Lajcak: I’m Preparing for Talks with Belgrade, Pristina’s Chief Negotiators

Miroslav Lajcak (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV)

The European Union’s envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, said that with this team in Brussels he was preparing for upcoming separate talks with “the two parties’ chief negotiators.”

In an overview of last week’s activities on Facebook the EU envoy recalled that he week ended “with some good news,” as Kosovo’s power distribution company KEDS and Elektrosever signed a long-awaited commercial contract.

“It’s an important step in materializing the EU-mediated Roadmap for Implementation of the Energy Agreement between Kosovo and Serbia, and it means that progress has been made in the process of normalization between Kosovo and Serbia,” Lajcak said on the X Network.

Lajcak wrote that he had had a series of important talks last week. On Dec. 6 he met with members of the German Bundestag’s Committee on European Union Affairs in Brussels, to discuss “a new momentum for EU enlargement,” and to brief the Committee members on “the course of events in the Dialogue and the next steps.”

Towards the end of the week, Lajcak said he had been invited to address a panel within the annual summit Friends of Europe-EU-Western Balkans in Brussels. He said at the meeting that for the first time in a while the EU was ready for enlargement, and that it’s “high time” to grab the chance and move the integration of the Western Balkans forward. Lajcak added that on Dec. 8 he met with the U.S. ambassador to Serbia, Christopher Hill.