Lajcak: Belgrade, Pristina Accepting a Good Part of Agreement Would Be a Success

Miroslav Lajcak (BETAPHOTO/MILAN OBRADOVIC/MO)

The European Union’s special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, said on March 10 that the Agreement on the Normalization of Relations between Belgrade and Pristina would be implemented at least in part, if not fully, because the two sides had agreed to it.

Lajcak said in an interview with the KoSSev website that in the next round of talks, scheduled to take place in Ohrid, on March 18, the agreement would be finalized, and that a roadmap would be defined, or at least Belgrade and Pristina would make considerable progress.

According to the EU representative, even if Belgrade and Pristina refuse to accept the agreement in its entirety, alignment in a major portion of the roadmap would be a success. Speaking on the Community of Serb Municipalities, Lajcak said that the models for the Community would not lead to dysfunctionality, but improve transparency and trust between communities.

“We believe we should be inspired by European models, instead of trying to create something that has never been tested, which we don’t know how it will function," Lajcak said, repeating that the Community of Serb Municipalities was aimed at improving communication and cooperation between Serb-dominated municipalities and the government in Pristina, to define clear rules for communication and cooperation between the Serbs in Kosovo and the government in Belgrade.