Why was Kosovo invited to the Summit for Democracy? The U.S. State Department comes up with a reaction

“President Biden has pledged to be a host of the Democracy Summit to strengthen our commitment to establishing democracy and human rights at the heart of US foreign policy”, an unidentified State Department spokesman has said, reports the Voice of America (VOA) in the Serbian language.

This virtual event is scheduled to be held on 9 December and 10 December.

The White House has announced that part of the summit will be states of developed or developing democracy, civil society and private sector without specifying the exact number of guests.

“will require innovative and powerful commitment to protect against authoritarianism, ways of tackling and combating corruption, and promoting respect for human rights both at home and abroad. The summit for Democracy shows President Beden's deep conviction that democracies must unite, learn together, support each other and work together to address the world's most urgent challenges”, is said in response.

For the time being, in addition to alluding to the final number of participants, no official list has been published.

American media Politico has reported that Albania, Montenegro and Northern Macedonia have been invited from the Western Balkans region, as opposed to Serbia, Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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A group of nongovernmental organisations from Kosovo has requested through a letter that, the United States, consider calling on Kosovo to participate in the Summit on Democracy.

Radio Free Europe has provided the letter from civil society representatives, which has been sent to US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Euro-Azia at the same time to envoys for the Western Balkans Gabriel Escobar and the Coordinator for Democracy and Human Rights at the National Security Council, Chanthi Kalathil, in which they gave their reasons why Kosovo should be part of this initiative.

But, The UN has said that the United States does not try to determine which states are democratic and which are not.

Otherwise, days ago 20 nongovernmental organisations from Kosovo through a letter sent to the United States of America have requested that invitations for Kosovo be considered to attend the Democracy Summit, which will be held in early December of this year.