TIRANA – The request made by the Kosovo government for the active involvement of the United States in the EU-mediated dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia has not received a clear answer by Washington’s relevant authorities, a senior Kosovo official has said.
Government coordinator for the dialogue with Serbia, Skender Hyseni made that comment after a meeting with Matthew Palmer, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, who is also the US State Department envoy for the Western Balkans, in Washington on Tuesday.
Palmer’s reply appears not to have given a clear answer to Hyseni’s request on the permanent US presence in the dialogue table. He stressed the US support for the Brussels dialogue, “adding that America will be with [Kosovo] throughout this process, in strong support of a fair, stable and comprehensive agreement,” Hyseni stated as quoted by Exit.al.
Asked by T7 TV on his meeting agenda in Washington, Hyseni did not mention any names but said he will reveal them after the meetings take place.
“We had an open and exhaustive conversation with Mr. Palmer in order to coordinate [the work], aiming for the dialogue to take on a new dynamic by raising for discussion, without delay and dragging [the process], the main issue, the comprehensive agreement for mutual recognition and normalization between the Republic of Kosovo and Serbia,” Hyseni said.
It remains to be seen how much the enthusiasm on reaching an agreement for mutual recognition between Kosovo and Serbia expressed by Hyseni in a last week interview will be materialized. But the new senior Kosovo interlocutor pledged for transparency regarding the dialogue with Belgrade to Albanians. /argumentum.al
