U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has pledged that the United States will "stand by the people of Kosovo," adding that "if you succeed, the region will succeed." Biden was speaking in the Kosovar capital, Pristina, on August 17 following meetings with Kosovo's President Hashim Thaci and Prime Minister Isa Mustafa. Biden urged Kosovo to make every effort to implement an EU-brokered normalization agreement between Pristina and Belgrade, expressing the hope of welcoming "a democratic, multiethnic Kosovo" into the European family. http://www.rferl.org/content/kosovo-biden-visit-serbia-europe/27928222.html