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WASHINGTON – Johns Hopkins University Washington professor Daniel Server said former U.S. chief of diplomacy Madeleine Albright will be included in the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina on behalf of the next U.S. administration, regardless of what Serbs think. about.
“It doesn’t matter what the Serbs think about it or not so that Madeleine Albright is included. She will be included. She is a former secretary of state and the current is important, not so much in the Democratic Party, but in the thinking democratic world, the part of the democratic world that thinks about foreign policy. “And she lived in Serbia, she speaks Serbian. I think that should be appreciated, “Server told N1 television.
The server said that they understood that “many Serbs will not appreciate her because she defended NATO’s participation in the war after the collapse of the negotiations in Rambouillet.”
“And I fully understand how they treat me, even though I was opposed to the bombing. However, no matter, it will have an impact, it has interesting things to say,” Server said.
He added that he knew that none of the prominent participants in last week’s session of the Foreign Policy Committee of the United States House of Representatives was welcomed in Belgrade, in which political approaches that the administration of the future president of the United States were discussed , Joseph Biden, could apply to the Western Balkans.
Participants in that session, in which outgoing chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee and Albanian lobbyist Eliot Engel and representative of the non-governmental Jamestown Foundation Janusz Bugajski spoke together with Server and Albright, said that Serbia should recognize Kosovo, which should become a member of the UN.
“Honestly, none of us Janusz, Madeleine Albright, none of us are welcomed by what we said. Belgrade has turned in the direction of Russia, in the ultra-nationalist direction,” Server said.
He said that “Americans and Europeans must work together” on the issue of dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, because both the EU and the United States have shown that they cannot come to a solution to the problem on their own.
“If they work together and have a common vision, not only for Serbia and Kosovo, but for the region as a whole, I think it will work. It is the first step, that Americans and Europeans should talk to each other, and before talking to Bosnians, Kosovars and Serbs, “Server said.
He added that the EU should be the “host of the dialogue” and that the Americans should support it.
“The EU has the greatest influence on these characters. What the Americans can bring is a lot of support for Europeans, as well as two things: the implementation of everything agreed, which was not good in the past, and the insistence on reciprocity. Regardless of what Belgrade and Pristina ask for in this dialogue, they must be willing to reciprocate equally, “Server said.
He said “it was not always this way” and cited as an example, as he put it, the “strange case” of the Kosovo Specialized Chambers, the crimes court of the former Kosovo Liberation Army based in The Hague.
“That tribunal was created in The Hague as part of Belgrade’s insistence that the Pristina government cannot be trusted to try to prosecute those who committed crimes after the war. The international community ‘bought’ that argument and insisted on a court, “Server said.
He added that “it was not a bad thing, but not reciprocal either” because, as he puts it, there is a “very clear case” of three Americans, the Bytyci brothers, who were murdered in Serbia after the war, and their murderers cannot be brought to justice. in The Hague the court has no jurisdiction in Serbia.
“That is ridiculous. I proposed in Washington (at the Foreign Policy Committee session), and no one realized what I was proposing, that the jurisdiction of the special court in The Hague be extended to the territory of Serbia because they showed that they would not judge the perpetrators of murders inside Serbia, “Server said. .
He said that there are several other things that “must be understood” and one of them is that the negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina, in the opinion of the Americans, but also of many Europeans, must result in mutual recognition and the exchange of ambassadors.
“Vucic has clearly said that he does not want to be the president of Serbia who recognizes Kosovo. I think he meant it. I think we should prepare to wait for the president of Serbia to do so, if necessary. In the meantime, it is possible that we have to consider a mutual agreement, but only if Kosovo gets a seat in the UN. That problem must be solved, and if the problem of mutual recognition is not solved, “Server said.
He also noted that “Vučić did not fulfill his promise of open and free media, nor of guaranteeing the independence of the judiciary.”
“He is politically dominant in a way that is very reminiscent of (former Serbian leader Slobodan) Milosevic, not a democratic Serbia. And he turned to Russia and China. I think one of the messages from the session (from the Foreign Policy Committee) was that the Americans clearly understood that Vučić will have to turn in our direction if he wants the Americans to be his friends, “added Server.
(Kurir.rs/Tanjug)
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