July 19 (SeeNews) - Serbia's president Aleksandar Vucic and his Kosovo counterpart, Hashim Thaci, agreed to reconvene a meeting in a few weeks' time to continue their work on normalising bilateral relations, the EU's diplomatic service said.
Vucic and Thaci met in Brussels on Wednesday to review the progress made in the discussions on the framework of a legally binding agreement on comprehensive normalisation of relations between the two sides, the EU External Action Service said in a statement.
The meeting was hosted by EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini.
In a separate statement issued by Serbia's government, Vucic said that the talks were very complex and that he agreed with Thaci to continue to seek a common denominator of a compromise solution, and to preserve peace and stability.
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 predominantly populated 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.