Petkov warns today there will be trilateral meeting in Brussels

“Athmosphere works at the Belgrade delegation in Brussels prior to direct talks between Belgrade and Pristina under the mediation of the European Union”, Serbia's chief negotiator, Petar Petkov, has been sent to the Instagram. Periscope.

From the office of Kosovo's chief negotiator, Besnik Bislimi, have not answered Radio Free Europe questions concerning the trilateral meeting in Brussels.

The June 10th meeting comes after bilateral meetings that Kosovo Deputy Prime Minister Besnik Bislimi and chief negotiator Petkovic held with Sorensen on 2 June in Brussels.

The meeting also comes after, according to Bislim, a planned trilateral meeting had failed on June 2nd, because Serbia's team had faced delays during its trip to Brussels.

Bislimi said that at his meeting with Sorensen last week in Brussels, he talked about the approach European official will have in the next stages of talks at the level of top negotiators, as well as those at the EU top diplomat Kaya Kallas.

“We also discussed a very important process that we have the support of Albanians in the Presevo Valley through aid to small farmers”, Bislim said, according to a media communique issued by his office.

However, Petkov, director of the Office for Kosovo in Serbia's Government, said he has made it clear to the European Union that Presevo and Bujanovac cannot be the subject of dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia.

<x) Kurt and [the deputy prime minister in office, Besnik] Bislem to introduce these” topics, he said after meeting with Sorensen last week.

Meanwhile, in an effort to revive dialogue between the two countries, Kallas remained in Pristina and Belgrade last month, where he called for improved reports, because only thus can there be European future for both countries.

Serbia enjoys candidate country status for membership in the European bloc, while Kosovo does not, despite its application.

The two countries dialogue in Brussels on normalising relations since 2011, with EU mediating, have signed a host of agreements, but not all have been implemented.

Asked by journalists if they make sense of these meetings, since Kosovo is now in <x0-economic”, Bislim has acknowledged the difficulties, though he has said there are some topics where Kosovo can benefit, whether there is constructiveity or approach on the part of Serbia.

The “would not be okay if we lost those chances because in Pristina there are obstacles to the constitution of the”, he has said among other things.

Kosovo is with Government in office, as on June 9th, the Assembly has failed to register for its 29th time in a row.

The Vetevendosje Movement, which has won the most votes in the February 9th parliamentary elections, and parties that in the past legislature were in opposition, have failed to reach compliance with the way the vote for the new head of the Parliament and for LV's proposal of this position, Albulen Hadziun, considering it a divisive figure.

MPs must elect the chairman and five vice-presidents to eventually make up for the new Parliament.

Only after the constitution can the new government be formed.

Diplomatic representatives of the states of the QUINT (United States, Great Britain, Italy, France and Germany) and the chief of the European Union Office in Kosovo have met days ago with incumbent Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti, demanding quick formation of institutions to ensure the welfare and prosperity of Kosovo citizens. /REL/