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On Tuesday, the heads of the European institutions reiterated the necessity of calming the situation in the north of Kosovo and continuing the process of normalization of relations with Kosovo, after the meeting with the Prime Minister of Serbia, Ana Bernabic.
Brënabić visited Brussels, where he met with the president of the European Council, Charles Michel, and the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
Michel, through a post on Twitter, emphasized that he conveyed to the Serbian Prime Minister the message from last week's summit about the necessity of the urgent extension of the situation in the north of Kosovo and the continuation of the dialogue with the mediation of the EU.
Even the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has emphasized the necessity of continuing the dialogue with Kosovo.
Ana Bërnabič also met with the European Commissioner for Enlargement, Oliver Varhelyi.
In addition to the relations with Kosovo, in all the meetings the support for Serbia's European path was emphasized, but the necessity of undertaking the reforms that are key to Serbia's accession process was also underlined.
As for the situation in the north of Kosovo, the prime minister of Serbia said that "the ball is in Pristina's court".
"It is necessary that, first of all, the harassment and persecution of Serbs in Kosovo and the arbitrary arrests and detentions without any evidence, the harassment and torture of people who are completely innocent and for whom there is evidence that they are innocent, from us in EULEX and in the end also in Pristina ", Bërnabič told reporters.
European officials have repeatedly asked Kosovo and Serbia to take steps to immediately reduce tensions and return to dialogue with the aim of normalizing relations, with the mediation of the EU.
Since the increase of tensions in the north at the end of May, there have been no meetings within the dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia.
Kosovo Prime Minister Kurti and Serbian President Vucic have held several "crisis meetings" with European officials in Brussels, but they have not had bilateral meetings.
Meetings with mediators in the dialogue, however, ended without concrete results.
Tensions in the north of Kosovo, which is inhabited by a majority of Serbs, began when the new Albanian mayors of the municipalities of Zveçan, Zubin Potok and Leposaviq entered the municipal buildings under the escort of the Kosovo Police.
The local Serbs objected to this and have since held protests, demanding the withdrawal of the new mayors of the municipalities and special units of the Kosovo Police.
Brnabić admitted that in all the meetings in Brussels, her interlocutors raised the issue of not imposing sanctions on Russia in response to the aggression against Ukraine.
" In terms of values, we aligned with the EU, we condemned the aggression. We have reasons why we do not want to impose sanctions on Russia. In the technical-administrative sense, that chapter in our negotiations has not yet been opened," she said .
Since December 2021, Serbia has not had a single intergovernmental conference due to non-compliance with EU foreign policy, especially in relation to sanctions against Russia./ REL
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