The President of the Republic of Kosovo Vjosa Osmani received today at a meeting the EU Special Representative Miroslav Lajčák and the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Gabriel Escobar, to discuss the dialogue process developments and how to move forward the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue mediated by the European Union and supported by the United States of America.
President Osmani stressed that Republic of Kosovo is committed to a dialogue that focuses on mutual recognition and said that Kosovo has demonstrated this through its active commitment and with proposals submitted throughout the process. She also reiterated Kosovo's position that the agreement on mutual recognition should not affect Kosovo's sovereignty, territorial integrity and its constitutional order. “It is already clear that Serbia is blocking the progress in the dialogue through its unconstructive approach,” said the President.
Highlighting Kosovo's constructiveness, the President also made it clear that the list of agreements that have not been implemented by Serbia is long and needs to be addressed urgently if we are to restore confidence in the dialogue process. She said that Serbia not only continues not to implement previous agreements but it also places visible obstacles whenever it participates at meetings organized in the framework of the dialogue process in Brussels. In this regard, the President said that she expects equal treatment of the parties in this process by the European Union, as a dialogue mediator.
The President also emphasized once again the absolute importance of bringing to light the fate of the forcefully missing as a priority of the dialogue process.