Photo: Twitter/LajcakAfter more than four months, Kosovo Prime Minister Aljbin Kurtij and Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić will meet on Thursday in Brussels as part of a dialogue under the auspices of the European Union (EU). Edward Joseph, a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, says that there are no high expectations for the announced meeting
The last meeting between Kosovo Prime Minister Aljbin Kurti and Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić was held on June 22 this year, due to growing tensions in the north of Kosovo, at the invitation of European officials.
Another meeting will be held on Thursday after more than four months of lull. In the official announcement of the cabinet of the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security, Josep Borrell, it was stated that, before the meeting with the two leaders, a meeting will also be held with the EU Special Representative for the Western Balkans, Miroslav Lajčak.
Without high expectations from meetings
Edward Joseph, a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, says that there are no high expectations for the announced meeting. According to him, it would be a "pleasant surprise" if there was progress.
Speaking in an interview with Radio Free Europe, Joseph says that the European Union, as a mediator in the dialogue, should remind both sides that they have an agreement that needs to be implemented.
In order to solve the situation in the North of Kosovo, he says, both sides must fulfill their part of the work.
However, adds Joseph, the crisis suits both Vucic and Kurti.
"Vucic benefits from anything that keeps him away from implementing the agreement that the United States and the European Union say he accepted." "Kurti certainly benefits because the pressure is now only on steps to de-escalate (the situation in the North) and not on the issue of the Community (municipality with a Serbian majority)," says Joseph.
According to him, Vučić is not a partner of the USA, but Kurti is "extremely difficult and irresponsible in his approach to solving the problems of North Kosovo" and that is not in line with being a good partner with the United States and the West.
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