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The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, and the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, are expected to hold separate meetings with the four European leaders on October 26 in Brussels.
The European Union confirmed that Kurti and Vucic have been invited to Brussels on the sidelines of the European Council summit on Thursday.
Radio Free Europe learns from diplomatic sources that the plan is that on the sidelines of this summit, Kurti and Vucic will have separate meetings with the four European leaders, whose representatives visited Kosovo and Serbia on October 21.
According to the sources, the plan is that "the four leaders, the president of France, Emmanuel Macron, the prime minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, the chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz, and the high representative of the EU, Josep Borrell, have a joint meeting with the prime minister of of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, on the sidelines of the EU summit on Thursday".
Meetings of the same format are expected to take place with the Serbian president, Aleksandar Vucic. The EU's special envoy for dialogue, Miroslav Lajçaku, stayed in Kosovo and Serbia on October 21.
In these meetings, four other diplomats were with him: the American envoy for the Western Balkans, Gabriel Escobar, and high officials from France, Emanuel Bonne, Germany, Jens Plotner, and Italy, Alessandro Cattaneo.
After the meeting in Pristina, Lajçak said that the diplomats presented a plan for which they discussed with Kurt. Kurti's office confirmed that the diplomats' plan "for moving forward" was discussed, but no details were given.
Earlier on Tuesday, EU spokesman Peter Stano said that during meetings in Kosovo and Serbia at the weekend and exchanges with the parties, the European bloc presented a "modern European" proposal for the Association of Serb-majority municipalities in Kosovo. According to him, the EU expects the parties to take quick actions to normalize relations.
" The discussions of the [EU's] special envoy for the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, during the weekend in Belgrade and Pristina were focused on the implementation of the Ohrid Annex. There is no intention of replacing him. Various proposals and ideas were discussed – some in writing – and these discussions will continue. This also includes a modern European proposal for the statute of the Association of municipalities with a Serbian majority ," said Stano.
Stano referred to the Annex on the implementation of the Agreement towards the normalization of relations reached earlier in the year.
This agreement, of 11 articles, provides, among other things, a level of self-management for the Serbian community in Kosovo and mutual recognition of state symbols, while asking Pristina and Belgrade to also implement all previous dialogue agreements .
The EU and the United States have called on the parties to implement the Agreement towards normalization. The government of Kosovo has not yet established 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 announced meetings in Brussels come at a time of increasing tensions between Kosovo and Serbia. Tensions have been rising since May in Kosovo's northern municipalities, as local Serbs oppose the new Albanian mayors who emerged from the April elections - boycotted by the Serbs.
On September 24, tensions escalated after the Kosovo Police was attacked by an armed group of Serbs, killing police officer 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. Washington and Brussels have strongly condemned the attack in Banjska of Zveçan./ REL
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