The President of Serbia, Aleksadar Vučić, told Prva television of Serbia that the deadlines for an agreement between Kosovo and Serbia no longer have any meaning and that Serbia is ready to fulfill everything that does not include the recognition of Kosovo and its membership in the United Nations. United.
Germany, France and Italy have requested that Belgrade recognize the de facto independence of Kosovo and that Kosovo form the Association of municipalities with a Serbian majority.
This was stated in the letter signed by the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, the French President, Emmanuel Macron, and the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni.
This letter comes after the leaders of the three key states of the European Union held separate meetings with the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, and the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, in Brussels on October 26.
"I told you that we are ready to implement [the agreements], but you said that we have not agreed on this," Vucic said, adding that he refused to sign the documents offered. "You told them that we have the Constitution of Serbia", he said.
Vucic also said that he did not ask for any side letter to be accepted.
After the meetings in Brussels, Kurti's Office said that the Kosovar Prime Minister has refused to accept a side letter presented by Vucic, which according to the Government of Kosovo undoes the three principles of the Agreement towards the normalization of relations, its Annex and the draft proposed by the five emissaries who visited Kosovo and Serbia on October 21.
"I said that we are ready to fulfill our obligations and added that we cannot accept anything related to the recognition of Kosovo's independence or its membership in the UN," said Vučič.
He added that he has heard about several deadlines for an agreement between Kosovo and Serbia for more than ten years and they no longer make sense.
The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, said on October 27 that he was ready to sign an agreement for the normalization of relations and the proposal for the formation of the Association, but added that "the Serbian side was not interested".
Separate meetings in Brussels of the dialogue bearers with key European leaders ended without any results.
Kosovo has said that the European proposal for a draft statute for the establishment of the Association "is carefully written" to the Constitution of Kosovo.
Kosovo and Serbia have reached agreement on the Association in 2013 and then in 2015 on the principles for its establishment.
In 2015, the Constitutional Court of Kosovo found that the agreement is not in full harmony with the Constitution.
Serbia demands that Kosovo implement the agreements reached, but the Government of Kosovo has declared against a mono-ethnic association. /rel