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Johns Hopkins University’s Daniel Server tells H1 that “Americans and Europeans should work together on the issue of Belgrade and Pristina,” because, he adds, it has been shown that neither of them can solve the problem alone. He also affirmed that this issue will include former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, because “she knows the terrain and speaks Serbian.”
Last week, a session was held in the House of Representatives in Washington, DC, in which Serbia was also discussed. That session became the focus of the public, among other things, because Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state, also participated. Participants, including H1 interlocutor Daniel Server from Johns Hopkins University, said that Serbia must recognize Kosovo and that Pristina must become a member of the UN.
In a conversation with H1 Server, he says that it is clear to him that he is not welcome in Belgrade due to such attitudes, adding that it is because the Serbian government turned to Moscow and Beijing.
“I think the Americans and Europeans should work together on the issue of Belgrade and Pristina. Neither of them can do it alone. Grenel showed that he cannot do it alone, and so do Europeans. But 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 have to talk to each other, even before talking to Bosnians, Kosovars and Serbs. That’s it, “he said. It is server.
It also says that the EU should be the “host of the dialogue”.
“I think I said some new things about Pristina and Belgrade in Washington, I would point them out. I think the Americans should have a supporting role when it comes to dialogue. I think the EU is a mediator in dialogue and should host dialogue. “She has the biggest influence on those characters. What the Americans can bring is a lot of support for Europeans, as well as two things: implement everything agreed that was not good in the past, and insist on reciprocity, “says Server.
Whatever Belgrade and Pristina ask for in this dialogue, they must be willing to reciprocate, Server emphasized.
“That has not always been the case. For example, we have this strange special court case, 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 community ‘bought’ that argument and insisted on special courts. I don’t think that’s bad, but it’s not reciprocal. We have a very clear case of three Americans, Americans from Kosovo and Albania, who were killed in Serbia after the war, and their murderers I cannot judge in The Hague because the special courts have no jurisdiction in Serbia. This is ridiculous. I suggested in Washington, and no one realized what I suggested, that I recommended that Serbia extend the jurisdiction of the special court in The Hague to Serbian territory because they showed that they would not try perpetrators of murders inside Serbia, “he said.
According to him, there are several other things that “need to be understood.”
“One is that the purpose of these talks, in the opinion of the Americans, and it honestly seems to me that in the opinion of many Europeans, they should result in mutual recognition and the exchange of ambassadors. Vučić said quite clearly that he does not want to be the one. President of Serbia who will recognize 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 we may have to consider a mutual agreement, but only if Kosovo gets a seat in the UN. That problem must be solved, even if the mutual recognition problem is not solved, “Server said.
“Albright speaks Serbian, he lived in Serbia”
“It doesn’t matter what Serbs think about whether or not Madeleine Albright should be included. She will be included. She is a former secretary of state. 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 of She is the chair of the board of the National Democratic Institute. She will be involved. And there is also someone who lived in Serbia, speaks Serbian. I think that should be appreciated, “said Server, commenting on the presence of the Former Secretary of State in the House of Representatives in Washington. .
The server also says that they understand that “many Serbs will not appreciate it.”
“Because he advocated for NATO participation in the war after the collapse of the Rambouillet talks. And I fully understand how they treat me even though I opposed the bombing. It doesn’t matter, it will have an impact, it has interesting things to say. I think. that “Honestly, none of us Janusz, Madeleine Albright, none of us were welcomed in Belgrade because of what we said. Belgrade turned in the direction of Russia, in the ultra-nationalist direction, “Server said.
According to him, Vučić did not fulfill his promise of open and free media, nor that he would develop an independent judiciary.
“He is politically dominant in a way that is very reminiscent of Milosevic, not a democratic Serbia. And he turned to Russia and China. I think one of the messages from the audience was that the Americans clearly understood this and that if Vucic wants the Americans they will be friends, who will have to turn in our direction ”, concluded Server.
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