In Washington and Brussels, enthusiasm for independence had waned for Kosovo

By the time the Unity Team was being prepared, Blerim Shala had received a message from diplomat Phil Goldberg, then chief of the American office. He told me very clearly that there is no dilemma in Washington and Brussels that Kosovo will become an independent state, but there is not much enthusiasm”, Shala recalls. It was the period [...]
He told me very clearly that there is no dilemma in Washington and Brussels that Kosovo will become an independent state, but there is not much enthusiasm”, Shala recalls.
It was the time when both the United States and Europe were facing difficult crises and events.
When we were released in 1999, Kosovo was the number one story in the world, all over the globe. There have been problems even then, but Kosovo on the one hand and East Timor on the other have been the two most interesting teams, and Kosovo's liberation campaign has been a very aggressive political military campaign not only but media in the West”, he has said.












