American Wall Street Journal (WSJ) daily and Brussels portal EUobserver reported on the informal meeting of the EU foreign ministers on August 30-31 in Vienna.
The American paper said that US and Germany were on the opposite sides when it came to a plan about border change between Serbia and Kosovo and solving one of the last major territorial disputes in Europe.
According to WSJ, German government was worried about “the move that might open the Pandora’s Box of interethnic conflict in some of the poorest countries in the region.” The paper added that German officials remained very skeptical on the issue and quoted German Foreign Minister Heiko Mass.
“We don’t think that talks on territory exchange between Kosovo and Serbia are particularly constructive. It can tear open too many old wounds in the population there,” Maas said upon arriving in Vienna to attend talks between EU foreign ministers and Balkan officials.
The German Chancellor said earlier this month that the “borders of the region were not subject to change”, WSJ reminded.
On the other hand, US National Security Adviser, John Bolton said last week that this idea didn’t bother officials in Washington despite the Western countries being firmly against it for the past two decades, WSJ article stated.
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