Minister for European Integration in the Serbian government Jadranka Joksimovic says that there is pressure on EU states that didn’t recognize Kosovo.

We again have a reinforced and obviously orchestrated pressure from the part of the European Union and the US on five EU states that didn’t recognize Kosovo to do it. European Parliament, as it did two years ago, again requested recognition of Kosovo’s independence in order to additionally encourage normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina, whereas Jennifer Brush, former charge d'affairs of the US Embassy in Belgrade, now Deputy Head of UNMIK, is of opinion that exactly the recognition would bring social peace to Kosovo territory.

Obviously encouraged with such wave that comes from the West, Kosovo Minister for European Integration Bekim Colaku voiced expectation that five EU states will in the end to come to conclusion that Kosovo is capable for independent functioning as independent democratic country, and that Kosovo’s independence could be recognized by Greece and Romania.

Joksimovic said that there is probably certain ‘pressure and lobbying’ in states which didn’t recognize Kosovo to do it, but expressed doubts that it will happen. “It is about states which presented firm and principle stands why they didn’t recognize self-declared independence of Kosovo,” said Joksimovic.