PRISTINA (Kosovo), September 7 (SeeNews) – Difficulties remain in the EU-facilitated dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, the EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on Friday.
“I held several rounds of talks with both in bilateral format on all issues on the table. Difficulties remain,” Mogherini said in a press release, after a meeting with Kosovo's president Hashim Thaci and his Serbian counterpart, Aleksandar Vucic, in Brussels to continue work on normalising bilateral relations.
“I trust the full commitment of both Presidents to continue the process and reach in the coming months a legally binding agreement on comprehensive normalisation of relations, in line with international law,” Mogherini added.
The EU foreign policy chief also said she will convene in Brussels the next high level session of the dialogue before the Ministerial week of the UN General Assembly to bring the two sides together to advance the work on the content of the agreement.
According to media reports, a change of the border between Kosovo and Serbia may be put on the agenda of the negotiations between Thaci and Vucic.
In April 2013 the governments of Serbia and Kosovo reached a deal on the normalisation of bilateral relations, the so-called Brussels Agreement, but neither of them signed it. According to the agreement, neither country would block, or encourage others to block, the other country's progress to EU membership.
Belgrade does not recognise the independence of Kosovo, its former southern province populated predominantly by ethnic Albanians. Kosovo unilaterally proclaimed independence from Serbia in February 2008 and has so far been recognised by more than half of the 193 UN member states.