June 9 (SeeNews) - Serbia and Kosovo will resume talks on the normalisation of their relations on June 15, EU spokesman Peter Stano said on Wednesday.
"The next round of the EU-facilitated dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina will take place next week in Brussels, on June 15. It will be attended by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and for the first time by the new prime minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti," Stano said, as seen in a video file posted on the website of the European Commission's audiovisual service.
The meeting will be facilitated by EU high representative for foreign affairs, Josep Borrell, and Miroslav Lajcak, the EU special representative for the dialogue for normalisation of Belgrade-Pristina relations, Stano said.
"We expect that Vucic and Kurti will discuss the way forward in the discussion [...] The dialogue is an ongoing process in which the EU is involved as a facilitator. This is a process through which the EU future of Serbia and Kosovo are advancing," Stano said.
Although the governments have changed throughout the course of the dialogue, the commitments taken are key for a future comprehensive agreement between both sides, Stano added.
In April, Borrell said the EU Commission hoped that Serbia and Kosovo will resume the normalisation talks on May 11 but later Kurti refused to participate in the meeting.
Kosovo's Self-Determination Movement (VV) led by Kurti won the snap elections held in February. Kurti took office as prime minister after securing the support of 67 of 120 lawmakers in Kosovo's parliament on March 23.
On December 10, the chief negotiators of Serbia and Kosovo 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 ruled that 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 holding of snap elections.