Topics ready for Balkan leaders' meeting in Brussels, conversation about non-papers possible

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A dinner for the leaders of the Western Balkans, to be organized next Tuesday by EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, should be a turning point for the continuation of the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina.

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Borrell will try to convince Prime Minister of the Provisional Institutions in the province Albin Kurti that dialogue should be at the top of his government's priorities and that a date for a new round of talks should be set, Novosti reports based on information from diplomatic sources. It is not being ruled out that a meeting between Kurti and Prime Minister of Serbia Ana Brnabic could take place on the sidelines of the informal dinner.

At the top of the EU, they want the dialogue at the highest political level between Belgrade and Pristina to continue before June 24 and 25, when the EU General Affairs Council is scheduled to hold a meeting and at which enlargement will be discussed and certain conclusions reached.

The overall political situation in the Balkans will be discussed at the already traditional dinner of the six leaders of the region with the head of EU diplomacy. It is expected that several so-called non-paper with proposals for resolving open issues in the Balkans will also be debated, which have appeared in the last month and which even proposed to change the borders according to the ethnic principle.

On Monday, a debate was held in Brussels between the foreign ministers of EU member states based on Borrell's non-paper, which states that the Western Balkans should be in the geopolitical orbit of the Union because, as he says, otherwise space opens up for so-called third actors such as Russia, China, Turkey and Arab countries.

Serbia's positions are well known and the prime minister will confirm them during the dinner in Brussels. Belgrade is ready to continue the dialogue and find a compromise solution in which one side will not gain everything and the other lose everything, insisting on Pristina fulfilling the obligations from the agreements signed so far.

Prime Minister Brnabic will travel to Brussels on May 18, while President Aleksandar Vucic will pay an official visit to Prague that day. Today, the prime minister will participate in the Delphi Economic Forum in Athens, on the sidelines of which she will meet with prime ministers of Montenegro and Greece, Zdravko Krivokapic and Kyriakos Mitsotakis, as well as with the president of Greece, Katerina Sakellaropoulou.

(Telegraf.rs)