The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo are scheduled to meet with top EU officials on Thursday to try to normalise ties. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti are not expected to meet face-to-face - but the aim is to push forward with new proposals floated last weekend.
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00:00 Meeting on the sidelines of a summit in Brussels, the leaders of Serbia and Kosovo are working
00:07 with top EU officials to try to normalise ties. It comes one month after a shooting
00:13 involving the Serbian nationalist paramilitaries and Kosovan security forces in northern Kosovo
00:19 in September. After more than a decade of negotiations, the EU wants the Balkan neighbours
00:26 to settle on a plan and put the hostilities to rest.
00:33 Last Saturday, British, European and US diplomats presented a draft document aimed at helping
00:55 to resolve their differences. Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, which Serbia
01:02 doesn't recognise. Serbia still regards Kosovo a breakaway province.
01:23 Elections held in northern Kosovo's Serb-dominated communes in April were overwhelmingly boycotted
01:30 by ethnic Serbs.
01:52 Washington and Brussels want Belgrade and Pristina to implement a ten-point plan put
01:58 forward by the EU foreign policy chief earlier this year.
02:01 (whooshing)