Thursday's round of Brussels dialogue concludes without trilateral meeting

BRUSSELS - The EU special envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue Miroslav Lajcak held separate meetings with Belgrade and Pristina delegations in Brussels on Thursday but a trilateral meeting announced prior to this round of dialogue did not take place.

Lajcak first met with a Belgrade delegation headed by the director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar

Petkovic and work on a statute of a Community of Serb Municipalities was the main topic.

Separate expert meetings were held simultaneously to discuss missing persons and energy.

After the meeting with the Belgrade delegation, Lajcak met with Pristina's chief negotiator Besnik Bislimi.

The EU had announced that Lajcak could hold a trilateral meeting with the delegations of Belgrade and Pristina after the bilateral meetings, but that failed to materialise.