The dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina at the expert level will continue on Wednesday, 7 September in Brussels, announced today the Office for Kosovo and Metohija.

As stated, from 7 to 9 September, Belgrade and Pristina delegations will discuss the implementation of the agreement on the establishment of the Association/Community of Serb municipalities, cadastre, and recognition of diplomas, freedom of movement and the delimitation of the northern and southern Mitrovica.

President of the Commission for Missing Persons, Veljko Odalović says that the ZSO will be formed soon, if Biden's message was taken seriously in Pristina.

When asked when he expects establishment of the ZSO, Odalović said to the RTS "how Pristina works, this will last."

He says that the ZSO constitutes a "bone in the throat" to Pristina and "many others who have introduced Belgrade into a dialogue with the promise that ZSO will be formed."

Veton Surroi considers that renegotiation of the agreement for the demarcation of the border between Kosovo and Montenegro is an interest of Kosovo, because, according to him, this would create an internal consensus. He also considers that it is an interest of Kosovo and Montenegro for the demarcation to happen based on the consent of both parties. Currently this is not possible being that one of the parties is not unanimous, he writes.

Belgrade is fulfilling its obligations deriving from the Brussels dialogue, even those that are not, from the media perspective, particularly attractive or popular, however this is not the case when it comes to Pristina, said Marko Đurić, director of the Serbian Government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija.

Kosovo representatives have tried to get access to Serbia’s telecommunications company (Telekom Srbija), which would have allowed them to wiretap Serbian citizens’ phones, Marko Djuric, director of the government Office for Kosovo and Metohija, said.

The final message after the visit of the US vice-president Joseph Biden to Belgrade and Pristina is that interest of Serbia and US are now matching when it comes to the Association/Community of Serb majority municipalities (A/CSM), said Minister for Local Government Administration in the Kosovo government, Ljubomir Marić.

Kosovo’s President Hashim Thaçi told reporters in Pristina today that it is a great honour for Kosovo to welcome the U.S. Vice President Joe Biden. “20 years ago when we were faced with annihilation by Serbia, then-U.S. Senator Joe Biden, became our voice. An independent and sovereign country, Kosovo has now strengthened peace, stability and cooperation in the region. We have made important steps in the normalisation of relations with Serbia.

The paper writes that the main reason for the failure of the new round of negotiations in Brussels is that Pristina had attempted to “turn around” the agreement of August last year, concerning the assets of ‘Telekom Srbija’ in Kosovo.

The Kosovo delegation, led by Minister and chief negotiator Edita Tahiri, and including representatives of ARKEP and mobile telephony operators, attended a meeting in Brussels on the issue of the telecom. The meeting, which lasted 20 hours, focused on the final steps for the ITU to give the state telephone code 383 to Kosovo.

After 20 hours of talks in Brussels, delegations of Belgrade and Pristina did not manage to settle all elements which are necessary for the implementation of the agreement on telecommunications.