Schallenberg: Kosovo-Serbia dialogue must end with recognition

“We have also talked about the dialogue process, which is necessary between Belgrade and Pristina, has different elements in terms of energy field, concrete steps and other areas. But in the end it is natural that we should have full normalisation, even the recognition that is not at all questioned by”, Schallenberg said.

He added that his visit to Pristina comes at exactly this time, since he sees Moscow as a factor of destabilisation for the region.

“We need to remember that Russia has the opportunity to make destabilisation of the region with only one shot, they can create concerns, destabilise the region, and this thing beats alarm bells. So we think the attack in Ukraine is a call to wake up the EU to address the goal of EU membership, and this has never been important, and now the promise given 19 years ago in Thessaloniki is even more important now that it is implemented and put into existence”.

Schallenberg said member states should keep this promise, which they have given themselves, until he said visa liberalisation for Kosovo must be abolished.

This applies to me. So, to open negotiations for both Northern Macedonia and Albania and become visa liberalisation for Kosovo, which is also the only country that still has visa liberalisation. Of course, at the next meeting I'm going to say that. Understanding us in Vienna, but also others realise that EU enlargement is geostrategic”.

Austria will actively do this, have done it in the past, and will do it again.

He also said the reform process of the Government of Kosovo should continue further, citing here fighting corruption.