Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti met on Tuesday, May 2, in Brussels to continue negotiations on the implementation of the EU-backed plan to normalize relations.
This is reported by the AP agency.
The meeting is expected to declare more than 1,600 people still officially missing since the 1998-99 war. Kosovo accuses Serbia of concealing their location.
The first draft of the statute on the creation of the Community of Municipalities with a Serbian majority in Kosovo, which Serbia insists on, will also be discussed. Belgrade says that progress in negotiations is impossible until this issue is resolved.
The previous meeting of the leaders of Serbia and Kosovo took place in February. Vucic and Kurti then agreed to the EU's proposed plan to end the months-long political crisis. At a summit in North Macedonia in March, Belgrade and Pristina tentatively agreed on how to implement the plan.
Only some of the agreements reached between the two countries during 12 years of EU-facilitated negotiations have been implemented. Brussels and the US have often intervened to calm tensions between Belgrade and Pristina, especially since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The EU's special representative for dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina and other Western Balkan issues, Myroslav Lajcak, called Tuesday's meeting a "decisive step forward" and said it was "important to avoid any actions that could worsen the atmosphere."
It will be recalled that on February 27, the head of the EU foreign policy service, Josep Borrell, published the full text of the EU's proposal for the normalization of relations between Kosovo and Serbia. It contains clauses on mutual recognition of documents and state symbols, as well as Belgrade's agreement not to prevent Pristina from joining international organizations.
