Politics of Kosovo

EU High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Josep Borrell said after the meeting that both parties will be bound by the agreement that will be part of their European path.

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell on Saturday night, after a marathon meeting in Ohrid, North Macedonia, declared that Serbia and Kosovo had reached a deal on implementing the EU-backed plan for normalization of ties.

However, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic continued bickering at separate press conferences.

Several thousand people gathered in Belgrade to protest against a Western-backed deal to normalize ties between Kosovo and Serbia, which they view as recognition of Kosovo independence.

Kosovo's Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, and Serbia's President, Aleksandar Vucic, are due to meet on Saturday in Ohrid, North Macedonia, to discuss the implementation of a deal they agreed last month on normalization of relations under European Union mediation.

BRUSSELS - EU foreign policy and security chief Josep Borrell said on Thursday he expected Saturday's Ohrid meeting, which will focus on the implementation annex of a proposed EU agreement between Belgrade and Pristina, to result in far-reaching normalisation of relations between the two sides.

BELGRADE - US special Western Balkans envoy Gabriel Escobar said on Thursday an EU proposal on normalisation of Belgrade-Pristina relations was an agreement on normalisation, rather than mutual recognition.

Vui and the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and the US Special Envoy for the Western Balkans will meet in the building of the General Secretariat of the President of the Republic, Office for Media Relations of the President of the Republic of Serbia announced.

During a recent visit to Brussels by a diverse group of civil society organisations from Kosovo and Serbia, a consistent and surprising message was heard from various interlocutors - that there is a renewed and buoyant sense of momentum behind the European Union enlargement process.

MADRID - The Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday the outcome of a February 27 Belgrade-Pristina meeting was a step forward but that there was still work to be done on normalisation of relations based on an EU proposal backed by the European Council.

Marc Weller, an adviser to the Kosovo negotiation team in the dialogue with Serbia since the historic Rambouillet accords in 1999, told BIRN the recently published draft agreement between the two countries for the first time puts Kosovo in a better strategic position than Serbia - which must make constitutional changes if the agreement is signed.