State Department spokesman: Success of Kurti Vuciq talks is an absolute US priority

Ned Price, spokesman for the US State Department, spoke yesterday at a press conference on many issues, and he was questioned and took the US position also on the Kosovo dialogue Serbia.

Price was asked what US expectations are from today's meeting between Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti and Serbian President Aleksandar Vuciq and how prior this issue is to America from 0 to 10. Today's meeting in Brussels, he praised as “absolute priorities” for the US, writes Express.

“in general, we are pleased that leaders of Serbia and Kosovo will meet tomorrow in Brussels under the EU-enlightened dialogue. We fully support this dialogue. It is important, we believe, that both sides will use this opportunity to advance their discussions on normalisation. It's our priority. We want to see progress in implementing past dialogue agreements”, he said.

Price also cited the need to compromise, which said “is not a sign of weakness”, but it's <x2).

“Dialog and compromise are critical components of governance; they are not signs of weakness. Both are essential to reaching an agreement based on normalisation of relations, which remains essential for the two countries' EU aspirations. And we hope that leaders in Serbia and Kosovo will understand the importance of moving forward, not back, through dialogue facilitated by the EU”, Price said.

A senior official here from the Department will travel to Brussels to support leaders' meetings in this EU-enlightened dialogue. We are not direct participants in these talks, but the success of these talks, on your second question, and I'm always hate to give rankings or notes, numeric or other, but it is an absolute priority of our”, Price stressed.