Escobar: Everything we've done over the past 90 days has been for the good of Kosovo

Escobar made this statement questioned about the allegations that Washington has changed the course towards Kosovo.

Escobar has mentioned the Council of Europe, where Kosovo passed the first phase, elections in the north and recognition of their outcome, when Serbia demanded that they be declared illegal.

I think this is malnoformation. Let me introduce it this way: Everything we've done over the past 90 days has been for the good of Kosovo, everything. So we supported the Council of Europe. We saw the need for new choices. We supported them. We supported them even though Serbia was against them. We recognise the election outcome, although there were only 3% turnout. Serbia wanted us to declare it illegal. Serbia wanted us not to recognise the leadership authority. We knew them. When the heads were inaugurated, for us they were heads. We now find ourselves in a difficult position when these heads cannot claim to represent the communities where they are heads. That's why we need new choices. But in the same way, we acknowledged that these mayors have legal authority to continue municipal functions. We had demanded, however, that Kosovo not try to take control of municipal buildings by force. I've been part of the U.S. Federal government since I was 19. I've seen the American government abandon buildings because of fires and floods and the end of my COVID and even because of protests, but no one ever questioned the legitimacy of the American government. The only thing we asked from the Kosovo government is not to raise tensions, trying to go there by force. Yet, they did. So on the one hand, everything we've done has recognised Kosovo's legitimacy. We've always sided with them about all these differences”, Escobar said in an interview for the Voice of America.