Serbia’s Negotiator: No Agreement on Dinar in Kosovo

Petar Petkovic/BETAPHOTO/MILAN OBRADOVIC

 The director of the Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Petar Petkovic, stated on April 4, after the latest round of the dialogue with Kosovo in Brussels, that there had been no agreement due to the “absence of will to reach a compromise and a balanced solution,” but that one more meeting would be held.

The EU’s special envoy for the dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, will extend an invitation to one more discussion “on the topic of the dinar, payment operations and Serbia’s jurisdiction over the Serb people in Kosovo and Metohija,” Petkovic said.

He stated that, during the April 4 meeting, he once again presented the plan and proposal about “a compromise and a balanced solution” and advocated the forming of the Community of Serb Municipalities in Kosovo. “That is their obligation and, had they fulfilled it, many of the present problems would not have come to exist. There has been insufficient will on Pristina’s side,” he said.

Kosovo’s representative at the meeting in Brussels mediated by Lajcak was Pristina’s chief negotiator, Besnik Bislimi.