Serbian President Cancels Meeting With Kosovo Counterpart

After separate bilateral meetings between the EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and the presidents of Serbia and Kosovo, Serbian President has scrapped a planned meeting with his Kosovo counterpart, Hashim Thaci, in Brussels.  

Vucic's announced visit to Kosovo this weekend is now also uncertain, Serbian media reported.

The Head of Serbia's Office for Kosovo, Marko Djuric, said that "not even the slightest conditions [exist] for the dialogue in Brussels to continue".

Djuric claimed that Vucic had informed Mogherini about "all the lies of Pristina in the past days" and added that this "is why he will not meet with the Kosovo delegation today", N1 television reported.

"The EU's obligation was to provide the conditions for dialogue," Djuric added.

Before meeting Mogherini, Thaci said only that a final agreement should happen, involving mutual recognition of both countries, but not partition or movement of citizens.

"We are definitely in the last phase of the dialogue between Serbia and Kosovo in order to achieve the definite final agreement for peace between the two. This peaceful process of negotiation, I believe, will bring positive progress for both countries and stability for the region," Thaci told the media.

He said the multi-ethnic spirit of Kosovo should be preserved, saying threats of war and of refugees were unacceptable.

He also said the dialogue should not be related to other situations elsewhere in the world, as it had only to do with the interests of the peoples of Kosovo and Serbia.

"The current status quo is unsustainable and the current frozen conflict is unsustainable, so we need to move forward, so we can realise a Euro-Atlantic future for Kosovo and a...

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