The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo have met in Brussels for another European Union-mediated attempt to resolve lingering issues between the two wartime rivalling states that have spiked tensions in the Balkans.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, speaking before Thursday’s meeting between Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti, said “recent tensions in the north of Kosovo have demonstrated yet again that it is time to move forward towards the full normalization” of relations between the two states.
Kosovo is a former province of Serbia, which has refused to recognize the country’s 2008 declaration of independence.
That came after NATO-led intervention in 1999 stopped Belgrade’s bloody crackdown against the majority Kosovo Albanians.
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