Lajcak: I briefed EU member states on dialogue, coming weeks packed with meetings

BRUSSELS - The EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak said on Monday he had briefed EU member states over the past two weeks on the state of play in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue, and announced that he would have a "packed schedule of meetings and official missions" in the coming weeks.

"It was important to see that in their first week in office, President of the (European) Council (Antonio) Costa, HR/VP (Kaja) Kallas and Enlargement Commissioner (Marta) Kos met with the leaders of the Western Balkans, sending a clear signal that EU enlargement is their priority," Lajcak wrote in a Facebook post.

He noted that he had strongly condemned a blast that has damaged the Ibar-Lepenac canal near Zubin Potok in the north of Kosovo-Metohija.

"The new leadership of the EU finally took up their offices, Kosovo experienced a reprehensible terrorist attack targeting critical infrastructure - an act I strongly condemned - and the diplomatic world is gearing up for the usual end-of-the-year sprint," he wrote.

"Over the past two weeks, I addressed a conference on the security situation in the Western Balkans organised by the Ministry of Defence in Greece, participated in this year’s edition of the MEDays Forum in Morocco and briefed Member States on the state of play in the Dialogue," he added.

"The coming weeks will be equally busy filled with a packed schedule of meetings and official missions," Lajcak concluded, but did not elaborate.