BELGRADE (Serbia), August 7 (SeeNews) – Belgrade and Pristina will hold the next high-level meeting within the dialogue for normalisation of their relations on September 7, Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday.
At that meeting Serbia will insist on the establishment of Community of Serb Municipalities under the terms of the Brussels agreement signed in 2013, Vucic said in a video file posted on the YouTube channel of ruling party SNS.
"We will not leave the dialogue, but we want a real dialogue, not a dialogue in which they will tell us every day how we should just recognise their independence," Vucic told a news conference.
The Pristina-Belgrade dialogue, launched in 2010, aims for the parties to achieve a comprehensive legally binding agreement solving all outstanding issues in order to progress on their European integration path.
Serbia withdrew from the dialogue in November 2018, after Kosovo's government decided to increase the import tax on all goods produced in Serbia and Bosnia to 100% from 10% set earlier that month, saying the move aimed to protect Kosovo's sovereignty and interests.
On June 6, Kosovo's new government of prime minister Avdullah Hoti removed all barriers to trade with Serbia, paving the way for a resumption of the normalisation negotiations with Belgrade.