Serbia is ready for “agreements and compromises” in talks with Kosovo, said the prime minister of Serbia, Miloš Vučević, for the AFP agency.
Vučević gave this statement a day before the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, and the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, meet for a new round of dialogue for the normalization of relations, which is mediated by the European Union.
“We are ready to make agreements and compromises, which mean that neither party is an absolute winner or an absolute loser, but that Serbia and the Albanians should be more equally satisfied, or rather equally dissatisfied”, said Vučević.
“Everything else is not and cannot have long-term sustainability,” he added.
For the last time, Kurti and Vučić met in Brussels on September 14, 2023, when they discussed the implementation of the Agreement on the way to the normalization of relations, but this meeting resulted in no progress, due to the contradictory positions of the parties.
On June 25, Kurti declared to journalists in Pristina that the state of this process and the way forward will be discussed at the meeting in Brussels.
He also said that the Agreement on the way to the normalization of relations makes it possible to normalize relations between Kosovo and Serbia “with de facto recognition at the center”.
Kurti accused Serbia of non-implementation and violation of this agreement.
This agreement – which was reached last year – has not been signed by the parties, but the EU says it is legally binding for Kosovo and Serbia. Kosovo demands that the agreement be signed, but Serbia has so far refused to do so.
The agreement of 11 articles, among other things, foresees a level of self-management for the Serbian community in Kosovo and mutual recognition of state symbols, while asking Pristina and Belgrade to also implement all previous agreements reached during the dialogue.
The EU – which since 2011 mediates the dialogue for the normalization of relations between Kosovo and Serbia, has criticized the parties for not implementing the agreement.
