Talks Belgrade – Pristina (BETAPHOTO/European Council/Mario Salerno)
It is not easy for the governments in Washington and the European Union (EU) to align their actions related to the Belgrade-Pristina talks, and the EU believes that "when it comes to the initiatives that the U.S. has launched or pledged, what counts are results, enforcement and sustainability," European diplomatic sources in Brussels told BETA.
Underlining that they were speaking off the record, the sources answered BETA's question if ahead of meetings between Serbian and Kosovo officials in Washington and Brussels, which nearly coincide, the EU and Washington had aligned their views on what Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo Prime Minister Avdulah Hoti had been invited to discuss.
The diplomats at the EU headquarters replied by stressing the words of EU High Representative Josep Borrell's spokesperson Peter Stano, who said that the Vucic-Hoti meeting in Brussels in early September would be used to discuss "all issues that can assist Belgrade and Pristina in making progress in the normalization of their relations" and reaching a comprehensive, legally binding agreement.
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