Stano: Implementation of Ohrid deal, other issues to be on agenda of Brussels meeting

BRUSSELS - A new meeting of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue at chief negotiators' level will be held in Brussels on Tuesday to discuss the way forward in the implementation of the Ohrid Agreement and other issues affecting the normalisation of relations between Belgrade and Pristina, European Commission spokesperson Peter Stano said on Monday.

"I can confirm that the next meeting at chief negotiators' level will be tomorrow in Brussels. The agenda is quite obvious - it is the way forward in the implementation of the Ohrid Agreement and, of course, the discussion on issues which are affecting the normalisation of relations between Kosovo and Serbia," Stano said at a Brussels press briefing in a response to a Tanjug query about the agenda of Tuesday's meeting.

However, he provided no answer to the part of the question about whether there would be a trilateral meeting of representatives of Belgrade and Pristina and the EU special envoy for the dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak.

According to information obtained by Tanjug earlier, topics proposed by Belgrade included a bridge on the Ibar River in Kosovska Mitrovica and the establishment of a Community of Serb Municipalities.

Belgrade's delegation is to be headed by chief negotiator Petar Petkovic, who is also director of the government Office for Kosovo-Metohija, with Pristina to be represented by Besnik Bislimi.

The new round of dialogue comes after Lajcak's recent trips to Belgrade and Pristina to prepare the meeting of chief negotiators.

Meanwhile, the so-called Kosovo Police continues to block access to the buildings of Serbian institutions in the north of Kosovo-Metohija.

Since an August 30 police raid in the buildings of interim authorities in Leposavic, Kosovska Mitrovica, Zvecan and Zubin Potok, several hundred employees of the institutions have been unable to go to work.