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American professor Daniel Server said today that the former US Foreign Minister, Madeleine Albright, will be included in the dialogue between Serbia and Kosovo in the face of the next US administration.
Photo from Danijel server: FoNet / Aleksandar-Levajković“It doesn’t matter what the Serbs think about whether or not Madeleine Albright should be 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 lived in Serbia, speaks Serbian. “I think it should be appreciated,” Server told H1 television.
Server, a professor at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, said he understood that “many Serbs will not appreciate her because she advocated for NATO involvement in the war after the collapse of the Rambouillet talks.”
“And I fully understand how they treat me, even though I opposed the bombing. However, it doesn’t matter, he will have influence, he has interesting things to say, “said Server.
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 the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Eliot Engel, and the representative of the non-governmental Jamestown Foundation, Janusz Bugajski, spoke together with Server and Albright, said that Serbia must recognize Kosovo, that 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 told H1.
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 find a solution to the problem on their own.
“If they work together and have a common vision, not just 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, even 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 the Europeans, in addition to two things, the implementation of everything agreed, which was not good in the past, as well as the insistence on the reciprocity. “Whatever 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 it said: The Pristina government cannot be trusted to try to prosecute those who committed crimes after the war.” The international community ‘bought’ that argument and he insisted on a special court, “Server said.
He added that “it was not a bad thing, but it is not reciprocal” because, as he himself says, there is a “very clear case” of three Americans, the Bytyci brothers, who were killed in Serbia after the war, and their murderers cannot be tried in The Hague. the court has no jurisdiction in Serbia.
“It’s funny.” I proposed in Washington (in 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 try to the perpetrators of murders inside Serbia, “Server said.
He said that there are several other things that “must be understood” and that one of them is that the negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo, in the opinion of the Americans, but also of many Europeans, should result in mutual recognition and the exchange of ambassadors.
“Vučić clearly said that he does not want to be the president of Serbia who will recognize Kosovo. I think he meant it. I think we have to prepare to wait for the president of Serbia to do so, if necessary. In the meantime, it is possible that we have to think about a mutual agreement, but only if Kosovo gets a seat in the UN. That problem must be solved, even if the problem of mutual recognition is not solved, “said Server.
He also noted that Vučić failed to fulfill his promise of free and open 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, and not of 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 and that Vucic will have to turn in our direction if he wants Americans to be his friends, “added Server.
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