6 minutes agoEscobar wants a new pact on dealing with minorities in Kosovo and Bosnia: We need him.
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)US envoy for the Western Balkans Gabriel Escobar, at a panel at the Black Strategic Forum in Slovenia, said ethnic competition in corruption is continuing in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and that according to him is the cause of problems there. People don't leave the country because they don't want to live in a multiethnic state, but [...]
People do not leave the country because they do not want to live in a multiethnic state, but because of corruption, the US government representative said, stressing that many ruling parties in the region participate in this.
Escobar said most disputes in the region in recent years deal with the treatment and status of minorities, whether Croats in Bosnia or Serbs in northern Kosovo.
“We must create a new pact that will make minorities feel represented, appreciated and integrated”, he said, Croatian public medium HRT reported.
Taking the last agreement between Kosovo and Serbia, Escobar said successes come only through EU and US unity.
Escobar has found that, as in the case of recent progress in negotiations between Kosovo and Serbia, all successes from Dayton to last Saturday come through EU and US unity.
