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Hope for advancement in Kosovo-Serbia dialogue

2022-06-18 20:48:58Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Hope for advancement in Kosovo-Serbia dialogue

Finally, it looks like there will soon be movement in the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue. After German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's visit to the Balkans, it appears kosovo and Serbia are showing new readiness. According to The European Union's kosovo-Serbia dialogue officer Miroslav Lajcak next week, an important agreement is expected within the framework of dialogue between the two countries. It was made known by the European Union that this is about the energy agreement for Serbs in northern Kosovo. "We will have another meeting among the chief negotiators next week. Hopefully, we can announce about a very important agreement, and I'm also hoping to make the two leaders together in Brussels for the third summit before the summer holidays," Lajkusak said.

Finalization of energy issues

The European Union through Foreign Affairs and Security Policy spokesman Peter Stano expects the Kosovo and Serbia delegations to finalize the energy theme next week. "The EU expects the sides to close the energy issue over the next week in Brussels at the level of the chief negotiators", Stano said. Representatives of the European Union, have been present at a meeting held last week in Turkey's Istanbul, between the Serbian side and the Kosovo Electricity Distribution Company (KEDS). KEDS from 2013 carried out electricity distribution throughout Kosovo territory.

Vucic: The deal towards completion

Belgrade and Pristina authorities also warned earlier this week that they are close to agreeing to solve electricity problems for Serbs in northern Kosovo, who have not paid current bills since the war. Serbia's President Alexander Kuci said the energy agreement with Kosovo is towards completion and on this issue he said "there have been negotiations with the Kosovar Company for Electricity Distribution (KEDS). " We have had negotiations with the Turkish side, with kEDS, about the presence in northern Kosovo. This is what we have agreed on and hope that there is only the technical side left to be fixed and we will have good results in the following days" said Kukes. Even the Kosovo government, for its part, confirmed that the parties are very close to resolving the issue of supply and the incantation of electricity in the four Serb-majority inhabited municipalities in northern Kosovo, in Northern Mitrovica, Leposaviq, Zvebian and Zubin Potok.

Kosovo's deputy prime minister, Besnik Bislimi, who is also Kosovo's chief negotiator in talks with Serbia, said the issue would be resolved "respecting the agreement reached between Kosovo and Serbia in April 2013". "On behalf of Kosovo, only the Government of the Republic of Kosovo negotiates. The meeting between KEDS and the Serbian side, organised in Istanbul on 9 June, had only the objective of providing guarantees for the four services agreed in 2015: the deployment of energy measurements, the maintenance of the measurements, the receipt and the incastion, and this obligation has fulfilled," Bislim wrote in his social profile.

Kosovo's northern Serbs have not paid for energy

The agreement reached in 2013 for energy within the framework of the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, envisions that in addition to the Company for the Distribution of Electricity - KEDS, in Kosovo another company will be licensed for the distribution of current in northern Kosovo. Since then this agreement has not been implemented, although pressure has been constantly pressured by the international community. Serbs in northern Kosovo since the end of the war are regularly supplied with electricity, but do not pay it. It has never been clear from whom Serbs are supplied with electricity in the north. KOSTT, which is the Operator of the System, Transmission and Electricity Market in Kosovo, says supply to the north is made by operators licensed by the Kosovo Office of the Energy Regulator, while Belgrade authorities say electricity in northern Kosovo is provided by Serbia's electro-grid.

With the 2013 agreement in principle between Kosovo and Serbia for electricity in northern Kosovo, it is predicted that in addition to KEDS, another electricity distribution company bearing the name "Drustvo Electrosever D.O.O." will be licensed in Kosovo. Since the end of the war from 1999 to 2017, the current spent in northern Kosovo has paid other Kosovo citizens registered by their bills as a loss of power in the grid in the north. From 2017, after a court in Kosovo cut off the current practice for northern Serbs, the System, Transmission and Electricity Market Operator in Kosovo (KOSTT) paid it. According to them, the losses from the current default in the north in 2021 alone are about 40m euros./DW

 


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