Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, the undiscovered and the Association -- everything from Escobar and Lajcak's visit

Escobar and Lajcak met with the country's president, Vjosa Osmani and Prime Minister Albin Kurti.

After these meetings, US Deputy Assistant Secretary Escobar said the US strongly supports Kosovo's independence and sovereignty.

Meanwhile, Lajcak said they agreed to speed up the work of dawning the luck of the dead.

While Kosovo state leaders, President Osmani and Prime Minister Albin Kurti has said Serbia is blocking the process of dialogue and state sovereignty and functioning should remain unencumbered by any one's efforts.

The following is a summary of the statements:

Escobar: US strongly backs Kosovo independence, sovereignty

US Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Euro-Azia Gabriel Escobar after meeting with Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti at a media conference, said dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia would draw Kosovo closer to the European Union and the trans-Atlantic community.

Gabriel Escobar has reconfirmed US support for Kosovo.

“The US strongly supports Kosovo's independence and sovereignty. You've shown that you're a solid partner, a good friend and we thank you for this”, Escobar said.

For Kosovo and the region, we see this area as an extraordinary opportunity with extraordinary energy. You are European, economically, historically and culturally you are Europeans and we have worked with our European colleagues to ensure that they know that the Western Balkans is an extraordinary opportunity for them, not risk.”, said the US special envoy for the Western Balkans.

US envoy for the Western Balkans Gabriel Escobar during news conference after meeting with Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti

Escobar has said that the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue has the full support of America, but according to him the process will be directed by the European Union after it comes to the European Union.

“Dialog has our full support and must be led by the EU because it has to do with Europe. But as you move towards the EU, you will continue to be close friends of the United States because it is a trans-Atlantic partnership, the transatlantic community that you are already part of and this dialogue will draw you closer to”, Escobar said.

Lajcak: Osman and I agreed to speed up work on dawning the fate of the undiscovered.

The EU's special emissary for Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, through a tweet, said we agreed to speed up the work of dawning the fortunes of the found.

“in Kosovo, together with US Deputy Assistant Secretary of the United States, once special representatives for the Western Balkans, Gabriel Escobar, met President Vjosa Osmani. Among other things, we agreed on the need to speed up the work of dawning the fate of missing persons”, Lajcak said.

The issue of the dead has been part of the dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia in Brussels.

In September 2020, Kosovo delegation officials had declared an agreement for the unemployed has been reached with Serbia. But they had not clarified the details of the agreement.

US envoy for the Western Balkans Gabriel Escobar and EU envoy Miroslav Lajcak for Kosovo- Serbia

In June of last year, Prime Minister Albin Kurti has said the issue of the missing is an open wound and that it is important to open Serbia's state archives.

It should be remembered that even over 1600 people are considered undiscovered since the war in Kosovo.

Lajcak has also said that by Wednesday they will have a clearer picture of the future of the dialogue.

The European Union's special representative for the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak, said the EU and the US are working jointly on dialogue in Brussels and the way it will continue in the future.

Osmani after meeting Escobar and Lajcak: Serbia, blocker of progress in dialogue

President Vjosa Osmani has said that the Republic of Kosovo is committed to dialogue with mutual recognition at its centre and said Kosovo has witnessed this with its active commitment and proposals made along the process.

She also reiterated Kosovo's stance that the agreement for mutual recognition should not affect the sovereignty, territorial integrity and constitutional order of Kosovo. The “is already clear that Serbia is blocking progress in the dialogue through its non-constructive approach”, the president point.

Noting Kosovo's constructiveity, she made it clear that the list of agreements that have not been implemented by Serbia is long and should be addressed urgently if we want to restore confidence in the dialogue process.

US envoy for the Western Balkans Gabriel Escobar and EU envoy Miroslav Lajcak for Kosovo- Serbia during meeting with President Vjosa Osmani

Osmani said Serbia not only does not continue to implement previous agreements, but it also shows clear obstacles every time they participate in organised meetings within the dialogue in Brussels.

In this direction, the president said she expects equal treatment of the parties in the process on the part of the European Union as the mediator of dialogue.

The president also stressed once again the absolute importance of lighting the fate of violent missing persons as the priority of the dialogue process.

Kurti: Sovereignty and state functioning must remain unencumbered by any one's effort

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti, after meeting with US emissar Gabriel Escobar and the European Union, Miroslav Lajcak said they are committed to the process of dialogue with Serbia, while saying they also support regional co-operation by citing the Berlin Process as well as the Joint Regional Market.

After citing some of the executive's achievements, Kurti also stopped in the dialogue between Pristina and Belgrade facilitated by the European Union and supported by the United States of America, which he said territorial integrity, state sovereignty and functioning must remain intact.

The government of the Republic of Kosovo supports and is engaged in the negotiation process in Brussels for principled and balanced dialogue, which should benefit both countries' citizens. We are determined that territorial integrity, sovereignty, state functioning, constitutionality and legitimacy all the time and wherever it remains unencumbered by any one's” effort, Kurti said.

US envoy for the Western Balkans Gabriel Escobar and EU envoy Miroslav Lajcak for Kosovo-Serbia dialogue during conference with Prime Minister Albin Kurti

Kurti said he is prime minister of all Kosovo citizens without ethnic distinction, but said best practices will be taken because there can be no discriminated community anywhere and elsewhere privileged.

I am the prime minister of all citizens indiscriminately, so I am also willing to respond to all the demands and needs of the citizens of Kosovo and the citizens of Kosovo, and of the Serb citizens by whom we will take the best practices of the current and Kosovo, but also of the European Union, and by keeping in mind the practices and ways that Serbia applies to, because there should be no citizens or communities who are privileged and elsewhere discriminated against”, Kurti came.

Kosovo's prime minister also pledged regional co-operation by saying they engage in the Berlin Process and the Common Regional Market, but not to mention other initiatives such as that of “Open Balkan”.

Otherwise, Escobar, along with EU envoy for the dialogue, Miroslav Lajcak is on a five-day visit to Kosovo and Serbia, aimed at encouraging leaders in both states of engagement in the dialogue mediated by the European bloc.

The diplomats' visit comes as Kosovo and Serbia, since July 2021, have not held any round of high-level talks, within the dialogue mediated by the European Union. /Telegraphy/