EU commissioner to visit Kosovo

EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele is expected in Priština this afternoon.

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Thursday, 06.05.2010.

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EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele is expected in Pristina this afternoon. There, he will attend the opening of a new Kosovo Albanian Interior Ministry headquarters, co-financed from EU funds, said reports. EU commissioner to visit Kosovo This is Fuele’s second visit to Kosovo since he took over as enlargement commissioner. Fuele is also set to meet with Kosovo Albanian Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, Minister for EU Integrations Besim Beqaj and other Kosovo and international representatives. Fuele will stay in Kosovo for two days. On Friday, he is scheduled to open the Information Center in northern Kosovska Mitrovica and a business complex in Zvecan,also in the Serb-dominated north. The EU enlargement commissioner will also address university students in northern Kosovska Mitrovica and will attend a formal reception in Pristina to mark Europe Day. Fuele last visited Kosovo in the end of March 2010. Ahead of the trip to the province today, he told BBC that there was “no consensus on Kosovo in the EU”, but that Brussels “definitely had a complete consensus to guarantee that Kosovo was a part of the general European perspective for the Western Balkans region”. He repeated that EU member states had asked the EC at the end of the last year to make progress in three determined directions and that significant steps had been made. “The directions are these: intensifying political dialogue with representatives of Kosovo, discussing possibilities to strengthen trade relations and movement of people, where a possible dialog for lifting of visas is included in order to provide Kosovo a status which the three states of the Western Balkans already have,” Fuele said. When asked whether officials from Belgrade and Pristina will be present at the summit in Sarajevo, planned for June, the EU commissioner said that he hoped that both parties would participate, “because it would be a very important conference”. “As far as the level of foreign ministers is concerned, there are precedents. I hope that they will be used to the benefit of the meeting and that the entire region will make a big step toward the EU,” he said, and added that “all signs were positive”, and that the conference would be held on June 2. Stefan Fuele (Tanjug, file)

EU commissioner to visit Kosovo

This is Fuele’s second visit to Kosovo since he took over as enlargement commissioner.

Fuele is also set to meet with Kosovo Albanian Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, Minister for EU Integrations Besim Beqaj and other Kosovo and international representatives.

Fuele will stay in Kosovo for two days. On Friday, he is scheduled to open the Information Center in northern Kosovska Mitrovica and a business complex in Zvečan,also in the Serb-dominated north.

The EU enlargement commissioner will also address university students in northern Kosovska Mitrovica and will attend a formal reception in Priština to mark Europe Day.

Fuele last visited Kosovo in the end of March 2010. Ahead of the trip to the province today, he told BBC that there was “no consensus on Kosovo in the EU”, but that Brussels “definitely had a complete consensus to guarantee that Kosovo was a part of the general European perspective for the Western Balkans region”.

He repeated that EU member states had asked the EC at the end of the last year to make progress in three determined directions and that significant steps had been made.

“The directions are these: intensifying political dialogue with representatives of Kosovo, discussing possibilities to strengthen trade relations and movement of people, where a possible dialog for lifting of visas is included in order to provide Kosovo a status which the three states of the Western Balkans already have,” Fuele said.

When asked whether officials from Belgrade and Priština will be present at the summit in Sarajevo, planned for June, the EU commissioner said that he hoped that both parties would participate, “because it would be a very important conference”.

“As far as the level of foreign ministers is concerned, there are precedents. I hope that they will be used to the benefit of the meeting and that the entire region will make a big step toward the EU,” he said, and added that “all signs were positive”, and that the conference would be held on June 2.

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