Some key world powers will be soon sending their new ambassadors to Belgrade, “especially when it comes to solving the Kosovo issue.”
The daily Vecernje Novosti writes this on Tuesday, adding that Berlin has already announced a replacement for Axel Dittmann – Thomas Schild, previously a part of the German UN mission. The mandate of UK Ambassador Denis Keefe is expiring as well, and his successor is expected to arrive here in the fall.
The Russian embassy, headed for six years by Aleksandr Chepurin, will also see changes. Chepurin should retire after his service in Serbia while the Kremlin could replace him with Aleksandr Botsan-Kharchenko, who has excellent knowledge of the Balkan circumstances, and is a proven friend to the Serbs, the newspaper writes.
Kharchenko is considered a problem-solving expert in the Russian diplomacy, whom President Vladimir Putin sends to countries under Western pressure. Kharchenko was Russia’s ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina from 2009 to 2014, and before that, Russia’s long-standing representative in the Contact Group and, along with US and EU diplomats, a representative in the mediation trio set up to resolve the status issue of Kosovo and Metohija.
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