The Albanian side is so far not showing readiness to relax their stance in the talks on Kosovo, said head of Serbia's negotiating team Borislav Stefanovic.

In an interview for the Wednesday edition of the daily Blic, Stefanovic said that the Albanian side is trying to erase Serbia from Kosovo, "while we are offering them concrete solutions for regulating the current situation, because erasing Serbia from Kosovo is impossible."

He said that after three rounds of talks, which opened a series of chapters whose resolution would have a direct effect on the life of people in Kosovo - ID cards, land registries, driver's licenses, license plates, telecommunications, electric energy - none have been closed. This, Stefanovic said, will be the only goal in the fourth round of dialogue in mid May.

In the fourth round, new issues will not be opened, and by May the European Union is expected to propose its own independent solutions for the most problematic and challenging issues on which the two sides have diametrically opposing views - telecommunications and electric energy, Blic writes.

Head of Pristina's negotiating team Edita Tahiri said that erasing Serbia from Kosovo has no basis in reality, because Serbia left Kosovo in 1999.

The dialogue is stalled by the Serbian side's unwillingness to accept European standards in solving open issues.

I am sure we can arrive at concrete solutions when we continue the dialogue, but the Serbian side needs to accept that the solutions we will agree on must be based on European solutions, Tahiri told Blic.