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A day before his visit to Brussels, the president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, said that the planned meetings are not easy, but Serbia is ready to talk about the new plan of the European envoys for the implementation of the Agreement towards the normalization of relations.
"When it comes to Serbia, they are knocking on the open door," Vučić said on October 25 to Radio Television of Serbia.
The plan was presented by representatives of the EU, the United States, Italy, France and Germany, during the meetings they held in Kosovo and Serbia on October 21.
Vucic and the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, have been invited to Brussels on October 26 for meetings with the leaders of the European Union.
Radio Free Europe has learned that the leaders of Kosovo and Serbia will meet separately with the Chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz, with the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, and the Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni. The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, will also participate in these meetings.
Vucic told the Serbian public broadcaster that he will also meet with the EU representative for the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, and with the president of the European Council, Charles Michel.
The Serbian leader said that the position of his country has become even more difficult after the attack in Banjska by Zvecani against the Kosovo Police.
He recalled that "most of the powerful Western states" have already recognized Kosovo's independence.
"They will only look for ways to convince Serbia to agree to the de facto and de jure recognition of Kosovo," said Vucic.
EU spokesman Peter Stano told Radio Free Europe that a meeting between Kurti and Vucic is not planned.
The invitation of Kurt and Vucic for meetings in Brussels comes after representatives of the "Big Five" stayed in Kosovo and Serbia on October 21 and calls for the parties to normalize relations and implement the Agreement towards normalization, which was reached earlier in the year.
Meanwhile, Stano has confirmed that during the visit of representatives of the EU, the United States, France, Italy and Germany, both parties were presented with a "modern European proposal" for the statute of the Association of municipalities with a Serbian majority in Kosovo.
Kosovo and Serbia have reached agreements on the Association in 2013 and 2015. However, the Constitutional Court of Kosovo in 2015 found that the Agreement on the principles for the establishment of the Association was not in full harmony with the highest legal act of the state and said that it should harmonized through by-laws.
Kosovo has so far refused to establish the Association of municipalities with a Serbian majority, expressing the fear that it could affect the functionality of the state. Serbia, meanwhile, insists on its establishment.
The international community is calling on Kosovo and Serbia to return to the dialogue that is mediated by the EU, after the increase in tensions between the two states.
Tensions have been rising since May in the northern municipalities of Kosovo, as local Serbs oppose the new Albanian mayors who emerged from the April elections, which were boycotted by the Serbs.
On September 24, tensions escalated after the Kosovo Police was attacked by an armed group of Serbs, killing policeman Afrim Bunjaku. Three Serbian attackers were also killed during the clashes.
Kosovo has blamed Serbia for the attack, but Belgrade has denied involvement in it./REL
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