The crisis in northern Kosovo (BetaPhoto/Sasa Djordjevic)
At the July 10 meeting between head Kosovo negotiator Besnik Bislimi and EU Special Envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue Miroslav Lajcak, Kosovo agreed to decrease police presence at the municipal buildings in northern Kosovo by 25 percent, the government of Kosovo announced late on July 11.
Enabling a stronger focus on the full and unconditional implementation of the main Agreement on the Path to Normalization, signed Feb. 27, and of the March 18 Ohrid Annex was also discussed at the meeting, the press release stated.
Bislimi and Lajcek further agreed that mayoral elections for the four Serb-dominated municipalities will be held after the summer season, and that Kosovo Police will collaborate with EULEX and KFOR to evaluate the security situation for further reducing police presence in municipalities with a Serb majority.
The EU will invite Belgrade’s and Pristina’s key negotiators to Brussels to finalize the implementation plan for the Agreement on the Path to Normalization, the statement added, after which all articles of the Agreement will be set in motion simultaneously.
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