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21.09.2020. 14:55 – 21.09.2020. 15:32
The first High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Carl Bildt, says that Belgrade will “one day” have to recognize Kosovo’s self-proclaimed independence, and that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic knows that this is the key to Serbia’s European path.
Karl Bilt, Photo: Print Screen / Youtube / TRT World
“Vučić had the strength to do that at one point, but he lost that opportunity,” says Bildt in an interview on the Sarajevo Politički website.
The former head of Swedish diplomacy added that it is necessary to implement what was agreed long ago and, as he says, it never materialized.
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He adds that much of that was repeated in the documents that were created after the meeting in the United States.
When asked what the real result is and whether Belgrade and Pristina want a deal, Bildt said he believes the idea of exchanging territories was, as he claims, “a dangerous deviation that took years and years and advances in negotiations.”
But now, he adds, especially this EU track must gain momentum and start moving forward.
Kosovo and Metohija, Serbia, Photo: Shutterstock
Concluding that the dialogue for the Serbian member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Milorad Dodik, is a platform to demand the independence of the Republika Srpska, Bildt says:
“Kosovo is an independent state. There is no going back on that issue. Dodik knows there is nothing of RS independence. In every possible way. Well, Serbia would not recognize that either,” Bildt said.
Bildt, who is today co-chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations, an influential non-governmental organization that deals with foreign policy musings, says that it seems that the EU and the US are finally starting to work together, but that the European perspective of the Western Balkan region has never gone further.
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