Bolton will see Vuchy Kurt alone at the table: EU cannot solve the problem

The first comes in the form of a question he declares: “is the future more important than the past?”.

And the second, inevitable according to Bolton, is that the proposal, or the idea for final settlement, must definitely stem from the parties themselves and not from any external factor, whether the European Union or the United States of America.

Therefore, Bolton claims that the “past solutions will not be resolved by these negotiations in the European Union”.

The “have not been resolved since the past 20 years”, he recalls the long time of involvement of Kosovo and Serbia in negotiations in Brussels.

Speaking of the last October meeting where Prime Minister Albin Kurti and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with EU mediators Josep Borell and Miroslav Lajcak, Bolton claims that the photo of the meeting itself shows it all.

My modern image of “is that on the one hand is Prime Minister Kurti on the other, President Vucic, and at the head of the European Union table. It just doesn't work. The picture we need to see is the two leaders and no one else in the room”, Bolton says in this interview for Albanian Post.

On the other hand, maintaining his opinion that foreign proposals do not succeed, you see that the latest Franco-German proposal will have the same fate.

This proposal somewhat freezes the status quo for the future”, Bolton analysis begins.

If you're just looking for temporary stability in short term terms that's the EU's style of approaching issues then it probably makes sense, but if you're looking for permanent solutions, then clearly this won't work out”.

Thus, in 2018, he had become a follower of another idea - that of exchanging territories between Kosovo and Serbia.

Because, unlike other proposals, this idea came from leaders themselves says Bolton, or at least that's how he introduced it to him.

I then talked to both leaders Thaci and Vucic and they were willing to try, because it's not up to me as an outsider to come with a perfect solution, it belongs to the parties themselves. I thought it was worth a try, I'm sorry it didn't work”.

Opposers of that idea except for internal objections were some European leaders.

Bolton has some idea why.

One of the reasons, says the former US ambassador to the United Nations Organisation, was the fear that if it happened between Kosovo and Serbia could produce a cycle of developments in the Balkans.

But the other reason, according to Balton, was that the “Europeans became frustrated that Americans were involved in the matter”.