The Community/Association of Serbian municipalities (ZSO) in Kosovo will be established within the agreed time frame and in accordance with the Brussels agreement, said the participants of a panel discussion on the normalization of Belgrade-Pristina relations held in Brussels late on Monday.

Marko Djuric, the Head of the Serbian government's office for KiM, said that, despite many disagreements with the head of Pristina's negotiating team, Edita Tahiri, he was confident that the ZSO will be established as agreed and that the Kosovo government will soon issue a decree that would enable this.

Tahiri said that it was important to meet all provisions of the Brussels agreement, adding that the day when the ZSO would be formed will be the day when all "parallel structures" of Serbia in Kosovo will be removed.

European Parliament Rapporteur for Serbia David McAllister, who also took part in the discussion organized by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, stressed how important is to implement everything that was agreed in order for Chapter 35 of Serbia's EU accession process to be opened before the year ends.