Next week, likely on Thursday, October 24, a new round of meetings is expected to take place in Brussels as part of the dialogue for normalizing relations between Kosovo and Serbia at the chief negotiators’ level.
This information comes from diplomatic sources within the European Union, although no specific details about the meetings were provided.
In the EU, the term “meetings” is often used because they are unsure whether there will be a trilateral meeting, meaning a meeting between both delegations in the presence of the EU facilitator.
So far, meetings have typically been bilateral between the EU’s special envoy for dialogue, Miroslav Lajčak, and the chief negotiators from Kosovo and Serbia, but not trilateral.
The last time a trilateral meeting took place was on July 2 of this year. However, following that meeting, the parties emerged with diametrically opposed positions regarding what had transpired. Both sides accused each other of a “lack of willingness to engage in dialogue.”
