Bulgaria exposes Spain for Kosovo: No veto, no signing from the Balkans

Ambassadors to the 28 EU member states, including Spain, have signed the draft declaration, which is expected to be accepted at the EU and Western Balkans Summit in Sofia, broadcast Tanjug.

The project-declaration has also been approved by Spain's ambassador to the EU. It is now left only to member states to accept”, said Bulgaria's Presidency spokeswoman near the EU in Geneva, Genoveva Chervenkova.

The Spanish newspaper El Pais earlier announced that Spain has vetoed the document, as Prime Minister Mariano Rahoy reportedly does not want to establish his signature in the declaration along with the signing of Kosovo representative, which Spain does not recognise as a state.

Chervenkova, however, has exposed this information, saying the ambassadors have approved the draft Declaration and the text has now been sent to Western Balkan countries for consultations.

Diplomatic sources in Brussels say that because of the Spanish prime minister's opposition to putting his signature in the text of the declaration along with Kosovo's representative, it has come to resolving the compromise for the declaration to be adopted only by EU member states, rather than in the format of 28+6 partners from the Western Balkans.