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More solidarity within Western Balkans necessary

Belgrade/Bled, 3 September 2019

First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic participated today in the Bled Strategic Forum, where he was one of the speakers at the panel "Western Balkans - Europeisation, Democratisation, Shared Responsibility".

Author: Tanjug

Dacic spoke about the appointment of Matthew Palmer as the new US Special Representative for the Western Balkans, the situation in the region, as well as about the current relations between Belgrade and Pristina.

He said that Palmer's appointment is an indication that the US wants to be more clearly present in our region.

The First Deputy Prime Minister welcomed the appointment of Palmer as the new US Special Representative for the Western Balkans and wished him a lot of success, noting that his term should last until relations between Belgrade and Pristina are resolved.

The two of us had a meeting, we analysed the elections in Kosovo, the election of a new EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy - hence, the transition from Mogherini to Josep Borrell, as well as the upcoming elections in Serbia, the First Deputy Prime Minister said.

Dacic expressed his expectation that conditions will be created for the dialogue to continue after the formation of the government in Pristina, adding that it would depend largely on that transition, ie on what the position of the new EU High Representative Josep Borrell will be and how the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina will be modelled.

We are ready to act quickly and be constructive, Dacic added.

He underlined that he had said publicly many times that Serbia supports visa liberalisation for “Kosovo” and the opening of EU accession negotiations for North Macedonia and Albania.