European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell blamed Kosovo on Thursday for a failure to implement a deal with Serbia on normalising relations between the two former wartime foes.
Borrell spoke after talks in Brussels with Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on the plan, which was agreed earlier this year but soon stalled.He said Kurti "was not ready to move forward" with setting up an association of Serb-majority municipalities, which would give them more autonomy and to which Pristina committed during a 10-year-long EU-sponsored dialogue with Belgrade.
Tensions between the two sides spiked in May, when more than 90 NATO peacekeeping soldiers and some 50 Serb protesters were injured in disturbances in northern Kosovo. Borrell said Kurti had insisted that the first step in implementing the plan should be "formalising de facto recognition" of Kosovo, which declared independence from Serbia in 2008 but which Belgrade still regards as its province.
He warned that the stalemate affected the Balkan neighbours' aspirations to move closer to the EU and join the bloc one day.Kurti accused the EU of being biased, saying the bloc had adopted Serbia's position as its own.
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