High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell called Thursday for the calming of the situation in north Kosovo and urged Belgrade and Pristina to go back to discussions on the European proposal.

“It is absolutely important that this kind of troubles stop, that the barricades are lifted, to go back to calm, and go back to discussions – the discussion about the proposal that we put on the table, in order to look for a coherent and permanent solution to the tensions between Pristina and Belgrade,” Borrell told the media on his arrival for a European Council meeting in Brussels.

Borrell said he would debrief the European leaders on the situation and on talks that EU Special Representative Miroslav Lajcak had in Belgrade and Pristina over the past two days.

“In the last days, we have been facing big troubles in north of Kosovo… I ask [everyone in the region] to calm down the situation and to go back to the Dialogue – which is the only way for the European perspective of Kosovo and Serbia,” said Borrell.