Meeting in Brussels/REL: Kosovo and Serbia have confirmed their participation in the September 17 meeting

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Meeting in Brussels/REL: Kosovo and Serbia have confirmed their participation in

The sources of Radio Free Europe in the European Union have said that they expect that on Tuesday, September 17, the Kosovo-Serbia meetings will take place, at the level of chief negotiators, as both Besnik Bislimi from Kosovo and Petar Petkovic from Serbia have confirmed their participation. .

However, according to them, there have been attempts by both sides to interfere in the agenda prepared for the meetings.

Therefore, according to them, if the tripartite meeting does not take place, then both sides will be to blame.

Earlier on Friday, the Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo, Besnik Bislimi, at the same time the country's chief negotiator in the dialogue with Serbia in Brussels, said that he had accepted the participation in a tripartite meeting, set for September 17, and that Serbia had rejected it.

Through a post on X - a platform previously known as Twitter - Bislimi said that Kosovo accepted the meeting according to an agenda determined by the mediator, while Serbia tried to define the agenda "mainly for internal political consumption".

Bislimi has invited the European envoy for the dialogue between the two parties, Miroslav Lajçak, to reject what he considered to be misinformation of the local Serbian media, in which he said that it was reported that Kosovo had rejected the meeting.

Radio Free Europe sources have said that this is not the first time that the parties make proposals that are opposed by the other side.

It is possible that there will be no tripartite meeting on Tuesday, but only bilateral meetings of both delegations with diplomat Lajcak.

This has often happened in the past when the parties did not agree to meet.

Lajçak has held meetings in recent days in Pristina and Belgrade, in order to prepare for the next round of dialogue at the level of chief negotiators.

The parties have been in dialogue since 2011 in Brussels, under the mediation of the EU, they have reached several agreements, but not all of them have been implemented.

A high-level dialogue between the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, and the Serbian President, Aleksandar Vučić, has not been held for a year. Lajcak recently said in an interview for Radio Free Europe that he considers that the societies in Kosovo and Serbia are not ready for normalization./REL


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