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The first Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration, Development and Dialogue of the Republic of Kosovo, Besnik Bislimi, stayed today in Brussels where he participated in the next round of negotiations at the level of chief negotiators, within the dialogue process.
Bislimi held a bilateral meeting with the European Union envoy for the Kosovo-Serbia Dialogue and other regional issues of the Western Balkans, Miroslav Lajčák.
He said that in this meeting, 4 main topics were discussed. The first topic was that of the sequencing plan for the implementation of the Basic Agreement. Bislimi added that it was not possible to organize a tripartite meeting today, but Lajcak has promised that such a thing will happen in the future.
"It has been seen the need to work further on the concretization of some important documents to ensure full implementation of the Basic Agreement. In terms of sequencing, we have concerns with the current drafts that Mr. Lajcak has sent to our parties, for the reason that we think that plan is initially selective, leaves aside some important provisions of the Basic Agreement, unilaterally pays more attention to the demands and preferences of Serbia and also does not guarantee full implementation of the agreement. In this direction, we have tried today together with the Serbian side, in a trilateral meeting, to establish all the obligations that the parties undertake from the Basic Agreement, in a detailed sequencing plan. We have not managed to complete this mission, but we have improvement or further progress. Unfortunately, there was no trilateral meeting, but Mr. Lajçak thought that this cannot happen at this stage because it does not guarantee the final concretization of the implementation plan. We have listed and given in writing to the EU all our demands or obligations that we think should fall on the Serbian side and should be concretized through the implementation plan. Now we wait for the next steps", he said.
Asked by journalists about the punitive measures of the EU, he said that: "The agreement (of Bratislava) is about the implementation of EU requirements and responds to these requirements. It has been clear to us from the beginning that this is the way to remove the punitive measures against Kosovo and it is a surprise that we still do not have an explanatory letter from Mr. Borrell demanding the lifting of the measures by the European Commission."
In the end, Deputy Prime Minister Bislimi explained in more detail about the sequencing plan and Kosovo's requirements.
" From our proposals today in the bilateral meeting with Mr. Lajçak, we have indicated for each measure or action, from which article of the Basic Agreement it originates and we have asked for an interpretation from the EU as to whether they agree that this measure originates from the Basic Agreement or not", he concluded .
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