for dialogue has lasted until January 2015. He said he still has work to do.