Kosovo, Serbia Leaders Won’t Meet on Visits to Brussels

Serbia's President, Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo's Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, will meet EU officials in Brussels next week, but will not meet each other, it has been confirmed.

"Kurti will visit Brussels in the middle of next week, where he will meet with representatives of the European Union institutions. There will be no meeting between Prime Minister Kurti and Vucic," Kurti's office told Koha Ditore on Thursday.

Kosovo media on Wednesday reported that Vucic and Kurti would go to Brussels and that afterwards both would visit Paris on the invitation of French President Emmanuel Macron.

Vucic told media in Serbia on Saturday that he will go to Brussels twice. On his first visit, Vucic said he will talk to the EU Foreign Affairs and Security chief Josep Borrell, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Oliver Varhelyi and the EU Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak.

"I do not expect any pressure, I expect a constructive conversation, important and constructive talks for Serbia," Vucic said and added: "Sometime in May or in June I expect a continuation of the dialogue with Pristina."

BIRN asked EU spokesperson Peter Stano bout Vucic's and Kurti's meetings in Brussels and a potential meeting between the two leaders, but he did not respond by time of publication.

During the visit to Kosovo and Serbia in March of the EU Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue, Lajcak, he told media that he expected a meeting between Vucic and Kurti "quickly enough".

Kurti "told me that he was ready to come to Brussels to meet President Vucic, and President Vucic told me that he was ready to come whenever he was invited"...