Serbia’s chief negotiator in talks with Kosovo, Petar Petkovic, said that “Pristina is killing” the dialogue for the normalization of relations.

Petkovic and Kosovo’s chief negotiator, Besnik Bislimi, met on Tuesday in Brussels for a new round of talks, mediated by the representative of the EU, Miroslav Lajcak, but which ended without any agreement.

The parties discussed, among other things, the Basic Agreement towards the normalization of relations, its implementation Annex, the missing in war and an agreement on energy.

Petkovic said in a post on X on Wednesday that Bislim “rejected” and “criticized” all of this.

In the press release issued by Bislimi on Tuesday, it was said, among other things, that the Serbian side refused to engage in discussions for the approval of the plan for the implementation and formalization of the Basic Agreement, based on the guarantees requested at the leaders’ meeting last week.

The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, and the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, were in Brussels on June 26, but only held separate meetings with the European mediators, after Kurti made the meeting with Vucic conditional on three demands: the signing of the Basic Agreement, the withdrawal of the letter by which Serbia officially refused to implement the agreement with Kosovo, and the handover to Kosovo of Milan Radoicic, suspected of organizing the armed attack in Banjska.

Vučić refused these requests and his direct meeting with Kurti did not take place.