Borrell: I hope Kurt and Vuchy meet till summer.
(4 years ago)EU foreign ministers have discussed Kosovo-Serbia dialogue at a meeting in Brussels today, concluding that it is necessary to create a best <x0mosphere” in the talks, EU Foreign Minister Josep Borrell has said. He said he hoped that before the summer he could be held [...]
He has said he hopes that another meeting at the highest political level between Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti and Serbia's President Aleksandar Vuciq will be held before summer.
“We need constructive engagement and rapid progress towards normalising relations between Kosovo and Serbia. Everyone agrees, but when they sit together, they have a problem making progress. We need to build faith”, Borrell said.
“I hope that before the summer we will be able to hold another meeting at the highest political level between the prime minister of Kosovo and the president of Serbia”, he added.
European Union diplomacy chief Josep Borrell called on Serbia to support European sanctions against Russia following a meeting in Brussels, attended by the top diplomats of six Western Balkan states.
The “for me is clear, as high representative and my colleagues, that keeping close ties with the regime of [Russian president Vladimir] Putin is no longer in line with building the future in the EU. These two things no longer go at the same time”, Borrell said.
Borrell, back in Brussels, said that neutrality today faced the unprotested Russian invasion of Ukraine is the “concept wrong”.
Being neutral about war in Ukraine today is a misconception. A state invaded another state and placed them in a bag does not distinguish between the attackers and the attacks”, Borrell said.
Serbia is the only state in the Western Balkan region that has not followed the EU's policy to sanction Russia, as Moscow began its invasion of Ukraine on 24 February. /Periscopi/