Borrell: Vucic, Kurti demanded conditions for new EU proposal

Speaking after separate meetings with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti, the EU High Representative said that the two sides set conditions which were mutually unacceptable.

“There is a great obstacle which is the establishment of the Association of municipalities of Serbian majority in the north of Kosovo. And in order to help the two parties to reach an agreement, we all together, we presented a new European serious and balanced proposal for the establishment of this Association of Municipalities and insisted on the parties to take this occasion, which would be a great leap forward in the normalisation process, and to avoid the new spirals of violence,” he said.

“The parties were not ready to agree on that without preconditions, that there were unacceptable by the other party,” he added.

With @EmmanuelMacron@Bundeskanzler@GiorgiaMeloni ⁦@CharlesMichel⁩, I met separately with @albinkurti &@predsednikrs.

We require the parties to sincerely engage in the normalisation process and put the Dialogue back on track.https://t.co/tXZtuvLSyNpic.twitter.com/uzPOciOrhz

— Josep Borrell Fontelles (@JosepBorrellF) October 26, 2023

With @EmmanuelMacron@Bundeskanzler@GiorgiaMeloni ⁦@CharlesMichel⁩, I met separately with @albinkurti &@predsednikrs.

We require the parties to sincerely engage in the normalisation process and put the Dialogue back on track.https://t.co/tXZtuvLSyNpic.twitter.com/uzPOciOrhz

Borrell said that the EU “requires the parties to sincerely engage in the normalisation process”. “That can only be done in the framework of the Dialogue, because it is the only way for them to advance on their European path,” he said and added that “the European way … requires a normalization of the relationship between the two of them”.

Vucic and Kurti had separate meetings with Borrell French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.