The European Union has expressed the position that Serbia is legally obliged to implement the Brussels Agreement and the Ohrid Annex, a day after the Serbian Prime Minister, Ana Brnabic, confirmed in writing that her country does not intend to implement them.

Brnabic expressed this position on behalf of Serbia, as a reserve to the statement approved at the Summit of the leaders of the EU and those of the Western Balkans in Brussels. The EU spokesman, Peter Stano, emphasized that the binding nature of the agreements has been the bloc’s consistent position.

In the statement approved on Wednesday in Brussels by the leaders of the EU and the Western Balkans, Kosovo and Serbia are called upon to implement this agreement unconditionally and in full.

Kosovo and Serbia, after accepting the Franco-German proposal, in February of this year agreed on its implementation, which took the form of an agreement between them, then known as the Brussels Agreement or the Agreement on the Road to the Normalization of Relations with Kosovo. With the mediation of the EU, both sides agreed on its annex-implementation.