Stano: Brussels and Ohrid agreements legally binding

BRUSSELS - EU spokesperson Peter Stano said on Friday the Brussels and Ohrid agreements from the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue were legally binding in their entirety to both parties and that their comprehensive implementation was an integral part of the parties' EU paths.

Stano said this in a statement released following a letter in which the Serbian government expressed a reservation over a declaration adopted at Wednesday's EU-Western Balkans summit in Brussels.

He said the Brussels agreement on the path to normalisation and its implementation annex from Ohrid had become legally binding through a March 18 written statement by EU foreign policy and security chief Josep Borrell.

Stano said this was a consistent EU position stated publicly on several occasions.

Serbian PM Ana Brnabic filed the reservation to the EU declaration on Thursday to protect Serbian...