{"id":44083,"date":"2022-08-06T14:21:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T11:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=44083"},"modified":"2022-08-06T14:24:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T11:24:33","slug":"the-eu-is-organizing-talks-between-the-leaders-of-kosovo-and-serbia-on-august-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=44083","title":{"rendered":"The EU is organizing talks between the leaders of Kosovo and Serbia on August 18"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell invited Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti to Brussels for negotiations on August 18,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV. UkraineGate . 6. \u00a0August . 2022 | World News .<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Quote<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I invite Serbian President Vucic and Kosovo Prime Minister Kurti to Brussels on August 18 to discuss ways forward between Pristina and Belgrade,&#8221; Borrell tweeted on August 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tensions flared between Kosovo and Serbia after Pristina retaliated by saying all Serbian cars entering Kosovo must have temporary Kosovo plates from August 1, and those entering with a Serbian passport must fill in additional documents.&nbsp;The decision led to protests and blockades on the part of the Serbs and even shots fired on the Kosovo side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following consultations, the Kosovo government has delayed implementation of a decision that would have required ethnic Serbs, who make up the majority in the north, to apply for documents and car number plates issued by Kosovo authorities until September 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kosovo police said that the demolition of barricades in the north of the country allowed the reopening of two crossing points with Serbia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the lack of a complete resolution of the situation means that on September 1, a similar situation may arise again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source<\/strong>:&nbsp;<strong>Ukrgate<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell invited Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti to Brussels for negotiations on August 18, KYIV. UkraineGate . 6. \u00a0August . 2022 | World News . Quote &#8220;I invite Serbian President Vucic and Kosovo Prime Minister Kurti to Brussels on August [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":44094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10474],"tags":[377,2563,813,1000,1024,1064],"class_list":["post-44083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-news","tag-eu","tag-kosovo","tag-russia","tag-ukraine-news","tag-ukrgate","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44101,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44083\/revisions\/44101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}