Balkans | The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo meet in Brussels

The meeting of the leaders of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue between Serbia and Kosovo, mediated by the European Union, will be held on May 2 in the Belgian capital, Brussels.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovar Prime Minister Albin Kurti have confirmed they will attend the meeting in Brussels on May 2, according to a written statement from the office of the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Relations and Security Policy Josep Borrell.

The meeting between Vucic and Kurti, with the participation of Borrell, and the European Union’s Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, will focus on implementing the Ohrid Agreement on the road to normalization.

The parties are expected to agree to the Declaration on Unidentified Persons as the first item on the agenda, and then discuss the first draft of the Statutes relating to the Serb-majority municipal community in Kosovo.

Relations between Serbia and Kosovo

Serbia considers Kosovo, which unilaterally declared its independence in 2008, to be its territory.

Serbia and Kosovo, which clash periodically, are trying to find a common way to normalize relations, and eventually the two countries get to know each other, within the scope of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue process initiated in 2011 with the mediation of the European Union.

On March 18, in the EU-mediated negotiations in Ohrid, North Macedonia, which lasted about 12 hours, an agreement was reached on an agreement that would normalize relations between the two countries.

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