New round of dialogue completed; "You don't know whether to laugh or cry"

The last round of the ten-year dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina this time ended in less than two hours. The unwritten rule of Brussels diplomacy was confirmed that the longer a meeting lasts, the greater the possibility for a positive outcome.
There is no outcome of today's talks, except for the agreement that the leaders of Belgrade and Pristina will meet again before the end of July.
The EU Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak's duty was to present the results of today's dialogue. As an experienced diplomat, Lajcak summed it up in one generalized sentence that may or may not mean anything.
"What is important for the EU is that both leaders confirmed that there is no other way forward than through the normalization of relations between Serbia and Kosovo," Lajcak said after the meeting.
What Miroslav Lajcak did not get into, apart from the statement that the talks were "open and direct" and that "it is good that they took place", is the assessment of the diametrically opposite positions of the two sides when it comes to the mentioned "way forward" and "normalization of relations".

Vui: You don't know whether to laugh or cry

President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vui, had the opportunity to first present his vision of the meeting with the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, to the media.
For Vui, this is a meeting that, as he says, he has never been to before. "You just stop and you don't know whether to laugh or cry… You are dealing with people who are neither serious nor responsible," said Vui.
President of Serbia, who announced before the first meeting with Kurti "face to face" that these were "difficult talks" with someone "like Donald Duck", who keeps repeating the...

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