Serbia, Kosovo leaders abruptly cancel EU-brokered assembly on land swap

BRUSSELS – The presidents of Serbia and Kosovo abruptly called off a face-to-face assembly in Brussels on Friday, deflating hopes of a understanding involving a land barter that could concede both nations to pierce towards EU membership.

Kosovo’s President Hashim Thaci was due to plead a barter devise with his Serbian reflection Aleksandar Vucic for a initial time in talks brokered by a EU’s tip diplomat Federica Mogherini.

But both group refused to pronounce to any other moments before their assembly was due to start during a EU’s domicile in Brussels, diplomats said, withdrawal Mogherini to accommodate them alone several times during a day to keep talks alive.

“It went wrong today, they did not meet, they indulged in some play instead,” pronounced one EU diplomat briefed on a talks, nonetheless it was not immediately transparent what caused a breakdown.

“Difficulties remain,” Mogherini pronounced in a statement, nonetheless she pronounced she would find another assembly with a dual presidents after this month.

Vucic had designed to revisit Kosovo this weekend and reason a rally, though a Serbian supervision central pronounced he had now canceled a visit. Vucic’s bureau still has not released a matter observant if a revisit is canceled.

The disaster to accommodate in chairman partly reflects a recoil in both Kosovo and Serbia to a land barter plan, as good as some insurgency in Germany, a EU diplomat said.

Belgrade and Pristina have both lifted a thought of redrawing their border.

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