Vucic with Reeker and Palmer: Serbia ready to Return to Dialogue after Tariffs Are Abolished

(Presidents press office/Dimitrije Goll)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met in New York with U.S. State Department officials – Acting Assistant Secretary of State Philip Reeker and special envoy for the Western Balkans Matthew Palmer, with whom he discussed the removal of obstacles to continuation of the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, the Office of the Serbian President has announced.

At the meeting held on the margins of the U.N. General Assembly’s session in the evening on Sept. 24 Vucic said that Serbia is ready to return to the negotiating table after the tariffs imposed on Serbian goods are lifted, as it genuinely favors the reaching of a substantive and sustainable compromise in the solving of the Kosovo issue, the press release added.

“Such compromise should observe and recognize the interests of the Serbs living there, as well as the preservation of Serbia’s state and national interests,” Vucic said.

The participants in the meeting concluded that Serbia and the U.S. have intensified political dialogue and economic cooperation.

The announcement further read that Vucic and the U.S. officials also talked about the situation in the Western Balkans and agreed that peace and stability are of crucial importance for the political and economic progress, as well as the European path for the entire region.