Lajcak: I am working on preparing next meeting between the representatives of Belgrade and Pristina

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EU's special envoy for dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, Miroslav Lajcak, announced on Sunday that he is working on the preparation of the next meeting between representatives of Belgrade and Pristina at the technical level.

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"As the end of another long and productive week approaches, I reflect on the positive start I had in Croatia, where I participated in the annual Dubrovnik Forum," Lajcak said on Facebook, summing up the working week.

The forum in Dubrovnik provided him, as he stated, a great opportunity to engage with key actors from the Western Balkans and beyond, reconnecting with colleagues with whom he discussed the steps necessary for deescalation in northern Kosovo and Metohija.

"From Dubrovnik, I traveled to Bratislava, where I held important bilateral discussions with the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Kosovo Government and the Kosovo Chief negotiator Besnik Bislimi. Our conversation focused on de-escalating the situation in the north of Kosovo, in line with the EU27 statement from June 3, and working towards implementing all Dialogue agreements. I'm glad we agreed on first steps towards this goal," Lajcak said on Facebook,

He added that upon his return to Brussels, among other activities, he welcomed the president of the Democratic Party of Kosovo, Memli Krasniqi, for an exchange of views.

Lajcak said that he is working on the preparation of a new meeting at the technical level between Belgrade and Pristina. He pointed out that before the meeting with Bislimi and Krasniqi, he met with Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic and Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Antonio Tajani, at the Dubrovnik Forum.

Lajcak also referred to the meetings with his US and UK colleagues, Gabriel Escobar and Stuart Peach, during the forum, and thanked Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Grlic-Radman for the invitation and organization of the event.

(Telegraf.rs)