Lajcak: I presented compromise paper on dinar issue

BRUSSELS - The EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak said on Thursday he had presented a "compromise paper" in a sixth round of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue on the dinar issue, held in Brussels earlier in the day.

"Hosted a Dialogue meeting on a way forward for the 'Dinar issue', which provided enough room for the Parties to explain their positions. Ended by presenting a compromise paper in an effort to bridge the differences. Will host the next meeting after receiving constructive comments," Lajcak wrote in a post on the social media network X.

Speaking to reporters in Brussels, the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said that, after seven hours of discussions, Belgrade had demonstrated constructiveness and made proposals for resolving the issue of Pristina's ban on the dinar but that Pristina did not want a solution.

"The discussions were difficult and tense, but they were direct, which is good. Both I and the experts had an opportunity to present our proposals regarding EU ideas to resolve the dinar issue because, with that decision (to ban the dinar, Pristina's PM Albin) Kurti has put the survival of the Serbs in jeopardy. That must be resolved urgently," Petkovic said, announcing that the next round of the dialogue would take place on May 13.