3 minutes agoPacolli counters Spain following demand that Kosovo not be part of Sofia summit
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Government of Spain spokesman Inigo Mendez de Vigo has declared this week that his country will not participate in European summits if Kosovo's symbols are present. But such warnings have been countered by Kosovo's top diplomat, Behgjet Pacolli. Pacolli through a scripture on his account in [...]
Government of Spain spokesman Inigo Mendez de Vigo has declared this week that his country will not participate in European summits if Kosovo's symbols are present. But such warnings have been countered by Kosovo's top diplomat, Behgjet Pacolli.
Pacolli has said that Kosovo, like all countries in the region, will participate in the EU Summit, over May.
Kosovo, like all other countries in the region, will participate in the EU-Western Balkans Summit in Sofia in the month of May, where it is expected to be supported by all EU heads of state and government the clear and concrete prospect of enlargement, for all countries in the region, including Kosovo”.
Any attempt to undermine Kosovo's presence in the summit or exclude our state symbols represents a lack of vision and clarity for the region. By the time the Russian influence has increased in the region, it has become more than necessary
The EU's unifying of our region” wrote Pacolli on Facebook.
Pacolli has further said he has addressed his criticism of not recognising the five EU countries, which, according to him, are slowing Kosovo's walk.
Any other tendency not to have the unification of European policy in front of Kosovo weakens the EU in the region and undermines the prospect of Europeanisation in the Western Balkans. Kosovo will participate like all other states at the Sofia summit and do not compromise here”.
“wa has said my European counterparts several times that non-recognition by the 5 EU nations, not only is it slowing Kosovo's path towards European integration, but they are dividing the EU in the region and making it weak in the face of third acts that are trying to penetrate to”, Pacolli wrote.
Spanish Government spokesman Inigo Mendez de Vigo during the week had declared after the government's meeting that Spain is not interested in recognising Kosovo's independence and that the country's prime minister, Rajoy, will not participate in meetings where Kosovo is present
The Government's stance on Kosovo is clear and steadfast, along with five other EU states (Greece, Romania, Cyprus and Slovakia), we do not recognise Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence”, the Spanish government's spokesman Mendez de Vigo has said.
