Lajcak: New Belgrade-Pristina meeting on dinar issue to be held next week

SOFIA - The EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak announced on Monday a new meeting of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue would be held in Brussels next week to discuss the use of the Serbian dinar in Kosovo-Metohija, and said he hoped an arrangement would be finalised based on the EU's ideas.

Speaking at an EU-Balkans forum in Sofia, Lajcak called for implementation of the Ohrid Agreement and added that, at an April 4 meeting in Brussels, the EU had tabled its ideas regarding the dinar and that both parties had accepted them.

He noted that the EU wanted to ensure it was not the people who would be paying the price for a decision by the so-called Kosovo's central bank to ban the dinar.