The US State Department has dismissed Serbian claims that the late US diplomat Richard Holbrooke wrote to Milosevic, pledging that Washington would not recognise Kosovo's independence.

The US State Department has denied Serbian claims that the late diplomat Richard Holbrooke's letter wrote to the late Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic in 1998/9, pledging that the United States would "never recognize Kosovo".

“This is simply not true. There is no such letter,” the US State Department wrote in an email to BIRN.

Ivica Dacic, Serbian Foreign Minister, told the Serbian tabloid newspaper Srpski Telegraf on August 15 that while Holbrooke sent the letter pledging that the United States "will never recognise Kosovo," adding that the letter later went missing and was stolen.

He was cited as saying that Milosevic’s secretary "swears that Milosevic called her and gave her a piece of paper that the then chief negotiator between the West and Serbia, US envoy Holbrooke, signed for Milosevic saying that America will never recognise Kosovo,” Dacic said. He accused opposition parties in Serbia of having stolen the document.

See at: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/state-department-denies-existence-of-the-holbrook-s-kosovo-letter-08-21-2017