European Union has confirmed that high-level dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade will resume on 9 February. A press release issued by the EU states that the EU High Representative Federica Mogherini will facilitate the meeting between Prime Minister of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic and Prime Minister of Kosovo Isa Mustafa in Brussels. It also said: "This is the first high level meeting since after the appointment of the new government in Belgrade and the formation of the new government in Pristina.
The Belgrade-Pristina dialogue resumed in Brussels on February 9, having been interrupted almost for a year because of numerous elections in Serbia, Kosovo and the EU respectively. Despite the turbulent atmosphere created in the past months, political analyst Dušan Janjić tells our radio that he does not expect any spectacular results or big changes.
The prime ministers of Serbia and Kosovo, Aleksandar Vucic and Isa Mustafa, will meet in Brussels on February 9th to continue negotiations between the two countries after a break in talks that lasted several months.
Kosovo Prime Minister Isa Mustafa met yesterday in Pristina the Director for Western Europe, Western Balkans and Turkey in the European External Action Service (EEAS), Fernando Gentilini. The two officials discussed preparations for the meetings between Kosovo and Serbia representatives that will be held in Brussels in early February.
Director of the Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric announced that representatives of Serbia at the forthcoming talks in Brussels, on February 9, would run several topics of importance to the Serbian community in the province.
"The first topics of interest, most certainly, will be the position of Serbian municipalities, the position of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Serbian property in Kosovo and Metohija, justice.
Lajmireports that the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting on Kosovo will be held on 6 February. The news portal writes that this meeting will be a forerunner of the Pristina-Belgrade dialogue to be held in Brussels on 9 February. According to Lajmi, Kosovo and Serbia are expected to be represented by their respective Foreign Ministers Hashim Thaci and Ivica Dacic.
Kosovo’s Minister without portfolio Edita Tahiri told the news site on Thursday that the issue of the Trepca mining complex would under no circumstance be discussed in the Pristina-Belgrade dialogue. According to Tahiri, the red lines set in the dialogue with Belgrade do not allow for such topics to be addressed. She also said that the Constitution of Kosovo does not allow opening topics that are related to Kosovo’s wealth and territorial integrity.
The government of Serbia wants dialogue with Kosovo on the Trepca issue.
BELGRADE – Serbia’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said Thursday that the agenda of a new round of dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina had not yet been drawn up and that Serbia expected the implementation of the Brussels agreement to continue from where it was left off.
“So far, we still have no set agenda and we expect to continue where we left off and to get to see the Brussels agreement being implemented,” Dacic told reporters after a meeting at the Foreign Ministry with Chinese Ambassador to Serbia Li Manchang, who handed him a donation of that country.
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“The Government of Kosovo has not changed the decision on the ownership of Trepca. Trepca is one hundred per cent owned by Kosovo, but the question which is under consideration relates to the model of the management of this property and future private investments.