Scott: Neither Serbia nor Kosovo will get what they want without agreement

US Ambassador to Serbia Kyle Randolph Scott said it is clear that there is distrust in reports between Belgrade and Pristina.

He considers it necessary for the parties to return to the negotiating table and continue dialogue, and that the US position remains what has been comprehensively agreement on normalising relations between Belgrade and Pristina.

He told the T V N1 that parliamentary debate, dedicated to this issue, was significant because, as expressed, “has given a new impulse to the need for dialogue”, Koha.net broadcasts.

“Biseda and debate has been important. For the first time in my term, the Assembly hearing spoke openly about Kosovo. What the president has said was very interesting, some things he has told him about the realization of reality, about facing bitter truth about Kosovo have been important messages to Serbian opinion”, Scott has expressed.

But, as he put it, it has been a little depressing for him to see a large part of the Assembly Hall empty, since the opposition was not in the seats of parliament.

Regarding the Kosovo Police action in northern Kosovo, Scott said that “nobody should support corrupt officials and illegal activities”

“A police action of arrests has occurred, similar shares occur in Serbia. The biggest difference is that the Government (Serbia) has mobilised the army in a state of readiness, while the northern Kosovo population has attempted to mix in police operations, setting barricades on the road, which has caused new clashes. It all shows just how fragile the situation is, what degree of disbelief it is. Action has had not only in the north, but also in the south, Albanians, Serbs and Bosniaks” have been arrested, Scott has said, broadcast Koha.net.

Regarding the Paris summit in early July, which organises France and Germany, Scott has said that although the US has not been invited, supports the process “if meetings help people return to talks”, while he reiterated the position that taxes should be removed.

We should have mutual understanding about removing obstacles. The tariffs must be removed, measures must be taken so that the process can move forward”, Scott said.

Asked whether the possibility of compromise exists about Kosovo by the end of the year, he has responded that six months ago he was more optimistic, but added “never say!”

“The only way is to discuss everything face-to-face between Belgrade and Pristina. The solution should stem from this region, not from Brussels, Washington or Moscow, and for it to be stable and stabilising for the vast region of the Godly Balkans. I think there's perspective on progress”, said Kyle Scott, US ambassador to Belgrade,

He has added that the frozen “conflict is neither in the interest of Serbia nor of Kosovo”, and that he had heard it from Serbia's president at the Assembly session.

“Neither side will get what it wants without agreement for normalisation”, Scott has precisely accurate, broadcast Time.net.