The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, and the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, have accepted the European Union's invitation to hold a new round of talks on August 18, the bloc's spokesperson, Peter Stano, confirmed to the media.

"I can confirm that after the High Representative, Josep Borrell, invited both parties to Brussels, Prime Minister Kurti and President Vucic have accepted his invitation.

They will be welcomed in Brussels on August 18 by Borrell and the EU's special representative, Miroslav Lajcak, to discuss the way forward in the Pristina-Belgrade dialogue," said Stano, REL reports.

He added that later they will give other details about the agenda of the August 18 meeting.

On August 1, Borrell announced the invitation to continue the EU-mediated dialogue.

This invitation came at a time of increased tensions in northern Kosovo, after local Serbs set up barricades to oppose two decisions of the Kosovo Government related to Serbian documents and license plates.

The barricades were removed on the afternoon of August 1 and the Government of Kosovo promised to postpone the implementation of these two decisions for one month.

In Borrell's invitation, it was said that all open issues between the two states would be discussed at the meeting.

The meeting on August 18 will be the third between Kurti and Vucic.

They met twice in the framework of the dialogue last year, but the two meetings did not produce any concrete results.

A meeting between the leaders of Kosovo and Serbia was scheduled to be held on July 19, but according to the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, the meeting was postponed at Vucic's request.

"We are for a well-prepared, principled, balanced dialogue towards a legally binding agreement that makes the full normalization of relations between Kosovo and Serbia, focused on mutual recognition.

The readiness on our part exists", stated Kurti during a press conference in Pristina on August 1.

Meanwhile, the president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, confirmed a day later that he will respond positively to the invitation for dialogue, but added that he does not expect anything from this meeting.

"Everything is worn out and you no longer know what you can do.

I will go, but I don't expect anything.

Anyone who thinks that peace is likely to be preserved with [Kosovo Prime Minister Albin] Kurti is very wrong," said Vucic.

The dialogue in Brussels started in 2011. This process aims at the complete normalization of relations between Kosovo and Serbia.

Kosovo insists that a final agreement will have to include mutual recognition, while Serbia argues that it wants a compromise solution.