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The European envoy for the Kosovo-Serbia talks, Miroslav Lajçak, said on Wednesday that the visit to Pristina and Belgrade helped him to clarify the next steps for the escalation of the situation.
He made these comments on social networks after meeting with the president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade, in an effort to find a way out of the crisis in northern Kosovo.
Mr. Lajcak said that he had an open and honest conversation with the Serbian president "about the way forward, including the need for new local elections with the participation of Kosovo Serbs as well as the return to dialogue."
The Serbian President, Aleksadar Vucic, said after the meeting with Mr. Lajcak that the situation in Kosovo was discussed, the ways to calm the tensions on the ground and the implementation of the agreements reached so far.
He said that " once again I warned that the Serbian people in Kosovo are exposed to the worst tortures and persecutions in the last 15 years and I reiterated the demands for respect for their rights and safety", the Serbian president wrote on social networks .
The European Union is asking Kosovo and Serbia to fulfill three demands that include the suspension of police operations, the relocation of mayors to alternative offices and the announcement of early elections with the unconditional participation of Kosovo Serbs.
Mr. Lajcak went to Belgrade, after a visit to Kosovo, where he emphasized after meetings with the country's leaders that there is an understanding of the need to move forward with this three-point plan.
"We still have to continue our discussions about the concrete steps that will take us there ," said Mr. Lajçak.
The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, said on Wednesday that he and the European envoy discussed the escalation of the situation and the normalization of relations with Serbia, while he assessed the meeting as positive.
"These three points I have practically told you that to a considerable extent the government has expressed its readiness because we agree on early elections and early elections also regulate the issue of the mayor in the municipality of Leposavič, because with elections the mayor comes and goes. I don't think that there should be other fair and legal ways to remove the elected president ", he said.
Prime Minister Kurti said that before holding the elections for mayors of the four municipalities in the north, proper preparation must be ensured so that the process does not fail.
"It is very easy to say early elections and I am in favor of them, I am not in favor of continuing with the legitimacy of the elections where the participation was 3.5 percent, but on the other hand, if you do not have a single gram of guarantee that in the next early elections it will not be repeated On April 23, we must think and rethink about better preparation ," he said.
Mr. Lajcak's visit to Kosovo and Serbia takes place within the efforts of Western diplomacy to find a solution after the tense situation in the north of Kosovo that started at the end of May, while the authorities began implementing the results of the boycotted April 23 elections. from Serbian political parties.
Western diplomats have expressed concern about the possibility of escalation of the security situation at a time when neither Kosovo nor Serbia have taken steps to reduce tensions despite all their calls./ VOA
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