The first day of a new round of dialogue at the technical level between Belgrade and Pristina ended in Brussels on Wednesday afternoon.

During the negotiations, the Serbian side insisted on discussing the issue of the Trepca mining basin, which Pristina refused to do.

Therefore, this issue was discussed with the EU - the mediator in the Kosovo dialogue - and on that occasion representatives of the EU reiterated that they "took note" of Serbia's position.

The Belgrade-Pristina expert-level dialogue will resume in Brussels on Wednesday and Thursday, with the Belgrade delegation to be headed by the director of the government Office for Kosovo-Metohija, Marko Djuric.

The discussions will focus on the current state of the dialogue and implementation of agreements on freedom of movement and education degrees, the Office for Kosovo-Metohija said in a statement.

Marko Djuric says it is "impermissible" for Edita Tahiri's report on Brussels agreement implementation to be included in the Chapter 35 negotiating framework.

Tahiri is a minister in the Kosovo government, in charge of the ongoing Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, while the chapter in question, a part of Serbia's EU accession negotiations, relates to Kosovo.

President of the Committee for Kosovo and Metohija Milovan Drecun says that he would like today's discussion on Trepča to be based on facts.

The Committee will be addressed by Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Đurić, who will submit a report on the work of the office and inform the committee on the progress of the dialogue in Brussels.

The meeting of Prime Minister of Albania and Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić and Edi Rama, is a great encouragement for dialogue between women from Belgrade and Pristina, said MP Dijana Vukomanović on the sixth Belgrade Security Forum.

- Even in these difficult circumstances, the dialogue continues - Vukomanović stressed, adding that dialogue would be transferred on the younger generation as this was the conclusion of the panel.

Organisations that monitor war crimes cases and the families of missing persons in Kosovo said they were surprised by a recent statement by Kosovo’s Minister for Dialogue, Edita Tahiri. The latter told members of a parliamentary committee on Monday that the issue of missing persons is not being discussed in Brussels because the European Union has asked for the lists of missing persons and that neither Pristina nor Belgrade provided such lists.

President of Serbia, Tomislav Nikolic, said in an interview for the Belgrade paper Kurir that they have made enough concessions to the Albanians in Kosovo and cannot afford to continue them by handing over telecommunication assets. “We cannot do this. Let someone else secure them the telecommunication and postal codes, they cannot touch our assets”, Nikolic is reported to have said.

The leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK) Ramush Haradinaj and that of the Initiative for Kosovo (NISMA) Fatmir Limaj held today a press conference at the AAK Headquarters.

"Serbia will continue the discussions with Pristina on the agreement on telecommunications and try to improve the situation," Serbian Prime Minister said Thursday. "We will have many more contacts, we will talk to everyone, and try to see if there is anything we can improve or everything is set in stone, in layman's terms," Vucic told reporters in Senta, northern Serbia. When asked what would happen if everything remained "set in stone", Vucic replied the decision was yet to be made.