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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urges Kosovar and Serbian leaders to ease tensions, warning they were putting aspirations of European integration at risk. "We call on the governments of Kosovo and Serbia to take immediate steps to de-escalate tensions," Blinken tells reporters at NATO talks in Oslo. IMAGES
Kosovo and Serbia's leaders visit Brussels for talks with their European counterparts on calming tensions, with Aleksandar Vucic, president of Serbia, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti arriving for a meeting with European Council President Charles Michel, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The talks come just days after an European Union envoy, as well as diplomats from the United States, France, Germany and Italy visited both Belgrade and Pristina, for top-level talks over the issue. IMAGES
The leaders of Kosovo and Serbia kick off the latest round of EU-led talks as the long-time rivals come under increasing pressure to strike a deal to normalise ties. Images show Serbian President, Aleksandar Vucic, and Kosovo Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, holding separate bilateral talks with Josep Borrell, the EU's representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, in Ohrid, North Macedonia. IMAGES
Images show the arrivals of Serbian President, Aleksandar Vucic, and Kosovo Prime Minister, Albin Kurti, in North Macedonia as they meet for EU-led talks over the normalisation of the two countries' relations. The two leaders are met by Josep Borrell, the EU Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security, as well as the North Macedonian President, Stevo Pendarovski. IMAGES
EU-mediated "crisis management" talks between Serbia and Kosovo fail to quell rising tensions by having the sides "come to an agreement", but further dialogue will be held in the coming days as these talks are "not the end of the story", according to the bloc's diplomatic chief Josep Borrell. SOUNDBITE
Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti says in an interview with AFP he hopes to normalise relations with the country's arch-rival Serbia this year, following several rounds of failed talks between the two sides. "Normalisation of relations with Serbia I wish for this year, for 2024, and in the next years and decades I want to come out victorious on issues like social inequality, climate change and security threats," Kurti tells AFP. SOUNDBITE
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