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After the Brussels negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina on a technical level, on mutual financial claims and property, Đurić said that the Serbian delegation headed by “did not agree to remove the JCC issue from the agenda” or “renamed it in a way that it would not reflect a status-neutral form of dialogue.
“It does not occur to us to turn the JCC talks into talks about the position of national minorities, nor will we accept that the Serbian people of Kosovo be treated as a national minority at any meeting,” Đurić told reporters in Brussels.
He said that a week ago, it was agreed that the JCC and mutual financial claims would be the topics of today’s dialogue, and that the Serbian delegation received information yesterday that Pristina was “not in the mood” to discuss the JCC.
“We responded that we would talk about ZSO and we started it today as the first topic. They tried to remove it from the agenda, we returned it with energy,” Đurić said.
He added that “a lot has been said today about the JCC” and that “the Serbian side spent a lot of time talking about this issue.”
Đurić also said that in Kosovo, anyone who imagines that there can be a comprehensive normalization of relations with Serbia in any form is being misled “without first” implementing the Brussels Agreement.
“There can be no progress until the ZSO issue is implemented, as agreed in 2013 and 2015,” Đurić said.
He said it was not yet known whether a new meeting would take place next week and that “the EU must guarantee that.”
Today’s negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina, whose delegation Mr. Đurić described as “very intense and difficult”.
“We had a not too rational and bilious discussion.” The Pristina side tried to push the discussion back 13 centuries and present the Serbs as settlers in Kosovo, “Đurić said.
The head of the Kosovo expert team, Skender Hyseni, said the JCC was not discussed at all today.
“Of course, the Serbian delegation tried to open this issue, but we categorically refused,” Hyseni said.
The EU Special Representative for the Serbia-Kosovo Dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, said that today’s talks by expert teams on mutual and active financial claims showed the complexity and sensitivity of the issues.
SEU Special Representative for the Serbia-Kosovo Dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak announced that today’s expert-level talks between Belgrade and Pristina had ended, that they pertained to mutual financial claims and property, and that they showed the complexity and sensitivity of these issues.
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