Lajcak: Chief negotiators of Belgrade, Pristina to meet in December

BRUSSELS - The EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak has announced the next meeting of the two parties' chief negotiators within the framework of the Brussels dialogue would take place in December.

Lajcak made the announcement in a Facebook post recapping a "productive and insightful" two-week period during which he visited Geneva, Tirana, and Paris.

"With my interlocutors at the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Quai d’Orsay and elsewhere, I engaged in important discussions on the Dialogue and the path forward. These conversations are critical in shaping the work my team is doing as we prepare for the upcoming Chief Negotiators' meeting in December. I’m looking forward to the coming period," Lajcak wrote in the post.

The chief negotiators last met in Brussels on October 24 and also held a trilateral meeting with Lajcak.

Lajcak said at the time the meeting had addressed the implementation of the Ohrid Agreement, which he noted was essentially yet to begin.

After the trilateral meeting with Lajcak and Pristina's chief negotiator Besnik Bislimi, the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic, who is also Belgrade's chief negotiator, said he had insisted on the establishment of a Community of Serb Municipalities, which he noted was essential for the process of normalisation of Belgrade and Pristina relations.

He said it was evident Pristina had no sincere readiness to reach an agreement on any issue.