Delegations to continue talks in Brussels

They will focus on three areas - regional cooperation, freedom of movement and rule of law.

The first meeting on Tuesday afternoon went with teams learning about each other and building a degree of trust, said Belgrade delegation head Borko Stefanovic, who commended his team for arriving in Brussels "particularly well prepared", and voiced his satisfaction with the first day of talks.

According to Stefanovic, the negotiating team concentrated on concrete problems on the agenda, first of which were land and registrar books.

He added that the Kosovo Albanian team "attempted to impose terminological and narrative differences", and "their own interpretation of recent history", to which his team responded by "not allowing any deviations in the talks, removing differences that the other side often tried to present, and focusing on the most important issues that will bring welfare to people in Kosovo".

Meanwhile, the Pristina delegation arrived in Brussels late, and without any official guidelines, since the Kosovo assembly will meet on Thursday to adopt its appropriate resolution.

They did however maintain that "Kosovo's independence must not be brought into question at any cost during the dialogue with Belgrade".

"We in a very good moon and we have a constructive approach to the dialogue. There are many practical issues on the agenda and if we are creative we can overcome differences and improve the lives of people but also European processes, both for the state of Kosovo and the state of Serbia," Edita Tahiri, who heads the Pristina delegation, was quoted as saying.