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US praises Kosovo-Serbia deal on tuition crisis

File image of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Indonesia for the G20 summit – Christoph Soeder/dpa

The United States Department of State has praised this Wednesday the agreement reached between Kosovo and Serbia that puts an end to the crisis opened by the controversial rule of imposing Kosovar license plates on Serb communities.

“We commend the agreement of the two countries to concentrate fully and urgently on the normalization of relations under the auspices of the dialogue facilitated by the European Union,” said the spokesman for the office led by Antony Blinken, Ned Price, according to a statement. press.

In this sense, Price has “welcomed” the agreement between Kosovo and Serbia, since it brings together measures “to avoid a further escalation of tensions.”

“We support the dialogue facilitated by the EU as the best way to advance the European future of Serbia and Kosovo,” added the US spokesman, who welcomed the fact that both “parties put the interests of the people first.”

Thus, he praised the Kosovar and Serbian political representatives for having made decisions “to improve the daily life of their citizens.”

“The two sides took a big step forward today (…) to ensure peace and stability throughout the region. The United States applauds the constructive negotiations and encourages further progress toward normalizing relations,” the statement said.

The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell, announced this Wednesday the agreement between Kosovo and Serbia, by which the latter will stop issuing license plates with the names of the cities of Kosovo, while the opposite will stop re-registering vehicles .

In this sense, the head of European diplomacy reported that the EU will invite the parties “in the coming days” to discuss the next steps towards a full normalization of diplomatic relations.

After this, the deputy prime minister of Kosovo, Besnik Bislim, expressed on his Twitter profile that, regardless of the agreement, “intense” talks should continue within the framework of the EU proposal, backed by Germany and France.

Serbia and Kosovo ended without agreement on Monday at a high-level meeting organized in Brussels, after Pristina had rejected a proposal by the European Union to achieve a rapprochement. For weeks now, European diplomacy has asked Pristina to show flexibility with the norm and commit to the creation of a community of Kosovar Serb municipalities, agreed upon in the Brussels Dialogue, while Belgrade was demanded the return of the Kosovar Serbs to the institutions after his en bloc resignation from positions such as deputies, mayors and civil servants in all areas.

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