March 5 (SeeNews) - Serbia and Kosovo have already reached an agreement on some key aspects in the negotiations on the normalisation of relations and will resume the talks before the summer, a senior EU official said.
"We have already agreed on some parts of the future agreement, some text related to missing and displaced persons and economic cooperation," Miroslav Lajcak, the EU special representative for the dialogue for normalisation of Belgrade-Pristina relations, said in a video file posted on the website of N1 TV on Thursday.
The agreed texts will not be revealed to the public until a comprehensive agreement is reached, Lajcak said.
"I think we have enough space and I expect that the first meeting will take place within a reasonable period time, after the formation of all the necessary institutions in Pristina and that could be certainly before the summer," he added.
Kosovo's opposition Self-Determination Movement (VV) led by ousted former Prime Minister Albin Kurti won the February 14 snap elections and is currently forming a new government.
The chief negotiators of Serbia and Kosovo on December 10 resumed talks on financial and property claims as part of the negotiations on the normalisation of relations after the talks were suspended in September due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, later in December, the Kosovo Constitutional Court said one of the votes with which the government led by Avdullah Hoti of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) was elected in June was invalid and ordered the organisation of snap elections.
The aim of the Pristina-Belgrade dialogue, launched in 2010, is that the parties reach a comprehensive legally binding agreement solving all outstanding issues in order for Serbia and Kosovo to progress on their European integration path.