Events

MINSK, 31 October (BelTA) – Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic and Kosovo political leader Hashim Thaci held talks in Minsk on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference Core Group Meeting, BelTA has learned.

According to Ana Brnabic, the parties reviewed the progress in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue. She expressed the hope that the parties will be able to come to an agreement, a compromise that will lead to greater stability in the region.

The prime minister stressed that she has great expectations of the conference which discusses important issues on the international agenda: East-West relations, the Minsk Process and others.

Ana Brnabic also noted that she is visiting Minsk for the first time and that she is happy to have such an opportunity. The Serbian head of government commended the level of the Belarusian-Serbian relations, including at the level of the heads of state.

The Serbia-Kosovo border talks has been going on for several years. As a rule, meetings of various levels are held in Brussels. The parties discuss the prospects for a final legally-binding agreement between Belgrade and Pristina.

The Munich Security Conference is an annual event held since 1963. The event was initially meant as a dialogue between the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States on security policy. It later attracted the attention of political and military circles of other countries. At present the Munich Security Conference is considered one of the most important independent forums for the exchange of views by international security policy decision-makers. The list of attendees includes high-ranking politicians, heads of state from Europe, the United States, and Asia, representatives of Armed Forces, NATO and the OSCE, security experts, representatives of military industrial concerns, leading journalists.

The first MSC Core Group Meeting was held in 2009. Meetings are held in the format of an exclusive high-level dialogue with the involvement of a wide range of participants. They are a continuation of the Munich Security Conference and traditionally focus on the security in the region they are held in. The last MSC Core Group Meeting took place in Washington on 8 May 2017. The meetings were also held in Moscow, Beijing, Doha, New Delhi, Vienna, Tehran, and Addis Ababa.