The Deputy Prime Minister and chief negotiator of Kosovo in the dialogue with Serbia, Besnik Bislimi, claims that Belgrade, and not Pristina, rejected the meeting of the chief negotiators of the two countries, scheduled for September 17 in Brussels according to the agenda set by the mediator of the European Union, Miroslav Lajcak.

In reaction to the news of the Serbian news agency "Tanjug" that the Kosovo side allegedly refused the meeting, Bislimi said in an article on the "X" platform (formerly Twitter) that Serbia tried to impose items on the agenda "intended for internal political consumption".

The chief negotiator of Kosovo called on the mediator Lajcak "to deny the deliberate disinformation from the Serbian media, which falsely claims that Kosovo rejected the tripartite meeting of the chief negotiators."

Lajcak visited Kosovo on September 6, and after the meeting with Bislimi, he stated that an "agreement for the next meeting" of the main negotiators of the two countries had been reached, without providing any other details. Then, on September 10, the Slovak diplomat visited Serbia in order, as Brussels announced, "to prepare the next meeting at the level of chief negotiators."

According to today's news of the Serbian agency "Tanjug", Belgrade requested to include in the next round of negotiations the issue of the bridge on the river Ibar and the establishment of the Community of municipalities with a Serbian majority in Kosovo, which was allegedly the reason for Pristina to cancel the meeting.

"For the upcoming talks on the dialogue process in Brussels scheduled for September 17, Kosovo accepted a trilateral meeting according to the agenda set by the mediator. Unfortunately, Serbia rejected such a meeting, trying to impose agenda items mainly intended for domestic political consumption. "I call on MEP Lajcak to deny the deliberate misinformation of the Serbian media, which falsely states that Kosovo rejected the trilateral meeting of the main negotiators," Bislimi wrote.