September 17 (SeeNews) - Serbia and Kosovo negotiators will meet in Brussels on Thursday to start discussing the settlement of mutual financial claims and arrangements for non-majority communities, a senior EU official said.
"Both topics are very complex. That is why we will discuss financial claims tomorrow and arrangements for non-majority community in coming days," the EU special representative for the dialogue for normalisation of Belgrade - Pristina relations, Miroslav Lajcak, said in his Twitter profile on Wednesday.
Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo prime minister Avdullah Hoti met in Brussels on September 7 to discuss for the first time arrangements for non-majority communities and the settlement of mutual financial claims and property issues as part of the EU-facilitated dialogue for the normalisation of Belgrade - Pristina relations.
Vucic and Hoti agreed to follow-up on their discussions at expert level and to re-convene at the level of leaders later this month, Lajcak said back then.
"First topic on the agenda tomorrow will be the Community of Serb majority municipalities. At least for the Serbian side. The one agreed under EU facilitation seven-and-a half years ago," the director of the Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric, said in response to Lajcak's tweet on Wednesday.
The Pristina-Belgrade dialogue, launched in 2010, aims for the parties to achieve a comprehensive legally binding agreement solving all outstanding issues in order for Serbia and Kosovo to progress on their European integration path.