Stano: EU Has No Comment on Escobar's Statement or Serbian and Kosovo Representatives on Vucic-Kurti Meeting

Peter Stano (Photo: print screen/youtube)

European Commission spokesman Peter Stano said on April 20 that it was the EU's enduring stance not to comment on any statements made in Brussels on May 2 by representatives of Kosovo, Serbia or U.S. special envoy Gabriel Escobar on talks between Vucic and Kurti on creating the Community of Serb Municipalities.

"The stance of the EU high representative and member states, like the U.S. and other international partners, is that the Ohrid agreement must be implemented and particularily that applying this agreement is directly connected to Kosovo's and Serbia's progress toward EU membership," the spokesman for European high representative Josep Borrell said.

This was Stano's response to being asked by BETA at a press briefing in the European Commission what the stance of the EU, Borrell and EU mediator Miroslav Lajcak was after U.S. envoy Gabriel Escobar said that Washington accepted the "parameters" and framework for creating the Community of Serbia Municipalities prepared by Kosovo Premier Albin Kurti, while Belgrade had made it clear that the basis for the Community could only be the agreements reached in 2013 and 2015, and not what Pristina wante.

Borrell's spokesman also said that "the EU is pleased that a high level meeting will be held to review the ways for achieving progress and it guarantees that all agreements will be achieved." "It clearly follows from the Ohrid agreement what both sides - President Vucic and Premier Kurti, assumed as obligations and these obligations must be carried out through concrete action," Stano stressed.