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On the eve of a new meeting
tomorrow in Brussels between Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic
and Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti, Italian Prime Minister
Giorgia Meloni French President Emmanuel Macron, and German
Chancellor Olaf Scholz sent a joint letter to the two leaders
urging them to take a responsible and constructive approach in
the new EU-facilitated dialogue session, and urging them to
accept the European plan for an agreement on the normalization
of relations between Belgrade and Pristina. Both Serbian and
Kosovar media reported on the joint letter from the three
European leaders to Vucic and Kurti. However, only the press in
Pristina reported the content in part, while in Belgrade there
was only a brief report of the letter received from the Serbian
president. According to the Kosovo daily Koha ditore, which
cites sources in Albin Kurti's government, Macron, Scholz and
Meloni say they are convinced that the acceptance and
implementation of the proposed European agreement is of
fundamental importance for the general welfare of the citizens,
for peace and prosperous development of the region, and for the
advancement in the European perspective of Pristina and
Belgrade. At the same time, the letter calls for the respect and
implementation of the commitments made by the parties in the
agreements already concluded in the dialogue, including the
establishment of the Community of Serbian Municipalities in
Kosovo. At the center of tomorrow's meeting is the proposed
agreement on Kosovo developed in recent months by France and
Germany, and endorsed by the European Union. The Serbian side
has made it known that it intends to forcefully reintroduce the
issue of the Community of Serbian Municiplities, which Pristina,
however, continues to reject. Tomorrow's much-anticipated
meeting in Brussels will begin at 3 p.m. with separate meetings
that EU diplomacy chief Josep Borrell and European mediator
Miroslav Lajcak will have with Vucic and Kurti, which will be
followed by a collegial meeting between the three sides. A press
point by Borrell is scheduled at the end. Tomorrow's meeting and
prospects for resolving the complicated Kosovo issue were among
the topics of telephone talks Vucic had today with Turkish
President Redzep Tayyip Erdogan and Derek Chollet, special
adviser to the U.S. State Department.
