Sorensen on Visit to Pristina, Belgrade

Peter Sorensen (BETAPHOTO/MILOS MISKOV)

The European Union’s Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue Peter Sorensen will spend Jan. 14 and 15 on visit to Pristina and Belgrade, Radio Free Europe has confirmed with the European External Action Service.

On Jan. 14 in Pristina, Sorensen is set to meet with President Vjosa Osmani and outgoing PM Albin Kurti.

According to Brussels, the agenda for Sorensen’s Jan. 15 stay in Belgrade is still being finalized.

This is the Danish diplomat’s first such visit since he commenced his second term as EU envoy for the normalization of Serbia-Kosovo relations. During his first term, which lasted one year, Sorensen staged only two meetings between key negotiators and both failed to produce concrete results.

Brussels primarily attributes the dialogue’s lack of progress to the current situation in both Serbia and Kosovo, not to Sorensen’s lack of effort.

Sorensen will now be speaking with Kosovo’s top leadership in the wake of the Dec. 28 snap parliamentary elections. Brussels expects that the dialogue will be revived once Pristina forms a new cabinet, and that a top-level meeting might even take place.

Kaja Kallas, who has been serving as EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy since December 2024, has also yet to organize a meeting between leaders within the dialogue. The continued explanation for this have been the complex political situations on both sides, including Kosovo’s inability to form a government throughout 2025 and the wave of student and civil protests which have been shaking Serbia since November 2024.