7 hours agoKallas: We're analyzing the errors of Kosovo dialogue Serbia
Periskopi(a year ago)
(a year ago)The European Union is unlocking mistakes in the Brussels dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia, in order to revive the process of normalising relations between the two neighbouring countries, bloc foreign policy chief Kaya Kallas said in Podgorica on Monday. Asked about the impasse between [...]
Asked about the impasse in dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia, Kallas said during a media conference that “what we are doing this month is analyzing” along with EU envoy for dialogue Peter Sorensen, who took office in February.
“What is important to us is normalising relations, because without that neither of them can move forward on the road to the EU”, Kallas said.
Kallas did not give any more details of what you think was wrong or what has not been going on so far in the dialogue mediated by the bloc.
Despite dialogue conducted over the years and signing of agreements, the process has stalled and tensions have increased.
Under EU mediation, in 2023 Kosovo and Serbia reached agreement on the road to normalising relations. But since then, the bloc has criticised the two countries for failing to implement the agreement, despite its obligation.
Kallas, in an interview for Radio Free Europe on April 2nd, has said the European Union is interested in normalising relations between Kosovo and Serbia, whether through dialogue or any other instrument.
Perhaps it's a dialogue, maybe it's another tool. I am willing to look into this issue, and I will do it together with Special Representative [for Kosovo-Serbia dialogue, Peter Sorensen] in the days ahead, Kallas had said.
Due to crises in Kosovo's north, which raised tensions between the two countries, no round of political dialogue has been held since September 2023 in Brussels, but only talks at the level of chief negotiators have been held.
European Union Foreign Policy and Security High Representative Kaya Kallas, from 7 April to 9 April, is visiting several countries in the Western Balkans.
On its first visit to the region as chief of European diplomacy, Kallas will stay in Montenegro, Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
It did not warn him to visit Kosovo and Serbia.
All six Western Balkan countries, except Kosovo, as well as Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and Turkey, are EU membership candidates.
Kosovo has applied for membership in the European bloc, but its application has not yet been reviewed.
