Escobar exposes Kurti: The Franco-German plan is for mutual recognition, but for normalisation

He has said that the fact that the US supports this proposal does not mean that the US does not believe the region to be healthy must overcome the events of the 1990s.

Escobar has further said the US believes all countries in the region should recognise each other.

The EU proposal is not about recognition-reciprocise, but it is about normalisation. But just because we support this proposal at this specific time does not mean that we do not believe that all countries in the Western Balkans to be healthy must emerge from the events of the 1990s. We believe that all countries in the region should know each other and have good reports with each other”, Escobar said.

He has said the reason the U.S. has added <x0ventual” to the recent letters of state leaders when it comes to mutual recognition is that they are unwilling to change the draft of the Franco-German proposal, yet it stipulates that the US's goal of what should eventually be achieved in the Western Balkans has changed.

That's why we put the word <x1-ventual” on paper. So people understand that we don't want to change the European proposal. But it has not changed what we want eventually to happen in the Western Balkans”, Escobar has said.

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