Trilateral meeting in Belgrade-Pristina dialogue underway in Brussels

BRUSSELS - A trilateral meeting of Belgrade's delegation headed by Petar Petkovic, director of the government Office for Kosovo-Metohija, a Pristina delegation and EU facilitators is underway in Brussels as part of a new round of the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.

The meeting began shortly before 10 am.

The discussions come after Pristina banned Serbian Patriarch Porfirije from visiting the Patriarchate of Pec and ended a transitional period for the use of the Serbian dinar in Kosovo-Metohija.

Also, Pristina is still refusing to establish a Community of Serb Municipalities and continues to make unilateral moves.

The previous meeting of the Brussels dialogue, which addressed Pristina's decision to ban dinar cash operations, was held in late April but produced no results.

Petkovic said at the time Belgrade had demonstrated constructiveness and made proposals for resolving the issue but that Pristina did not want a solution.