Greek President: Greece Doesn’t Change its Stance on Kosovo

Katerina Sakellaropoulou, Stevo Pendarovski (Aris Messinis/Pool via AP)

Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou said that her country, which hadn’t recognized the independence of Kosovo, would not change its stance.

“Together with its well-known stance on Kosovo, and honoring the policy in the Western Balkans, Greece is maintaining a pragmatic and constructive approach to Kosovo, aimed at strengthening stability and security in the region, as well as overall progress in the region’s EU accession,” the president said in an interview for the Politika daily, published on March 27.

President Sakellaropoulou said that “the integration of the entire region into the European Union is a mutually useful investment of strategic nature, for the members of the Union and their partners in the Western Balkans alike.” “It’s the position Greece has been committed to and advocating for decades. The EU is not complete without the Western Balkans, the Greek president concluded.