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Belgrade, Pristina dialogue on telecommunications without progress

Belgrade/Brussels, 11 June 2013

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and Internal Trade and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic said that today’s five-hour dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina on issues of fixed and mobile phone networks in Brussels ended without progress.

Ljajic, who is leading a delegation of Belgrade, said in a statement to the press after the talks with Pristina team head Edita Tahiri, which was also attended by the Director of the Directorate General for Enlargement of the European Commission Pierre Mirel, that negotiations are at the same stage as before the talks.

The Deputy Minister explained that there has been no progress due to a dispute over an international dial code for Pristina and the presence of Serbian mobile phone operator in the north of Kosovo.

According to him, Pristina rejected several solutions that Belgrade proposed, including that Telekom Srbija issues a license for the north.

Proposals for solving these issues will be submitted in the upcoming two days, to the Director for the Western Balkans at the European Commission Directorate General for Enlargement Pierre Mirel, who will then decide on how to schedule a new round, Ljajic said.

Ljajic recalled that, according to the previously agreed plan, a solution to the energy and telecommunications sectors need to be found until 15 June, and if that does not happen, the talks will be raised to the level of prime ministers.