August 17 (SeeNews) - Kosovo is pursuing mutual recognition with Serbia in the EU-facilitated dialogue for the normalisation of relations between Pristina and Belgrade, Kosovo president Hashim Thaci said on Friday.
"The end of the dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia, including the demarcation of 400km of border between two countries, must ensure mutual recognition and Kosovo's membership in UN and other multilaterals," Thaci said in a Twitter post. "Other opinions about the end-game are nonsense or false interpretations."
On Thursday, Eurioean Commission spokesman Carlos Martin Ruiz de Gordejuela said Serbia's president Aleksandar Vucic and Thaci have agreed to meet again at the beginning of September to continue their work on normalising bilateral relations.
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 normalisations 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.
Serbia resumed talks on the normalisation of relations with Kosovo in Brussels in June.