Petkovic: Pristina showed it is not ready for normalisation

BRUSSELS - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Tuesday evening Pristina had shown it was not ready for normalisation of relations with Belgrade and further discussions in technical dialogue.

After a new round of dialogue in Brussels, Petkovic said that, at a trilateral meeting facilitated by EU special envoy Miroslav Lajcak, Belgrade had insisted on the establishment of a Community of Serb Municipalities - the key issue for the survival of Kosovo-Metohija Serbs and normalisation - but that Pristina had demonstrated it would never form the Community and that the policy of Pristina's PM Albin Kurti was one of expulsion of Serbs.

"Dialogue is the only place for compromise solutions," Petkovic told reporters after the Brussels meetings, noting that, at last week's high-level meeting, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic had...