Feith: Belgrade, Priština must cooperate

EU Special Envoy to Kosovo Pieter Feith says that neither Belgrade nor Priština will be able to realize their EU ambitions unless they patch up relations.

Izvor: Tanjug

Thursday, 14.05.2009.

09:59

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EU Special Envoy to Kosovo Pieter Feith says that neither Belgrade nor Pristina will be able to realize their EU ambitions unless they patch up relations. According to Feith, that did not meaning Belgrade recognizing Kosovo, nor Serbia being set new conditions for EU membership. Feith: Belgrade, Pristina must cooperate “I’m not saying that Belgrade needs to recognize Kosovo’s independence, but there has to exist at least minimal cooperation between the two sides on issues like customs and trade, and there’s also a need to carry out a census in both Serbia and Kosovo,” Feith told the BBC. “I’m not adding any new conditions for EU entry. For Serbia, there is one condition, one that it’s aware of itself, and that’s cooperation with the Hague court. However, establishing regional cooperation is an element that should help countries wishing to join the EU,” the envoy added. He stressed that “unless at least minimal cooperation is achieved—and Pristina needs to do more there too—the Euro-integration process of the whole region will be much slower and more complicated.” According to Feith, the greatest challenge facing the authorities in Pristina was establishing good relations with Serbia, which, he said, was a formula for both stabilizing the whole region and its ultimate integration into the EU. He said that an equally daunting challenge for the Kosovo Albaninan government, "and himself" as the official tasked with assisting it, was the "issue of the north of Kosovo, and preventing a de facto partition" of the territory. Pieter Feith (FoNet, archive)

Feith: Belgrade, Priština must cooperate

“I’m not saying that Belgrade needs to recognize Kosovo’s independence, but there has to exist at least minimal cooperation between the two sides on issues like customs and trade, and there’s also a need to carry out a census in both Serbia and Kosovo,” Feith told the BBC.

“I’m not adding any new conditions for EU entry. For Serbia, there is one condition, one that it’s aware of itself, and that’s cooperation with the Hague court. However, establishing regional cooperation is an element that should help countries wishing to join the EU,” the envoy added.

He stressed that “unless at least minimal cooperation is achieved—and Priština needs to do more there too—the Euro-integration process of the whole region will be much slower and more complicated.”

According to Feith, the greatest challenge facing the authorities in Priština was establishing good relations with Serbia, which, he said, was a formula for both stabilizing the whole region and its ultimate integration into the EU.

He said that an equally daunting challenge for the Kosovo Albaninan government, "and himself" as the official tasked with assisting it, was the "issue of the north of Kosovo, and preventing a de facto partition" of the territory.

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