Serbia’s chief negotiator, Petar Petkovic, has announced that he will hold a meeting with Kosovo’s chief negotiator, Besnik Bislimi, in Brussels on Tuesday, under the mediation of the European bloc’s envoy for the dialogue between the two neighboring states, Peter Sorensen.
“Working atmosphere in the Belgrade delegation in Brussels ahead of direct talks between Belgrade and Pristina under the mediation of the European Union,” wrote Serbia’s chief negotiator, Petar Petkovic, on Instagram.
The office of Kosovo’s chief negotiator, Besnik Bislimi, has not responded regarding the trilateral meeting in Brussels.
The June 10 meeting comes after bilateral meetings that Kosovo’s Deputy Prime Minister, Besnik Bislimi, and chief negotiator, Petkovic, held with Sorensen on June 2 in Brussels.
The meeting also comes after, according to Bislimi, a planned trilateral meeting on June 2nd failed, due to the Serbian team facing delays in getting to Brussels.
Bislimi said that in his meeting with Sorensen last week in Brussels, he discussed the approach that the European official will take in the upcoming phases of talks at the level of chief negotiators, as well as those at the high level, under the leadership of the EU’s chief diplomat, Kaja Kallas.
“We also discussed a very important process that we have – supporting Albanians in the Presevo Valley through assistance for small farmers,” Bislimi said, according to a press release issued by his office.
