State Department hopeful that Kosovo and Serbia will reach an agreement in the coming days

The United States of America expressed hope that Kosovo and Serbia will reach an agreement with the mediation of the European Union, ahead of a possible meeting of their officials who have been invited to a meeting in Brussels, Voice of America reports.

"We hope that the two sides will reach an agreement in the coming days with the support of a special representative of the European Union," the State Department said when asked about the invitation for talks sent to the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, and the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, in order to reduce tensions in the north of Kosovo.

"We are actively supporting those efforts," the State Department said in a response to the Voice of America Albanian service, ahead of the November 21 deadline for when the Kosovo authorities announced that they would start fining owners of vehicles with Serbian plates who did not re-register them into RKS plates.

The European Union invited Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti to come to Brussels to discuss a solution to one of the most difficult situations since 2013, EU spokesman Peter Stano announced earlier today.

Stano has said in Brussels that, when it comes to the escalation of the situation between Serbia and Kosovo, the EU continues to play a mediating role in the negotiations, and that the EU looks forward to "European behavior that leads to a European solution".

He pointed out that he hopes that the meeting between Vucic and Kurti will be held very soon and that the EU would like the two of them to discuss the way to overcome the crisis.

He concluded that the EU hopes that Vucic and Kurti will be able to come to the meeting by November 21.