Bislimi: Brënabić's letter has not been withdrawn

The Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo, Besnik Bislimi, has said that the letter of the former Prime Minister of Serbia, Ana Bërnabiq, against the implementation of the points of the Agreement that confirm Kosovo's citizenship has not been withdrawn. 

Bislimi said that he confirmed this to the EU envoy for the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, Miroslav Lajçak, in the meeting he held with him on Tuesday.

"For me, that statement was very strange because it was not mentioned in the meeting. Letters are not withdrawn in secret. There are procedures for withdrawing them. Today we learned from Mr. Lajçak that the letter has not been withdrawn. But what he wanted to say in Pristina is that he is working with Serbia to withdraw. But it doesn't stay. The letter has not been withdrawn. There is no request for its withdrawal either, but work is being done in that direction so that the same is withdrawn", Bislimi said in a statement to the media after the meeting. 

On September 6, after a meeting he held with Bislim in Pristina, Lajcak said Bërnabiq's letter had been withdrawn. 

"The letter (of former prime minister Ana Bërnabiq) has been withdrawn. There are statements here and there that don't help at all. But the agreement as such is valid in its entirety and beyond that, the agreement has already become part of the European path of Kosovo and Serbia. So it's valid both ways. We have agreed on something, but we cannot say this without coordinating with others", said Lajçak.