Pristina will have to lift the import tariffs on goods from Serbia and Bosnia, and Belgrade will have to take some steps towards a compromise to resume the dialogue on the normalisation of relations, the US outgoing ambassador to Serbia Kayle Scott told N1 TV morning show on Tuesday.
Outgoing US ambassador to Serbia Kyle Scott said on Monday that Belgrade and Washington had a different opinion about Kosovo but that they agreed that the only way towards progress was the resumption of the dialogue on the normalisation of relations, the Beta news agency reported.
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said US must apologize for the bombing of Yugoslavia, and then they can ask others to look to the future
"The United States must apologize for bombing the former Yugoslavia back in 1999 and pay compensation to the relatives of those killed and injured in the US-backed NATO air raids, and then they could ask others to look into the future", Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Sunday.
Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic met with U.S. Ambassador to Serbia Kyle Scott to discuss bilateral relations and international affairs.
Dacic and Scott said they were pleased with improved overall bilateral ties, reflected in the recent meeting of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in New York.
US Ambassador to Belgrade Kyle Scott twitted that it was time to put an end to the conflicts of the 1990s and called on Belgrade and Pristina to resume dialogue as soon as possible, Serbian media reports.
"It is time to put an end to the conflicts of the 90s. I urge Kosovo and Serbia to reopen the EU-sponsored dialogue as soon as possible and to refrain from taking steps that hinder an agreement," Scott wrote on Twitter, sharing also yesterday's joint statement by the Quint countries.
US Ambassador to Serbia Kyle Scott said today that Pristina should revoke the tariffs on goods from Serbia in order to continue negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina, adding that the US still recognizes the leadership of the EU in this process, TV Most reported.
Asked if the US would use its influence in order to make Pristina return to the negotiation table, Ambassador Scott noted that the US still recognizes the leadership of the European Union in this process, and it is the most important that all sides return to the negotiations.
The US Government will not lead the normalisation process between the official Belgrade and Pristina, that is the European Union's (EU) job, but we will be there to help as much as possible,” US Ambassador to Serbia Kyle Scott said in an interview with FoNet.
US Ambassador to Serbia Kyle Scott warned on Monday that the status quo in the Balkans is not sustainable.
There will be no better time than the present to negotiate an agreement the ambassador wrote on his Twitter account over a retweet of State Department official Matthew Palmer’s speech at a gathering in Pristina on June 12.
A study by the Ninamedia agency as a part of Atlantic Council of Serbia project “Euro-Atlantic Integration in Serbia’s media” showed that 89 percent of people in the country were against its membership to NATO, while the majority of them, 73 percent, did not even know there was no war in NATO member states, the Beta news agency reported on Tuesday.
The US ambassador to Belgrade Kyle Scott told reporters he was not surprised with the results because the people in Serbia did not forget the 1999 NATO military intervention.
US Ambassador in Belgrade Kyle Scott told TV N1 on Thursday that Belgrade and Pristina must get back to the table because their dialogue has been regressing in the past six months. He noted the situation is not good but added that diplomats have to be optimists and look for solutions.
We must be realistic, the situation is not good, there is no dialogue and there is mistrust on both sides, Scott said.