TIRANA, November 21 – Talks between Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovar Prime Minister Albin Kurti in Brussels have failed to ease the tense situation in the north of Kosovo linked to a phaseout of Serbian license plates and other documents, fueling concerns the row may turn violent, reported RFE/RL on Monday.
Video from the European Union’s broadcaster EBS on November 21 showed the two men sitting across from each other at tables while the bloc’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, and Miroslav Lajcak, the EU special representative for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue and other Western Balkan regional issues, were seated at tables off to the side.
But any hopes of success appeared to be dashed quickly after several hours of discussions.
“After many hours of discussion from eight o’clock this morning, the two parties did not agree to a solution today,” Borrell said in a statement after the talks.
“For the sake of transparency, we submitted a proposal that could avoid this dangerous situation. President Vucic accepted it, but unfortunately Prime Minister Kurti did not,” he added.
Borrell’s sentiments were echoed by Vucic, who told reporters: “For reasons that are unclear to me, we have failed to reach absolutely any agreement…The Albanian side did not want to accept anything,” Vucic said. /Argumentum.al
