The first session of talks between Belgrade and Pristina started just after 7 pm Tuesday in Brussels with EU mediation.

The heads of Belgrade's negotiating team, Foreign Ministry Policy Director Borko Stefanovic, and of Kosovo's delegation, Deputy Prime Minister Edita Tahiri, arrived at the EU council about 7 pm.

Stefanovic told the press before the session started that Belgrade is starting the talks with a bagfull of proposals, while Tahiri had repeatedly stated that this is a dialogue on technical issues between two independent states,

Belgrade has a suitcase full of good and new solutions, Stefanovic said.

The topics of the Tuesday session will include telecommunications, the cadastre, air traffic, customs seals and CEFTA presidency, he said.

This does not mean that these are all the topics or that all issues will be resolved, he said.

Asked whether the issue of status will be mentioned in the talks, Stefanovic said that status is in everything.