Belgrade-Pristina talks to resume in Brussels

Belgrade-Pristina talks to resume in Brussels

BELGRADE -- Government officials from Belgrade and Pristina will on Monday resume the Kosovo dialogue and consider how to implement previous agreements.

Among the main topics are the formation of a community of Serb municipalities "and completion of the largely harmonized justice mechanism that ensure the rights and interests of Serbs in the Kosovo system."

The Beta agency reported this was said by an EU diplomatic source, who stated they "cannot say whether some other topics that are not on the agenda, will be the subject of discussion."

These are mainly the question of Serb property in Kosovo, which was launched when the Pristina authorities attempted to nationalize Trepca, as well as the dismissal of a Serb minister in the Kosovo government, strongly condemned by Belgrade as possibly having a bad effect on the dialogue in Brussels.

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said that she called on Serbian and Kosovo prime ministers Aleksandar Vucic and Isa Mustafa, as well as Ivica Dacic, to, in the first round of the negotiations since March 31, 2014, "exchange views on further normalization of relations."

Vucic said that Serbia was ready for dialogue about Trepca and that it would be discussed in the framework of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue in Brussels.

The Serbian prime minister underlined that the attempt of Pristina to show that the mining complex was "a resource of Kosovo" has failed so far, adding Pristina wanted to finish the privatization of Trepca before opening this issue and the contentious issue of privatization of Serb property in Kosovo in Brussels.

Dacic said that the Serbian team in Brussels will insist on property issues, the...