“I am convinced that with the final agreement Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja will belong to Kosovo, and I guarantee that Gazivode, Mitrovica North and Trepca will remain within Kosovo,” President Hashim Thaci said after the meeting with Pristina negotiating team, to which he delivered a report on the dialogue with Belgrade, RTK reported.
Tensions have shown how much it is necessary to lift the measures introduced by Pristina in order to create an environment for Belgrade-Pristina dialogue continuation, Director of the Centre for Foreign Policy, Dragan Djukanovic told RTS.
Speaking for the RTS morning news edition, Djukanovic added new measures that Pristina is announcing would completely deter normalization of Belgrade-Pristina relations and it seems it is yet another mechanism Ramush Haradinaj and his government are using to slow down or bring the entire process into question.
Kosovo police members confiscated Serbian licence plates in the villages of Ranilug and Veliko Ropotovo, populated by the Serb community, RTK2 reports today.
According to unofficial information, police in plain clothes stopped the vehicles with Serbian licence plates, gave traffic tickets to the drivers and sent them to the magistrate.
One of the witnesses confirmed to RTK2, that the police was confiscating the licence plates under the excuse, “no RKS plates are allowed in Serbia, then Serbian plates cannot be allowed in Kosovo either.”
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday the European Union should secure the implementation of the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) making Pristina revoke its decision to increase import taxes for goods from Serbia and Bosnia, Beta news agency reports.
Speaking to reporters in Helsinki at the sidelines of the European Peoples’ Parties (EPP) Congress he said the forthcoming meeting with his Kosovo counterpart Hashim Thaci in Brussels would be awkward, since Belgrade expected the EU to stop Pristina's violation of the CEFTA provisions.
Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will resume the dialogue this week in Brussels, Pristina-based Koha Ditore and Belgrade-based Tanjug news agency reported last night.
This announcement arrives in the midst of intense discussions on the legally binding agreement between Kosovo and Serbia. Vucic and Thaci have simultaneously been announcing ethnic delimitation between Serbs and Albanians, i.e. border correction, which was harshly criticized by their oppositions.
A technical dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina is under way, with the ultimate goal of scheduling a top-level agreement next. Spokesperson at the European Commission, Maja Kocijancic, said this in Brussels, on October 23, Beta news agency reported.
EU High Representative Federica Mogherini's spokesperson told Beta news agency that "a date should be set" for a meeting between Belgrade and Pristina highest-ranking representatives.
The next high-level meeting within the Brussels dialogue would be held when the two sides decide, EU spokesperson Maja Kocijancic told Tanjug news agency.
“The time, place and agenda, as well as the format of dialogue are set by the two sides. The new meeting would be announced as soon as it is confirmed,” Kocijancic said, in a response to Tanjug’s inquiry when the next meeting between presidents Aleksandar Vucic and Hashim Thaci could be expected.
The latest Brussels meeting between the Serbian and Kosovo Presidents, Aleksandar Vucic and Hashim Thaci, ended quickly and without visible progress towards the normalisation of relations.
The EU-mediated meeting on Wednesday in Brussels between the leaders of Kosovo and Serbia ended with the two sides remaining entrenched in their positions, and without progress towards the signing of a legally binding agreement on the normalisation of relations.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic says Wednesday's Belgrade-Pristina talks in Brussels were "very complex."
He said that it was agreed they would continue to seek a common denominator of a compromise solution, and to preserve peace and stability in relations between Belgrade and Pristina.
In a brief statement to the press after the meeting, Vucic said that the talks were "certainly not easy and there were two things we agreed on."
The Kosovar and Serbian Presidents met with High Representative Mogherini to discuss the normalization of Kosovo-Serbia relations. Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic held a meeting to discuss normalization of relations between the two countries on Wednesday.
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