The Kosovo government gave donation of €242,356 to the Hospital Centre in North Mitrovica for medical supplies on Wednesday, Avni Arifi announced, emphasizing that „there is no humanitarian crisis“ in Kosovo due to the introduction of taxes for products from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgrade-based news agency Beta reported, citing Arifi’s announcement on Facebook.

Meanwhile, Director of the Hospital Centre Mitrovica Nort, Milan Ivanovic, however, refuted Arifi’s claims, TV Most and Tanjug reported.

“Arifi’s today’s statement is just confirmation of what we have claimed all the time, that Pristina has no intention, nor it ever had it, to establish the Association/Community of Serb-majority municipalities, Office for Kosovo and Metohija Director, Marko Djuric said, Radio kontakt plus reported. Djuric added only four months ago, Pristina claimed they would certainly fulfil their obligation this time.

Djuric reminded Arifi joined the process recently, but he had more than enough time to go through reached agreements, since they do not contain many pages.

Serbian media quotes Director of the office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric, who in a statement said that "the head of the negotiating delegation of Pristina in the Brussels dialogue, Avni Arifi, is not competent to give in or deny anything, especially not territory."

Ahead of the Sunday meeting between the presidents of Serbia and Kosovo, the chiefs of the Belgrade and Pristina negotiating teams will continue a technical part of the dialogue in Brussels on Friday, with pessimism looming over the event.

The EU facilitator in this part of the talks, expected to last two days, will be Angelina Eichhors, the director for Western Balkans in the European External Action Service (EEAS), the Belgrade media reported.

They also said the agenda would include all open issues related to the agreements reached so far.

Pristina's chief negotiator Avni Arifi's statement that his side never interrupted the dialogue with Belgrade and that Belgrade failed to fulfil the obligations assumed by the Brussels agreement cannot be called anything else than the untruth, says deputy director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Dusan Kozarev in a statement delivered to media.

Although EU intended to hold a new round of technical dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina this week in Brussels, Pristina delegation refused so, Tanjug news agency learnt in Brussels.