Serbia has launched a diplomatic initiative to change counts in the draft platform of the so called Kosovo Chapter 35, which was proposed by Germany in the EU accession process. In next couple days Serbia will make efforts aimed at having better text of the platform of Chapter 35, through friendly states in the Working Party on Enlargement and Countries Negotiating Accession to the EU (COELA), which is practically the last step before European leaders adopt the final platform.
Members of COELA are representatives of the ministries of foreign affairs of all 28 EU member states and they are meant to finalize a version of the document, and benchmarks that Serbia will have to meet in order to close Chapter 35. According to Novosti’s information, Belgrade particularly counts on support from Cyprus, Slovakia and Spain, which didn’t recognize Kosovo’s independence, to submit amendments that would at least mitigate requests set by Germany, which wants to condition entire (EU accession) process with Kosovo.
Serbian state leadership has already harmonized all comments referring to extremely unfavorable text of the platform, which practically requests Serbia to recognize independent Kosovo.
