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The topic of discussion will be the Regulation of the Central Bank of Kosovo on the removal of the Serbian dinar, which has brought a lot of tension between the two countries.
Kosovo and Serbia will sit again today at the negotiation table.
The Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo, Besnik Bislimi, and the chief negotiator of Serbia, Petar Petkovic, are expected to meet today in Brussels with the mediation of the EU representative, Miroslav Lajcak.
The topic of discussion will be the Regulation of the Central Bank of Kosovo on the removal of the Serbian dinar, which has brought a lot of tension between the two countries. Meanwhile, the implementation of the Ohrid agreement, which has already been a year since its signing, will also be discussed, but the parties have not yet started its implementation.
A day before this meeting, President Vjosa Osmani spoke about the dinar. She has said that the issue of the Serbian dinar in Kosovo must be resolved urgently and that there is already agreement on part of the American proposal on this issue. The head of diplomacy of the European Union, Josep Borrell, has stated that Kosovo and Serbia have achieved very limited progress.
Tensions between Kosovo and Serbia increased on February 1, when the Central Bank of Kosovo banned the use of the Serbian dinar.
Serbia declares that it distributes aid worth millions of euros to the Serbs in Kosovo and starts their salaries, pensions and additional aid in its own currency, the dinar.
The international community has strongly reacted to Kosovo for the implementation of the regulation, saying that a clear plan is needed that does not harm the Serbian community, and that the deadline for its implementation was too short.
The US envoy for the Western Balkans, Gabriel Escobar, stated on March 15 that he failed to convince the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, to suspend the decision to ban the Serbian currency in Kosovo, until the European Union, the United States and the Government of Kosovo to find a long-term solution, such as the electronic transfer of euros through the Kosovo system.
The European bloc, but also the United States, have criticized the decision on the dinar, saying that it was taken without prior consultation and without considering the negative impacts it has on the Serbian community.
Washington has asked Kosovo to postpone and suspend the decision, but so far the Government of Kosovo has not shown signs that it will withdraw from this regulation.
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