We have a deal! After two days of intense negotiations, an agreement on de-escalation and progress was reached. I thank Besnik Bisljimi and Petar Petković for their willingness to negotiate and come to an agreement for the benefit of the people, wrote the EU's special representative for dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, Miroslav Lajčak, on Twitter.
As reported by N1, Lajčak also announced three points on which the two sides agreed.
1. The special units of the Kosovo Police, now deployed at the crossings in Kosovo, Serbia, Jarinje and Brnjko, will withdraw, and at the same time, the barricades (placed by the Kosovo Serbs) will be removed, starting on October 2 at 8.00:16.00 a.m. and will not last longer than XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. Kfor will deploy its forces in Jarinje and Brnjko before the start of the simultaneous action and will stay there for two weeks, in order to maintain security and freedom of movement.
2. Starting October 4 at eight in the morning, the sticker regime will be applied as a temporary measure as agreed in the EU-mediated dialogue, until a permanent solution is reached.
3. A Working Group will be formed in which there will be representatives of the European Union, Belgrade and Pristina, and that it will be chaired by the EU. The goal of the Working Group will be to find a permanent solution to the issue of car plates in accordance with EU standards and practice. The first meeting of the Working Group will be on October 21, 2021 in Brussels. Within six months of its first meeting, the Working Group will present its findings on a durable solution in a high-level dialogue.
There were no press statements after yesterday's negotiations.
N1 has unofficially learned that the final agreement between Belgrade and Pristina on the solution to the crisis at the administrative crossings in the north of Kosovo was not reached yesterday. Talks continued today.
The chief negotiator of Pristina, Besnik Bisljimi, said earlier yesterday in Brussels that the two sides reached an agreement in principle on the solution to the crisis in the north of Kosovo, but that the Belgrade delegation did not agree to the point of the agreement that refers to cars with KM plates.
Bisljimi told reporters that the draft agreement foresees three points.
By the way, the delegations of Belgrade and Pristina were not at the same negotiating table yesterday in Brussels, but only had bilateral meetings with Lajčak, who mediated the negotiations between the two sides.
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