Clinton and Ashton on Kosovo dialogue

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton met on Monday and discussed the Kosovo dialogue, said reports.

Izvor: Tanjug

Tuesday, 12.07.2011.

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton met on Monday and discussed the Kosovo dialogue, said reports. They agreed that "normalization of relations and building of trust through the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue pave the way for European future of both sides". Clinton and Ashton on Kosovo dialogue “The recent agreements between Kosovo and Serbia in the EU-facilitated dialogue are a positive and mutually beneficial step. But this is only the beginning,” Clinton said on Monday evening, and the U.S. Department of State published on its website. On the margins of a meeting of the Quartet on the Middle East, comprised of officials of the United Nations, the European Union, Russia, and the U.S., Clinton underlined in Washington that “now the agreements need to be implemented, and we need to see more progress, particularly in the north of Kosovo.” “We expect both sides to continue their hard work and come to practical agreements to improve the daily lives of all people, normalize relations, and bring both countries closer to achieving their EU aspirations,” Clinton underscored. At a joint press conference following the meeting, Ashton commented on the last week's meeting with Kosovo Albanian Prime Minister Hashim Thaci in Brussels. “We talked about the potential of what we are trying to do with the discussions, which is really to make life easier in practical ways for the people in the north of Kosovo,” Ashton said. “It is engaged with issues like driving license plates, ways in which we can help the movement of people between the two, and to find ways, too, to build the trust so that we can move forward with them into the future, which for both lies in the European Union,” Ashton stressed. Kosovo's ethnic Albanians in early 2008 unilaterally declared independence, but Serbia rejected this declaration as illegal. The United States recognized Kosovo as independent, while five of EU's 27 member-states refused to do so. The ongoing Belgrade-Pristina dialogue is sponsored by the EU. Ashton and Clinton (Beta)

Clinton and Ashton on Kosovo dialogue

“The recent agreements between Kosovo and Serbia in the EU-facilitated dialogue are a positive and mutually beneficial step. But this is only the beginning,” Clinton said on Monday evening, and the U.S. Department of State published on its website.

On the margins of a meeting of the Quartet on the Middle East, comprised of officials of the United Nations, the European Union, Russia, and the U.S., Clinton underlined in Washington that “now the agreements need to be implemented, and we need to see more progress, particularly in the north of Kosovo.”

“We expect both sides to continue their hard work and come to practical agreements to improve the daily lives of all people, normalize relations, and bring both countries closer to achieving their EU aspirations,” Clinton underscored.

At a joint press conference following the meeting, Ashton commented on the last week's meeting with Kosovo Albanian Prime Minister Hashim Thaci in Brussels.

“We talked about the potential of what we are trying to do with the discussions, which is really to make life easier in practical ways for the people in the north of Kosovo,” Ashton said.

“It is engaged with issues like driving license plates, ways in which we can help the movement of people between the two, and to find ways, too, to build the trust so that we can move forward with them into the future, which for both lies in the European Union,” Ashton stressed.

Kosovo's ethnic Albanians in early 2008 unilaterally declared independence, but Serbia rejected this declaration as illegal. The United States recognized Kosovo as independent, while five of EU's 27 member-states refused to do so.

The ongoing Belgrade-Priština dialogue is sponsored by the EU.

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