Kosovo

At least 34 NATO peacekeepers, along with members of Kosovo’s police force and members of the public, have been injured during clashes with Serbian protestors, leading to frantic calls for calm from Pristina and internationals. For its part, Belgrade has called on the international community to step in and pressure Kosovo, warning, though, that “If the Albanian invader shoots, then the situation will be different”.

(President Maia) Sandu’s announcement comes after the foreign ministers of the European Union last Monday agreed to send a new civilian mission to Moldova to strengthen its security against hybrid threats in the context of Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine.

The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo have agreed to co-operate to locate and identify hundreds of people still missing from the 1998-99 war. … According to the European Union, 1,621 people remain unaccounted for.

Despite heightened tensions, the “Agreement on the path to normalisation between Kosovo and Serbia”, reached in Ohrid, North Macedonia, in March, marks a historic milestone, the Security Council heard today, as senior representatives from Pristina and Belgrade offered countering perspectives on the drivers of regional insecurity.

Two-thirds of the member states voted on Monday to send the country's membership application to the parliamentary assembly, which Kosovo leaders hailed as a historic step.

Brussels says boycott of local elections in Serb-majority north meant the results offered no solution to the crisis there - although government ministers insisted they could work with them.

Kosovo and Serbia have established a Joint Monitoring Committee to oversee implementation of the verbal deal on normalization of relations reached in Ohrid, North Macedonia, on March 18.

Representatives of Serbia and Kosovo met in Brussels to talk about establishing the Association of Serb-Majority Municipalities in northern Kosovo as part of the recent agreement between the two countries’ leaders.

[…]  During the reporting period, intensified diplomatic efforts led to an accord between Belgrade and Pristina on the “Agreement on the path to normalization between Kosovo and Serbia”, also known as the “European Union proposal”. The Agreement provides a new framework for the European Union-facilitated dialogue, seeking to refocus the normalization of relations and advance towards a comprehensive legally binding agreement.