US Denies Holbrooke Promised No Recognition of Kosovo (Balkan Insight)
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.