US Ambassador to Belgrade: Serbs need to understand, Kosovo is Albanian

In an interview for the Serbian newspaper “blic”, US Ambassador to Belgrade Kyle Scott has talked about Kosovo.

In the question that most Serbs believe America has kidnapped Kosovo and what it thinks about, Scott has replied:

My response is that I agree with President Vuciq that there are many myths in Serbia regarding Kosovo. It is not disputed that Kosovo has played a major historical and cultural role in the lives of Serbs, but also cannot argue that Kosovo with generations and generations has Albanian majority and not Serb populations. We may disagree with what really happened in the 1990s, but I think clearly most people have sought independence by thinking that B Belgrade does not face its needs. I think that internal dialogue that has initiated Vuciq on the Kosovo issue will bring open debate on it and will process options so that relations can normalise in the future. Of course it will be hard to reach the right answer, but I think this dialogue and that in Brussels should make the contribution of the solution and that Belgrade and Pristina leadership expect difficult decisions.
The only stable and long-term solution will bring the talks and direct agreement between Serbs and Albanians, including the Brussels dialogue, which we support”, says Koha.net.

In the conclusion of “blict” that even some Albanian intellectuals say the Kosovo problem is in the fact that its citizenship is based on Serbian condemnation and whether there is truth to it, Scott said:

“During the breakup of any state, even of the former Yugoslavia or Austria-Hungary, after World War I, some people have won, some have lost. This cannot be avoided, but it must be looked into the future. For both Kosovo and Serbia, it is important to support membership in the European Union. Hungary has lost territories in Romania, Slovakia, in northern Serbia, in northeastern Croatia, but the future has sent all these countries to the EU”.